Starbound

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:17 pm #64610

Bottom post of the previous page:

I would love a semi RP server. I originally got the position of AI at Icestation back when we were all hyped up for the game and unaware how shit it would be.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:45 pm #64620

I say we wait and see what mods arise before we decide

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:05 pm #64868

I must say I much prefer the new outpost-with-quests to the old system.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 3:16 pm #64880

How the fuck are you supposed to defeat that crystal at the bottom of the moon mine, the damn lasers it shoots keep killing me and I have to redo the entire fucking mission every time.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 3:21 pm #64882

First mission is stupid fucking retarded hard. You have to flip the 4 switches and then activate the laser below him. I got so fucking sick of running the whole dungeon and dying to the boss that i activated admin mode like a scrub. Shit is way to difficult for the level of equipment you have though

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 3:35 pm #64888

I figured the mechanic out pretty quickly. The problem is that once you shoot him with the mining laser once, he suddenly has 4 beams that move much faster and change direction a lot.

I'll try admin mode then, because this is just stupid.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 3:45 pm #64890

just type /admin in the chat box and you have infinite health/energy. That mission is a really cool idea for starbound, but it needs checkpoints or something. Maybe if we ever have a tg server we can make a bunch of our own away missions. There is a mod called "your starbound crew" that adds a ton of NPC crewmembers and a ton of new missions, it has already been updated to the new stable

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 4:41 pm #64899

Custom away missions shit yes.

How hard would it be to add Nanotrasen-themed decals and objects?

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:45 pm #64929

where the fuck do I find uranium

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:46 pm #64930

There is actually a guy at the outpost who lets you make your own signs. As for objects i think it is as easy as making your own sprites and then coding them in the game. I am absolutely fucking swamped at school this week but i will try to take a look at modding shit when i can and see if i can make something happen, assuming anyone is interested

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:06 pm #64938

I found uranium, looks like you need to dig into a risky planet to find any

Balut · Post by **Balut** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:26 am #64992

Mod of the year all years

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 8:42 pm #65327

Ricotez wrote:How the fuck are you supposed to defeat that crystal at the bottom of the moon mine, the damn lasers it shoots keep killing me and I have to redo the entire fucking mission every time.

Use a 2-handed sword. If you time it right you can use the block on it better than with a shield and completely nullify the lasers.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:54 pm #65371

Well I'm running into serious storage issues. My ship is at Kestrel class so finding space to put storage down is no longer the problem, keeping it organized is.

I mean, look at this mess:

Spoiler:

And every time I want to move a crate around I have to break it and everything inside drops to the ground. Applied Energistics when?

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:15 am #65414

Ricotez wrote:Well I'm running into serious storage issues.

Spoiler:

Sum Ting Wong · Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:17 am

Are you storing all the dirt you guys find or something?

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:27 am #65418

Sum Ting Wong wrote:Are you storing all the dirt you guys find or something?

yes

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:10 pm #65537

Alright, so Nanotrasen mod. I'm still looking into how to mod Starbound and what exactly you can mod, but this is what I would personally like to see from a Nanotrasen mod:

> Nanotrasen-themed items (chests, doors, furniture).
> Plasma and plasteel.
> Plasma ore asteroid belts (I would prefer it if you have to actively seek these out yourself in the star map, since fluff-wise plasma is only supposed to exist in star-less systems, but I suppose that if that's not possible one could simply add plasma ore to the belts already in-game).
> Nanotrasen Centcomm (or just a branch office) as an additional destination from the stargate (for Nanotrasen-themed shops and quests).

I don't know if Starbound actually offers this level of freedom with mods though.

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:17 pm #65541

From the short list you mentioned, yes, and very easily.

Theres already Durasteel, which is a titanium + uranium "alloy" so unless you want Plasteel to be even better than that...

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:43 pm #65544

I am like 90% sure that you can have alternate outpost locations, as the mod "Your Starbound Crew" has an alternate outpost location for your crewmembers, although i have not accessed it yet as i have not had much time to play. Adding in plasma is a good idea, but having it replace some part of the actual ore armor/weapons progression is a shitload of work and balancing.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 6:06 pm #65609

I would rather not modify the existing progression of armours and weapons. Instead, I'm thinking along the lines of a protolathe that can build Nanotrasen-items that are sidegrades or have special effects. For instance a taser or disabler that stuns enemies.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 6:20 pm #65611

That is a good idea. Maybe poke around the old XS Mechs mod to see if you can add some endgame mechs with the new tech system

Kavaloosh · Post by **Kavaloosh** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 11:00 pm #65700

i played starbound one weekend with some friends, this is the result

LunchboxKilla · Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:21 pm

Any one got the full song of storms .abc file and are willing to pass it around?

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:45 pm #65920

Progress has been made.

I'm not entirely sure about the size. Maybe I should make the sprite a bit bigger and raise the number of inventory slots too.

ExplosiveCrate · Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:59 pm

You could just download the music pack. Doesn't matter if it hasn't been updated yet, just pick and choose .abc files to avoid getting your music list getting flooded by Nine Inch Nails or whatever.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:09 pm #65927

Based Riotez, it looks great!

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 5:23 pm #65978

I've also tried to remake the locker. I'm not 100% happy with it yet, but from here on it's a matter of adding a pixel here and taking one away there:

I took a few more liberties with this one:

First of all, I made the lock static, with both a red and a green light. Until I get more comfortable with modding and actually have a reason to add different lights (for instance a lock system), I'll stick with something like this for secure objects.

Second of all, I've tried to stick to the Starbound style of shading this time. Space Station 13 sprites don't really have a uniform style, but they're still generally shaded more realistically than Starbound items are. When I redo the crate, I'll change it to this style of shading too, it simply makes the items fit in much better with the rest of the game.

Skorvold · Post by **Skorvold** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:01 pm #66000

If you nerds tell me what mods you want, I might host.
Maybe.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:03 pm #66001

WEll I suspect stuff like the EGuns will probably be easy. I wait with anticipation for the security sprites so I can descend upon some I dunno, Apex village and harmbaton.

Riot armor and helmet, Baton and Riot Shield.

COME AND BRING IT BITCHES.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:32 pm #66012

The old human Outrider armor looked like riot armor, and there are already riot sheilds. Harmbaton is an easy resprite

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:42 pm #66014

I'm still figuring out how to add stun effects to weapons, I'm pretty sure stunning is already in-game though.

A4Brogan · Post by **A4Brogan** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 9:27 pm #66034

Remind me, is there a server for the community?

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 9:37 pm #66039

We are planning on starting an RP server, but probably not until Ricotez is done modding. Would also like to request a head slot vanity item of a cigarette if possible. Were you planning on making departmental jumpsuit sprites?

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:21 pm #66063

Oh, you really shouldn't wait for me with that server. Right now I have time to work on this, but the new semester is only just starting and I'm pretty sure I'll be plenty busy soon enough.

EDIT: Also I'm trying to come up with a system that would support multiple paintjobs so you can have departmental lockers and stuff. The only thing I can think of right now is a special machine that has two crafting recipes for every object and every departmental paintjob: one from the base object to the paint job, and one in the other direction. But that would be incredibly inefficient, and generate a huge list of crafting recipes for the base items (from every possible paintjob they can have).

Cayce · Post by **Cayce** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:49 pm #66085

I've been playing Starbound on a server my friend is running. If anyone needs a place to play until the TG server comes up, I can provide you with the IP and password via PM.

Here's a ship I'm working on:
https://i.imgur.com/pMfpWRy.png

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:35 pm #66307

Updated sprites for both the locker and the chest, and I've also started modifying the UI.

It's hard to see in this image, but it's a shade of blue rather than pure grey, similar to one of the UI options in SS13.

By the way, the old grey UI is still the default one. Unless I explicitly modify an object's properties to refer to this UI instead, the old one will show up.

Balut · Post by **Balut** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:03 pm #66321

I keep forgetting that that shit is a thing. Blue UI best.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:09 pm #66322

I might try cranking up the saturation a bit, so you can actually see it's freaking blue.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:39 pm #66381

Alright so if Rico does not want us to wait for his sprites, Skorvold are you still willing to host a server? I figure we can do what many servers do and have our modpack on a google drive folder so it can be regularity updated. I would like Your Starbound Crew to be in, anyone else have mod requests?

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:45 pm #66384

Actually I have changed my opinion. I've finished the sprites for plasma ore, I'm now trying to get it to spawn in asteroid belts. If I can finish at least that part of the mod before the server generates terrain, you could already start mining plasma. Everything else (like smelting into plasteel) is easy to add afterward.

EDIT: Well, adding plasma to asteroid belts (and ONLY asteroid belts) is actually really easy. The problem is adding it in such a way that I don't accidentally break vanilla or cause potential future conflicts with other mods. It would be much easier if I could add a completely new type of asteroid belt to the game, but I haven't figured that one out yet.

EDIT 2: Okay, so what do we want? Plasma generation added to existing belts? Or a completely new category of belts? I think the former has one big advantage: if you add the mod to an existing save game, you can find plasma in any asteroid field you haven't been to yet (if I'm not mistaken about how the terrain gen works). If I were to go with the latter, you'd have to generate completely new stars first.

Nienhaus · Post by **Nienhaus** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:50 pm #66419

So I bought this game, now what?

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:50 pm #66420

Hmmm... Risk the Former and then try the latter if it fails?

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:59 pm #66427

ThanatosRa wrote:Hmmm... Risk the Former and then try the latter if it fails?

Alright then, but that does mean this mod might conflict with any other mod that modifies the ore table or the asteroid field config.

Bonus: plasma ore overworld sprites:

Plasma ore inventory sprite (not 100% on this one but if I do what the SS13 sprite does and add black rock around the plasma it will look too much like violium):

Plasma bar sprite:

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:04 am #66428

I think making special plasma asteroids is probably a better choice. If nothing else it will allow us to eventually create our custom asteroid monsters such as goliaths, basalisks, ect as well as the iconic red rocks

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:07 am #66432

In order to do that, I have to figure out exactly how to add a completely new type of celestial body to the star generation map. I found some files that look like they are related to that, but I haven't figured the exact location yet.

ExplosiveCrate · Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:34 am

Nienhaus wrote:So I bought this game, now what?

Wait a year and pray it isn't shit.

Nienhaus · Post by **Nienhaus** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:52 am #66455

Ricotez are you making a NanoTrasen mod for this? If so I'm happy I bought it. Also how easy is it to mod?

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:17 am #66459

Pretty easy, the devs are pushing ease of modding as a major feature

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:48 am #66470

Modding it is SUPER easy, which is a good thing because actually finding any reference material is quite hard. I haven't even touched LUA scripting yet, but that looks like it has the potential to make Starbound as moddable as Minecraft.

The system I originally had in mind was that you have to scan for plasma asteroid belts with a special scanner of sorts, but even if that's possible there is no way I'll be able to do anything like that until I find better modding references than Starbounder and the Chucklefuck forums.

Nienhaus · Post by **Nienhaus** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 2:27 am #66485

Well if you happen to need sprites for something I could help.