I'm back to enjoying EM after a bit of a hiatus (due to "real life"). I've put together a mod that replaces the cities on planets. It is designed to be a starport city, with a primary landing pad high above the city buildings. As always, feedback is encouraged!
@Marvin: I seem to remember that there was some way to assign a certain city model to a given planet, but I can't find it in the customization kit readme. Maybe it was in a forum post somewhere...
@mikeuk: To install the city mod, just copy the "environments" folder into your EM install directory. Or just drop the city.x file into the "environments" folder if you already have that folder from another mod.
That looks awesome Leatherpoker, thanks for sharing!
Question: since the landing platform is higher than usual, does everything work the way it's supposed to as in for example the red/green guiding boxes?
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From post: 117500, Topic: tid=8065, author=Leatherpoker wrote:@Marvin: I seem to remember that there was some way to assign a certain city model to a given planet, but I can't find it in the customization kit readme. Maybe it was in a forum post somewhere..
LP
There seems to be twelve CityX.x files in the Game where X=1-12, to change the City for a Specific planet I think you have to know which of the 12 coresponds to which planet and that would change all the cities on those coresponding planets which have the same City number assigned to them.
Quote from the Customizing kit:
"To replace the city objects in the game, use the \\environment folder and the following filename:
cityX.x = City object (X range = 1-12)"
In EL it was CityPlanetName.x to assign to a specific planet. In EM i'm not sure how it works....
[Edited on 10-21-2011 by Maarschalk]
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From post: 117527, Topic: tid=8065, author=Viper wrote:
Question: since the landing platform is higher than usual, does everything work the way it's supposed to as in for example the red/green guiding boxes?
The guiding boxes should still work the same. The landing pad location and height is actually in the exact same position as in the default city, the other buildings are just much smaller.
From post: 117529, Topic: tid=8065, author=Maarschalk wrote:
There seems to be twelve CityX.x files in the Game where X=1-12, to change the City for a Specific planet I think you have to know which of the 12 coresponds to which planet and that would change all the cities on those coresponding planets which have the same City number assigned to them.
[Edited on 10-21-2011 by Maarschalk]
Great, thanks! If anyone wants to edit this city to make more for variety for different planets, go for it- that would be awesome.
I think that Maars is on it. I've tested the StarPort mod. While installed, the game ctd'd twice w/ run-time errors of failure to load 3D object at line 6718. After once rebooting/reloading the game, I experienced extreme lag in warp jumps, using the gates between systems. Full-on white-out for a significant space of time I'm not inured to. I was then able to land on Pearl HP. The view of the City/Star Port from the down-wind leg, is spectacular! Excellent art and use of like-item city-scape crafting. I have since, removed the mod, and returned to "normal" game starports. Unfortunately, I'm not skilled enough to go in and rename each planet's starport in order to accommodate the mod. But, it sure looks kewl! Thanks, L-P!
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From post: 117577, Topic: tid=8065, author=FADM Busch wrote:While installed, the game ctd'd twice w/ run-time errors of failure to load 3D object at line 6718.
Hi Busch,
I haven't seen that error while using the new city model on my machine. You could be running out of memory, since the model is more complex than the default model. Has anyone else experienced a similar error with it?
Marv, the "warp" lag went away when I removed the star port file.
L-P, I've got 16 gigs of resident/physical memory, and Win7 HmPrem 64-bit installed on my beast. It does not appear to be a memory-lacking, or memory assignment issue, as I don't have much of anything running in the background whilst in-game. Is it possible that the city/star port mod is being used by the game software to attempt creating star ports on each of the planets in each of the systems one enters? (Ref: Maars' post)
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The mod looks very cool.I installed it and loaded with no probs, flew to Sapphire and landed with no probs. I'm using W7 64bit Home.
It's a pity you can't fly between the towers - an anti grav field type effect kept bouncing me out. The second thing is that you land a great distance above the city station! This is a screenshot I took looking down from where the docking beam is holding me!
However, trading etc still works fine.
Thanks for creating and sharing this!!
[Edited on 22-10-2011 by DaveK]
[Edited on 22-10-2011 by DaveK]
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From post: 117529, Topic: tid=8065, author=Maarschalk wrote:
From post: 117500, Topic: tid=8065, author=Leatherpoker wrote:@Marvin: I seem to remember that there was some way to assign a certain city model to a given planet, but I can't find it in the customization kit readme. Maybe it was in a forum post somewhere..
LP
There seems to be twelve CityX.x files in the Game where X=1-12, to change the City for a Specific planet I think you have to know which of the 12 coresponds to which planet and that would change all the cities on those coresponding planets which have the same City number assigned to them.
Quote from the Customizing kit:
"To replace the city objects in the game, use the \\environment folder and the following filename:
cityX.x = City object (X range = 1-12)"
In EL it was CityPlanetName.x to assign to a specific planet. In EM i'm not sure how it works....
[Edited on 10-21-2011 by Maarschalk]
When the nebulae mod came out the nebulae numbers corresponded to systems - I wonder if the cities would be assigned to every planet in a particular system - a sort of system architectural style. If so a different style for each system would be cool!
[Edited on 22-10-2011 by DaveK]
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Hell is being in a pure platinum asteroid field... with a diamond mining beam
I just experimented with the downloaded mod in Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. No problems or error messages.
But to assign the City mod to a specific planet in EM it is the same as per the instructions of the customizing kit for EL.
I assigned the City.x to the Planet New Hope only by naming the file CityNew Hope.x with a Profile docked at a city on New Hope. Entered the Game and the Mod was there. Then flew to the Planet Erato and the Cities on Erato where not changed and where still the original......
[Edited on 10-22-2011 by Maarschalk]
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From post: 117618, Topic: tid=8065, author=FADM Busch wrote:L-P, I've got 16 gigs of resident/physical memory, and Win7 HmPrem 64-bit installed on my beast. It does not appear to be a memory-lacking, or memory assignment issue, as I don't have much of anything running in the background whilst in-game.(Ref: Maars' post)
Hmm...probably not a memory issue then. I have 8GB of memory with Win7 64-bit and it seems ok for me. EM probably is replacing every city model with the new one in each system, so that might slow it down a bit, but I see no slow down on my machine. What version of EM are you using?
From post: 117624, Topic: tid=8065, author=DaveK wrote:It's a pity you can't fly between the towers - an anti grav field type effect kept bouncing me out. The second thing is that you land a great distance above the city station!
Yeah, the anti-collision shield is coded into EM for city objects (and stations), so I can't change that. It would be cool to fly between the buildings though!
The landing position is also coded into EM to be above the flashing light. I wanted the light to be on the landing pad (and not below and inside it, so you can still see it).
Too cool. I forget: can we use different city files for different planets?
Busch, did you fix or otherwise get rid of the lag?
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