I do love your planet mods, but as you are limited for time, could you perhaps give me an idea how to fix the windmills saying optimal but not turning on icarus?
@Doctor Octoganapus Hi, I appreciate the time you put into making this guide series, it's very informative. I was just hoping you could explain how I would manage to get the PlanetTutorial.sbc to pull the models and textures it requires. So far I have it set up like this: Vanilla folders/files pathing - C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet\Data\Models\Environment\Sky/Vanilla files C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet\Data\Textures\Models\Environment\Sky/Vanilla files I've tried using the full path as above and also the default short pathing as below
It seems like it should be really easy to figure out though I've hit a wall. I'd be more than appreciative if you could explain what I need to do like I'm a 5 year old. I realize I'm not the only one who has asked about this, so I hope I'm not beating a dead horse. Nor do I expect you to make a video or anything but I'd be more than thankful if you could help me out with this. If I figure it out before you reply I'll let you know. And I'll also share what I did to fix it, for anyone else that may need an answer. Thanks a lot!
So I went over to the Keen Software House Discord and was helped by someone who answered some of my questions. Turns out I had my Models and Textures folders inside the Tutorial Planets Data folder. Instead they need to be placed just inside the Tutorial Planet Folder next to the Data Folder. C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet/Data C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet\Models\Environment\Sky C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet\Textures\Models\Environment\Sky Also I didn't need to manually add the file paths for these textures inside the Tutorial Planet.sbc. So just copying the CloudLayers from the PlanetGeneratorDefinitions.sbc and having the correct folder locations will work just fine. From what I've learned you'd only manually enter file paths for custom models or textures you create. Hopefully this will come in handy for anyone else.
I am trying to make a gas giant, which is almost entirely atmosphere. Is there a way to make the atmosphere more opaque, so that the sun doesn't shine through the entire planet? I can set the sun size to 0, but this doesn't entirely solve the problem.
@Doctor Octoganapus, Thank you for these amazing tutorials. Could you also create tutorials on how to create rings, gas giants, custom clouds, trees and textures like you did in your mod 'Paradise'? steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1669459989
I've copy pasted the clouds definition code just like you did and even spawned in a new version of the planet but no clouds appeared at all. Do you know how I can fix this?
Since this tutorial was made, you now have to add the cloud textures you want to your mod, just make the same file paths as vanilla and copy the files you need
Clouds are a texture meaning you can technically mod it however it is not whitelisted. That means that your modded cloud texture will not work on the workshop and anyone wanting it will have to manually install it into their game.
Do you know if modded planets can still use cloud layers? I've tried getting them to work on my own planets as well as other planets on the workshop. The only planets that seem to show them are the vanilla planets.
With the recent update that allows planets to use custom cloud layers (aka custom cloud textures) caused a bug that is preventing modded planets from being able to use vanilla cloud files. This will most likely be fixed but in the meantime you can just copy over the necessary texture files from the vanilla game to your mod.
Any specific way of copying it? For some reason this doesn't work, I just copied it, pasted and nothing of it worked, no error, but also no clouds. I have restarted and placed a new planet. One thing to note tho is that everytime I copy something I have to put 2 spaces before every line of code, but even after doing that, no clouds show up.
I found the Bin64_Profile folder which I'm guessing is what you're talking about. The problem is when I try to launch the application it always crashes. I've tried it on two different computers, do you have any ideas?
I do love your planet mods, but as you are limited for time, could you perhaps give me an idea how to fix the windmills saying optimal but not turning on icarus?
@Doctor Octoganapus Hi, I appreciate the time you put into making this guide series, it's very informative. I was just hoping you could explain how I would manage to get the PlanetTutorial.sbc to pull the models and textures it requires.
So far I have it set up like this: Vanilla folders/files pathing -
C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet\Data\Models\Environment\Sky/Vanilla files
C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet\Data\Textures\Models\Environment\Sky/Vanilla files
I've tried using the full path as above and also the default short pathing as below
C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet\Data\Models\Environment\Sky/CloudSphere.mwm
C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet\Data\Textures\Models\Environment\Sky/EarthFarClouds.dds
It seems like it should be really easy to figure out though I've hit a wall. I'd be more than appreciative if you could explain what I need to do like I'm a 5 year old. I realize I'm not the only one who has asked about this, so I hope I'm not beating a dead horse. Nor do I expect you to make a video or anything but I'd be more than thankful if you could help me out with this. If I figure it out before you reply I'll let you know. And I'll also share what I did to fix it, for anyone else that may need an answer.
Thanks a lot!
So I went over to the Keen Software House Discord and was helped by someone who answered some of my questions. Turns out I had my Models and Textures folders inside the Tutorial Planets Data folder. Instead they need to be placed just inside the Tutorial Planet Folder next to the Data Folder.
C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet/Data
C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet\Models\Environment\Sky
C:\Users\stone\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Mods\Tutorial Planet\Textures\Models\Environment\Sky
Also I didn't need to manually add the file paths for these textures inside the Tutorial Planet.sbc. So just copying the CloudLayers from the PlanetGeneratorDefinitions.sbc and having the correct folder locations will work just fine. From what I've learned you'd only manually enter file paths for custom models or textures you create.
Hopefully this will come in handy for anyone else.
I am trying to make a gas giant, which is almost entirely atmosphere. Is there a way to make the atmosphere more opaque, so that the sun doesn't shine through the entire planet? I can set the sun size to 0, but this doesn't entirely solve the problem.
if you apply multiple cloud layers over each other and set the suns color to a blackish color or the color of your sky that should solve the problem.
@Doctor Octoganapus, Thank you for these amazing tutorials.
Could you also create tutorials on how to create rings, gas giants, custom clouds, trees and textures like you did in your mod 'Paradise'? steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1669459989
I've copy pasted the clouds definition code just like you did and even spawned in a new version of the planet but no clouds appeared at all. Do you know how I can fix this?
Since this tutorial was made, you now have to add the cloud textures you want to your mod, just make the same file paths as vanilla and copy the files you need
@@AllGoodAllEasy Thank you!
do you know any way to change the colour of clouds?
Clouds are a texture meaning you can technically mod it however it is not whitelisted. That means that your modded cloud texture will not work on the workshop and anyone wanting it will have to manually install it into their game.
Doctor Octoganapus ah thx... had realy hoped thet work for workshop
Do you know if modded planets can still use cloud layers? I've tried getting them to work on my own planets as well as other planets on the workshop. The only planets that seem to show them are the vanilla planets.
With the recent update that allows planets to use custom cloud layers (aka custom cloud textures) caused a bug that is preventing modded planets from being able to use vanilla cloud files. This will most likely be fixed but in the meantime you can just copy over the necessary texture files from the vanilla game to your mod.
Okay great! Thank you.
@Oxygen4Lyfe Send me some screenshots and log file in discord, you can find me in the keen discord im listed as a "modder/scriptor"
Any specific way of copying it? For some reason this doesn't work, I just copied it, pasted and nothing of it worked, no error, but also no clouds. I have restarted and placed a new planet. One thing to note tho is that everytime I copy something I have to put 2 spaces before every line of code, but even after doing that, no clouds show up.
Your going to have to be more specific. Do you mean cloud data or something else?
Doctor Octoganapus Oh sorry yhea I was talking about the cloud layers, they just don't show up.
You must add the cloud textures to the mod, its a bug that happened when custom clouds were allowed.
Ok, makes sense, can I just copy them and paste them in my Data folder or do I need to put them somewhere else?
You have to put them where ever you have the file path set to
Do you know how to get to the dev menu now? F12 doesn't seem to work
Its in the profiler build in the modsdk.
Thanks heaps, this has been the one main thing halting my progress with planets
I found the Bin64_Profile folder which I'm guessing is what you're talking about. The problem is when I try to launch the application it always crashes. I've tried it on two different computers, do you have any ideas?
You must replace your games bin64 with that one, it cannot be launched on its own.
Ah okay, thanks. It's all working well now and I'm making progress