Distinct Moon Variety

[vivid nebula]

aa battery

[smoky sierra]

moom

[vivid nebula]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/722695987176407060/1213525379621453885/new_foxy.gif

same energy

[craggy merlin]

Work In Progress 4 (Retinue)

These are old photos but figured I'd throw in a bone, been a while since touching my projects. Aside from waiting for v80, very soon gonna be getting my associates degree in college so big things happening in my life, probably will still be a while until you hear from me but I'm still lurking. Hope everyone is having a good March.

[vivid nebula]

looking good boss

[smoky sierra]

Nice

[craggy merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/wwe-coffin-world-wrestling-entertainment-gif-17903370

Huge v80 W. Expect Volition to be getting the biggest facelift of the moons

[vivid nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/someone-cooked-here-breaking-bad-walter-white-gif-579099896864746534

[vivid nebula]

hey @craggy merlin, would you mind if i added a Dull Aparatus charger to one of my moons?

if you're against it, i won't

[craggy merlin]

Kinda would prefer you do your own thing instead

[vivid nebula]

aight fair enough

https://giphy.com/gifs/yeah-speed-ishowspeed-D63HGAzG15LQrjBPRE

[crimson cove]

omg, its foliageslop (im just kidding lol but hope we dont have too many moons spam the new plants lol)

[craggy merlin]

Ya that's so fair lol. I do love me some ferns though

[vivid nebula]

volition with ferns?

cool

[vivid nebula]

did you manually place the grass?

[craggy merlin]

Yes

[vivid nebula]

lmao

ig i have to do the same

also um did you add diffusion profiles to your volume profiles

[craggy merlin]

Not touched the volume in a long time but I wanna say no

[vivid nebula]

add this if you wanna make stuff like translucent materials

say a waterfall like those on march

or foliage in general

exemple of translucent vs not translucent

[craggy merlin]

Noted

[smoky sierra]

This looks amazing

[queen tapir]

will the motion lights be synced or clientsided?

[craggy merlin]

Synced, the lights stay on once somebody triggers it

Though motion lights would be cool if I changed the trigger.... 🤔

[queen tapir]

mostly curious if itd be an easy sync, or better if only lit for the person triggering it

[craggy merlin]

Oh it's an easy sync, it's just a check if any player is within a collider in front of the building
-# Thanks JLL

[queen tapir]

Jacob Level Loader doin magic

[serene cobalt]

hey @craggy merlin can u make it so Attenuation works during the flooded weather? it all works up until the part where u need to jump onto a rock

just either a little ramp or spot to get some stamina near that jump

[craggy merlin]

The layout of Attenuation is kinda getting a significant change but I'll double check to make sure it's possible with Flooded

[serene cobalt]

Thx

[vivid nebula]

he could make the flood not make you drow at its highest level but still slow you down

[smoky sierra]

DUDE

you do not miss

this looks so cool

[craggy merlin]

More tweaking of Attenuation's volume and fog

It's pretty much 1:1 with the changes Zeekers made to Canyon moons in v80 (also the ambience is the new V2 one and uses the High/Low/Night Ambience system)

-# Didn't even realize he made a V2 of the canyon ambience until a few days ago

[smoky sierra]

nice

[crimson cove]

one thing I hope this addresses with the moon, I have this issue with a good ammount of other existing moons, the building kinda looks like it was just plopped down a lil, like it doesnt have much surrounding debris or looks les settled into the ground

if you get what I mean

[craggy merlin]

I think I get what you mean, looking back at old/current Detritus I think the building was the weakest part by far so this change has been a long time coming

[crimson cove]

like the building itself was fine, but how it was worked into the terrain

[craggy merlin]

Ehh well the building specifically (like the bigger parts excluding the warehouses) was still a rushed job, it was just the very commonly used vanilla building model sloppily copy/pasted 6 times over

Could you give an example of what you mean on working the building into the terrain? I am still tweaking terrain before I mesh it again atm

[crimson cove]

best example I could find but having some of the terrain around the sides of the building, having it sunk in a lil and some releated debis around the area

feel as its been there a long time

(is the buidling built around the terrain over terrain made ot fit a building there inherently)

area surroudning building was kinda flat if I rememeber right

[craggy merlin]

Behind the building it's pretty superflat (a bit of the front too) though the sides does have a bit of terrain surrounding the building (well more like clipping on the right side)

Debris would definitely be a nice touch

[crimson cove]

look about right

yeah for debris like a pile of beams that yk has been left there for years

some powerline(just throwing examples)

[crimson cove]

unironically one of the best visual representations of a abandond scrapyard or industrial facility is in thomas the tank engine XD

the modelwork really brings good atmosphere

[craggy merlin]

This actually would be great inspiration for Retinue debris given the moon is oriented around trains lol

I appreciate the examples and visual representations, I'll take a note of this while my modding motivation is high

[crimson cove]

I always had a love for abandond derelict locations haah

[smoky sierra]

that looks very cool

[craggy merlin]

This is the last teaser

[keen hull]

Peak

[craggy merlin]

I actually do have on more thing I want to gauge opinions on through a poll ^

This seperate area would look something like this (this is just a rough example there's not much to it as is)

I'm a bit conflicted myself because I feel this may make the journey to Fire Exit a little too long and it kinda feels a bit unnecessary. But taking the fire exits out of the tunnels is the only way I know of to be able to fix the long standing lighting issues down there

[keen hull]

sure!

[smoky sierra]

it would be cool if there was like a railroad crossing sign scrap item on Retinue

[craggy merlin]

DistinctMoonVariety v3.0.0 | The Spritz Update

General

• Updated for v81
• More parity with vanilla moons
• Added Dawnlib & UniversalRadar dependency (temporary)
• Removed custom story logs (temporary)
• Removed Clownhorn B, Airhorn B, Radiobox & Shroud Sample
• Overall optimization & balancing

16 Attenuation

• Terrain & Level Design revision
• Tweaked Volumes & Fog
• Added more routes to and from Fire
• Changed texturing/details to Main & Fire buildings
• Added another fence
• Fixed Extension Ladder clipping through the fences

77 Volition

• Terrain & Level Design revision
• Tweaked Volumes & Fog
• New tree & "cabin" models
• Reverted building models back to the ones before v2.0.0, with a revision on texturing and details
• Exterior lights are no longer tied to breaker box. They start off and turn on when approaching buildings
• Removed unique manor interior visuals
• Ambience inside is more soft and loops less harshly
• Fixed fog not covering the entire playable area
• Fixed the big trees having blocky shadows and weird leaves

24 Detritus

• New facility building model
• Added more debris/setpieces around the facility
• Fake Old Bird changes
  • Incomplete Old Birds no longer spawn randomly and are static
  • Complete Old birds now have scan nodes

98 Retinue

• New giant wall model & lights
• Added more debris/setpieces around the map
• Tunnel changes
  • The fire exits are now in a new outside area seperated from the rest of map, only accessible through where they previously were in the tunnels
  • Going inside the tunnels now properly counts as being "inside" (proper lighting and nightvision)
  • Added lights in the tunnels
  • The Eyeless Dog now spawns later into the day

An additional note on some things within the changelog

• As said, Dawnlib & UniversalRadar are temporary. Once LLL adds Terrain Footsteps and I make the contour maps both mods will be removed
• The scrap were removed either because I don't think they really fit anymore (Radiobox) or I want them repurposed into their own mod in the future (Clownhorn B & Airhorn B)
• The unique manor visuals for Volition were removed because with all the new rooms and materials from v70, the current method I used to do this has became even more tedious than it was before. I might revisit this at another point, but with a different approach and method to doing it

There's also probably a lot of other minor changes I simply forgot to put here because this update is long overdue and has been worked on since atleast March 2025.

Ermm if there's any bugs do let me know, I'm extremely sleep deprived

Aside from bugfixing, the big port to Dawnlib for all my skin mods will likely be the next focus in the future, so stay tuned

enjoy

[storm crest]

aw i was hoping to see vr support in the changelogs but there wasn't R.I.P

[craggy merlin]

Don't even know how I'd go about adding VR support so 🤷‍♂️

[storm crest]

#1497261503651385494 message

[craggy merlin]

I need sleep badly and rebuilding the bundles will take a hot minute but I'll get around to it

[vernal fern]

bro

shut the fuck up 😭

it's not even funny at this point you just go up to people and ask this 24/7 😭

you probably don't even play vr you're just doing it as a bit at this point

[storm crest]

what

I just played vr in the vc 💀

[vernal fern]

anyways

"distinct moon variety update"

https://tenor.com/view/springtrap-sturdy-gif-5598742388546306018

[vivid nebula]

https://giphy.com/gifs/meme-shocked-loxyysgif-J1YvLYmEKS8BcgM5Yy

all hail distinct blaze

[vernal fern]

yknow what that means

because i dont

[vivid nebula]

https://giphy.com/gifs/friday-shake-it-off-shoebill-stork-l1J9uG4jNOSsYtbkA

[storm crest]

vr compatibility 🙂

that was an joke

[smoky sierra]

YES

[smoky sierra]

I don't think this window has any collision

[smoky sierra]

are the unique mansion visuals on Volition ever coming back?

[smoky sierra]

oh sorry I didn't see that

dang

honestly I'd rather have them affect just some of the rooms than have it entirely removed

since I really liked it

[vernal fern]

die

https://tenor.com/view/rabbit-bunny-bnuuy-gas-leak-meme-gif-8252508646824824494

[keen hull]

am I the only one that can't load on any of these moons?

tried with Retinue and Attenuation

[craggy merlin]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I feel I've seen this error before and it relates to Lethal Performance

[keen hull]

will check, it's kinda weird that this is the only moonpack that happens this :,]
And I have almost all of them

[craggy merlin]

Yeah I've got no clue how my moons would cause an issue like this, nothing funky going on with the dungeon generator gameObject and the unity project is up to date (v81)

[vivid nebula]

https://giphy.com/gifs/falling-better-call-saul-chuck-mcgill-xRvyefRsljylhqIgos

[keen hull]

yeah, it's Lethal Performance :,]

not sure why

[keen hull]

Is there a way to fix this?
Hope it's possible cuz Lethal Performance is an important performance mod :,]

[craggy merlin]

Oh I see what's happening, my bad. Completely forgot I had to fix the components in the DungeonGenerator object for v80. I'll fix it when I wake up

[craggy merlin]

DistinctMoonVariety | v3.0.1

• Added VR Support
• Fixed missing dungeon components on all moons preventing them from loading with Lethal Performance
• Fixed windows not having collision on Detritus
• Fixed a couple floating trees on Volition

[keen hull]

yay

[storm crest]

Finally vr support. big thanks from the vr players!

[craggy merlin]

I pushed another small hotfix that removes Dawnlib as a Dependency now that LLL has Terrain Footsteps

Also, the moons now have ContentTags because I'm actually stupid and had been using the obsolete tag system in LLL this entire time and never realized until today meaning the moons have never had the tags listed in the readme

[keen hull]

yay

[keen hull]

Bug on Retinue

• The Drop Ship drop some items under the ground, making it unable to grab it.
  Bought 10 flashlights, was only able to pick 5 of them

[craggy merlin]

Pushing a Hotfix in a few minutes Fixed

[keen hull]

not to bother or anything, but by any chance did you checked the other moons? :,]

[craggy merlin]

Tested. The others are fine