mmmmmmmmmmm Taco. Is it wrong to want one for breakfast at 10am
#nms-modding
narrow monolith
hoary lily
considering a can of sprite was part of my breakfast, i don't think so
narrow monolith
👌
visual shard
winter vector
Moon truthers
winter vector
Mars is actually round yes
winter vector
But Mars isn't an actual planet. It's created by the Zuv'haya, it's their mothership, they will attack earth eventually and kill our leaders and enslave the soldiers to work in their inter galactic empire
naive blaze
sounds pretty neato
winter vector
The Zuv'Haya is an alien race created by the Null
The Null were ancient aliens which came to earth and procreated with the Neanderthals
Because of this, the Eternals were created, the Null then experimented on the Eternals and because of this, the Zuv'haya got created
The Zuv'Haya left the galaxy, the Neanderthals stayed and the Eternals fled to the moon because there were so many Neanderthals at this point, the Eternals were being threatened with extinction
The Null just went back to their own inter galactic empire and they actually conquered 10% of the universe
Everything im saying is like copied from comics, tv shows and movies and combined together
naive blaze
this is some raelian lvl shiz
dreamy tulip
@naive blaze, @ruby torrent
Alike what @supple wadi said, it slightly scales down the planets and the solar systems to the scale of E3 trailers and I ask altered the solar system scale to better resemble that.
Pre-release the E3 planets were in many cases smaller. There is data that I've found in regard to that where HG would specify a particular planetary size for a pre-set biome that was showcased.
winter vector
Man I still can't get over this
dreamy tulip
It can create some really nice visuals
winter vector
Hello games has so much cool stuff in the game files
For some reason they're all disabled or hidden away
Why would they do Something likethis?
supple wadi
But they don't have 🍰 anywhere.
winter vector
Like even if only 20% of the stuff in your mod was already in the game, that would make the game so much more better
naive blaze
to let the internet do the work
winter vector
They could've eliminated a lot of the hate
People wouldn't be this toxic, mainly very butthurt
supple wadi
Not really. It's largely unfinished stuff.
naive blaze
they turn modders like @dreamy tulip into slaves and get free development for their game
kek
dreamy tulip
It is possible to get that affect within the mbins... but there's a more superior way to do it. You can actually change/force the planetary size through the exe
supple wadi
A lot of it has had to have animations and collisions added.
dreamy tulip
@supple wadi There's a lot of unfinished stuff but I've come to find more finished and flawless stuff than unfinished stuff
And things utilized pre release
And it's more than models
supple wadi
And some of these aren't procedural but just rather static.
winter vector
Static is also fine
naive blaze
@dreamy tulip do you model your own assets for the game?
dreamy tulip
I utilize in-game assets
winter vector
I wouldn't mind seeing the e3 world like 5 times in my entire playthrough instead of shitty empty worlds always
supple wadi
You say that but you'd be burnt out on it rapidly like other static objects you criticize.
naive blaze
why is there so many assets not used in the game?
dreamy tulip
Alike what Gmr said... there's a lot of unfinished assetts. However, I've been finishing a lot of them myself.
supple wadi
Because they probably didn't meet their standards.
dreamy tulip
But if looked deeper into it
naive blaze
unfinished how?
dreamy tulip
You will find certain things that still work perfectly fine
As a majority
Not saying that in a negative wau
It just excites me
Because it's more stuff for me to creatively implement
I find new discoveries in the files daily
One example is that a lot of pre release objects lack collision
naive blaze
no colliders?
supple wadi
Yup just walk through stuff
naive blaze
RIP
dreamy tulip
But I've been calculating various object mesh geometrics and adding appropriate collision verts to them and attaching them to designated "entity files" to give them purpose and different mining strengths in relevancy to their size
While making them scannable with the visor
And some are textureless, but I've been re texturing them
So I'm finishing those assets one by one
For the overhaul
naive blaze
do you create these textures from scratch or use ones from the game?
dreamy tulip
I have before from scratch, but I have also used in-game ones
Or from google
Whatever works
Also, apart from pre-release models
royal bear
And you'll be adding them progressively or on a big update to the overhaul?
dreamy tulip
There's so many mechanics and features and things
That exist and are hidden
Or at least not known by most if not all other modders
That I've found
naive blaze
interesting
royal bear
@dreamy tulip any example you can give us of one of those hidden mechanics?
dreamy tulip
@royal bear My mod already has these things, but I'll be adding more pre release objects with collision. It's just time consuming.
I'm currently on my phone, I would send a ton of pics and videos of windows is updating after a fresh install
However, I can explain a few things
royal bear
Nice :+1:
dreamy tulip
There's various unused weather types, pre release in the portal trailer you can see eclipses and crescent worlds, and there's various visual and other weather effects that are currently disabled that give a pre release type of atmosphere that can be re enabled through editing various mbins and also doing shader coding. There's, certain mechanics like floating on water flora which "shown in trailers" but not utilized in the base game. Pre release HG specified algorithms for creatures per biome type and they were all very advanced. I've been assembling pre release "custom" creature types and assembling them into my mod. They had a biome slot pre release, and its very detailed, complex, and advanced and it's not utilized in the base game
They had lots and lots of interesting features, AI mechanics, planetary resource type mechanics, planet size variations, orbits
More detailed biomes
They utilized a lot of assetts and had more variety to them than what the base game biomes have
A lot more selectable/interactablw objects that fully work
They did color palettes differently
They specified underwater weather per biome type
These files are alien in comparison to the base game biomes
But I've been porting them all abroad
Those are just a few things
Again there thousands or hundreds of thousands
royal bear
Wow, so it's possible to give it even a more prerelease look and feel?
dreamy tulip
I recently found the data in relevancy to the E3 Factions
The overhaul does that
There's also data in regard to creatures in space
supple wadi
Have you tested some of these tho. You know how it can be with some of this. Looks promising but then doesn't jive with the exe.
dreamy tulip
My friend Monkeyman never saw it
But I showed it to him
Yes
I've tested them
And I've found ways to implement many of the features
royal bear
Amazing. You managed to bring back rotation some time ago didn't you? Is that on the overhaul?
dreamy tulip
Back in 2016, I've tested them
naive blaze
did hello games murder there own game??????
supple wadi
Like the cool bait component that no longer appears to work.
dreamy tulip
And I can always jump back to that build when it was possible to force the demo scenes
That would be cool to see
Pans @supple wadi
Phone typo
Sorry
Miss my keyboard lol
At Gmr did you know that
There's data for creatures in regard to shops?
Ships
An entire slot for it
supple wadi
I recall some odd data related to them but also some dead ends on that.
naive blaze
you can carry creatures on ships?
dreamy tulip
I think it may be related to how in the portal trailer, there was an AI ship on the ground (sentinels are creatures in the game data) and it took off while on planet
Despite there is a crouching walker animation
That's currently disabled
supple wadi
I remember what appeared to be far more dead ends in many areas than possibilities due to exe side obscurity.
dreamy tulip
If you look in the AI spaceship manager
If you know where to look, or get really creative
With enough research
Generally speaking right now
I know that you're very creative
Than a lot of things, there's a way
naive blaze
@dreamy tulip have you seen the concept art from beau lamb on art station?
supple wadi
Yeah, I know there are workarounds here & there. Just much more tedious that way. =/
dreamy tulip
Like for those pre release biomes... a lot of those mechanics, cannot be directly ported. The standard games isn't even setup in that way. Sadly. And those structs are static.
For awhile I held off
naive blaze
i was wondering if some of that might be present in the game
dreamy tulip
And eventually decided to take on the challenge
And I found ways to re-implement many if not most of those mechanics
naive blaze
since so much seems to be unused
dreamy tulip
And I'm still finding/thinking of more ways
And yes it's very tedious
@naive blaze
This has been kept a secret but
I've been secretly planning to bring his concept art to life 😛
To the greatest extent that I can
dreamy tulip
I was looking at them on Twitter the other day
They do a wonderful job
And he's a really talented painter
HG has an awesome team
supple wadi
Like I've been thinking up some more interesting interactions but also just unmotivated due to the extended effort involved for what would be pretty brief overall.
naive blaze
but considering that there are so many assets unused or unfinished, could some of that concept art be actually in the game files?
dreamy tulip
Because of how much would need to be done
Due to a lack of things restricted
That could make it far more simple to implement
If these things weren't static
On my behalf, I enjoy the challenge and have infinite time on my hands
So
I prefer to go the hard way even if there's an easy way
Just the way my mind works
I lock in on things
And don't stop until it's done
Well, possibly. I mean, I'm thinking that some of that concept was implemented into the 1.3
some of the biomes there look similar to what we see or very close. Also, one of his pics is of the "gruntrig" which has been here since day 1.
There's a few things possibly going on
Let me clarify
Either it's purely concept/inspiration and they used those ideas to create something similar and that's it
Or
They added those things in exactly as the concept goes and not all of it is utilized
I believe
There's a lot of multitools in the concept too
Though multitool are procedural models
And have a lot of parts
But I'm planning to eventually try to get a little multitool swapper going
And to specify the exact parts/ids of certain mutltitpol parts after looking at the concept
To resemble what was shown in beau lambs art
As close as I can
I've already assembled one of them
But the notes for it are on my pc right now
naive blaze
well one of those concept art multitools was implemented in 1.2
the alien teethy looking one
dreamy tulip
Yep
They could be planning to do it
Gradually
They model these parts
I don't work with blender much yet
But it's been on my todo list for several months
naive blaze
it still can be
winter vector
Sony forced hello games to stop development. It's obvious and sad.
dreamy tulip
I like to utilize what's not been implemented and there's an overwhelmingly amount of awesome stuff
And so much can be done with in game assetts
dreamy tulip
That I have no need to import custom stuff
winter vector
Stuff that could've made the game amazing
dreamy tulip
Even though doing that is still awesome
But t doesn't fit my "E3", "Pre release" vision
Some stuff I would import as an exception
But I try to focus on the original, intended, core vision of the game that once caught our hearts, excitement, and attention
And I'm gradually bringing that back
As it's total possible
I'm bringing those trailers to life
On a universal scale
winter vector
And we are really thankful for that
winter vector
You are doing something no one else is doing
dreamy tulip
Mechanics
And finishing those things
But don't get me wrong
I love vanilla NMS
I always loved it
I also play on PS4 😛
naive blaze
but its obviously lacking
supple wadi
Being a bit of a jerk I wouldn't let those that really dislike vanilla use the overhaul if it were my work, lol
naive blaze
compared to the trailers
dreamy tulip
Well, yeah, if you compare it to the trailers
By far
Makes me wonder how it got that way
No one knows
Maybe HG had a different vision in mind
I respect them
And we are seeing E3 features gradually imported
Bit by bit
I do what I do out of passion, not to start a war against HG
I love HG
And I wouldn't have NMs to work on if they didn't make it
❤️
dreamy tulip
But I totally understand where you're coming from
winter vector
Looking at pre launch and after launch footage
winter vector
They got forced to stop by Sony im guessing and they tried filling up the void with simple grind mechanics
dreamy tulip
The clouds at e3 were gorgeous, the water reflections, the skies, there was a lord painterly art style
Now the clouds are pixelated
Lack of as pretty water
winter vector
It's also partially a good thing that Sony sponsored them because there was a pretty big chance that no man's sky would have micro transactions
dreamy tulip
Skies are noisy
They had crescent worlds and eclipses
And really detailed multi color space
winter vector
I mean ex EA devs making an online game which everyone want to play
dreamy tulip
Those are all glsl shader based things
winter vector
@dreamy tulip sadly it was just a demo world
dreamy tulip
They had more intense weather
winter vector
Self made
dreamy tulip
But those things there don't have to be
I re enabled them
But these are just observations
dreamy tulip
Not saying that in a negative way, though I wish they add it back
supple wadi
Yet never lightning and thunder 🤔
winter vector
And the others
dreamy tulip
Ohhh would love that GMR 😄
winter vector
Did you guys hear about nms hiring that city procuderal generation guy?
winter vector
I heard thunder too
But never saw the sky flicker
I'm guessing that it's just a sound effect
naive blaze
could people play the demos at e3?
dreamy tulip
I sorta emulated something similar
In biomes though
They had play testers, but those were beta testers
Likely not at e3
But I don't know honestly
supple wadi
There were brief demos available before release so far as I'm aware, limited to press mainly, I think.
dreamy tulip
Oh yeah, in Japan
But
That build was the rc1
On PS4, which is stilll accessible
Different from the older builds
supple wadi
Pretty sure most around E3 had Sean running through.
winter vector
What I don't get is
supple wadi
Like IGN First stuff
winter vector
Why the hell did the play testers get confused by Planetary rotation
Edit: removed fuck, can't have both why the fuck and why the hell
dreamy tulip
In an interview
The ign first stuff, the older ignore first stuff I love
I like the newer ign first stuff too
supple wadi
Really bad mapping system earlier? Lol
It's easy even now to get disoriented when the minimap glitches.
dreamy tulip
Have you seen that vid? It's mentioned in there too
winter vector
Yeah but you didn't talk about why it's confusing?
supple wadi
Imagine zero minimap no reference points in a new bit of space and trying to spot a small station near a planet.
dreamy tulip
He screengrabbed a text I wrote
But I'll write here
Pre release, testers were reportedly confused because they had actual rotation
And the space station would be elsewhere
dreamy tulip
And it was disabled
winter vector
Okay, thanks
dreamy tulip
But I still want it 😂
naive blaze
kek
winter vector
Kek indeed
naive blaze
i want it as well
supple wadi
Station would technically be in same space, you'd just be in a different area of space.
Due to rotation.
dreamy tulip
Yeah, that's right
winter vector
Imagine like being on a planet which rotates fast as fuck so you can't catch up to where you want to land
dreamy tulip
What Gmr said
winter vector
So you stand still and wait until it's turned around and then try to land
dreamy tulip
The infinite worlds trailer shows rotation at 1:00
winter vector
Yeah
naive blaze
i find it sad that they no have planetary orbits around star
or that there is no actual star
supple wadi
That's another little issue with it all, trying to catch up to a planetside location.
dreamy tulip
There's data in regard to orbits in pre release files
winter vector
Someone tried and the game got very glitch and buggy
naive blaze
yh i saw a video
winter vector
About glitches and bugs, I've never encountered any game breaking bug in no man's sky
naive blaze
but that was in 1.0
dreamy tulip
Dang it man, only 28% after all this time smh lol
winter vector
Wow
supple wadi
Lol, that's from OS reinstall, yeah?
dreamy tulip
I had to hack the pulse engine in the exe
Lol
Was flying into the sunbox
Never got there
It crashed
Yeah it is a reinstall
Oh yeah that planet location glitch
Does it still happen?
Where you would get closer in early 2016
And it would be further away
Unless you flew more upwards
royal bear
@dreamy tulip, if you manage to bring back proper planet rotation, eclipses and true terrain from space I'll applaud you with my butcheeks
BTW, there's a "residue" of eclipse rendering. Freighters project a shadow on planet surfaces if they are close enough, and if you are in the surface, it's darkens. Are those two things code related?
past mulch
He tried doing true terrain from space before but it caused some problems when entering the atmosphere
dreamy tulip
@royal bear It's a mystery how HG had actual rotation but I'll look into it, I know how to make them rotate visually and true terrain from space is something that I'm still looking into despite the former flawed version that I originally found in the past
Also, there's eclipses in the mod already
And freighters can be on the planet
And warp in too
And there's on planet space battles
Also, all of these hard drive problems I had man
Smh
Before I would put my HDD into the slot and it wouldn't be recognized unless I had three hard drives installed
But having three in slowed my pc down to the point that it would run super slow for 3 minutes and then freeze up for like 6 minutes all day long like that while I was working on my mod
So I tried for an hour to get it to recognize my windows OS with only two HDD's
Hoping it would work, unlike previous two day long duration attempts of swapping HDD slots hoping for a result
Only to go into my bios settings today, and change the boot type to....
EUFI
And now it's fully recognized with only two HDD's and windows is now booting up and I have a feeling it will be back to normal speed again
I rather would've spent this time modding and studying the files... but I'm glad I figured that stuff out, as it was all kinda confusing. Hopefully, when it's done booting up I'll be back to working on the overhaul and fixing bugs and making new stuff
analog roost
hey @dreamy tulip , I've got a question about save game compatibility using mods - how does it work? When do I know once I play with a specific mod I no longer can play "vanilla" after saving?
Also how do mods affect multiplayer? We aren't seeing same planets this way, are we?
cyan oracle
Believe it or not, there's other modders besides Rayrod.. and any of them could answer you that it depends on the mechanics of the mod. Rayrod can best answer your question in regards to his overhaul, but not for other modders' mods.. It really depends on what the mod does to the game, I'd recommend reading the documentation included with mods as this information, as well as files used/possible conflicts, is usually covered by the modder..
supple wadi
Roughly speaking though, if a mod drastically changes terrain and/or solar system scale/object positioning, there's a good chance it will make it difficult to revert to a vanilla save.
This is because there's now a mismatch between the player coordinates and the spatial/terrain coordinates. Once you revert it will place you where you were but without correcting for the new system configuration.
cyan oracle
yup, that's why it's recommended to save in your freighter before/after adding/removing the overhaul.. so the game registers you in your freighter and can place the freighter in space where ever it's going to place it..
dreamy tulip
@analog roost Any mod that alters terrain, or planetary/solar system distances will affect multiplayer player positioning. In some cases, editing the planetary building table can break saves. Also, Some custom biomes have different rules and also collaborate with terrain voxel gen rules, and also create different kinds of leveling that could affect multiplayer positioning and coordinates. That's pretty much about it. I don't believe that there's other files that can be modded at this time which will do that. Feel free to ask if you have any other questions. 😃
lime mesa
anyone got a good mod? lol
clever adder
rayrods overhaul but that changes everything 
naive blaze
@dreamy tulip have you found anything pertaining to traveler walking animations?
out of curiosity
ruby torrent
Hey RaYRoD TV when Oppressor11 is making pictures for your mod page does he use other mods to?
clever adder
🤔 why does everyone only ask rayrod stuff
ket would probably know more about hidden stuff cause he looks for it 🤔
wow hi ket
inland sky
supple wadi
because they only know about RaY
dreamy tulip
@naive blaze I haven't 😃
@ruby torrent I don't believe so
But I do have a theoretical idea for third person players that I want to test
Haven't gotten around to it yet
Also, I was looking around in some "hidden files" (because finding tucked away data is also sort of a thing that I also love to do daily) and I found one of the old ships from the trailers recently and also a particular multitool seed. I'm excited to check it out :)
Including E3 trailer factions.
Maybe HG is planning to add back in procedural factions as the exe has hidden data for it
lime mesa
@cyan oracle o god. the planet express ship merged with the doctors program matrix....
dreamy tulip
Nice work on the ship. I'm glad that you got the textures figured out. Must've been a pain to do @cyan oracle 😃
cyan oracle
@lime mesa I guess Planet Express Ship is like the cheerleader that'll sleep with the kicker just to say she had a football player..
Thanks @dreamy tulip .. took me ~5 hrs for the textures alone.. and I feel like I still need to redo the "hulltop.dds" (the one with the blue front windows)
losing internet for ~8½ hrs sure helped productivity tho..
dreamy tulip
Yeah, I'm still fixing my PC lol
But I did notice something
I had a cord inside my GPU fan
warped spindle
That’s not where you want a cord to be, generally speaking.
warped spindle
Yeah
dreamy tulip
Well, booting up to see what happens
Would seem like kind of a dumb issue if that was the case lol
cyan oracle
I don't think that would affect drive performance.. but it's not good at any rate.. if it got pulled in and spooled up in the fan, you're lucky it didn't sever completely
lucky the fan didn't straight chew it up
dreamy tulip
I just saw Sean Murray retweet snaps taken on my overhaul mod that someone uploaded 😃
leaden root
congrats 😃
dreamy tulip
Thanks, I gotta admit that whoever took those snaps got some good angles though 😛
But I was surprised to see Sean "love" it
worn citrus
so it is your mod! congratulations man
acoustic silo
Nice job Ray!
you got prawn currys attention
im just sayin you should apply for a job at hello games, your content would do well there.
dreamy tulip
Thanks man
gleaming herald
yes nice job rayrod
lament kiln
congratz indeed 😃
gleaming herald
this one looks like straight out of Star Wars
dreamy tulip
That's pretty 😃
analog roost
@dreamy tulip thanks for answering :)
@cyan oracle i asked him because he answered last. in chat and he appeared online :) you all guys are doing a great job
keeping this game alive imo
brazen pumice
I will say this NOW and I will say it again. Anyone coming here to cause drama between RayRod or any other mod creator will be BANNED ON SIGHT and WITHOUT WARNING. Thankyou
acoustic silo
Pin that 👌
brazen pumice
past mulch
Maybe put it in the rules? ^^
Not everyone checks pinned messages
- pinned messages are different per channel, cant expect everyone to read all pinned messages from all channels 😛
magic mirage
ill be realeasing an update soon to space whales mod
it will add more creatures
and the ability to warp to TITANS
😃
and more TITANS
brazen pumice
i cant edit rules
dreamy tulip
Up and about on MY PC again for now, hopefully it will go smoothly.
Time to work on more fixes and suggestions.
@magic mirage Awesome work 😃
Excited to see what you do next
silver perch
What's a TITAN and how do I get one?
acoustic silo
Can I have a download link once it’s done @magic mirage
lament rampart
Love it Ray!
Just found my first Diplo planet with the overhaul last night
I freaked out haha
dreamy tulip
@lament rampart Thanks a lot!
Also, oh yeah? I love those moments... Haha
lament rampart
Lol same here
Also do you have another mod that makes you able to put a base anywhere without the whole overhaul? Or know of any mods that do that?
I'd like to have that feature in my vanilla main game lol
dreamy tulip
I currently do not, but I would love to make it for you. 😃
Well, let me get this new user account on my PC setup and I'll hook you up with what you've requested. Alongside what a few other people requested.
dreamy tulip
@lament rampart
Portable Habitable Base Standalone
https://drive.google.com/open?id=15PP4uJwc-d0mpiT2IzUUr-Kw3bMs0VQ3
Enjoy!
royal bear
@dreamy tulip shouldn't that planet Desert 1 photo (the one you are on) be even darker since the planet almost covers the sun?
dreamy tulip
@royal bear I do recall there being lighting issues that I've fixed after that photo was taken. There was a time where barren plants at night would still look like day. That very well may be what you're seeing in the desert 1 photo as those were both taken in two different time periods. 😃
dreamy tulip
Found the cause of another one of the crashes, fixing it now.
One of them is ecology related.
narrow monolith
Nice Ray, I've not been on for a few days still crashing so waiting for next update. The wait is worth it
dreamy tulip
Thank you for being patient :)
Wotking on it now
Just fixed this crash
Onto the next thing now
harsh dock
What mods should I get?
tacit mesa
Rayrods Overhaul.
Its the only mod you need.
Also interested in Space Whales if they ever become fully animated.
harsh dock
Can you link me to rayrods overhaul please
tacit mesa
Check pins.
harsh dock
How do you check pins on mobile?
tacit mesa
Why would you download the mod on a mobile?
harsh dock
I’m not going to download it I just want to see what it adds lol
tacit mesa
Oh if you want a conprehensive description, you have to learn telepathy, because other than some basic outline, Rayrod isn't saying.
harsh dock
Why won’t he put a description of what it adds?
dreamy tulip
Hi, I'm here
If you check my mod page
There's a thorough illustration of what to expect with the overhaul mod
tacit mesa
I object to that 'all known rare crash fix' line on your modpage btw. That planet in my starter system still makes me crash. Though I am downloading the latest iteration of your mod now.
dreamy tulip
Also, in the download and on the changelog tab... there is a breif overview v10 beta changelog that highlights key features for the v10 beta.
However, there will never be a full list of everything that this "game overhaul" changes
As there's tens of thousands of things at minimum. No one would read it.
Also, I don't have time to type it
And progress in working on it
tacit mesa
He says he has eidetic memory, but I think he's just forgotten most of it now.
dreamy tulip
@harsh dock
Just know that the mod is practically a custom build
and it will make your game like a different game
Yet centered on the nms lore
You can see footage here:
tacit mesa
This mod is 200cc's of No Mans Sky into the Dead Shell Saucer that came before.
dreamy tulip
harsh dock
I just wanted major things added
harsh dock
Yes please
tacit mesa
I'm amazed Sean Murrey hasn't hired you yet Rayrod.
dreamy tulip
The changelog .txt is a breif overview of "some" of the changes/key features from the v10 beta alone. Although prior to releasing the first official v10 BETA I had over 1,000 previous v10 BETA's that I compiled and before that I also worked the mod up from 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 - v9.9 etc within a long duration...
And even in all former changelogs that ever existed... those were all brief overviews. So a lot of key features/details are long forgotten, missing, or simply kept secret for the element of surprise.
My goal and inspiration has been a cross between E3-style nostalgia with a modern vibe but linked to the initial game's aesthetic with a few rare exceptions. To not stray away from the original game's intended lore and style and to not break the "No Man's Sky" vibe, but to enhance the game in nearly every way.... while keeping it close to vanilla as possible. I love No Man's Sky, which Hello Games has given us... and I look forward to seeing this continue to become the game which we've always desired it to be, grounded on E3 trailers. They have a true dedication to their community.
I am bringing those nostalgic "much desired by many people" E3 quality trailers to reality with this mod but re-working things for varied consistency on a procedural, universal scale, gradually.
^ That's the core purpose of the mod.
And please also keep in mind that it's a huge work in progress and there may be rare bugs, or rare crashes.
But I am working on it consistently, as I really enjoy re-working No Man's Sky.
If there's any reasonable requests, questions, compatibility requests/questions, bug reports etc... I'm always around if needed and I'm willing to tailor make this game to your preference if possible to do so.
@tacit mesa Thanks for the kind words and for helping someone out who had questions
tacit mesa
No worries man, I'm just boxing honesty in my corner. 😛
supple wadi
Tricky part is that RaY would need to learn a bunch more C++ to get hired, probably. 😛
dreamy tulip
Oh, sweet. Have been studying C++.
More-so outta personal desire though
Back in GTA V PS3 modding days... I had a lot of friends coding in C++. That's what they would normally work with... but I was more interested in asm/assembly. Unfortunately, I didn't know it.
Those people said that it was a bad place to start/ or that I wouldn't have been able to do it... but I decided to study the low level asm and managed to write 16k lines
It's a bit weird
Like, I learn things backwards. As I didn't understand their C++ (which is supposedly not as difficult of a language to understand/learn I was told not sure if that's true) but asm came naturally.
I've started studying C++, in which my 3rd person flight mod is coded in and I have a base for making other mods with
And I'm experienced in cheat engine (introduced it to monkeyman) for nms awhile back
Which will be helpful in coding more things in c++ for nms
hoary valley
@dreamy tulip just watched your youtube playthrough showing mods on your page...first off, very impressive playthrough. nice and smooth. a testament to your system specs
while I didn't see a lot of difference in the "Yavil" playthrough, I did like the lonely forest
dreamy tulip
@hoary valley Thanks a lot. :)
When you refer to difference... do you mean performance wise?
hoary valley
I meant difference with respect to the biome itself as opposed to a typical temperate biome
plus, I'm not familiar with "E3 Nostalgia" because I don't know what E3 refers to.
dreamy tulip
Ah, I see.
I'll show you what it is
YAVIL isn't E3, it's actually a pre-release biome shown on IGN footage called "YAVIL"
I marked it to the appropriate time, where "YAVIL" is shown.
hoary valley
gotcha.
dreamy tulip
Now, if you're curious about what "E3 Nostalgia" is... these trailers are beautiful.
This is what I'm bringing to life gradually:
https://youtu.be/gcj9fdQlN2U?t=27
Edited the link to bypass that pointless intro lol
supple wadi
E3 nostalgia is a contagious disease to be wary of contracting. It can make you take what we have for granted. 😜
dreamy tulip
And here's an album of E3 (in other words) pre-release photos that I assembled awhile back:
https://imgur.com/a/EyDay
And here's an album of random planets found on my overhaul:
https://imgur.com/a/UX3go
hoary valley
wow, so they used to show atmospheric content??
dreamy tulip
There's countless differences... I could fill you in on a few if you want.
And yep
They also had crescent worlds, eclipses
lots of cool stuff
Beautiful water reflections
hoary valley
what the shit? why did they get rid of all that?
dreamy tulip
Gorgeous clouds
I love and respect HG and I have no idea, but I know that we're seeing these things being gradually added in bit by bit from HG as they love their community
hoary valley
and that sandworm, though...
dreamy tulip
However, I've been doing it myself
The best that I can
For the most part
There's a few other awesome modders who contributed some things into the overhaul mod mentioned in the credits
But the E3 stuff is all my doing
hoary valley
I'm very curious to see how it works.
dreamy tulip
And most other things
Well
I recommend clicking this album link:
https://imgur.com/a/UX3go
To see some things going on in here in the development of it
If you're curious
hoary valley
looking now
hoary valley
I'm blown away by these textures
dreamy tulip
No ReShade, or photo mode effects/filters, or external post processing. It's all in-game visuals that I re-worked.
hoary valley
my specs may be a little less than yours
dreamy tulip
Well, the mod is still in beta state and is not an official v10 release yet. However, a lot of people are enjoying It on mid end machines.
I am planning to get around to further performance optimization.
I have improved performance recently though.
hoary valley
AMD FX-8320 8 core processor, Radeon R7 200 series 2 GB video card, 16 GB RAM memory (I think it's DDR) and 2 TB hard drive (typical, not optical)
clever adder
thats a little bit less 🤔
hoary valley
(comments about noob system in3....2....1...)
dreamy tulip
a few people I know use 2GB
clever adder
everything is ddr these days
dreamy tulip
So, I can't really confirm
hoary valley
It was the card that I got with the system, but there is another slot with which I could piggyback another card
dreamy tulip
Oh nice
These are my specs:
My Specs:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Amp Extreme!, 16GB Ram, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4960X CPU @ 3.60GHz (12 CPUs) ~3.6GHz, 8TB HDD, Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit
clever adder
i dont think you can have 2 different gpus 🤔
clever adder
i mean like a 1060 and a 1050
hoary valley
Mine is definitely customizeable as needed.
dreamy tulip
I did a bit of research, and from what I read... I could use my gtx 690 sli card with my 1080
hoary valley
well what if I just got another Radeon 4Gb? would the computer default to the larger or use them both in concert?
hoary valley
I haven't built a computer myself in about 20 years
clever adder
to use 2 you need sli 🤔
dreamy tulip
I don't think so
clever adder
oh
dreamy tulip
But I don't know much about that
I would be glad if I could
Might need to find a way to get space
clever adder
🤔 i dont know stuff i just put parts in a box and turned it on
dreamy tulip
@hoary valley I recommend at-least 8GB of vram
tbh
Not just for nms
but in general
Or 6GB or 7
clever adder
🤔 thats a lot
dreamy tulip
Just my preference
clever adder
you also have god in your pc
dreamy tulip
lol
hoary valley
So were I to add more RAM in my computer, you'd recommend vRAM?
dreamy tulip
vram is the memory dedicated to a graphics card/GPU
hoary valley
ah gotcha...
You're teaching an old dog some new tricks here.
Last computer I built (no lie) was a Gen 3 Pentium
dreamy tulip
I've never heard of it 😃
dreamy tulip
Haha I was like 5-6 yrs old then
hoary valley
I turned 43 yesterday. #pcmasterrace4life
dreamy tulip
Happy belated birthday 😛
hoary valley
ty
by the by, while browsing the photo gallery, I managed to find all 9 species on a fungal planet in less than 3 minutes.
dreamy tulip
Ah, I see. Well... some assetts can't really be avoided.
hoary valley
curious, did you make a swamp biome?
dreamy tulip
But so far, every biome/planet has been unique in it's own way
and there's an infinite variety of terrain
hoary valley
like with proper wetlands, cypress-like trees, vernal ponds, etc.
dreamy tulip
Yes, I did
hoary valley
oh nice.
clever adder
ohwow
dreamy tulip
There's multiple kinds of swamps I made actually
hoary valley
tell you what - once I beat the Artemis storyline (very close) and I get to the galactic hub, I will make a new game and load the mod
and I'll twitch a playthrough
on survival mode
supple wadi
2 GB VRAM graphics cards can handle vanilla okayish but it's not great.
dreamy tulip
But there's other swamps in here too
hoary valley
Considering I got the whole system for $714.50, I'm not complaining.
clever adder
🤔
hoary valley
did have to get a better monitor, though...24" ACER
clever adder
whendidyougetit
hoary valley
about 18 months ago
clever adder
🤔
clever adder
thats a lot of boats
hoary valley
freakin armada there
supple wadi
Needs moar
clever adder
im turning off discord so i actually play my game now bye
hoary valley
k cash.. cya
clever adder
i was going to play it at 4 and its 8:30 🤔
clever adder
yes
hoary valley
squirrel!
dreamy tulip
dreamy tulip
Just added new cave weather
dreamy tulip
Well, someone pointed out to me in the vanilla game that the weather sorta transitions from one thing to another very roughly in-between out of caves and then in caves.
So, I added as a test a custom weather file that I assembled
Which is a combination of mars dust and swamp fog
tacit mesa
So misty then?
dreamy tulip
And walking from out of the cave to in the cave... I didn't notice any rough weather transition
Yeah
Misty, foggy, dusty
Just not overkill
tacit mesa
Sounds good actually.
supple wadi
I wonder what the worlds would look like with zero dusty/weathery effects. 🤔
dreamy tulip
There's also like 20 underwater weather types
So far
But
I changed the default
type
to bubbles
tacit mesa
Lol, Gmr has a point. Some completely dead rocks with no atmosphere and super skies would be dope
tacit mesa
I mean not dope, but they'd make sense.
tacit mesa
Indeed, its crazy that the universe would be full of life just because of an overall greater density.
dreamy tulip
Ohhh, gonna put my base here
I've been looking for weeks for one of these biomes
Like 3 weeks ago I handcrafted like 8 different variations of procedural forest biomes (on-top of the many unique others that already exist in here) and I haven't found any of them until just now. Each one of these forests can be different each time.
naive blaze
@magic mirage whats your mod about?
supple wadi
big ol' space creatures
echo oxide
Decided to plonk this down here since I didn't know where this should go..
Just a quick trailer demonstrating Ray's overhaul with only his footage
heavy oar
Yeah it was awesome
Gonna tweet it when I have the time
If you have a Twitter I can mention you @echo oxide
magic mirage
@naive blaze. It adds space whales and creatures to space around the spacestation and giant planet sized creatures called TITANS on rare occasion s
dreamy tulip
Haha
Custom placements
Working on more things
The IGN footage Yzheleuz TREX that I assembled
E3 Whales
naive blaze
@magic mirage can you land on the TITANS?
dreamy tulip
Early work in progress 1.4 beta, I will be adding a lot more tomorrow
Should be done uploading in like 2 minutes.
This is NOT the official 1.4 BETA (as I am planning to create and implement a lot of more things and search for any rare crashes to fix after I wake up.)
But this is what I have "so far". Also, it's not uploaded to NexusMods yet. Only google drive. I'm putting this here for now... gonna head to sleep.
Fixes + Quality Of Life adjustments
- More rare planet/biome crash fixes
- Fixed rare remainder of static/frozen birds left over
- Cave mineable object adjustments
- Slight Flashlight intensity adjustments
- Slight Gravity adjustments
- Adjusted a type of Crystal biome
New Features:
- Added new cave weather type, I combined mars dust with swamp fog.
- There's around 21 underwater weather type possibilities overall now (More may come later)
- Slightly greater possibilty of denser forests
- Grass patch adjustments
- Added possibility for new Crystal Biomes
+ More```@heavy oar Thanks Jordan! Here: https://mobile.twitter.com/totallynotwonce
heavy oar
https://twitter.com/molcandr/status/950886755879792642 Guess someone is mad that you don't get paid for you work @dreamy tulip
Twitter
magic mirage
@naive blaze no , every body asks that question lol but i dont see what the point would be if we ever made it possible , because you would probably never be able to build a base on it or anything :/
dreamy tulip
Working on new biomes now
And also adjusting the prices on the basebuild menu, to increase challenge/exploration incentive
As a few users requested
I think I'm going to adjust the prices of the custom ships
I would think that the pilotable freighter that I made for example, should cost more
heavy oar
of course
dreamy tulip
Just finished re-working all the custom starship swapper ships in the basebuild menu with a creative variety of essential resources needed to build them
Alongside various other basebuild menu items
heavy oar
do you think we could create crashed freighters ?
heavy oar
ooh cool
dreamy tulip
A friend and I made the first basebuilding menu mod
And I added it in there, back then
on foundation
heavy oar
ooh great
narrow monolith
nice, thanks for new version Ray. Taking it out for a spin now 😃
dreamy tulip
Hey, @narrow monolith My pleasure but know that it's not the final 1.4 beta 😃
I'm still working on it
I put it there for anyone potentially having issues (hoping that may help)
As I needed to sleep and I knew some people were waiting
narrow monolith
yeah no rush Ray, getting better with each release
old vessel
Hey fellas, I'm having issues with that sort of "grid" that shows up around mineral chunks when you scan. Sends my FPS down the drain when they're visible. Anyone know of a mod that helps with that, or removes them?
I've pretty much optimized the game in every other way I can, and I got NoFades FPS Booster.
bright marsh
when you instantiate a cube with transparent shader for each voxel
and expect it to be an acceptable solution
brazen pumice
@dreamy tulip think the idea from Tzalix is possible?
dreamy tulip
@old vessel That lowers your FPS? I've never heard of that before.
Well, it's glsl shader related I believe... and I could probably fix something up for you (theoretically). 😃
old vessel
@dreamy tulip Yeah, it does. in particular when I'm standing close to it. I really appreciate any help you can give me. 😃
dreamy tulip
Ah, I see! I'll see what I can do. 😃
tacit mesa
if you turn that effect off, I think I can literally run NMS on my laptop.
So honestly, you should make that a permanent option in your mod.
Under a 'performance' folder.
dreamy tulip
Scanning affects performance for people that much in general for NMS?
tacit mesa
I remember scanning and especially the scanned grids being an issue on my laptop, back when it was all I had.
But all gameplay aside from that was actually pretty good.
It was all around 29 FPS, so it wasn't too frustrating aside from when you scanned next to a large deposit.
I could even mine them pretty well.
Just the scanning was unhappy.
Amusingly enough, mining on my laptop makes more sense than it does on my main machine, which causes deposits to go ghost mode when I start mining them.
old vessel
Yeah, I have a lot of ghosting issues too. For me it's mainly thatit looks like I've emptied a deposit, come back 2 minutes later and there's this spiderweb of minerals left still. Also get textures spazzing out sometimes while mining, and a few times I've had full on holes in the world. But I'm guessing that's not the kinda stuff that mods can fix. 😛
dreamy tulip
Getting ready to work on it
Have been multitasking.
I just removed the glowing cubes in the shaders for you
@old vessel and @tacit mesa
Care to give it a try as well?
old vessel
Awesome, you did that faster than I did dinner. I'll happily give it a try.
tacit mesa
I'ma keep that one in a special folder for my laptop.
Being able to play on the go is definitely a good Novelty.
Plus like, 50% of people who bash NMS, haven't actually stopped to play it, or even watch it being played.
Though honestly, at the standard walking pace, I could understand how one could get bored watching. ^.^
old vessel
It works perfectly! Thank you so much @dreamy tulip ! I'd kiss you if I could! 😄
old vessel
😄
tacit mesa
Or would you prefer to kiss him with manlips?
dreamy tulip
@old vessel I'mg lad it helped 😃
tacit mesa
I honestly don't like how it displays deposits either.
I wish it did outlines of the minable deposit.
Just the overall area, not every square meter. -_-
I'm not nitpicking btw, that was just an idle wish and not something really serious.
I would like to inquire as to why all the minable/deformable asteroids appear to be pink?
My Tie Fighter is still an explosion of pixels. @dreamy tulip
EX-PLO-SIOOOOOOOOOOON! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Should I just start a new game?
Is the save file itself now borked?
Guess I don't have much choice aye?
dreamy tulip
@tacit mesa
It shouldn't be anymore? Lemme check on mine
sec
Also, I just organized and cleaned up the basebuild menu
Will look much cleaner on 1.4
Any chance that you might have an outdated file?
tacit mesa
No I downloaded the most recent one in the pin last night, unless you haven't updated it since you fixed that.
I guess the save itself is just broken then.
tacit mesa
Swapper?
tacit mesa
Yeah I think the old save indeed has it broken.
K, So go land on a planet and try the Ship Swapper?
dreamy tulip
Yeah
The one you're using will only cost 100 iron
Nevermind my pic as it's updated
tacit mesa
Should probably cost even 'more' then. 😛
dreamy tulip
In this case, it's a C class
tacit mesa
Also I'm somewhat loathe to give up the file I just rolled, because I got one of your binary starsystems.
dreamy tulip
They all vary in prices
tacit mesa
And an eternal daylight world.
dreamy tulip
Oh, no worries. Shouldn't reset your biome
tacit mesa
I'm scared now, my Tie Fighter is B Class
dreamy tulip
Ah, that will reset it. By any chance do you have the expanded ai ships
file installed?
tacit mesa
Oh no I'm not talking about on the old save file, I didn't know about the new ship swapper so I started up a new save file figuring the old save was broken.
I do indeed have the expanded ai ships file installed
dreamy tulip
Okay, that explains how you got B class
Cool
But just curious
Is the ship fixed?
On that new save
tacit mesa
No idea, I'd have to run into the ship to know right? Or use the ship swapper.... Which I will probably now do.
tacit mesa
Also this REALLY bothers me.
Anyone notice how the pointy ones might be expected to be on the ceiling? Since they're formed by droplets?
dreamy tulip
Ah yeah, some of the cave biomes in my mod have them on the ceiling
tacit mesa
Oh good.
dreamy tulip
I'm guessing that's an official ar cave biome
AR
As my mod adds to the game while keeping vanilla stuff too
tacit mesa
I want to enlongate all stagtites and orientate them all with gravity if I'm being honest.
Is there a mod for that?
Its just unnatural that a conical shaped mineral deposit caused by falling water would orient from...like 2 feet + from the water droplets splash zone.
dreamy tulip
In this outdated video at 1:40, you can see the cave I assembled 😃
https://youtu.be/BNzG-yb5_94
Tropical HeightFog Storm
My mod has over 20 cave biome types
But I currently don't have them all impleneted/enabled
Only two for the time being
Will be getting around to it soon
tacit mesa
Lmao @dreamy tulip You evil bastard! I know I asked you to make them smaller, but what the hell is this?!
They're a tad harder to hit now.
If I'm honest, I approve.
However, I'm still encountering this bug, though now it takes three instances of me nicking those orb things to trigger it.
As you can see, the sentinel alert continues, but there are no sentinels.
placid grail
Weird
dreamy tulip
Haha, waiting for the pics to load on my end
WIll check em out
There we go
Gonna work on fixing that 😛
Thanks
And the sentinels are default sized now
I believe
Or not? Haha
tacit mesa
If you believe those sentinels are default sized, you need your senity checked.
They are literally the size of sparrows.
dreamy tulip
Gonna look into it 😛
tacit mesa
If you're planning to change it back.
Let me give you some advice.
Some broken things are features.
Not setbacks.
These are great, lmao.
They actually make the Sentinels feel somewhat like effective foes, as they dodge and spurt around pewing lasers at you.
tacit mesa
Its pretty cool. 😛
So, all hostiles are now tiny?
@dreamy tulip This may be a more serious problem than I initially thought.
heavy oar
shit lol
tacit mesa
With the sentinels, its both funny, and a little challenging, which is appreciated.
However when scaled to this size, the bug predator hostiles don't fare as well, as their movement patterns and speed seem to be somewhat scaled as well.
This bug guy basically ignored me.
Was very confused trying to find his butt for a few moments though, for obvious reasons yeah?
heavy oar
maybe go to another planet ?
tacit mesa
Yes indeed they can!
And they are! Hahaha.
Dude this is hilarious, all of this is hilarious.
heavy oar
at least it is fun lol
tacit mesa
I officially redubb they mod, Rayrods Official Backpackers Guide to the Galaxy!
tacit mesa
Spin up the Improbability Drive!
heavy oar
actually i had a project of an nms movie
had some voice actor ready to make recording
and we were gonna finish the script
tacit mesa
but then you realized Hello would absorb a massive amount of the profit through lawsuits and thus canceled yours plans since HG and NMS isn't open source like for example Keen Software House and Space Engineers?
heavy oar
nope because Atlas Rises released lol
heavy oar
no everyone just did go play to atlas rises and was like lets just cancel it no one will return to the project
tacit mesa
ah
heavy oar
here one of the first poster of the project
rancid shale
Protection*
tacit mesa
The Patriarchy?
rich hull
Global warming?
tacit mesa
The pathetically easy to hit and otherwise incapable of dodging unless rendered incredibly tiny sentinels?
Seriously I keep hoping some Boss Imperial AT-AT Walker is gonna spawn and start blasting with weapons powerful enough to make me flee to my exocraft and blitz off in absolute terror.
winter vector
@dreamy tulip
/r/NoMansSkyTheGame: <LudogoretsRazgrad> Rayrod mod is corrupted ● https://redd.it/7phpzu
dreamy tulip
clever adder
they're in rayrods mod i think
dreamy tulip
@magic mirage You're welcome to use them if you'd like. I custom assembled them after looking at pre release screenshots
One more known bug to fix... then time to make more biomes
dreamy tulip
I've only cranked generation 6% up to my expectation 😄
As infinitetely varied as it is... I'm just getting started and it's still the beginning. 😛
Also, I just started a new game and ended up in "Iridium Canyon"
clever adder
o isnt that the e3 resource picture thing
dreamy tulip
yea
dreamy tulip
It can be really tedious to deduce which biome/planet type could be problematic at times (with only a scan from space view). As from previous experience in fixing rare crashes (n-between more than 2k handcrafted biomes) that the issue could happen anywhere in the in-game universe and some planets of that biome type could be completely stable, while other's not. One planet of that biome type could have a certain set of rules that I've configured in the past that aren't invoking the CTD but one certain type of combination can invoke it in one place rather than another. However, I have my ways of deducing it.
tacit mesa
@dreamy tulip Apparently Tie Fighters are difficult to pin down as well. 😛
dreamy tulip
That's bizarre, as it's working for me. Maybe when I re-upload it will help 😛
Are you able to provide a snap of your mods folder?
dreamy tulip
The first time that you reported the bug, I went and checked in-game and I Saw it too
However, I replaced a file and it worked after that
But
Checking now
tacit mesa
You may have just forgotten to upload this patch.
You never sent me a file or reminded me to redownload the mod in regards to that issue.
tacit mesa
Well I downloaded it last night. 😛