New to the modding of this game... Enemy Ships

[Elvisman2001]

Is there a way to mod the appearance of NPC ships? i am really growing tired of fighting sticks and various other

dull things.

[Laserzwei]

First and foremost get familiar with lua and the modding API in /Avorion/documentation. Also look at the games script files in /data/scripts/*

 

Is there a way to mod the appearance of NPC ships? i am really growing tired of fighting sticks and various other

dull things.

In short: There sure are!

longer:

The easiest approach might be using workshop ships (get the permission of the Authors beforehand!) and use

LoadPlanFromFile(string file)

(See the API's function section for further research)

 

If you want to improve the procedural generation of the ingame ships, it gets dirty really quick:

The following API's are a must have

- BlockPlan

- BlockPlanBlock

- vec2

- vec3 (is much more important than vec2)

- Matrix

- Random

- Seed

- Sector

- Entity

- PlanBspTree (never used it myself, but would be useful)

Additionally fundamental knowledge of Analysis-math. (up to 3rd. dim. a must, 4th. dim. for rotation, scaling, etc...)

 

scripts to look at:

/scripts/lib/

- asyncpirategenerator.lua

- asyncshipgenerator.lua

- plangenerator.lua

- shipgenerator.lua

- stationextensions.lua

 

and how to use them:

- entitydbg.lua

- SectorGenerator.lua

- galaxy.lua

- pirategenerator.lua

- shiputility.lua

 

always have:

- utility.lua

 

And now comes the actual hard part:

Making your ships look good and have them working at the same time. And all of it just by starting with:

math.randomseed(seed)

I tried a little bit of it myselft a while back, but ultimately decided to work on other projects

 

 

Ugly code example:

https://github.com/Laserzwei/AvorionQoL/tree/master/mods/extendedStations

 

 

 

[Elvisman2001]

Actually using workshop ships or creating some from scratch and having the game use them for each faction was what I had in mind.

[T4Ken]

someone is allready working on this see here : http://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,3905.0.html

[Elvisman2001]

someone is allready working on this see here : http://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,3905.0.html

 

Nice. But unfortunately, there has been no word from the person working on it since Nov 2017 and there is no download link.