Quick question. I tend to go between my PC (modded) and Steam Deck (unmodded) playing the same save file. I understand any ship would convert to its original form on my Steam Deck, but would those same ships revert to the same specific modded ship when I play on my PC after that or will it take on a new form? I hope that makes sense, lol. If not let me know and I'll try my best to clarify. Appreciate the effort!
If I understand correctly, I would say yes, the JJs Exotic you have on your PC should revert back to the same JJs Exotic after playing for a while on your unmodded steam deck as long as it's the same ship and the same save but having never tried this situation I can't be 100% sure. You could try a quick test by making a back up of your PC save then play on steam deck for a minute or two making a new save on that and then go back to PC and see what happens, if it changes into something else that you don't like then load in your back up save. Please let me know what happens if you do give it a try.
I would have to have to have a look at what has actually broken before I could say, this was one of my largest and most complicated mods and it may be an easy fix or it could be a complete write off. I'm kind of busy with other things and other mods at the moment but I will try to have a look soon.
I'll see if I can have a look at what's involved with updating this, it might not be too difficult now that I think about it. I can't really remember a lot of how I made it to be honest but I'm pretty sure I know what's wrong with it and it should be easy fixed. No promises though.
Hey fatsbudda, I haven't forgotten about you, updating this was pretty straight forward but I was never really happy with this mod so I decided to give it some more work, I've added a body section and re-positioned all wings and engines, some wing types have been removed but some new ones added too and the ships look more in proportion now plus the body allows for some top wings now as well. Mod is at least 90% complete so hopefully will be up within a week. Will be replacing all mod page images with new ones too so you can have a quick look at the changes before using it.
Great job, I'm sure this was a bit of a challenge to create and have it function in game properly. I've always had these little parts niggles with just about every type of ship, like "this is cool, but I wish it just had this instead of this..." Anyway I take my hat off to you, as these are really cool alternative to the slick vanilla look . What Id really love to see is a ship type that has a real cobbled together, diy tinkerer sort of aesthetic...
Thanks larrabee53 This was actually an old mod of mine that I recycled and expanded on, the original one had a glass cockpit and an NPC inside who'd wave to you and looked like he was flying it but he had to always be there and it didn't match up with your player character but it looked awesome. It was a bit of a challenge to begin with but that's half the fun of modding for me. Not sure about making something look "cobbled together" but there is a wrecked hauler ship in the files that I always wanted to get working but thought nobody would want it..... it has broken windows, crooked wings, damaged landing gear, really beaten up, and I wanted to make it fly and add some sparks and smoke effects too, make it look like an old bomb that should be scrapped ! Might have to try that now that I've thought about it again !
so how does the ship parts and seeds thing work anyway? could it be possible to have it so that Exotic class ships could have ANY of the control cabins with ANY ship part from the other ship classes?having explorers with cargo ship pods or fighters with drop ship wings for example.
I don't know anything about "seed" numbers but the procedural generation of everything in the game is just a fancy way of saying multiple choice. There is files for every ship part, cabins, wings, engines, landing gear and so on, and then there is a file for each ship type that has a list of those ship parts and rules saying what ones to use and where to put them, in that list for each ship type there may be several wing types, several engines, several cabins etc and the game will randomly choose one of each of those things from that list to build a ship from, so while it is possible to change and add to that list to use any parts you want from other ship types which is how this mod works, it isn't some completely random thing where any part from any ship type can cross over to another, they are all predetermined from a list of specific parts relevant to that ship type.
Hope that makes sense. This mod took quite a while to make as each part had to be manually scaled and positioned to fit the new cockpit design which is the procedural stating point of every ship.
Wow, this was fantastic! I found and tried this the other day and it was superb. Then they had to go and release a new update. I love the new freighter scenarios (still haven´t gotten that far yet in my newly started game), but it also meant going back to the old vanilla ships. Please pretty please tell us you´ll update this to work with 2.6! I´d hate to go without it now that I have gotten a taste of it.
This mod still works fine, it's the "JJs Better Ships" mod that this works best with that is currently broken, I've been having a break from modding NMS but will try to update it soon, there seems to be some new mods that spawn exotics now so you can use one of those in the mean time that will work with this and I will be adding a "More Exotics" version to JJs Better Ships to go with this mod as well.
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You could try a quick test by making a back up of your PC save then play on steam deck for a minute or two making a new save on that and then go back to PC and see what happens, if it changes into something else that you don't like then load in your back up save.
Please let me know what happens if you do give it a try.
I'm kind of busy with other things and other mods at the moment but I will try to have a look soon.
I can't really remember a lot of how I made it to be honest but I'm pretty sure I know what's wrong with it and it should be easy fixed.
No promises though.
Mod is at least 90% complete so hopefully will be up within a week.
Will be replacing all mod page images with new ones too so you can have a quick look at the changes before using it.
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This was actually an old mod of mine that I recycled and expanded on, the original one had a glass cockpit and an NPC inside who'd wave to you and looked like he was flying it but he had to always be there and it didn't match up with your player character but it looked awesome.
It was a bit of a challenge to begin with but that's half the fun of modding for me.
Not sure about making something look "cobbled together" but there is a wrecked hauler ship in the files that I always wanted to get working but thought nobody would want it..... it has broken windows, crooked wings, damaged landing gear, really beaten up, and I wanted to make it fly and add some sparks and smoke effects too, make it look like an old bomb that should be scrapped !
Might have to try that now that I've thought about it again !
There is files for every ship part, cabins, wings, engines, landing gear and so on, and then there is a file for each ship type that has a list of those ship parts and rules saying what ones to use and where to put them, in that list for each ship type there may be several wing types, several engines, several cabins etc and the game will randomly choose one of each of those things from that list to build a ship from, so while it is possible to change and add to that list to use any parts you want from other ship types which is how this mod works, it isn't some completely random thing where any part from any ship type can cross over to another, they are all predetermined from a list of specific parts relevant to that ship type.
Hope that makes sense.
This mod took quite a while to make as each part had to be manually scaled and positioned to fit the new cockpit design which is the procedural stating point of every ship.