[tombom81]

Changing the virtual world is not too hard, with little knowledge:

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But, there's a hurdle to replace existing objects/entities. As you may know each of those entities has its unique Guid for identifying. So an object which uses the same Guid as another object would cause a Guru in Gothic 3. Days of G3 are gone, though. So are the Gurus. In Elex such an invalid object simply will not appear in game. Cool.

On the other hand genome allows the use of modified pak files. It's just a matter of numbering (see E2resman) to activate them.
So this way replacing should work. I thought. But it didn't. Even setting StaticScene to 'false' didn't do the trick (as possible in E1, iirc).

The working procedure for Elex (1) was to unpack the whole 22.4 GB c_1_na.pak, replace all world sector file by empty ones and repack the whole sh.., ehm, thing. Thus you could fill each place/sector file with objects arranged by yourself (not speaking about creating new ones; no kidding here...). So your modded pak should contain at least one if not all modified elex(2)sec files.

The main problem with the previous procedure is that no one would download 22.4 GB just for fun.

Anyways, at time of writing I'm using cloned objects with new Guids. Such objects will exist twice in the game then. But other than in above picture I wouldn't place them to close to the existing ones.

Elon Musk were proud of me:

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More pipes:

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edit2: expanding the Bastion:

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Don't look down:

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A bridge too far:

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Floating wasn't a funny bug in Gothic 3:

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[tombom81]

Finally I managed to move vanilla assets while playing:

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But other than in E1 there's no "hot" moving. I have to teleport out of ROI then back to get the result.

(Similar to Gothic 3, iirc?)

edit: I can apply new coordinates (fetched with DynTeleport app) to move objects farfar away, but it doesn't work as nice as it did with E1:

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[tombom81]

Using the De_composer I thought: "why not desecrate the beach?"

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But I'm missing the rest of Tomsontown. Maybe it's hidden in the rocks?

Anyways. Choosing Cratertown we'll push it up a little bit, for safe:

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Schwindelfrei? (Vertigo?)

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Ein kurzer Sprung. Nur Mut, das schaffen wir. (Believe in Angela, who said it's doable...)

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[lemmy_forever]

Führst du gerne Selbstgespräche?
Das Spiel ist tot. Es gibt keine PB-Community mehr.

[Knödlbrot]

Hi tombom81,
ich bin selbst kein Modder, (vor 1trillionenjahrenprogrammierergewesen),
verfolge aber deine Beiträge mit grossem Interesse. Daumen und danke

[tombom81]

Hi Knödlbrot,
danke. Ein geeignetes Konzept für das Platzieren von Entities ist nicht so leicht zu finden. Am besten wär's, wenn man die meshes in Blender positionieren könnte. Aber selbst so ein popeliges Silo besteht schon aus 5 Teilmeshes.

Daher wollte ich nur die Extents der Objekte (also ihre overall-Maße als Box) nutzen. Das verwirrt aber leider nur.
Also habe ich doch mal die Silos mit reingeladen - aber nur das Hüllenmesh:

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(ATE_Buildings Sektordatei)

edit: weiter im Spiel:
Wo sind die Gondeln?

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Gut, dass Jax das Seepferdchenabzeichen hat (Schwimmen in schultertiefem Wasser):

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Klimakrise in Magalan angekommen:

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Mit dem Ausgang im Rücken sieht man, dass er mit dem Eingang (am Strand) fluchtet:

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D.h., man muss sich beim Platzieren mehrerer Tunnel gedanklich nicht verrenken, sondern nur den Abstand zwischen Ein- Ausgang bestimmen, um dann den Eingang des 2. Tunnel an den Ausgang des ersten "anzupinnen".

[tombom81]

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Vielleicht gibt's ja in E3 mehr Eisenbahn? Sieht jedenfalls schon mal vielversprechend aus:

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Wo is der Zug?

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Ein nicht einziehbarer Fusstritt, der Reisende "abräumt". Die Qualityabteilung hat gesagt, "nee, das können mer nicht freigebe...":

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Auch alles etwas karg hier unten:

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[tombom81]

What's another (half) year?
Still struggeling with (my own) concepts which I'm not convinced of.
Changing the world would mean to improve the atmosphere, imho.

And the atmo is done by NPCs, isn't it? (Waiting for TTS to further improve...)

What about light? (Well, not in the f.up nights..., which are much too bright now, as I've read.)

But I tested spotlights in Scrappys mine:

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edit: finally I got it. Placing a rotating fan somewhere else. Should be moved on top of the wind turbine, though.

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There is no easy way, you know, Jax?

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[tombom81]

Well, couldn't resist to rotate other objects (and yes, it's live rotation):

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edit: I'd like to have a rotating magic table. But it needs to rotate horizontally, doesn't it?
I knew it wouldn't:

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[tombom81]

Again I moved Cratertown to the southern beach, some yards deeper this time. Since it has several levels (upper quarter etc.) a single plane doesn't fit for all buildings:

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[tombom81]

On another thought: what I'm severely missing when climbing around on the ridge here
is a big bandit camp in a canyon. (Yes, we have Logan's camp, but that's far far away and far too small, imho.)

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(This post is just a reminder to me of the great days and plans I've had when I'll be sniffing around here ten years later... )

[tombom81]

What's another (half) year?
Still struggeling with (my own) concepts which I'm not convinced of.
Changing the world would mean to improve the atmosphere, imho.

Forget about the damned atmo, man. A long journey has come to its end, starting in summer 2018 with the De_composer.

Finally I feel done with TAS, though its a monster of a tool with low abilities, haha:

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[AlexPreit]

Hello, Tom! Great work, you've done so much for the Elex community. Now... Could u help me? New to Elex modding, learning stuff as I go. I'm tryling to add faction armor sets into the world, but can't make it work. I made replacements for vanilla armor templates (as my main goal was to rebalance everything). Now I've created a sector file for one set to test. Trying to use the coordinates of vanilla legendary weapons, in this case - The Executioner. Copied GUID from my templates (should be same as vanilla) and added everything else from The Executioner part of the Ignadon Sector (IGN_Items). But can't make it work. The armor does not apper at all. Should I create extra templates with custom GUIDs? Maybe I typed my sector name into the World.elex2wrl incorrectly? Do I need to edit strings? Also, HOW DO I EDIT STRINGS??? Cannot unpack them using this tutorial. https://www.nexusmods.com/elex2/mods/11

So, anyways. Are there any tutorials for this stuff?

[AlexPreit]

https://mega.nz/file/c7E0yTTJ#Fk3Ewy...dl3nwK4nN3uSI8

Here's the sector I made. First time. No idea what's wrong. Also here's the placement in the World.wrl file. It's merged with other mods.

https://imgur.com/a/x8efHHn

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[tombom81]

https://mega.nz/file/c7E0yTTJ#Fk3Ewy...dl3nwK4nN3uSI8
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[Bild: P48qo7%20UciAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC]Hi AlexPreit,
replacing vanilla items is a little bit tricky. (Templates might need to be observed.)

When using the vanilla (unique!) guid (from IGN_Items)
GUID = {B1021741-A1A7-40A2-A13A-CE9F065C40E9};
you should not change the name of the belonging entity.

As a test - change the Guid to ..-A13A-CE9F065C0001
for example to check whether the item appears then.

(I'm out of office the whole day but I'll care for this asap.)

Good night.

btw, items are savegame relevant. Any modified item will be overwritten by the one from the savegame with the same Guid.

[AlexPreit]

Wow, you didn't have to reply so quickly. Thank you very much, I really appreciate it. I wanna do something for the Elex modding stage, so I'll be popping up here and there to ask for advice. Have zero knowledge of coding or anything, just come up with ideas and learn on the go. Again, thank you and good night.

[tombom81]

Some day, I think, we will have a user built castle in Elex 2:

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