[WIP] [TC] X3 Galaxy

[Xe-131]

Well I've learned all I need to , to make a galaxy it seems. There will always be new stuff to learn along the way. Now I also realised I will never be able to make the entire galaxy on my free time by myself. However I did set a scope for what I like to do

You ought to make a video or two on youtube as a tutorial - I was just searching for something similar and came across your sample video of Argon Prime, really great stuff. I'm sure you could turn this into a mini community project if enough people catch on!

[Tomonor]

Quick question: can you set individual soundtrack files to systems, or are they not related with each other?

[RTest]

Well I've learned all I need to , to make a galaxy it seems. There will always be new stuff to learn along the way. Now I also realised I will never be able to make the entire galaxy on my free time by myself. However I did set a scope for what I like to do

https://i.imgur.com/TQ4Y8cq.png

If I can finish this, you should have a playable galaxy. All races, xenon and pirates. It's still a lot of work though. I'm now looking at ways to automate most of it through some java programming.

Why not do an random galaxy generator?

[celludriel]

@repatomonor

Yes you can do that , you can even in a cluster set a different music if you enter another sector in there.

@RTest

Possible but babysteps ...

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[celludriel]

Ok so I took a few steps back today , and started working on a java tool that inputs json and outputs a flyable galaxy. It's coming together nicely

INPUT: https://github.com/Celludriel/X4_Univer ... alaxy.json

OUTPUT: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 1BE5F66EE/

I still got some work like wrong coordinates for gates and a mistake in the json file for two gates. But I basically have recreated what I did the past two days by hand now, automatically with a click of a button.

[XTC0R]

Ok so I took a few steps back today , and started working on a java tool that inputs json and outputs a flyable galaxy. It's coming together nicely

INPUT: https://github.com/Celludriel/X4_Univer ... alaxy.json

OUTPUT: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 1BE5F66EE/

I still got some work like wrong coordinates for gates and a mistake in the json file for two gates. But I basically have recreated what I did the past two days by hand now, automatically with a click of a button.

You impress me more and more every day. We might really get a galaxy editor at the end?

[jmattspartacus2]

That is beautiful keep up the good work!

[nickolaiproblem]

Ok so I took a few steps back today , and started working on a java tool that inputs json and outputs a flyable galaxy. It's coming together nicely

INPUT: https://github.com/Celludriel/X4_Univer ... alaxy.json

OUTPUT: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 1BE5F66EE/

I still got some work like wrong coordinates for gates and a mistake in the json file for two gates. But I basically have recreated what I did the past two days by hand now, automatically with a click of a button.

I'm likely what I'm seeing when do you think version 1.0 will come out?

[celludriel]

INPUT: https://github.com/Celludriel/X4_Univer ... alaxy.json

OUTPUT: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ ... F844C3F94/

Small progress update, now all stations are being generated by the tool after reading the input from the json. So all balancing can be done in the json.

@nickolaiproblem "when it's done "

[RTest]

I will try to create an galaxy generator that generate a json then use your json to xml.

[TR0LL]

Is the size of each sector static or can this be changed?

[celludriel]

I will try to create an galaxy generator that generate a json then use your json to xml.

My json isn't final yet, you can start on it but be weary for changes

Is the size of each sector static or can this be changed?

Annoying more like it, it scales automatically if you add a zone to a sector. Even if you want to add a tiny little gate, it adds 200km of space. So no it's not static, but also hard to control

[RTest]

i did a basic galaxy generator this afternoon. The red dot are for sector placement and white edge for jump link.
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The next step is to generate a json compatible with the celludriel one.

[celludriel]

I've been updating as well and I got entire Argon jobs running modelled from the json

ok so here we are

INPUT: https://github.com/Celludriel/X4_Univer ... alaxy.json

OUTPUT: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ ... F844C3F94/

Full generation of jobs based on the input json ... and all the ships are happily flying around

[Riccardoman]

You have a talent sir

[TR0LL]

Very good work! So here is a question, is it possible to generate a galaxy that is empty except for resources and have a small hub for each faction and allow them to expand from there? The player could potentially start in their own empty sector with some basic starting stuff and build up. It would be like play a 4X, of... X4....

[celludriel]

Very good work! So here is a question, is it possible to generate a galaxy that is empty except for resources and have a small hub for each faction and allow them to expand from there? The player could potentially start in their own empty sector with some basic starting stuff and build up. It would be like play a 4X, of... X4....

Yes that is possible, just needs work writing the generator and figuring out the balance needed for X4 to get it's econ going.

So things will still break in the coming days but for those that absolutly can't wait

https://github.com/Celludriel/x4_x3_gal ... evelop.zip

you can download the zip here and copy the x3galaxy folder to your /extensions folder. It should work ... but diasble it if you want to play a new regular game. This mod removes ALL jobs and god entries on launching a new game even from the official gamestarts.

[TR0LL]

Very good work! So here is a question, is it possible to generate a galaxy that is empty except for resources and have a small hub for each faction and allow them to expand from there? The player could potentially start in their own empty sector with some basic starting stuff and build up. It would be like play a 4X, of... X4....

Yes that is possible, just needs work writing the generator and figuring out the balance needed for X4 to get it's econ going.

That is awesome, and could easily be a new mod on its own.

[celludriel]

so we have some progress

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 215D46C2F/

next up:

- add connections
- add stations
- add ware producing stations
- *shudder* add jobs