shape-adaptive-shields Mod

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Tsamsiyu
Question can i get a link to the SGA?

Tsamsiyu

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(i was just making that thread when you asked)

Lafiel

Tsamsiyu Good thing you separated them properly and made sure about versions and compatibility. Could have been messy otherwise later.

Tsamsiyu

Lafiel
I have read About that on the thread About the mods spreadsheet

Tyaestysu

@Tsamsiyu from what i've seen of your mod you'r doing quit a great job at that SGA mod, so i wish you good luck in your mod developement.

Tsamsiyu

Tyaestysu
Thanks a lot!

Sether0

Good mod.

Tsamsiyu

In that last step, i added the operational arc effect to visualize the shields while turning on or off. I noticed that while the ship is moving, that the particles stay on fixed spot relative to the map grid. It would look nicer if they were fiyed to the ship instead but i did not find a way to fix it.

ResExsention

Tsamsiyu It looks really nice, especially with the armor shields.

Come to think about it, it would be pretty cool if the shields automatically activated if an enemy ship fires on it. And would stay active until you got far enough or destroyed the enemy.

Lafiel

Tsamsiyu That depends on the effect you are using not the part itself. It got to have AddFrameOfReference

ResExsention You can't do this conveniently. And using sensors like in Abh will cause lag especially since you want them to activate in time. Its not worth it that's why Abh uses the idle mode for shields.

Roasted

Greetings, Tsamsiyu.
I have recently been testing your mod and The internal shield emmiter has for some sort of reasson an invincible shield.

Tsamsiyu

Roasted
Hi there

I did state in the original post that since the parts were implemented together with others for a different modpack (my SGA mod), that they might be overpowered against early game vanilla.
Originally it was meant to be used together with other mods and was balanced for that.
But in lategame vanilla you have Access to weapons like the emp Missiles, which exploit a weakness of the internal Shield mode. the external shielded Segments are somewhat vournerable to constant Bombardement or spam of even small lasers.
Compared to other modded parts like bloodcult and abh, my Shields might be average or a bit on the weaker side.

If you want, i can modify the stats to match the vanilla shields and release a separate Version for use in environment vanilla.

thank you for your feedback

Roasted

Tsamsiyu well it isn't like that. I have deactivated all reactors so the shield would get no power but it's still up I have at least 150 ABH weapons which do 13.000 damage per shot and I also have practicly infinite missles going at it and also 3 EMP missle launchers, but the shield still wont go down.

EDIT: I also wanted to attach an screenshot, but file size can not be bigger than 1024 kilobytes.

kola2134

Roasted thats a lot of damage

Tsamsiyu

Roasted

thats strange… something like that never occured during my testing…
can you set up a recreation of what you did in a saved game file and send this and a copy of your current abh mod Version via my Gmail? that would allow me to investigate further and beyond any form of text description.

Tsamsiyu.yt@gmail.com

if you cant send or decide not to send me a saved game, i will see if i can recreate the Situation myself...

Roasted

Tsamsiyu my apologies for the late reply, I will send it as soon as I can.

Tsamsiyu

I have been testing multiple weapons of abh 0.7.2 for some hours now and wasnt able to recreate the situation. Every weapon, even ones from the lower tech Levels, was able to overcome the shield when not resuppied with power.

If you could send me a saved game, where you recreate the bug, i might have a chance of figuring that oune out..
you can also send me that screenshot via Gmail, that should acceot the size of the image

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Tsamsiyu
scam i cant wire up my armor so the shield projects from far away it just gives armor shields without any connection

Tsamsiyu

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

yes,

the range of the internal Shield Emitter is limited to 12 tiles grid distance (GridBuffProvider).

any armor tile beyond the range will not activate.
any armor tile within the range will activate, if you switch the Generator into external mode. The Pictures in the original post show the info box with the controls and mode switches
the armor tiles do not need any wiring to function correctly since the buffing system is "wireless". the structure tiles in the pictures above are of no importance.
the buff that feeds the armor tiles with energy works only on the same ship. it will not work on ally ships in close proximity and will stop working if the parts are separated while a ship breakes apart

currently, the range of one Generator cannot be extended

but using multiple Generators with overlapping ranges will allow stacking of the buff (faster Regeneration of Energy in the armor tiles.)
hovering the mouse cursor over the Generator or the armor parts in blueprint mode will show a green rectangle overlay if the part is within buffing range.

the Shield arc itself is not visible. it will only show up when:

hit by something
or is turned on or off
or switches activation state (goes online while charging / collapses when Energy storage is drained)

I hope you may find the error in your test ship's design and correct it. If none of the possible errors as described above match your situation, please give me a more precise description of the circumstances that were present during your testing.

I am pretty sure that my shielding system is not a

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, since it works fine for some other people.
that doesnt of course exclude the possibility that the code still contains some bugs that havent been discovered jet, not accounting for bugs that occure during use with other mods. (assuming you tested in a vanilla environment)

please report back to me if you have done some tests.

Tsamsiyu

Roasted

The invincible-shield-bug mytery has been solved:

The bug occured in Version 0.8.15 of SGA_Mod.
Other mod enabled during the testing were Krooms Forge 1.0.7 and ABH 0.7.2.
Malfunctions only semm to have occured on a single ship
The exact reason for that is not known.

Solution:
Before i changed thos Forum thread to ShapeAdaptiveShields only, the development of my SGA Mod took place here.
I made some changes to the toggle and buffing logic since that Version. In any newer Version of SGA or the current Version of ShapeAdaptiveShields od this thread, the bug should be eliminated.
Everyone who has Problems should look up the Version number and see if it is up to date. I try to find Bugs during my initial Tests and to eliminate them within the next itteration of the mod.

Tyaestysu

@Tsamsiyu Hello! a quick suggestion: it would be nice to have a circle or an effect like the FTL drives to better see the range of the internal generator's buff, would make life easier for builders

Tsamsiyu

Tyaestysu
That is certainly a feature that i will add if i find the time to do so
(School is incredibly busy Right now...)

which one would you prefer:

a suddle red overlay, like weapons
a ftl-like overlay
<your own idea/description>

EDIT:

The ftl overlay is only possible if i put an ftl-drive-feature into the part
using the weapons arc as a blueprint texture without a weapon doesnt work either
> I think for now, the already existing buff highlighting while mouse-over has to be enough. This will Show every part that is within range of one specific other part.