shape-adaptive-shields Mod

Tsamsiyu

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

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

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

dafeeeeeeeeeesh scam

, 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.

a_random_username_that_is_nice

Kroom oh, anyways i like your Kroom's Forge Mod. 🙂

Tsamsiyu

UPDATE:

added some tweaks and improvements to the existing parts, no new parts (yet)
made sure it is compatible with the newest vanilla version (0.15.7)

SuperCables

Crash on 0.15.6a_standalone
Mod version 1.6.1
This was the only mod enabled!

Save game demonstrating crash:

Crash Log:
04/08/2020 18:45:29 | Logging successful initialized.
04/08/2020 18:45:29 | .NET Core Runtime Version: 3.1.1
04/08/2020 18:45:29 | Running as a 64-bit process.
04/08/2020 18:45:29 | Local: en-US
04/08/2020 18:45:29 | Language: en-US
04/08/2020 18:45:29 | Cosmoteer version 0.15.6a build 0.15.6a_standalone
04/08/2020 18:45:29 | Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 10.0.17134
04/08/2020 18:45:29 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4430 CPU @ 3.00GHz (4 logical / 4 physical cores)
04/08/2020 18:45:29 | 8136.0 MB RAM
04/08/2020 18:45:29 | AMD Radeon (TM) R7 370 Series (22.19.162.4) (4/23/2017)
04/08/2020 18:45:29 | 4095.0 MB VRAM
[Removed]
04/08/2020 18:45:30 | Starting main game loop...
04/08/2020 18:45:30 | Enabled mods:
04/08/2020 18:45:30 | Tsamsiyu.Stargate_mod
04/08/2020 18:45:30 | Loaded language 'en'.
04/08/2020 18:45:48 | Loaded game data in 18.2 seconds.
04/08/2020 18:45:58 | Loaded game named 'test'.
04/08/2020 18:45:58 | Game pushed onto stack.
04/08/2020 18:45:58 | Game mode is: CreativeGameModeManager
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Memory usage at time of crash: 1,041,879,040
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Application state stack at time of crash:
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Cosmoteer.Game.GameRoot
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Cosmoteer.Gui.TitleScreen
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | FPS at time of crash: 59.879654
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Running processes at time of crash: aswEngSrv, aswidsagent, atieclxx, atiesrxx, audiodg, AvastBrowserCrashHandler, AvastBrowserCrashHandler64, AvastSvc, AvastUI, brave, BtwRSupportService, cdarbsvc_v1.0.0_x64, Cosmoteer, csrss, ctfmon, dasHost, dllhost, dwm, Everything, explorer, fontdrvhost, Idle, lsass, MBAMService, mbamtray, MEGAsync, Memory Compression, MSASCuiL, Registry, RtkNGUI64, RuntimeBroker, SearchFilterHost, SearchIndexer, SearchProtocolHost, SearchUI, SecurityHealthService, services, SgrmBroker, ShellExperienceHost, sihost, smartscreen, smss, spoolsv, sqlwriter, steam, SteamService, steamwebhelper, SuperF4, svchost, System, taskhostw, unsecapp, wininit, winlogon, WmiPrvSE, wsc_proxy,
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Cosmoteer.Ships.Parts.Defenses.ArcShield.OnHit(Vector2D bulletLoc, Int32 damage)
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Cosmoteer.Simulation.HitEffects.ExplosiveDamageEffectRules.Proxy.OnHit(SimRoot sim, Int32 amount, Vector2D explosionCenter, HitEffectParams effectParams, HitInfo hitInfo)
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Cosmoteer.Simulation.HitEffects.BaseExplosiveEffectRules2.<DoEffect>g___DoEffect|11_0(Single maxRadius, <>c__DisplayClass11_0& ) 04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Cosmoteer.Simulation.HitEffects.BaseExplosiveEffectRules2.DoEffect(HitEffectParams effectParams)
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__139_0(Object state)
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Halfling.Application.QueueingSyncContext.PostInfo.Call()
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Halfling.Application.QueueingSyncContext.HandleQueue()
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Halfling.Application.Director.GetRunIterator()+MoveNext()
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Halfling.Application.Bases.GenericApp.ApplicationMainIterator()+MoveNext()
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Halfling.Windows.D3D11.D3D11Window.RunGameLoop(String[] args, IEnumerable`1 iterator)
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Halfling.Application.Bases.GenericApp.ApplicationMain(String[] args)
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Cosmoteer.GameApp.Main(String[] args)
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Director received exit call.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Disposed default font.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Disposed XA2AudioManager device.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Disposed audio manager.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Disposed clock.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Disposed input manager.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Disposed graphics manager.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Disposed swap chain.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Disposed Direct3D device.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Disposed DXGI factory.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Closed Windows form.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Director received exit call.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Disposed window.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Disposed platform interface.
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | Closing log output file...

Tsamsiyu

SuperCables
CaptainRedstone
This is a known bog of this Mod (and the SGA Mod)...

It sometimes happens while using the external shields and explosive damage hits somehow two components at the same time.
I dont know how to fixt it though, because this issue is rooted deeper in the game's Code. I would have to ask Walt if he knows what exactly causes this and how to fix it.

04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Cosmoteer.Ships.Parts.Defenses.ArcShield.OnHit(Vector2D bulletLoc, Int32 damage)
04/08/2020 18:46:20 | at Cosmoteer.Simulation.HitEffects.ExplosiveDamageEffectRules.

The saved game and the crash report are helpful, but please dont post the entire report in the forum thread… it just takes up so much space.
If you already linked a google drive document, you can also save the report to a .txt file and link this too
or simply send both to my google mail (original post).

I will post another version and update the others as soon as I or someone else finds out, how to really fix this issue,
Thank you for your feedback

Karamitsuko

it is a very disruptive bug, basically any time a shield armor piece is destroyed the game crashes, which is very annoying because i like this mod a lot

Tsamsiyu

Karamitsuko
unfortunately, the only thin i can do about that right now, is contacting the game developer for further help.
Until this bug is fixed, avoiding missile-style weapons will most likely be a (not optimal) solution. I cannot recall having this issue while using cannons for example.
As soon as a solution is found, i will release a fixed version.

Thx for the feedback

Karamitsuko

Tsamsiyu iirc i had this issue last night with cannon fire aswell, but i'll do some testing

UmbraDracoNZ42

Have been trying this out. Only in bubble mode though. What happens across larger gaps, like thrusters or large cannons? I had a similar idea for a mod, but i had in mind having the shield blocks behind a layer, or more, of heavy armour and thus projecting the shield further out; also, different sizes of shields to cover larger gaps and the like. I couldn't really wrap my head around all of the bits and pieces needed to set things up though. Maybe I should give it a good, hard go? Never mind, talking to myself. I am aware that I would have to have MANY shield blocks, and the central generator is a good idea too, but I would need all sorts of shaped and sized shields to cover the various shapes of craft. Sorry, I am rambling again. To repeat my question, can your shields cover larger gaps, or is the bubble mode the only way?

Tsamsiyu

UmbraDracoNZ42
Right now, for really far distances, the bubble is the only Option. But for protection of the immediate hull of the ship, the existing blocks worked for me. I dint see the Need to Project the Shield further out because you can sinply multi-layer the Shield conductors to add redundancy.

If i can find to time, i could add a cycled button to the existing few blocks with diffrently shaped and placed arcs, for more Variation without too many new parts.

Another way would be to add the Code of the Shield as a node to vanilla parts, making them compatible with my system. The same would be possible for other mods parts, even though you would have to do so manually if the mod author refuses to collaborate.

UmbraDracoNZ42

Tsamsiyu Honestly, I think in layers of shields, thus the distant projection, plus I'm used to TerraTech where the explosions can go though shields and damage blocks if the explosion is big enough. Well, that and the damned Electro-Bolts going through shields, but only one layer, it seems. Might be off on that one, but I do like layers of defense. But that is my idea which I will probably never get around to trying. Like I've thought about taking a shot at something like Automation++ in some format, because I LOVE that mod, well loved it.

Tsamsiyu

new version 1.6.2 fixes minor issues with different PartCategories
compatible with 0.15.8b
the known bug still exists though...

Question: where is the right place to report bugs directly to the game developer?

Ultranova

Tsamsiyu Either the discord server in #bug-reports or possibly in the Tech Support (Have Mods) section of the forum.