Nothing crazy, just went into the cell editor, deleted everything with the word light on it and loaded the game.
It feels way more atmospheric, tense and like a real abandoned place, although a proper "moody" relighting should be done because some areas are pitch black.
Hello guys, on this post I'd like to share some ideas for mods to streamline landings, take offs, (un)boarding startstations and add a planetary aproximation animation to the game to increase immersion so maybe some of this catches the interest of a modder with proper knowledge. Let's start!
One of the things I find clunky about the game is that to in order to perform some actions, you are required to press a key, lose control of the game to watch an animation, press another key to do another action, lose control of the game again, and then take it back for the next section. This is specially problematic on orbit-surface transitions and on (un)boarding startstations, where you have to press a button to land/dock, and another to get out of the ship/take off.
Let's see the approach R&C Rift Apart took with this, a game without seamless planetary transitions and no space gameplay, just a sci-fi game with different levels as planets:
Travel goes like this: You press a button and you enter your ship. Once inside, we select where to go and the game takes off, land, and get us out of the ship on a single button press. It is not a tennis match between us and the game just to take off and get to the next part.
How do we translate this to Starfield, a game with a thousand planets, space exploration, cruise mode and grav jumps while retaining the current options? Here is my concept:
Take off:
Landing:
Boarding:
As you can see on this concept, we can take off directly from the ship's bay and get out of the ship directly from the planet orbit. We can board a startstation directly when we dock.
What came to my mind is a third prompt on the ship's door bay "Space - Take Off", a second one when landing "Space - Land and explore" and a third one when docking and going back to the ship from a startstation. "Space - Board" from space, "Space - Undock" when looking at the startstation door to go back to the ship.
I also added a character walking "animation" instead of popping out on the planet surface. I also think a third prompt is the cleanest option just in case sometimes you actually need to do something on your ship before proceeding to the exploration.
Why? As many of us know, one of the Starfield main problems is how the content is segmented and the amount of loading screens. The purpose of this mod would be to simplify and unify the loading screen that is going to trigger going to space, since the ship on a planet's surface is either a player home or an activator to go to up there, all while retaining immersion and space gameplay that would be lost by directly fast travelling from outside the ship to save on loading screens.
The second mod that came to my mind is to add an ingame, not prerrendered animation (so we will have a black screen after it anyways) of our ship approaching the planet. Right know, there is a hard black cut as the transition, and I think thats really lazy on Bethesda part. Here is how a complete landing sequence would take place combining this animation and the mod idea above this, using the R&C animation:
I don't know if is feasible to do, but I feel it is more realistic than an SW Outlaws/No Man's Sky approach.
Why? Immersion basically, an animation there would ease the lost of continuity due to the loading screen.
Gimme your thoughts guys, have a good one!
Hello Creation Kitters!
Guys, do you know if is possible to hide the info the scanner gathers about POIs BEFORE you reach them? The name and the icon basically.
Pressing E on them to add them to the surface map is great to not miss anything, but it kinda ruins the fun that you know what awaits you before arriving.
I tried to assign "???" to the unexplored name of a UC Listening Post but this was what happened on gameplay:
I saw "???" before and after scanning the place from afar (great!) but when arriving I was received with a "???" instead of the name of the POI, and when I cleared it and reached the loot room, a message with the real name of the POI appeared on screen.
Switching the icon to a generic one prevented the icon to switch from black to white, but I don't think that as a big deal.
Maybe is a scanner behaviour I should look into?
Thanks!
Hello guys, I'm in need of some help. I'm trying to create a mod to have multiple biomes on the main cities. The problem is I'm facing a limitation: When trying to edit the biomes of New Atlantis, New Atlantis' Block Pattern is sitting on the middle of a pixel of the biome's map. I have tried to move the pattern to an intersection of two pixels but I'm not being able to do so, maybe a limitation or probably a lack of knowledge of how to do it, but it feels like is hardlocked.
I have also tried to input a high resolution biome map to this tool: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/15914?tab=description
But it downsizes to 256x256 again when creating the biom file and going back to the CK, so I can't paint "half pixels" of biomes right where New Atlantis sits.
Is it possible to keep biome's map's imported resolution so I can draw more precise biome adjustments or is it hardlocked to 256x256 because if it's not that resolution the game explodes? Is it possible to move NA Pattern?
Thanks!