[MOD] Paranid Zeus NEW v0.05 -Updated 13/04/2016

Lander1979 · Post by **Lander1979** » Wed, 23. Mar 16, 05:01

The Zeus is the primary carrier in the Paranid Fleet. Information about this ship, other than the fact that it is very deadly as a result of new weapons technology, have not been released. This ship's tactics are not to get close to battle, and to release its swarm of powerful fighters from a distance. Paranid pilots have been known to hide their ships in dense asteroid fields to keep their signature from hostile craft.

Latest Version:

v0.05 http://www.mediafire.com/download/4s3cv ... d_Zeus.zip
Adds the Paranid Zeus to Home Of Light and Albion XL Shipyards.

If previous version installed.Delete the Paranid Zeus Mod folder.

Unzip into the "\extensions" folder.

Compatible with existing save games.

The Idea is to create a Paranid Zeus borrowing from the hull of the Xenon I. The Paranid Zeus is a Carrier with a 300 drone capacity.

This Mod adds an entirely new ship to the game. It does not overwrite or affect the Xenon I in any way.

Thankyou to Marvin Martian, alexalsp, and UniTrader for all the help and patience.

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v0.05 Changes:
*Changed Red glow to Gold glow.
*Changed weapons to Argon type.

Old Versions:(Red Glow and Xenon weapons)
v0.05 Adds the Paranid Zeus to Albion XL Shipyards.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/6a046 ... d_Zeus.zip

v0.05 with HOL DLC Adds the Paranid Zeus to Home Of Light and Albion XL Shipyards. http://www.mediafire.com/download/slsdk ... d_Zeus.zip

v0.05 Changes:
*Added 12 Plasma Jet LR Turrets.
*Removed 4.0 Minimum Requirement.
*Added alternative version that also adds the ship to HOL Shipyards.

v0.04 Changes:
*Added content.xml.
*Added Russian Language in game.

v0.03 Changes:
*Fixed targetpoints patch file.
*Added Navmesh

v0.02 Changes:
*Added targetpoints and dockpath.
*Added Cargo Bay.
*Added Waypoints.
*Modified Drone pad Locations.
*Modified Playerdock location for Cap Ship Bridge mod compatibility.

Known Issues:
*In Zone Ship to Ship Transfer Not Working. (Workaround: As this is an In Zone issue only, Change Zones to complete the trade).
*Weapons are not customizable and in some places may be missing(this is an issue with the shipyard being able to build xenon weapons, I'm not sure of the extent of this yet so player feedback on this is essential).

To Do:
I will need to work out how to change the material to a rusty brown colour(haven't attempted to alter texture maps before). Maybe also change the colour of engines and weapons?

Likely followup project will be to convert the Xenon K into a Paranid Odysseus.

Down the track it might be fun to expand on this and add a selection of re-purposed Jon Ferco, Xenon, and Canterran stations as Paranid Shipyards and Stations. Maybe even give them a Home System or Two.

Eriodas · Post by **Eriodas** » Wed, 23. Mar 16, 15:33

You are going to need a lot of other things too, if you want to make a Paranid system. Better if you stick with just the ships for now.

Also you will need to create or import the fighters, some portraits and voices... And the Paranid ship designs were more sleek, completely covered by some shiny armor. Not like that Xenon K thing.

Lander1979 · Post by **Lander1979** » Thu, 24. Mar 16, 23:18

Version 0.01 Ready for testing.

antoniut · Post by **antoniut** » Thu, 24. Mar 16, 23:34

Photo...photo...!

Lander1979 · Post by **Lander1979** » Fri, 25. Mar 16, 00:01

Screenshot;
http://www.mediafire.com/view/7xwyt7p7a ... -27-30.jpg

antoniut · Post by **antoniut** » Fri, 25. Mar 16, 00:56

Lander1979 · Post by **Lander1979** » Fri, 25. Mar 16, 05:05

Test Pilots Wanted!

All Feedback both welcome and valued!

Marvin Martian · Post by **Marvin Martian** » Fri, 25. Mar 16, 08:16

you need to create (&copy) the targetpoints
this will be helpfull for the drone dock-&landing too, so you can place the dronebay deeper inside the modell

in case you will have cargo for trading or simply ship to ship transfer of fuel, you need to add waypoints at the components file (i would suggest Sequana or Midir with z= data of the I size additional

Lander1979 · Post by **Lander1979** » Fri, 25. Mar 16, 08:40

Thanks Marvin, I'll have to look into it and do some reverse engineering as I haven't played with nav points before. You've given me a good idea here as well, I will attempt to add a substantial cargobay to the next version.

Post by **Sparky Sparkycorp** » Fri, 25. Mar 16, 13:10

Maybe borrow the unused Moebius and Golem fighters too, and you're halh-way to a race

TSM · Post by **TSM** » Fri, 25. Mar 16, 15:33

that a station in background or all part of ship?

alexalsp · Post by **alexalsp** » Fri, 25. Mar 16, 16:04

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =634544023

4.00 - Xenon Hunt 3

Lander1979 · Post by **Lander1979** » Fri, 25. Mar 16, 19:05

TSM wrote:that a station in background or all part of ship?

It was a station that just happened to be in the background at the time of the photo.

@alexalsp Great work on those ships

May I borrow the dock coordinates for cap ship bridge mod compatibility?

alexalsp · Post by **alexalsp** » Fri, 25. Mar 16, 19:15

I gave you this link. You can choose what you need. Weapons, jump drive, drone bay, cockpit, traffic

Lander1979 · Post by **Lander1979** » Sat, 26. Mar 16, 07:07

Having some issue getting the waypoints from xenon hunt 3 to work in zone on the I/Zeus.

SOLVED: Missing Navmesh.

Marvin Martian · Post by **Marvin Martian** » Sat, 26. Mar 16, 09:13

Lander1979 wrote:Having some issue getting the waypoints from xenon hunt 3 to work in zone on the I/Zeus.

i'm using

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				<waypoints>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint06" tags="sizeLevel1 typedock end dynamicmasstraffic " x="0" y="95.82845" z="2509.145416">
						<links/>
					</waypoint>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint05" tags="typenormal sizeLevel1 dynamicmasstraffic " x="0" y="95.82845" z="2769.145">
						<links>
							<link ref="XU_Waypoint06"/>
						</links>
					</waypoint>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint10" tags="typenormal sizeLevel1 blocklink dynamicmasstraffic " x="-13.5" y="124.54979" z="2969.145">
						<links/>
					</waypoint>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint09" tags="typenormal sizeLevel1 dynamicmasstraffic " x="-13.5" y="124.54979" z="2819.145">
						<links>
							<link ref="XU_Waypoint10"/>
						</links>
					</waypoint>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint08" tags="typenormal sizeLevel1 blocklink dynamicmasstraffic " x="13.5" y="124.5498" z="2969.145">
						<links/>
					</waypoint>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint07" tags="typenormal sizeLevel1 dynamicmasstraffic " x="13.5" y="124.5498" z="2819.145">
						<links>
							<link ref="XU_Waypoint08"/>
						</links>
					</waypoint>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint04" tags="typenormal sizeLevel1 dynamicmasstraffic " x="-13.49998" y="80.2998" z="2819.145">
						<links>
							<link ref="XU_Waypoint05"/>
						</links>
					</waypoint>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint03" tags="typenormal sizeLevel1 blocklink dynamicmasstraffic " x="-13.49998" y="80.2998" z="2969.145">
						<links>
							<link ref="XU_Waypoint04"/>
						</links>
					</waypoint>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint02" tags="typenormal sizeLevel1 dynamicmasstraffic " x="13.50002" y="80.2998" z="2819.145">
						<links>
							<link ref="XU_Waypoint05"/>
						</links>
					</waypoint>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint01" tags="typenormal sizeLevel1 blocklink dynamicmasstraffic " x="13.50002" y="80.2998" z="2969.145">
						<links>
							<link ref="XU_Waypoint02"/>
						</links>
					</waypoint>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint12" tags="typenormal sizeLevel1 dynamicmasstraffic " x="0" y="107.55028" z="2769.1451">
						<links>
							<link ref="XU_Waypoint07"/>
							<link ref="XU_Waypoint09"/>
						</links>
					</waypoint>
					<waypoint name="XU_Waypoint11" tags="sizeLevel1 typedock start dynamicmasstraffic " x="0" y="107.55028" z="2509.145416">
						<links>
							<link ref="XU_Waypoint12"/>
						</links>
					</waypoint>
				</waypoints>

Lander1979 · Post by **Lander1979** » Sun, 27. Mar 16, 01:18

Ok Here is what I have so far, going to call this V 0.02

Thanks Marvin, The front docking approach looks allot better than the side approach for my purposes.

My issue in both cases, is that once the ship docks there is no Mass Traffic generated by the Zeus/I, meaning there are no cargo drones being created, and docking stalls until the player is OOZ?

I'm not sure if this also affects the spawning of construction drones for repair?

I'm guessing this is the issue discussed in waypoints_k_i.txt in the Xenohunt 3 mod ?

Lander1979 · Post by **Lander1979** » Sun, 27. Mar 16, 08:35

Looks like there's a problem with my targetpoints.xml file. Until I can get it to work I will add the original file with the edit.

v0.015 old

If anyone who knows how xmlpatch works, want's to take a look to see if they can fix this file it would be greatly appreciated:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/b55ad ... points.xml

Marvin Martian · Post by **Marvin Martian** » Sun, 27. Mar 16, 10:17

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<add sel="/targetpoints">

sel=/pointlist won't ever work that way, maybe as <add sel="/pointlist[1]" pos="after">, but better use this above

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about masstraffic, for me it works http://abload.de/img/screen_ipks0k.jpg
i would suggest to copy the _navmesh.xml from I to your zeus and and change the name suitable to your component-file

Lander1979 · Post by **Lander1979** » Sun, 27. Mar 16, 13:33

Thankyou very much Marvin, that got it working!

Here is the Latest Build
v0.03 Old
In zone Ship to Ship transfer still seems bugged, but the Zeus is now trading with stations and using it's repair drones.

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[MOD] Paranid Zeus NEW v0.05 -Updated 13/04/2016

[MOD] Paranid Zeus NEW v0.05 -Updated 13/04/2016