That sounds like work to set up

i wish you did have a gallery; its a pain in the ass to ever find any of your older art and animations

I don't do anything official with my youtube channel, and It's been a while since I've done any new spaceship renders, got a lot of other projects going on.

I also don't really maintain a proper gallery, but I do occasionally post worldbuilding pieces on my bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gerardriley.bsky.social

is there a channel with more of these animations or is it just that one?

The patch was an emergency update after investigating a few of the complaints that have been piling up revealed that the signatures for virtually every ship in the mod were wildly incorrect.

It includes a few other bugfixes but the IRPAL is currently bugged.

https://prnt.sc/54aLeFmtqMrn

They got it from me, I made that animation long before it was in nebulous.

I've seen the coastwalker in an animation in background footage for a spacedock video recently and i'm wondering where they got the animation from?, if anybody knows pls tell me.

(Part 2 due to character limit)

The results were grim. Shots Fired per the Battle Report for the IRPALs is 2301, while hits is at 74, for an accuracy of ~3.2%.

Battle Report available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AwH_4QbmBwSQaeDfvDN0YdNcJ3ZR8_sM/view?usp=sharing

Did more testing, this time against standoff weapons.

The target was an FLV with 6 IRPALs along its lower surface, with the launch platform being another FLV with the coil set to High power. The target was equiped with the "Cat armor composite" from the cat technology mod to ensure that it survived testing.

The missiles were fired from a distance of about 7km, ahead and ~30 degrees below the target, to ensure that all IRPALs could fire on the incoming missiles during the entirety of their flight.

12 LMH-200 missiles (speed set to 225m/s, no evasive manuvers, free approach) per standoff fuse were launched (12 with 250m fuses, 12 with 500m fuses, ..., and 12 with 5000m fuses.)

12 NSC-200 charges (speed set to 300m/s) per standoff fuse were launched (12 with 250m fuses, 12 with 500m fuses, ..., and 12 with 5000m fuses.)

36 NSC-300 charges (speed set to 300m/s) were launched, 12 each for the 1000m, 2500m, and 4000m fuses.

Did some testing with the IRPAL. Currently against non-manuvering Armorer missiles set to minimum speed (120m/s) it has a shot to kill rate of around 6.25%.

The default speed For an SMHM-200 is 217m/s. With the IRPAL's range of 5000m that comes down to an engagement time of ~23sec, which with its fire rate means 4 salvos of 3 shots for a total of 12 shots. The expected value of missiles killed is 12*(1/16), or 0.75. This means that you can cannot reliably expect an IRPAL to handle a single basic missile. For a salvo of 3 missiles you'd need 4 of the things.

I get that as a DP weapon it needs to be worse at PD than dedicated PD weapons, but the numbers here are a bit much. Maybe up the accuracy a bit or let it be buffed by mount gyros and gun plotting centers?

oh, so i guess one of my mods unlocks them, good to know.
One more thing i noticed, nuke cans are launched with a delay. I mean after being programmed they leave ship, get missile icon, and hover for some time before boosting forward with (roughtly) half of velocity from missile editor. Like they had cold launch enabled (i double checked to set them to hot launch).

The shotgun cannisters dont work, they werent meant to be included in this update.

I have some issues to report and one suggestion.

Issues:
1. Birdshot cannisters create errors when hitting targets (Error - Attempted to instantiate a Lightweight Kinetic Munition but the selected munition template with GUID babdd89c-dad4-4d4e-8ea5-10139fb3db58 is not the correct type.

2. Buckshot can empty whole 125rnd magazine supply in single salvo (null reference exception).

Suggestion: Lock out cans from fighters loadout, as they try to perform attack from missile range (250m?), and they can't do it, as they are too close.

Overall great mod, at first i was sad there were no old riders (i loved their rain of lead), but these are even better. It would be cool to add them as another faction (unless these mods are compatible, then only mention they are)

Ah i see ok. So it can only load back up to the original amount brought by the other ship. Makes total sense. It's such a unique and cool system, i hope you will have more ships that can use it in the future. I patiently await every update you guys make on this <3

External damage cannot be repaired, we actually tried.

Repair gantry will repair broken modules on nearby friendly ships to 100% over time, but ONLY if neither ship is currently under fire, and there is a cap on repairs that can be provided to a given ship, i forget what it is. So eventually you hit the cap and that ship cant receive any more repairs.

The Reloading gantry can only refill missing components of the loadout the ship entered combat with, and only if the reloading ship has the munition in question.

so if if the loadout calls for 5x Missile Y, the ship to be reloaded has 3, and the reloading ship has 1, it will give that missile to the ship to be reloaded and then it cannot reload that missile anymore.

This is largely down to coding and game design limitations, doing fully variable reloads is technically possible but it would be a lot of work, be likely to break between updates, and add micro to an already micro heavy mod.

This is 100% one of the most unique faction mods I've seen yet. The ship designs are all incredibly cool while still kinda fitting the Nebulous vibe. I can't wait to see where this goes.
I'm trying to understand how the Gantry's function on the large Raider ship. Do the repair ones only target fully broken components, or only external damage? I'm gonna try testing stuff with my friends later but i thought I'd ask how they are intended to function and if there's supposed to be an animation or not I'm supposed to see to tell me it's working.

Sorry for the big blob of words haha

Eventually. This stuff is a lot of work people, and Its not even the only personal project I've got going on. Let alone all the commissions, I'm actually a little behind on my finances.

All vanilla features will be supported -eventually- Please be patient.

Will there be custom components for fighters soon?

Still, as they are right now they feel pretty under powered. at minimum id think they would feel lot better if they benefited from the various -spread buffs.

They are long range and dual purpose, they can't be perfect against everything.

Are the IRPALs intended to be very weak vs missiles? they nuke craft usually but can only hit even non maneuvering missiles probably like 5% of the time.

Oh, I see. Thanks for the clarification!

Sovereign capital ships have built-in hangar pads, you need to put hangars in their large compartments to deploy them, and even then you wont get very many.

By contrast, Sovereign smallcraft will be very high quality (The void diver is currently underperforming massively, but me and some testers are working on it)

There will also be better navy ships for fighter deployment eventually, but no fleet carriers.

actually Rylek's Raiders have hangar mounts, but I can't seem to find any for Sovereign.

Sovereign and Rylek's ships have no weapon mounts for hangars. No craft will exit either faction's ships for me because of this.

Their listed maximum range is incorrect because of how their engines work, I always just fired them by right clicking on the target I wanted them to hurt when the ship was vaguely pointed in the right direction

I have a question on how the Nuclear Shaped Charges are supposed to work. They have a maximum range of 250 meters and will not fire, and I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Lemme know of any bugs you encounter, We're collecting reports to address the new issues.

Thanks for this mod, the ships all feel like a tribute to both old sci-fi book covers and the Atomic Rockets website. i particularly love the sovereign fighters - there is beauty in their functional appearance.

Update added some fighters, reworked a few things, I don't feel like making a huge post about it right now. so you can see my less-incomplete patch notes on the discord: https://discord.com/channels/409638848302153728/961733806052753479/1375910463824724062

Also idk how you'd dig through the files honestly, I dont know how to do that.

Its just a cipher though, and the symbols even kinda look like the real letters. flavor text isn't mandatory, if you want those descriptions I'm gonna make you work a bit for them :V

That thing was too big for what it represented.

I am sorry that the new Sovereign Incident mode no longer includes the Predator class galleon as the main ship type. However, the rest of your work is amazing and impressive, thank you!

Dude this is absolutely incredible, 2 ships per faction is a lie and should probably be updated

Sidenote where could i find the component/module/mount/hull files to grab and untranslate the flair text? Unless it's intentional.

That makes sense, just wonderin.

I'm not really going to spend any time marketing this until it is finished.

Its two factions with entirely bespoke rosters, so just...look at either of the factions.

Is there anywhere to see what this Demo has, or do I just have to scan through the Fleet Editor and see what's there?

Right then, thanks for your help!

Probably? I don't really look at the code side of things.

Oh! That makes sense. Just to double check, would that be would be "ScriptableFilter.cs"?

The scriptable filter i mentioned in the previous post is its own component that is linked in the descriptor, not a part of the descriptor.

Right, that makes sense. I've cracked open the AGMLIB.dll provided by this mod and found ModularBeamWarheadDescriptor, but can't seem to find where the blacklist/whitelist is. I apologize for pestering you, but would appreciate further guidance.

That's because you cant restrict warheads to specific missiles with vanilla components, I use an AGMLIB scriptable filter to universally blacklist the warhead to all missiles and then Added the LHM-2 (The laser head missile body) to the whitelist.

This is then linked in the modules part of the Modular Beam Warhead Descriptor, which itself is a custom AGMLIB job.

@Gwyvern in that case, where are the restrictions for what missiles each warhead can be used on stored? I can't seem to find them.

Ill look at optimizing the Macron arrays.

The scripting used to make them is publicly available in AGMlib, the documentation is practically nonexistant, but any mod author can ask me or AGM if they need pointers on any of its features.

Re: laser head unlocking

Understandable, I was just hoping because it is a more or less perfect fit for Ares Fleet Yards.

uh it gets very laggy when many of the macron guns fire