Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

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24 Jul, 2023 @ 12:19pm
9 Aug @ 6:03pm
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Adjustable Ions and Prisms

Description
What is this?
This was heavily inspired by Piratesee's Painted Prisms and works alongside it, but technically makes it redundant ...

Adds ion beam emitters and prisms in '9' different colours.
These are handled by colour selection on the 2 new adjustable parts, hugely cutting down on part selection menu spam. The new parts also stack under the vanilla Ion Beam.

The parts do not touch the vanilla pieces at all, but draw all their values from them, so mods affecting the base game parts should affect these too. The new parts are free after purchasing the base-game equivalent in career mode.

They will also be usable in Build and Battle by selecting the vanilla Ion Beam.

Ion beams pointed through the prisms will be coloured the same colour as the prism.
All colours are shown in the screenshots.

~~ Confirmed working post MELTDOWN update 0.30 ~~
Overclocking works for the ions now, allowing the same end-point lightning field that vanilla prisms do.
You can get the overclock for these by purchasing the vanilla overclock.
All BEAM shaders/colours changed and corrected for a better visual beam.
Added a new PINK colour.
Prisms given a cyclic-toggle colour selection to sidestep an issue in colour choice cutting the beam out.
Emitter toggle colour selection rearranged, the result of these last two changes means the mod is no longer reliant on the (much) older colours plugin
Numbers and stats checked to conform with meltdown ions.

Known Issues
  • SHOULD work correctly if mixed with vanilla emitters and prisms, but those are not a requirement

  • If adjusting the colour of a prism whilst it is active the beam might actually cut out. It should just need to be toggled off/on to resume firing correctly.
  • If part of an extended chain the prisms in the middle of the chain need setting to [Target Only] mode for best results, and maybe also channelled/blocked in by armour. The LAST prism in the chain should be able to handle changing the entire chain 'output' mode (Target Only, Hold, FireAtWill, Continuous)
  • I highly recommend designing your 'ion core/path' in TargetOnly mode.. and then using groups/selection to only aim the last prism in the chain ...
  • ... because sometimes the chain, just, breaks. And all prisms try to target the enemy themselves, and I have no idea why ... :(
  • Should not be continuously auto-firing when a prism is placed in front of an emitter anymore, but more testing required ....
Links
Here are some other similar mods by me;
Adjustable Shields
Adjustable Fighters

Thankyou
Huge thanks to Piratesee for the original inspiration and Tyrosr for the required coloured part toggle mod.
Massive applause to Azrael Arouvotz for supplying the PINK sprites and colour settings

~ Enjoy !! and please buy me a Cuppa Tea[www.buymeacoffee.com]
44 Comments
RustyDios  [author] 7 Aug @ 11:04pm 
@Azrael
Done! If only because you supplied the colours/parts/sprites already. Made the last screenshot just for you ;)
Azrael Arouvotz 7 Aug @ 9:49pm 
Would you consider adding a pink shade somewhere between the purple and red? You could use my assets if you want to make it easier, I just think messing with mine at this point would be redundant when yours is so close to perfect.
e. 14 Mar @ 4:54pm 
Oh, bahaha, I somehow didn't see that, whoopsies!
RustyDios  [author] 14 Mar @ 5:27am 
Hmm, still working perfectly fine for me?
Did you make sure to also have the required mod enabled?
e. 13 Mar @ 4:17pm 
Just causes a game crash if you try to select the prism, lmao
penguin 20 May, 2024 @ 2:30pm 
hey, uhh, aimed prisms from this mod aren't working for me
I built a ship with internal ion beams and instead of aiming the prisms to get the lasers outside like I told it to it just tries to aim the very first set of prisms toward the enemy from the inside of the ship leading to the beams just shooting the ship it's a part of
RustyDios  [author] 5 May, 2024 @ 2:58pm 
I doubt it will have anything useful in it.
Sorry it crashed for you.
sup3r87 5 May, 2024 @ 2:54pm 
Hi, I tried to place the beam on a built-in and instantly crashed for some reason :(. Do you want me to send the log file?
Silverwolfss 13 Feb, 2024 @ 1:19am 
GOOD NEWS it seems that your fix worked i made a emitter and prism and it didn't fire so good work
Silverwolfss 9 Feb, 2024 @ 12:59am 
good to hear i will try it out later today and see if everything is fixed