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[Obsolete] Natural Gravity - make asteroids have ship-pulling gravity
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Blazio 9 Mar, 2015 @ 12:24pm
Dedicated Server issue
I have a dedicated server running this mod. When I log in and set gravity to a asteriod, it workd for me just fine. But when another player logs in and comes to the same asteriod, they are not effected by the gravity.

In an attepted to try and find out where the issue is, I set up a single player map and opened it to Friends to join. When myself and another player are on that map gravity functions like expected.

This is a great mod. Something that SE needs to have as default ingame. And will be part of my mods list for a long time to come.
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Digi  [developer] 9 Mar, 2015 @ 9:27pm 
Game devs said they are planning to add planets and stuff which most likely will involve natural gravity :}

Did you also test /ng create while the other player was in the DS and near you ?

I did test on my local DS and apparently the server doesn't receive the blocks, which might indicate an issue with the modding API since this worked before just fine, I'll ask around to see if anyone else has issues with this particular API method.
Last edited by Digi; 9 Mar, 2015 @ 10:22pm
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Digi  [developer] 9 Mar, 2015 @ 10:23pm 
I've updated the mod with a workaround which works on my local DS, please confirm if it works on your side as well :}
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Blazio 9 Mar, 2015 @ 11:34pm 
It is working properly. Thank you for your help and the mod. If there is anymore issues that arise, I will let you know.
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Blazio 9 Mar, 2015 @ 11:38pm 
One last question. How do you set NG to be automaticly added to asteriods?
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Digi  [developer] 10 Mar, 2015 @ 12:18am 
To *all* asteroids? I don't recommend that xD mainly because most asteroids are hollow or have giant holes in the middle.

Nevertheless you can do that by setting/adding the "Asteroid_" prefix in the config file.

As I said in the description:
Originally posted by Description:
Additionally, the mod can automatically add gravity to asteroids with certain prefixes, by default 'gravity_' prefixed asteroids have gravity added to them.

You can rename asteroids but it involves renaming the .vx2 files and renaming them in the SANDBOX_0_0_0_.sbs file, if you don't know what you're doing then just use the commands.
Last edited by Digi; 10 Mar, 2015 @ 12:19am
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Blazio 11 Mar, 2015 @ 11:21am 
Might have an idea if your interested. Have you thought of adding an option(s) to the config that only certain asteriod types could have gravity?

Example: Junkyard_RaceAsteroid_: 0 (0 being disabled./ 1 being enabled)

That way, by default the asteriods with large tunnels going through them, or hollow asteriods can be set to disabled by default.
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Digi  [developer] 11 Mar, 2015 @ 11:33am 
You can just add their full name to the config and they'll have gravity...

The mod checks if the name starts with but doesn't exclude it if its entire name is the prefix.
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Blazio 11 Mar, 2015 @ 1:00pm 
Ok, I was wondering that.

So if I did it like this for example:
asteroid_prefix=Junkyard_RaceAsteroid_

It would add it to just the Junkyard_RaceAsteroid_, am I correct?

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Digi  [developer] 11 Mar, 2015 @ 3:33pm 
Having that prefix set-up and having an asteroid named "Junkyard_RaceAsteroid_" and one named "Junkyard_RaceAsteroid_5218952189", the mod will add gravity on both of them.
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Blazio 11 Mar, 2015 @ 4:42pm 
ok, thanks again
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jarhead 14 Mar, 2015 @ 7:30pm 
another problem on DS. when i added the prefix to my asteroids (the ones i wanted) it added grav but was not registered as having it ingame. also the total grav on 1 asteroid was over 200g. it still wouldn't affect ships and it also causes alot of lag. thought you would like to know about the issues even though im not using on DS anymore (mainly lag issues prevents use) but i may still use on offline worlds.
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Digi  [developer] 15 Mar, 2015 @ 4:58am 
I fixed a similar issue on 20th feb, did that happen before that date ?

EDIT: I just tested on a map that already had gravity, I added its asteroid name to the prefixes and it didn't add gravity on top of it :-??
Last edited by Digi; 15 Mar, 2015 @ 5:19am
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jarhead 15 Mar, 2015 @ 6:06am 
no it was about 8 hours before last post
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Digi  [developer] 15 Mar, 2015 @ 6:23am 
Ah nvm, I configured the wrong mod id =)
Yes there is an issue with multiple gravity gens spawned, not sure what's up with that, gonna investigate :}

EDIT: Weird stuff, I wanted to re-replicate it and now I can't... I don't know what's happening :/
Last edited by Digi; 15 Mar, 2015 @ 9:18am
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Digi  [developer] 15 Mar, 2015 @ 9:49am 
Well, I still can't replicate the issue, it did happen once for me but when I reset to test it again, it doesn't happen anymore. There must be certain conditions or something...

I can add a check next to the asteroid checking to make sure there isn't more than one gravity at the same position, it shouldn't affect lag but can fix this unknown issue :-??

At least until I find out what causes it.
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