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Mods / Re: invasion mod - 9sMODs - salvaging - drones - galaxy market - pathfind - etc...

« on: April 15, 2021, 11:40:23 pm »

only a video this time of things i am working on. I decided to try and see how "jumping" into a station would look like again. if you are outside of the station, it is not a station anymore, it is now a hull with a collider and it can be destroyed, so this is a step forward for buildable stations although a player would have to jump into a station to see the interior of the station. Also, the station interior now has a roof again. A crate object roof that is removed and added so that players feel more like home. I've also added some tileable perlin terrain and the players can "jump/explore" the planet earth. Inside the planet earth instance/system, the players can go to a maximum Left and Right and Up and Down because i have built a wrapping/limited level that teleports you to the other side of the screen when you reach the maximum distance. This is a demo of my current test bed. there are no enemies added and there are a couple of bugs left to fix left and right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw1XpB2OBKg&ab_channel=SteveChass%C3%A9

thank you for watching.
steve

EDIT 2021-april-18: - adding this one day after my post. I've decided to release sccsvd4ve slim version, earlier than expected, in it's unfinished draft condition. the repo download for sccsvd4ve that has a couple of voice recognition commands is now uploaded to github and they work inside of void expanse. you can find it here:

https://github.com/ninekorn/sccoresystems-VD4VE--slim-version--draft

the 9smods/invasion draft google download link is here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VefBUM3YC4zeJGGVyN_aS5DzZYOJneAH/view?usp=sharing

this 9sMods Demo doesn't have any enemies and is just to be tried out to see the wrapping system, the tileable terrain tiles (except the texture that didn't tile properly), the decorations used for planets, the station ship but the collider isn't setup yet for it, and the station interior with doors/containers, and the voice recognition of windows 10.

Prepping the players with a global wide notification that a server update is coming, while playing with the 9sMODs coms device, to advise them their "coms device" won't work properly during that server update is what will remain to do as it really doesn't work when a debug_reinit happens. the rest of the synchronization can be adjusted and tweaked to be tons better. Currently, because of the station activated formations pathfind, spawning a drone activates it's libraries and it lags so talking to void expanses device won't work during the lag. you gotta wait for the server lag to stop. lol, that's how i had intended it to work from the start and although people might find it really far fetched for it to be working, it's actually a very simple solution for synchronizing 2 programs that don't have a compatible API for keyboard keystrokes, and if a server update lag is about to happen, players just have to be removed from using their coms when a debug_reinit is planified. thank you for trying this project. nothing is finished and things are still debugging in the console.

Voice recognition commands:

1. Say computer to activate the menu. You got less than 5 seconds to then activate the other menus.
2. After saying computer, you have 2 choices, say release or retrieve. Although my program recognizes retrieve, it isn't mapped yet in void expanse so you can only release drones for the moment and not retrieve them.
3. Now you can say mining or combat or repair, but only the combat drones are mapped in void expanse. I will work on mapping the rest soon.

Thank you.
Steve

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Mods / Re: invasion - 9sMODs -

« on: March 31, 2021, 01:10:55 am »

...out of another self imposed coding challenge of approx 55 days (or much more really, i stopped counting at some point) that i didn't end as of yet but i wanted to release the draft where i am at anyway... self imposed because i was further behind than i thought at merging all of my drafts into one. maybe it's a good thing that my oculus rift broke around the start of february (tried to fix it and broke the pins on the screen connector and mobo connector when only the hdmi soldering probably was loose), no mods of void expanse working out of the box when merging them... every few drafts having months difference and my whole scripts hierarchy changing from scripts to scripts (months after months to years even).

draft DEMO - This project has practically no enemies but in this project i have put the white background which is easily convertible to transparent even inside of virtual reality, as i have done it already and shared a video to ai_enabled and Lurler but i am not sure i had showed them a version where void expanse was running with it's invisible background from inside of virtual reality... but i lost that WIP trailer that i had sent them in private and i lost the original projects in my backups somewhere. My oculus rift headset cv1 is broken but it is not dead yet. this is my best version as of yet to get the drone to use the translated pathfind and sticktopoint.  there is a still a lot of things left to fix. but my main goals for this coding challenge are achieved: the stations unwalkable tiles work for the 5 stations at angle 0 only though and the pathfind is starting or stopping depending on how far or close it is to a station and i incorporated the background i used for my virtual reality tests.

when the drone receives the command to start it's pathfind from the SC_Drone_Station_Manager.js script, it lags the whole server for about a 5-10 seconds for the arrays to be initialized in the scripts but it will lag again after a server reboot when the scripts reinitiliaze with debug_reinit, and this is one of the bugs that i will cover in my next long or short coding challenge. The formations pathfind is working for the 5 stations mining/business/outpost/science/combat at angle 0 degree but not yet for the other angles. I thought getting back to coding javascript in void expanse after so long was going to be easy, well this time it wasn't since it had been so long void expanse had been on the shelf (so that i could move forward for the virtual desktop program instead and bring along void expanse when i was going to be done in VR) and my javascript pathfind translation of the first 9 tutorial videos of sebastian lagues pathfinding tutorial on youtube, was hard for me to re-comprehend the way i wrote it in javascript...

Salvaging doesn't work anymore and no repair and no mining drones and the pathfind works only for a cc drone in formation position 1. will fix soon.

this is a draft, of a working formations pathfind. the perceptron flight helper was setup in this project but i commented it as i had to fix the pathfind and sticktopoint to work in harmony first. I need more time to work on cleaning my draft demos up and when i will have the chance, i will get back to a more similar/identical way of variable names for pathfinding nodes as per how i learned it from sebastian lagues youtube pathfinding tutorial. Although i didn't mention it before, please do consider my earlier heavy release of "demos" to have been rushed releases, but they all are drafts coming from self imposed coding challenges where i don't take a "end/conclusion" timespan to clean up my drafts to make everyone happy although it would be my goal to make you all happy. Currently, this is the best i could achieve in 55 days++ to continue on my series of additional things for my 9sMods.

To have the onboard computer be displayed, you have to read the console screen and get between 4 to 10 ticks of "holding down the keyboard key where the onboard computer is located on your ship". If anyone tries this demo, you might notice a lag hanging the main thread coming from the script SC_Drone_Station_Manager.js but this lag/bug from my scripts doesn't happen on my amd ryzen 2600 but it happens on my amd FX-8350 so i couldn't notice prior to wanting to release it and test it.

there is still a lot of things left to fix overall so i won't release anything for the moment on the steam workshop but instead i just leave it here also as a demo/draft/coding challenge.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NzsyvKWMoOY97_bRGree3-CivWla7iuz/view?usp=sharing

Edit 2021-mars-31-07h59pm: my bad - i just noticed the visual tiles aren't being displayed correctly for the business station and military station so everything else except the outpost station might be bugged. and the walkable path might still not be working for any other stations than the outpost 01. I am reviewing this, but nonetheless this project has been my base project for 55++ days now and i will stick with it. hopefully coming anytime soon with a fix for the other stations. i ordered tons of arduino elegoo parts to make my own virtual reality headset since my oculus rift cv1 is broken and dismantled, but now it seems i need to find a way to try and connect a 2.8 inch geeekpi 17pin 2 row connectors to the arduino uno r3 elegoo or the elegoo prototype shield and im missing wires for that and i've got to figure out if that is even possible once one screen is powered on, to power another one on the same build of 1 prototype shield and 1 arduino uno. this christmas i purchased myself an ender 3 barebone edition, and the idea of building my own virtual reality headset has been in my head for quite some time and the printer would print any custom blender object i am making as i have already tried it. electronics just feels like another pile of headaches. i just put that aside this morning (temporarily) and i am trying to study at teamtreehouse while programming void expanse mods and finishing once and for all my packaged/chunked coding challenge of 2-3++ years with this virtual reality desktop displayed as heightmaps for directX non-vr games and void expanses ability to change the jpgs backgrounds to alpha rgbA value to 0 is super easy.

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Mods / Re: RELEASED - 9sMODs - Part 2.3.1 BETA - RELEASED

« on: February 06, 2021, 08:50:51 am »

DEMO Project - destructible station attempt fail and i didn't developp this further yet. its working so it's a win, but it's a fail because it is incomplete. The colliders aren't calculated yet by script. But nodes are setup so that the exported xml files work for expanse 1. something still wasn't right with the units conversion from blender to void expanse 1. and those scripts in python that i developped for the void expanse 1 xml parts are the only ones i developped for the moment in python, as i don't know much of python. and as i had always intended it to be, all of this stuff was supposed to be released for my 9sMODs in void expanse 1, which is now the invasion.mpk mod as i am returning back to that name. but i was working on my other projects, in order to loop back to this mod and now i realize that doing all of this stuff by hand, is just not going to cut it nowadays. as i said, void expanse 1 is procedural and i am a modder here so i mod void expanse 1.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0-1TenOs7O2GQhaZr3qBIiaF3S6pdXB/view?usp=sharing

2021-feb-07 - Using adddecoration for a non-collidable station floor tiles makes it possible for players to be able to grab crates inside of the station inner perimeter, instead of having to push them outside of the base in order to grab those crates. 9sMODs at update 2.3.1 had a floor part of the station obj model or something else that wasn't make it possible to grab crates... The drones mod still didn't incorporate a retriever drone, to retrieve crates inside of the base. But the retriever drone demo for the scrap metals created when the ship is being repaired on the platform has the ability to fetch a crate as i was unable to make a normal grappler work on an NPC ship although they work on a player ship. as i had worked on and intended it to be for my mod, to be played on void expanse 1, i am continuing to work on it but doing everything by hand is annoying me now so i am thinking about shortcuts.

DEMO python blender 2.79b scripts and assets that i made for the station floor generation and the station walls generation with xmls as per the destructible mod attempt fail and i didn't developp this further but it can be used as a template for an easy blender 2.79b to void expanse 1 xml parts, as i always intended those generators to be. This contains 2 blender projects and some extra scripts i was using for those station parts that generate xmls but with blender's python instead of custom c# programs. Also included are scripts for generating hulls with textures and objs and xml files directly from inside blender 2.79b. In order to break the floor station parts which aren't collidable, i would have to assign their location x/y to a neighbooring wall in script and when that wall part is destroyed, the neighbooring floor tiles would still be able to be destroyed at the same time but with scripts and logic behind the floor breaking apart. But there is already an API function to get the projectiles in the system so calculating the direction of where the bullet is going and i could even destroy the tiles underneath of where the bullet is going and since the floor underneath is not collidable, the bullet moves over the tiles and everywhere the bullet goes could leave a path of destroyed floor tiles underneath of it. I will try and see if i can add this to a destructible station generation 2 demo. Modders will have to manually create a folder "hulls" on their desktop and change the script output "path" to that folder for the blrnder 2.79b to work. but i will have to loop back to this:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10mSpL86ZY9KXVZCfBfIo7MnI5Mz6qCPa/view?usp=sharing

DEMO Project - Elite Dangerous MOD startup only with limpets and cubes spawning on asteroids for limpets asteroids retrieval but the limpets retrieving the asteroid parts isn't working anymore. this is my old version of the ai scripts. I've built the limpet but there are no textures yet for it. Also you can spawn a couple of cubes or (any other object - if you make those objects in blender or elsewhere and modify the script) in a grid with an easy onboard drone computer option. you gotta purchase the mining device (with an asteroid icon) in the shop and use it as a mining device in order to spawn cubes right on the asteroids that the player is mining and purchasing the onboard computer and drones in the shop in order to spawn the limpets or grid objects:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DMHym1tTf82Vq4XGOxovpiSB6XVtow_L/view?usp=sharing

galaxy market scripts - easier to read. but i need to make a final function check for items to successfully be sold to one player only and with the current version in the 9sMODs there can be cheating and annoyance of the weapon being sold twice but only one player getting the item. if 2 players are clicking to buy the same thing at the same time and are at the last step prior to being charged, if one confirms the purchase before the other, one pays and receives no items. and it doesnt give a console error, what it gives is just an angry ranting and raging player lmfao. a simple fix would be a last confirmation to see if the item still exists in the station items or not when the player wants to confirm his shop item buy, and even make sure the player cash isn't retrieved at all. looping back to this soon.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19aOTRilRKBzrS5MT1SdW56f9NVyUCJSg/view?usp=sharing

DEMO Project - generation 2 retriever drone with a better precision and less hesitation moving between tiles to retrieve scrap metal. but the stations have no colliders setup in here and crates are spawning for the pathfind to be seen working. a couple of things to fix/tweak here too but i much prefer the speed of this one:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fBi3m7bA7WOIH1patIe07qqtoEFcj0pt/view?usp=sharing
Old youtube video that shows the gen2 retriever drone and containers but i removed those containers from the station models in order to have containers that can be separate models and the containers models are in one of those demos files but the drone pathfind wasn't leading to those containers and the retriever drone wasn't putting the scrap metals in those containers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzt4QMw0tnA

DEMO - scripts only - For the 5 stations unwalkable tiles scripts. I was only able to make the unwalkable tiles work for the outpost01 station and i have to rotate the pathfind position for the rotated stations also. I am trying to move forward and spend some more time on this but i am sharing them now before i lose those files again in my mess of a desktop:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UnDtph0I_54LNlelc9FEJkH76m-MAS9g/view?usp=sharing

i apologize to the devs for the spam post. I am getting more organized on making my descriptions less convoluted but my demos/tutorials are backups of working things that i will all put in the 9sMODs and some of those working backups are parts of working elements needed to make the whole thing work, but those demos need a little bit more love in order to have a thinner description to mention all the non working things in them. everyone could do the same with their own mods of startrek and starwars and eve online etc with their own generators. but those demos/tutorials can be separately tried and they are easier to understand when they are apart... you can use those demos/tutorials as reference to build your own generators if you don't have any, as those are super easy to read but i will have to comment them soon if i can. i am thinking of going back to my first mod name which was invasion.mpk . it's a more generic name. and remove all of those underscores for a more generic/original look instead of trying to put my first and last name initials on every variables when i create stuff in ecmascript5. i am sure it gets people tired of those unreadable scripts of variable names that are hard to figure out hence why i decided to release a readable variable name of the galaxy market. it's taking more and more time to manually make, an ever increasing amount of scripts in the library folder, and having to multiply by 5 formations an amount of 7scripts for the current pathfind and i would have 35 scripts to make corrections by hand so it is not going to cut it manually compared to using scripts generators to increase the amount of drones in formation.  I didn't have the time to move forward on this and i decided to stop multiplying right away the pathfinding scripts by hand and now i am thinking of going procedural for those js scripts too.

I shared the station interiors blender files and the original rebuilt in gimp void expanse icons and shared them here
https://forums.atomictorch.com/index.php?topic=1224.msg7129#msg7129
but if anyone misses any assets for those generators or demos to work, please feel free to contact me and i'll be sure to loop to it in priority.

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- invasion.mpk mod download - 9sMODs 2.3.2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KM_CI3MyUkS22zO7A7hHOxcQZ-WgXtTb/view?usp=sharing
this demo has the comms device menu, which is a basic ladder. But the drone manager Menus aren't working anymore. I didn't remove them on purpose, and if i have a chance within 1-3 days, i will fix this.

invasion.mpk - is a merging of my 9sMODs with my demos/tutorials. But i only invade with forum posts of demos/tutorials, until invasion.mpk invades void expanse 1 with tons of new stuff. The mod isnt finished yet but im still working on it:

it includes:
1. the galaxy market,
2. the mining/combat/repair drones,
3. unbreakable station interiors (they cannot be broken yet),
4. energy weapons additional items but there can be tons more with the easy to learn generator i built, but the settings of those generators aren't completely setup yet. i am working on this still.
5. destructible ships with parts that can be salvaged. There aren't parts for the aliens ships yet so it won't work on alien ships.

energy weapons testing. I added a couple of energy weapons from my generator to have players test them:





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Mods / Re: RELEASED - 9sMODs - Part 2.3.1 BETA - RELEASED

« on: February 04, 2021, 07:01:23 pm »

DEMO - pathfind for station debug project. In order to have the pathfind fire up, you have to hit the drone with the laser and the drone pathfind could start up and special objects are created to show that the pathfind works (TODO - option to fire up the pathfind inside of the onBoard computer). I am not sure if in this version retrieving the drone and rereleasing it is restarting the pathfind, but a debug_reinit reinitializes the pathfind.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ujomjVJ-GmSqx_TLP_ybbrGRdcj6cW-w/view?usp=sharing




i tried the pathfind on other stations the other day and it wasn't working. the pathfind wasn't discovering the walls of any other stations except the outpost01. the moment i have updates, i will post them.



old demo - drone retriever and drone repair project. To make it work-ish, you have to stand on the repair platform and press the repair button. A scrap metal is created next to the repair platform after you are getting laser shot at repaired and the retriever drone is then going to get the scrap metal
... for station processing in a later version that has station garbage  containers. Will work tomorrow in finding that project when the snow blizzard winds stop shaking this village electricity installations... The use of addforce to control the scrapmetal when the retriever drone grabs-ish the scrap metal was an attempt of doing it but i didnt tweak anything there since.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12YWcoEiiRDrzuqaMKaj6E1tX18ra2kLV/view?usp=sharing

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DEMO - GENERATOR - unfinished Generator Shop Textures Lots of work to finish there.
Gimp Files required for the generator:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ot-hJEjqcbJyO1uY69deZWV_vMyZMed/view?usp=sharing

The visual studio project for the generator:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QeXM6MI9S9lLOFBsqINgktGjjtS_Vr1-/view?usp=sharing

I made this generator but since it was unfinished, i never released it. Textures are generated but the xml files are incomplete hence why i didn't introduce it yet in my 9sMODs.
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DEMO - GENERATOR - Energy weapons generator - unfinished state:

It was faster than i thought to fix a couple things, but i will have to loop back to working a bit on it so that it generates the weapons directly in the Void Expanse mods folder but i found a blank xml file in my earlier tests today so there are still things to fix. I wanted my generators to keep the original icons looks. But hopefully if one day i would have the time to get inspiration from the textures in mods like "Breaching The Core" and the others that were released a long way back. I didn't want to release this generator yet before i was able to make better icons and fix the weapons damage and the rest of the settings. But here it is anyway. Ill loop back to this later but the weapons that it generates are supposed to work already in void expanse if you put them in the correct mods folder. But the items names in the void expanse shop are the names of the xml files which isn't super intuitive. I made those generator programs by figuring out myself how to use xmlwriter nodes and it's super easy to learn with bits and info on gamedev forums but when you have a template of how it works approx after one finishes to work on it and shares it, it's easier to learn but as a modder principally, i'd rather start sharing a couple projects here and there if it can help anyone developp their own mods.

Gimp Files required for the generator:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BT1ZZcF-Mm717y8C27kQDONyMA0jtcHt/view?usp=sharing

The visual studio project for the generator:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15XWHBQVSKbPoMFkbq3ikK4caZZiryhOi/view?usp=sharing

posted here a long time ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKeEzVCNRTc&ab_channel=SteveChass%C3%A9 in 2017, but since it was also unfinished, i shelved it and never shared it... I should have released this tons of time earlier but i hate releasing stuff in unfinished states. But looking at it another way, if it gives anyone the idea to build something like this also on their own, they will have an easy template to follow if they wanna but it is currently uncommented as i didn't have the time to work on a tutorial for it. Sharing them now is better than never sharing it at all... I have to work on the unwalkable and walkable tiles for the rest of the stations for my 9sMODs to finally work on the mining drones. but man it's really long to manually write all of those generators. But when i have the time to work this out and fusion the generators into a single program, i will. I am sorry for the spam of releasing parts of my projects here and there and maybe switching to a huge forum post instead should have been the right idea from the start... i was getting eager to release everything for void expanse... my apologies atomic torch for not releasing this sooner but it wasn't perfect and an imperfect mod although it could have been if i had worked longer on it then before getting tired of writting and developping all of those lines of code manually, started to be very long and tedious and annoying. Maybe it could have peaked interest, but what about finally fusioning all of those tiny little projects together and trying to reach 9sMODs series 9.9.9 right away... Forget about it man, i am not gpt-3 and it would take me forever manually... there are no modders that will be able to invent anything when machine learning that can build websites also build game mods, but instead maybe humans would be quoted and marked on how good their skills were at trying to developp something that was already developped by a machine learning artificial intelligence and be graded on their work.
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DEMO - GENERATOR - generic booster procedurally created... but it's unfinished still. Raytracing texture2d PNGs/JPGs generators will do a better job than this...

PNG files:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Rb4ZomAZcl-IW2B1aN-cOiZk8sAyI1E/view?usp=sharing

Procedural booster:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xcp79L4mHCp87IgD8JcRnIEuAsGc1C-a/view?usp=sharing

Procedural booster: resetupped the boosters fins to be generated and armor type to be specific to settings later on. Added a bit of colors on this project before i went and lost hours again on those unwalkable tiles that still won't work on those other stations and i am about to remove the hairs out of my head out of frustration. So i went and lost a couple of minutes in this easy resetup of the booster fins and different fuel/energy color on the sprites and i put back those screws in place... the drone pathfind isn't working for any other station than the outpost station and i am stuck there trying to make it work. This version only contains my first and third attempts at the booster. i cannot find my second attempt booster that looks like a vase and it's irritating me... and it is irritating me even more in this disorganisation of mine to lose minutes after minutes trying to put all of it together and never having those unwalkable tiles for the other stations working. keeping my cool and removing the dust on those backups that were supposed to work out of the box where i left them or not finding them at all and it gets irritating. i am trying to put pieces by pieces back together of how it used to look when i was proud of posting it and achieving it, but it wasn't ready yet and that's what happens. backups laying in the midst of a disorganized desktop and trying to find all of it in one instant never works. trying to get organized as i move forward. i think the xml files for this generator aren't working yet. 2021-feb-06-04:44am.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L3jnO26MtBQnh5kV3Z-9Qib1Ku_1lVxO/view?usp=sharing


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I have another type of booster that looks like vases that i will try and find again lying somewhere on my hardrive.

Update 2021-feb-05: getting discouraged but i am working on it.

https://ninekorn.imgbb.com/

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Mods / Re: RELEASED - 9sMODs - Part 2.3.1 BETA - RELEASED

« on: January 07, 2021, 02:41:02 am »

i was able to implement microsoft 10 voice recognition inside of void expanse using simple keystrokes. There is still a lot of work to do. i explained how i was going to do that somewhere maybe on the forums here but i can't find the post anymore so i'm posting the video demo here.

updated video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue9NcV2POXk&ab_channel=SteveChass%C3%A9

thank you for watching.
nine

N.B. i had a bad mood yesterday after 1 hour of failing to record a proper demo. I decided to reupload the whole thing today with testing the current Win10 voice recognition to void expanse menu selector.

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Ideas and suggestions / Re: Virtual Reality for Void Expanse! Custom Oculus Touch Mapping!

« on: January 05, 2021, 06:51:20 pm »

 -oculus rift cv1 only -

Virtual Desktop for running video games in Virtual reality using the ab3d.dxengine and ab3d.OculusWrap and ab3d.dxengine.OculusWrap. but only 2 void expanse keys are mapped i think, and the whole 3rd person controller isn't finished yet. it's still very ugly and probably no one would want to pay for those projects anyway in their current state. They are drafts and weren't even ready for release anywhere on steam or the oculus store as everything is still unfinished.
https://github.com/ninekorn/sccs---wpf-virtual-desktop-using-the-ab3d-dxengine

Virtual Desktop for running video games in Virtual reality using the ab3d.oculusWrap only. no controls mapped yet for void expanse.
https://github.com/ninekorn/SCCoreSystems-rerelease

i didn't want to revive this old thread but i thought i had lost all of my backup projects at the virtual desktop program for void expanse. but trying to sort a bit of my projects on this unorganized backup drives and emails and i didn't realise that the project had been right under my nose while checking if the controls were mapped in void expanse or not... Some of them are and it's easy to map the rest. I thought i should just release it as soon as possible even in it's unfinished state, as a draft repository that i should just keep updating as i program... It was such a wrong idea to keep all of my working basic starter programs including my own virtual desktop. I should have shared those programs when the oculus rift cv1 was still a bit more popular in 2018. it's better than never though but also it's only last year 2020 that i started uploading my first projects on github, i didn't even know how to upload anything there before...

but the keyboard clicks and mouse aren't completely mapped to the Oculus Touch controllers yet on any of my Virtual Desktop projects.

This only works with the oculus rift cv1. so there is nothing really that exciting anymore except that the idea can be multiplied to cover tons and tons of other 2d video games which are also moddable. I thought there could have been a market for that and i wanted to start with the virtual desktop for void expanse, with the virtual desktop working for elite dangerous too. But i am having a buggy time trying to make the overlay work for steamVR in elite dangerous.

I hope the atomic torch team won't mind me posting this message here today, as it was really long in the making and still isn't perfect, but at least everyone now knows where i am at.

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Mods / Re: NEWS - 9sMODs - Part 2.3.1 - NEWS

« on: August 14, 2020, 05:47:40 pm »

Station Interiors are now included.
Destroyable ship parts on enemy deaths (excluding alien ships). You can now salvage those destroyed ship parts.
Ability to spawn both Combat and Repair Drones and Mining Drones
Including the Galaxy Market.
You can access the Galaxy Market and spawn drones from the OnBoard Ship Computer that you can get at any stations.

https://youtu.be/5K_Uw8NCfBg
https://youtu.be/LAFuRnoIj_U
https://youtu.be/thQ1AA6Yq7A
https://youtu.be/50pEKG8--yM

There is still a bug with serialization of the savegame and it is a needle in a haystack to find it. I will keep working on it. But for the moment, if the game crashes at save, you will need to reload the server and use your latest save.
Also, i forgot to put a custom icon for the new Salvaging device.

Edit 2020-08-15 fixes:
Removed a unused item.
Added icon for the salvaging device and made it available through the shop.

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Help section / Re: AI learning for Void Expanse Drones of the 9sMODs series. In need of opinions

« on: May 20, 2020, 06:45:47 am »

English: using Brollof's linear Simple Perceptron found here https://github.com/Brollof/SimplePerceptron , i have made a gimbal machine learning system for the x/y/z axis.
Français: J'utilise le Perceptron Brollof Simple et linéaire que vous pouvez trouver ici https://github.com/Brollof/SimplePerceptron et j'ai construit un systèmes de gimballes "machine learning" pour les axes x/y/z.

my machine learning compass and gimbal projects are available here: https://github.com/ninekorn/SCCSCompass
mon projet de machine learning boussole et gimballes sont disponibles ici: https://github.com/ninekorn/SCCSCompass



current known issues: the dot product by itself to slow down high speed rotating gimbal needles is not enough. i will soon lerp this or use both dot product and lerp.

it will be coming in my 9sMODs series for Void Expanse for the ship formations and hopefully more. it's already "working" for the rotation left/right and thrust front/back but i've got the wrong settings and i am missing some very important variables so it's currently failing. i need more time to work on this.



//not available yet: other project using parts of this system:
English: A planet type "voxel minecraft" shooter game and a machine learning gimbal that follows the players movements🙂. i built this game. not available anywhere else. work in progress
Français: Un shooter de planètes type "voxel minecraft" ainsi qu'un système de machine learning gimballes🙂. c'est moi qui a construit ce jeu. présentement non disponible ailleurs. en développement .

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Help section / Re: AI learning for Void Expanse Drones of the 9sMODs series. In need of opinions

« on: May 15, 2020, 07:00:18 pm »

my first git project. https://github.com/ninekorn/SCCSCompass .  A machine learning compass. it can also be a "direction bullseye" for turrets to aim at and mix that with the asset "Projectile Helper" of Unity3D and you've got a very nasty turret defense system for any games.

using the https://github.com/Brollof/SimplePerceptron

my compass is not perfect but it is very good still in it's current state. i am currently modifying my compass in order to have drones using machine learning in order to get into formation. it's getting there slowly but surely.

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Mods / Re: NEWS - 9sMODs - Part 2.3.1 - NEWS

« on: April 30, 2020, 11:46:07 am »

hell yeah. i think i have found my bug. i have never used the keyboard button "~" in-game to display error messages and here what is what i stumbled on simply out of curiousness today:
















because of this, i now have total confidence in my mod. but from now on, i won't just trust the console because these were not showing at all ever in the independant console. The microphone input is working but i was wrong about using SharpDX, as i don't know if the options of clicking with sharpDX are available. i always preferred using pinvoke anyway so this is what i will be using.

EDIT: false alarm. this is not THE savegame crash bug. those are just the destructible stations xml filenames that don't concord. this bug is for the destructible station mod that is on the shelf until i complete it. the confidence is still there guys don't worry, this will not make me quit this time

easy to fix, but not my current priority as i couldnt make it on time yesterday to unveil the power of a pinvoker with a keyboard sending keyboard inputs to send commands.  but i have some very very good news my friends... images and maybe tiny tiny videos coming today of the perimeter of the new interior station turret placements:

outpost station perimeter tour:
https://youtu.be/5K_Uw8NCfBg

business station perimeter tour:
https://youtu.be/LAFuRnoIj_U

science station perimeter tour:
https://youtu.be/thQ1AA6Yq7A

mining station perimeter tour:
https://youtu.be/50pEKG8--yM

note 2020 - may - 1 - the military station perimeter tour video will have to wait as i am working on my perceptron this morning. but here are the station placement screenshots.

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Mods / Re: 9sMODs - Patch 2.3 of 9.0 - RELEASED - Range Combat drones

« on: April 29, 2020, 07:22:02 am »

hi everyone,

it's been a while that i have coded in void expanse, about 9 months from now, i still had bugs to fix but a major one that happens about 10 to 15 mins ++ during play (to be re-tested) when save game happens and the server crashes. it can happen when you change systems (and an auto-save happens) or/and when you get out of a station (and an auto-save happens). here are the 3 bugs that i am currently facing described in details. i think i might have only fixed 1 out of those 3 bug with some major changes that were happening when i was trying the destructible station mod and i might have lost the way to fix 1 out of those 3.

this is the problem that i had fixed... in my head actually. its due to some changes maybe that i made in the original scripts generategalaxy.js. Although it shows the problem is in DLC1, i never made any changes to DLC1


c-field generator issue. i think i asked about this already. i will review my posts on the forums.


i think this one is related to the problem number 4 which leads to the savegamecrash. I think it might be due to the weird names i give the files to pass extra data to void expanse like rotations of stations are actually my file names for instance "science_01_180.xml" means station type "science" model "01", rotation 180 degrees. When i sort through the file inside of javascript, that file name is so important but provides additional data as i described to pass on to void expanse from outside of an xml file.


this has to be about the way i parse the file (there is no parse but only the name of the file actually) and un-parse them in void expanse which is using the xml file name only but . i will continue to investigate.

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                else if (base_xml.indexOf("science") >= 0)
                {
                    var getSomeIndex = base_xml.substring(11, base_xml.length); //science_01_0
                    var index = indexOfStuff(getSomeIndex);

                    if (index == 0)
                    {
                        index = 4;
                    }
                    else if (index == 1)
                    {
                        index = 5;
                    }
                    else if (index == 2)
                    {
                        index = 6;
                    }
                    else if (index == 3)
                    {
                        index = 7;
                    }
                    else if (index == 4)
                    {
                        index = 0;
                    }
                    else if (index == 5)
                    {
                        index = 1;
                    }
                    else if (index == 6)
                    {
                        index = 2;
                    }
                    else if (index == 7)
                    {
                        index = 3;
                    }

                    parsedAngle = parseInt(getSomeIndex);

                    var tempCoordRefuelX = bas_coord.x + 3.5;
                    var tempCoordRefuelY = bas_coord.y + 14.5;
                    var tempCoordRefuel = { x: tempCoordRefuelX, y: tempCoordRefuelY };

                    var tempCoordRepairX = bas_coord.x - 3;
                    var tempCoordRepairY = bas_coord.y + 14.5;
                    var tempCoordRepair = { x: tempCoordRepairX, y: tempCoordRepairY };

                    var rotatedCoordRefuel = RotatePoint(tempCoordRefuel, bas_coord, parsedAngle);
                    var rotatedCoordRepair = RotatePoint(tempCoordRepair, bas_coord, parsedAngle);

                    var StationRefuelPlatform = generator.AddSpecialObject(sys_id, rotatedCoordRefuel.x, rotatedCoordRefuel.y, arrayOfRefuelPlatforms[index], 0);
                    var StationRepairPlatform = generator.AddSpecialObject(sys_id, rotatedCoordRepair.x, rotatedCoordRepair.y, arrayOfRepairPlatforms[index], 0);


                    var turret_radius = 35;
                    var level = inf.danger_level + Math.round(MathExt.RandDouble() * 4 - 2);
                    level = utils.Clamp(level, 1, 100);
                    //var angle_offset = 0.0;

                    NpcGenerator.SpawnTurretsOfType(args, bas_coord, 4, level, turret_radius, "Turret", "special_human_turret", inf.faction, { class: "turret", non_talkable: true }, parsedAngle, base_xml, sys_id, base_id);
var theBase = { id: base_id, coord: bas_coord, base_xml: base_xml, sys_id: sys_id, rot: parsedAngle};// widthL: 21, widthR: 21, heightT: 19, heightB: 42,
storage.SetGlobal("system_" + sys_id + "_base_" + base_id + "_xmlStationType", theBase);
                }


and once those and the station turret placement are done, i will be able to release the patch 2.3.1 also when i will have done minimum this:

1. microphone input for void expanse where a player can talk, and have his voice give commands without ANY SORT OR FORM OF HACK. it is very important that you engrave this in your minds. There is no limit for a modder like ninekron. sharpDX keyboard input at "image location of device slot 4 or 5 or 6 or 7" and then 1 keyboard click on number 4 let's say and i've already got an AI drone receiving my commands at 20 frame rates per seconds and that leads to my drone menus as in morse code S.O.S is "... - - - ..." and then my drone will be oh noes "my master is in danger, lets go save him":

frame 0 - dot - device is activated per frame and frame 0 activates the variables and captures first "dot or pause". device captures dot (device activated on the slot)
frame 1 - dot - device captures dot (device activated on the slot)
frame 2 - dot - device captures dot (device activated on the slot)
frame 3 - pause - device captures pause which means nothing/nada/no device activation.
frame 4 - pause - device captures pause which means nothing/nada/no device activation.
frame 5 - pause - device captures pause which means nothing/nada/no device activation.
frame 6 - dot - device captures dot (device activated on the slot)
frame 7 - dot - device captures dot (device activated on the slot)
frame 8 - dot - device captures dot (device activated on the slot)

but the only problem will be the synchronization. i already have the input working. i say the letter "a" for attack and void expanse device starts but currently there is nothing else except a counter. today i am showing you proof but, un-unsyncronized proof. and i think the frames between the "dots" and the "pauses" will have to be longer.

currently i am working on the turrets placements for all stations but i've still got the turret buying to add.



here is the same turret placement compatible for the business station. its identical and symetric (argumentable a bit and i can prove that i am not totally 100% correct on my conversion of the units from blender to Void Expanse)

here are some defects in the current platform placement:

i will need to rotate 180 degrees both the refuel and repair platforms of the business station


i will need to rotate 180 degree the mining station refuel platform


then 10 minutes later i realized wow, i am working towards showing my defects... let me put some green marks on that right away

edit#2020-04-29at07h49pm#can-east# i am about done with all stations turrets placements except the army station.  they are nice but not perfect yet. they need a little bit more love and preferably not spawn in the middle of my stations would be awesome. it's almost there.

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Help section / Re: Collider hangs main Thread question?

« on: April 25, 2020, 06:18:20 pm »

i am thinking of releasing version 2.3.1 with non-destructible stations to start off. But i can't release it now. i have finally found the issue which i gave up on 9 months ago on everything because of this. i had a hunch it was that but i thought my code was fine.

I can't release it now because the issue was the turrets i was spawning right next to stations. removing those turrets fixes the saving issue i had last year in june 2019 approx. i am sorry i gave up because of that, but i am glad i have found the courage to dive back in. But i only tried it earlier today and it worked, the first save passed though. I will recheck the code tonight. The Farseer physics was fine and i owe probably an apology to them thinking it was their engine the issue. it seems i am having doubts in them when i should be having more doubts in me. but i am happy. it works.

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Ideas and suggestions / Re: Virtual Reality for Void Expanse! Custom Oculus Touch Mapping!

« on: April 06, 2020, 01:45:30 pm »

I have found back my project and will be unveiling very soon. I now have the Windows 10 image necessary in the case things start getting sour again and lose all capacity to have access to a decent OS. Soon of course also, I will buy my windows 10 activation key hehe.

I have made a ton of Virtual Desktop Screen Capture programs and now I was able to mix those with the Jitter Physics engine and soon to be BepuV1 and BepuV2. I already have working (laggy for the moment - fix coming soon) of all 3 physic engine working in VR. I will soon make videos and show this.

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Game discussion / Re: I am now on TWITCH.TV to code my mods on Void Expanse! It's free to watch

« on: April 01, 2020, 03:36:03 pm »

hi guys, it's been a while. I am re-launching my invitation to everyone to come and look at my virtual reality c# program development on twitch.tv here https://www.twitch.tv/ninekorn
and that program will incorporate a virtual desktop screen, for everyone. Of course, i am not down to coding multiplayer yet and a massive amount of work awaits me. But i was able to incorporate the 3d physics engine Jitter and physics engine BepuV1 and BepuV2 in virtual reality in directx 11. Only my Jitter physics version is the most advanced with in game physics objects and a completely working virtual desktop screen. Take a look here:

.... note of 2020-0406-04h45pm - on Atomic Torch Void Expanse Forum:

tragic mess of computer issues and i couldn't unveil my C# project of Void Expanse in VR mixed under the Physics engines Jitter and Bepu V1 and Bepu V2. This project does NOT hack Void Expanse in no way at all. absolute ZERO hack as i have no tolerance for hackers either. but have no fear, as long as i am alive, i will work towards achieving that. sorry for the bad quality, but here is my C# very bad premiere youtube unveil of the Physics Engine Jitter working with my C# architecture and with Inverse Kinematics of a human Rig, using SharpDX dlls and the AB3D.DXEngine dlls. I don't mess around much with the Desktop capture on the video, but that version of the program had this working. This premiere Unveil also feels rushed as it definitely was. Sorry again for the bad quality as i have made better presentations than this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWspu7zvbBU

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Help section / Re: Destructible stations - NPC spawn location x and y rounded?

« on: December 12, 2019, 07:12:55 am »

ok thank you for the fast response ai_enabled. Ill try and find some alternative to help me get the correct pos otherwise ill just go do it "trial and error".