RELEASED FrackinUniverse 6.4.3

Generally whilist having a fun time with multiple people, we encountered a bug that would cause the server to pretty much kill itself despite everyone having 1:1 same mods.
This seems to happen whenever someone runs into the eldershoggoth ruins, nothing else has caused it yet.

 

Is there a way to remove the fog in bogs? The lag is so bad on those planets I cant visit them. ( 1-2 fps) Unless i am mistaken and those are not added by FU then ignore me! haha

 

Happy to hear it! I'll let you know if I find a world which still shows the bug.

 

fog is added. No I won't remove it, because it adds to the mood substantially. I can, however, take a peek and see if it can be lessened a bit. But technically speaking I don't design the mod for chugging rigs. My old rig sucked and still ran FU (and it was 8 years old) , so yours must be a dinosaur
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looks liek its reaper3's fault. Allright. I had to fix him anyway. I will do that sooner rather than later. I'll have to verify hes broken on my own, since last i checked he was working. That means precious little though, since it could now be broken due to changing other stuff it relies on


edit: hmm. seems to work fine, actually. no issues here at all. are you sure you've all updated? he was broken on the earlier 1.0 releases.

 

i have a decent gaming pc, and the fog puts me at a [sarcasm]"cinematic"[/sarcasm] 23-21 FPS i'd like it to be a option, but have the ability to turn it off through a .config

 

That sounds like a pretty tall order.

Best thing I can suggest you do is make a .patch file mod to remove the fog. How exactly you would do this, I don't know as I'm not familiar with planets and things like that. Make sure you "Include" FrackinUniverse so that your mod loads after FU so that it can patch whatever file puts the fog there.

 

Anybody tried to use both frackin universe and frackin races on a multiplaygameserver? have any tips on how to get it to work? currently just wont let me connect and says "join failed! No server response recieved"

 

Are you sure it is just the mods causing it, and nothing else? Have you tried this with no mods?

 

i figured it might be, but a .patch to get rid of it as an addon might be a good idea

 

Sounds like the best idea, as probably very few people have this problem, and if they do they can simply load your mod. It would probably be infinitely easier than asking @sayter to modify the options menu if that is even possible.

 

Not just yet, gimme a while to check it

 

i have a very basic understanding of code, i don't know any languages (LUA is first on my list to learn, also i learned basic HTML in school but i didn't absorb it well), but i know enough to see a glitch and know what went wrong sometimes.i have no idea where to start on that idea, so i guess the ideas out there now all we need is the skill.

 

Do what I do -- go to the GitHub page and poke through files where you think the fog might be. Once you find it, tell me what file and what line and I could probably give you the patch file contents.

It's probably wherever the bog biomes are defined, or perhaps the bog planet itself.

 

i've now looked at the bog biome and the weather is defined(is that the right word?) as a relative link to /weather.config:bog meaning it's probably going to a file named weather.config and getting the bog segment(again, is that the right word?) of it, am now trying to find said file, it's proving harder than it should. edit:found it

 

Okay give me a few.

 

Apparently the website is having trouble with all of its starbound servers currently as i recieved a response from one of their representatives, just gonna go to sleep today and try again tomorrow see if they have fixed it by then or not! thanks for you help anyways!

 

@enderlordmc :

Step 1: Make a folder in \starbound\mods\ named "NoFUFog".

Step 2: Create a new file in an editor like notepad++ and copy/paste this code:

Code:

[
{
"op" : "remove",
"path" : "/bog/2"
},

{
"op" : "remove",
"path" : "/irradiated/3"
},

{
"op" : "remove",
"path" : "/penumbra/2"
},

{
"op" : "remove",
"path" : "/slimeworld/8"
},

{
"op" : "remove",
"path" : "/tidewater/0"
},

{
"op" : "remove",
"path" : "/lightless/3"
}
]

Name it "weather.config.patch".

Step 3:

make a .metadata file and put this code in it:

Code:

{
  "name" : "NoFUFog",
  "friendlyName" : "No Frackin Universe Fog",
  "requires" : [],

  "includes" : ["FrackinUniverse"],
  "version" : "0.1",
  "author" : "Xylia",
  "description" : "Removes FrackinUniverse's Fog Weather."
}

That should work.

EDIT: Make sure you refresh this page before you do it, I had to edit, stupid newbie mistake lol.

 

you should publish this to the steam workshop, some number of people will thank you, i'd do it myself, but i don't want to offend you (i tend to tread carefully in that regard)

 

It actually works, though? I'd prefer if we tested it first to make SURE it works and doesn't do anything stupid. I used the JSON patch utility online, and AFAIK everything LOOKED ok, but... lol. You know how far that goes with coding, lol.

 

ok i'll test it now edit: i went to a distant bog and checked the weather, fog's still there... edit 2: i see what i did wrong, the .metadata is a .modinfo, the old format... i now have a deeper respect for modders going through updates...