Simply put, we cannot load any new files or make any new objects with modding so far, only modify existing content. If we could have some form of making new objects, screens, etc. then modding could go so much farther. Some form of allowing additional files to be loaded and register would negate this problem near completely if we could modify essential values such as damage, health, armor, index type(attachment slot or vehicle type), collision model, etc.
Votes by users: 6
Tue 31 May 2022 03:58
Ribbons0121R121
Ribbons0121R121
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz
Intel Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500 3.3.0 - Build 20.19.15.4568
8 GB
Windows
Carrier Command 2
v1.3.1
Open
Feature
Modding
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ModdingSat 04 June 2022 06:58
1PennyKing
1PennyKing
+1
Open access to: Island Creation, Custom Assets, Writing AI, Adding Scripted Features and Hooks (General Gameplay Scripting) -- borderline open source lol.
With Open Source Modding/Scripting:
Personally, would like to make AI improvements and behavior trees, adding more difficult island layouts (placement, size, and assets on the island.)
[For ex: AI control of its naval fleet is a bit under utilized. It gets 5-6 ships and they follow it around like pigeons with bread. The AI hides behind islands to shield itself from you - annoying but +1 for smart - yet that is easily defeated by throwing your whole fleet from one side and doing a pincer move.]
I would like to add more weapons/vehicles to the game, particularly sea vessels. I was modding in new ships until I realized that there wasn't access to defining their weapon assets.. which made me also believe that I can't add them to the spawn tables.
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I haven't yet attempted what Darloth is doing on the steam workshop with island generation, but I'm waiting to see what he eventually finds access to.
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In summary, I'm +1 requesting for near open source of game components (for expansion/modding.)
Sat 04 June 2022 17:01
Ribbons0121R121
Ribbons0121R121
for now i think a simple good start more in line with the current state of the game is a simple system to allow additional files to be loaded, even if arbitrary it would allow custom vehicles and well more polished objects as well as remove the single model compilation into parts hurdle that causes severe problems with custom textures when your models go a bit outside the box, or at least for a while they did. additionally would allow custom screens and more or less take off every limit of lua modding. then again without item modding access such as item weight in the carrier then we really cant spawn them in without save editing, and even then it looks like an index table system which means there would either need to be a dynamic index table system akin to other games mod loaders(i.e. minecraft forge's id system) or access to the index table directly. which is a huge step.