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Transparent Substructure
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11 Jul @ 7:14am
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Transparent Substructure

Description
Craft transparent variants of gravship substructure and heavy bridges!

Mod Contents

This mini-mod adds the following new foundation and floor types:

  • Transparent Substructure - Statistically and materially identical to regular gravship substructure, but when built over terrain the underlying terrain (including moving water) will be visible under the foundation. When built over open space, the planet will be visible underneath. (Hope you're not afraid of heights!)
  • Transparent Heavy Bridge - The same as above, except in a non-gravship heavy bridge form.
  • Fine Transparent Tile - A transparent flooring that can be built over transparent substructure or heavy bridge to satisfy noble requirements. Statistically identical to fine steel tile.
  • Sky Tile and Fine Sky Tile - Statistically identical to regular and fine steel floor, but projects an image of what is underneath the current structure. On the ground this will merely show the underlying terrain, but in space this will display the planet below the structure or ship on which it is constructed.

Technical Details

Transparent Substructure uses 3 custom SectionLayers and 11 Harmony patches (4 prefixes and 7 postfixes) to modify the gravship mask, add the glass overlay, and force normal terrain rendering under transparent foundations and floors.

Known Issues

  • Linked structures such as walls will not connect properly when built on top of modded substructure types. This is a bug in the vanilla rendering logic which has been acknowledged by Ludeon and should be fixed in a future update.
30 Comments
BigGovernment 13 hours ago 
Live this, thanks Aelanna!
UltraEmailMan 18 hours ago 
@Aelanna
Will do. Just gotta get enough fuel to blast off.
Deimos kai Aischylos 20 hours ago 
This is becoming the unsung legend of my mod list. It's so simple, yet so perfect, and keeps getting better. It pairs amazingly with the mod that adds new spacebase items.
Aelanna  [author] 20 hours ago 
@UltraEmailMan - I just uploaded v1.1.0. Please let me know if the Sky Tile is what you had in mind. :)
Greg 15 Jul @ 10:43am 
@Nikpo ReBuild: Doors and Corners has Gravship Windows if you need them

I'm seconding the transparent flooring for asteroids, combined with the buildable space platform mod you could make some really interesting looking structures
UltraEmailMan 14 Jul @ 11:14am 
Hey Aelanna! Wondering if you've attempted a transparent flooring option to go over the asteroid foundation? Would be pretty cool to have an asteroid base with floor windows looking down on the planet. Bonus points if the rocky underside of the asteroid terrain is still visible through the glass.
Nikpo 14 Jul @ 11:10am 
That'd be rad! Not sure if you can add function to it (maybe a slight reduction to incident chance?) but even just as a cosmetic thing would be awesome
Aelanna  [author] 14 Jul @ 10:46am 
@Nikpo - Funnily enough I have the XML commented out as I'd already taken a shot at it, but I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted it to on first try. Will definitely take a second look now that the Odyssey art source is out. :)
Nikpo 14 Jul @ 10:03am 
Would a transparent-looking gravship hull (I guess it'd be a window lmao) be something you'd be interested in including in this? I'd love to add some windows to my helm.
Aelanna  [author] 13 Jul @ 10:34pm 
@MarvinEhre - I looked into the issue and it seems to be a base game issue that would affect all modded substructures. I filed a request with Ludeon to see if they can fix it from their side, thank you for your patience!