Custom Planets/Map Editor/symmetry! <3

Hey, I know not everyone looks at the modding forum, espeically not the WIP subforum.

So I present to you... The first custom Planet, ever, by: @superouman . I figured this is a big enough thing for PA that it deserved to be in the general forum, this could change competitive PA forever.

https://forums.uberent.com/threads/wip-custom-planet-origin.65260/#post-1020245




The "editor" was designed by @cola_colin , you gotta' check it out.

Mph.. Dat symmetrical planet. <3

Now I do look forward to the day somebody figures out how to force features onto a certain position/Uber adds the ability for us to put them on a certain positions.
Features means: mex

Go on then, play it.

Also, loving the mountains in the forest rather then their regualr dull looking biome.

That is huge step. The ability to make custom maps is desperately needed in PA.

I'd be up for doing a game in a couple hours if anyone else would like to give it a try...

About and hour and a half.

Im not a competitive beast im afraid.

Neither is squishy.

Maybe I'll show up, even if to just watch.

I used to be. <:

Then I moved to America... ;~;

North or South continent?

North America, I live 7 miles outside of a small town, so I'm screwed on the internet department. I have satellite, and get 700 ping no matter what (Even if my download rate is 2.1mb/s) The real issue isn't even that, but that I have such a fierce limit, it gets slower and slower as I use it until it ends up at kb/s at most.

At night I have unlimited broadband however, so woohoo.

So metal is an entirely different component which is not custom?

Why :3

I want more things! But this will be awesome. Can someone build maps for KoTP 10 like this?

screw that speed of light. So slow!

EDIT:
About metal spots:
Yeah they are "different" In fact there are 2 ways of placing them:

1.) Via the normal system editor. This is just the normal "random" mex with a very high chance of being plain bad and imba. It's a dice role.

2.) As "features". This is how PA placed mex in early alpha. It's still possible to do just that. However features, unlike brushes (the mountains for example), do not accept a direct position. You can only specify some randomness parameters. The best random parameter for them I know of is pole_distance. Basically it makes mex show up in a certain pole distance. So you can make a ring of mex around the planet, though the ring will very thick. Mex next to mex. Using some code it is possible to generate the json to have more than one such ring. Mex that are added in this way can be removed by putting brushes with the no_features flag on top of them.
Though this obviously is a pretty annoying work. If features would accept the same kind of direction position attribute as brushes do it would mean we could place mex one by one on fixed positions. I btw think brushes support the fixed positions because of metal planets. They need the rather fixed metal planet layouts. Those are mostly defined using absolute positions.

Yeah, a whole one second behind...

Luckily it's not much of an issue in PA, but you should see me trying to play an arena shooter.. XD

Once when playing I was at 2000 ping, whew was that insane.

Sadly it is separate... This was as equal as he could get it.

Yeah read me edit on how exactly and what can be tried in future maps until Uber may help us.

So basically there's no way to place custom mex without editing jsons...

Would that mean map editors can edit jsons to make balanced maps? Because that would seem too easy if I understand correctly.

EDIT: Too*

Lord of the Rings Middle Earth RPG mod incoming?

IM ON IT!!!!! WHICH SCENE DO YOU WANT?

Yes.