Ship Module Snap (and flips) Expansion - SMSEX - Cut for compatibility with Rux's Better Flips and Snaps. 1.1.6a
By Hobart
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Brought to you from the graveyard of obselete plugins, Ship Module Snap (and flips) Expansion, or SMSEX Was originally a Structures Flips and Snaps mod, created by Gilibran. Similar to Rux's excellent Better Flips and Better Snaps but older. This mod was created before Creation Kit and used Xedit as the primary tool plus an old version of NifSkope.
Modernized by JoeCoolinsc to work proper with the newer versions of Starfield. This mod languished and was dead without any updates. This is where I came in.
I have updated and added my own features using NifSkope and Creation kit to frankenstine a new updated plugin. I have expanded on his mod, creating new structures and interesting ways to attach objects. Made to be compatible with Rux's Better Flips but NOT requiring BetterFlips, this mod hopes to embrace and extend on both Rux's Work and Gilibran's work.
Requirements: This plugin contains some items that work with best with some mod that allows for a loose overlap tolerance. However the majority of structures and utilities do not require this. This Creation should be loaded after Rux's Better Flips in your Load-Order.
What does this plugin do? This plugin adds to Better Flips where Better Flips missed some items. These items include:
Deimos Wings and Hull structures New Nova Wings and Cowl structures Stroud cowl pieces, Wings and engine braces Taiyo Thrusters and cowling pieces and finally a fully flippable and paintable 3x2 cowl that was never useful.Also, addtionally Taiyo Side Caps now have flips and more! Even MORER Nova Wings! OMG!
Also included, a unique set of 'Hab Snaps' Hab Snaps will extend your snapping ability to new levels. These Hab Snaps will allow for Snapping among doors so that one could set up snaps around habitats. Also included are a set of Hab Snaps, capable of connection to virtually any space vehicle's snap, such as M-class ships, Stations and structures. Hab Snaps Will turn one snap point into as many as you want. They come in multiple sizes and flavors and are paintable. Also included are a number of "Spacer Snaps" that allow you to bridge over items with no snaps (May require large Overlap Tolerances) Get yours, Free today! A Note on Hab Snaps: Smaller Hab Snaps can be tricky to use. Mostly because of the Snapping and level system in Starfield's Ship Builder. If having trouble placing a snap, It's often best to place it using one of the snaps on the edge of the Hab Snap. Then Let it go. Click on it again and slide it over to the desired location. Hopefully X-Box Users will see this version soon. PC guys will find the bugs, I hope.
This mod will never be a for pay mod. This mod was Authored by Gilibran as creator, JoeColinsc for modernization, Hobart (Delver on Nexus) as current Maintainer. This effort is entirely a seperate entity of the Original SMSEX by Gilibran but for whom, this mod would not be possible. As aresult all inquiries should be sent to me on Creations Channel or to Gilibran of The Nexus, if there are qustions about Permissions
1.1.6a Added New Taiyo Side Caps. Hardly ever seen in peoples builds, I've attempted to make them more useful. The primary goal was to cover Tigers fantastic Half Hab elements and make them look round. I have also extend this to cover full wide haps as well as double hab heights. Ive also added equipment plates to extend their abilities. All new structural items have color swaps that closely align with the original Taiy Structures which were not edited. If I have not created bugs, I think you will find them useful. Also Bug fixes om the last upload. Oops, sorry.
Release notes
PC
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1.1.6a1.1.6a Made some massive scaling errors in large Taiyo Side Saps. Those were fixed. Also errors in placement of snaps in those new parts
Additionally, I have added a number of other structures including: For and aft encaps for those Taiyo caps. Some with equipment nodes. Also have included a 1x2 Taiyo slopes, for tops and bottoms.
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1.00== Describe this release ==
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1.1.6This update includes some new flips for the Taiyo side caps. I noticed that the side caps were terribly underutilized and nobody had made any flips for them. After seeing some attempts to make round hulls into attractive rocket ship parts, I decided to act.
These side caps come in multiple sizes and all sporting a variant that has an equipment node. Side caps now fit perfectly with tiny half habs, full width habs and even double stacked habs.
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1.1.5Uploaded bad archive. Full of meshes with only headers. All the geomettries were stripped out. Since I don't include geometries in the PC uplaod, all the meshes end up blank, leaving holes and shadows and if lucky, ghosts.
Since I usually edit with geometries and loose files, I saw none of the garbafge you saw. I had to more or less copy what everyone here, does. Anyway, the should all be good now. Knock on wood. As a gift, I also included a 2x2 taiyo sloped cap in 8 directions. all with color swaps. Also Taiyo 3x2 slope is now properly color swapped. Hopetech Marker A is restored. to multiple directions. -
1.1.4bMissing or corrupted textures would cause errors in both DoorSnaps and with the Nova Radiator flips. Restoration from backup archive fixed these meshes.
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1.1.41.1.4
Turns out the HabSnap Stars were not fixed. it took me a long time to figure out the problem. I was too clever by including invisible objects to wrap snaps around. That is how I can make habsnap stars to have nothing in the center. But the collision models would cause interference in certain snap sizes. I found a much smaller invisible object to hook too. also I added some invisible handles to help grab the HabSnap Stars. This appears to work. However I recall at an other time this might have caused game lag. They should be fixed now. Left undone are the Taiyo sloped 3x2 panels. The third color swap is missing some of the panels. A problem with the mesh files. I'll try to get that sometime but it requires some geometry changes. This will be a problem for XBox users.
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1.1.3gThis version corrects a number of wrongly aligned Snaps. Snaps that are wrongly align will be evident when the object being snapped to another object, refuses to align correctly or may not actually be connected even though it does snap. Snaps fixed include Port/Starboard Habsnaps, Nova Top Aft Fairing..
The HabSnap Stars have been updated to make them a bit more useful. The outer facing snaps have now been paired with inner facing snaps. These are the !50% and 100% HabSnap Stars both/bottom and port/starboard Habsnap Stars. Closer snaps are not updated in this way.
Finally, A long await and ignored (sorry) Nova Angled wing Starboard-down, have been color corrected so that the third color is paintable. -
1.1.3eVersion 1.1.3e Changes
Error in snap alignment on vertical Stroud cap 02 upper sides, Port and Starboard. It shouldn't affect existing builds with these elements. But now they will snap more properly to other items. -
1.1.3dVersion 1.1.3d
A number of snaps were misplaced and a couple of collision objects on a few Star Snaps created a condition in which the item would appear to snap but would not count as snapped in the Ship Builder. Coupled with a misaligned collision object between the star snap, would cause a collision error on those users who have not chosen to increase their build tolerances.
Starboard Aft down pointing Wing had a misplaced snap. this was caused by failing to clean up after alignment tests. oops. -
1.1.3cRe-upload because I don't trust Creation Kit. I swear it's not uploading my archive, which should be a good 90 megabytes or more.
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1.1.3c1.1.3c
Minor Change. Was Accidently managing Nova Small winglike radiators. I assumed a simple rename and removal of assets would remove the problem. This just made it worse. Complete removal was needed in the mod. Any Management is done by Better Flips or by Vanilla game. -
1.1.3b1.1.3b changes
A minor change that will affect those who use Deimos Radiators. I have removed Deimos Radiators from SMSEX as several people prefer the Better Flips Version. As this version is meant as a bridge between Rux's Better Flips and Gilibran's Snaps and Flips (SMSEX OG), I have removed that component. It should NOT affect anyone using any other SMSEX structures. -
1.1.3a1.1.3a
Just Spelling error and Deimos E Wing Door Plug not where it should be. -
1.1.3a1.1.3a
A Simple error dooms Hopetech from having cooler on ugly ships.
Fixed, one Hopes, Ron. -
1.1.3Lucky number 113... Er, I hope.
Had some issues where Creation Kit wasn't properly integrating meshes into package. Hopefully solved.
Deimos Radiator is back in Play. I had messed with it and messed it up. Took me a bit to un-mess with it to un-mess it up. I think that involved time travel. Stroud Cap SB bottoms are back in place. So HOPEFULLY, The nine devines willing, its fixed and presentable. -
1.1.2e1.1.2e
A number of door snaps were bugged. In an effort to make them useable, I have removed extraneous door plug connections for a little while. Remember, Door Snaps should only be used in special circumstances as they will poke a hole in your ship at the door point. Door Snaps are compatible with Place Doors Yourself. For some reason prior update didn't take as people were reporting Deimos Wing-E errors. I saw no error here, however I do see that Creations Kit is NOT packing all my nif files and these were missing from the creations version of the build. If you see a red triangle with an exclamation point, That's a missing mesh.
1.1.2d
Added back Deimos Radiator Bar shaped radiators. I have no idea why I removed it. Senile, I guess. Changed some Deimos Wing-E snaps to more accommodate Better Flips... Again. I'm starting to suspect there are a few extra mods that are causing people problems. Possibly Ship parts vendor mods or Leveled ship parts mod. Other possibilities might be something from the Star Wars universe mods. Trying to find out more. -
1.00Last minute update due to complaints bout Hab Snaps on the Top and Bottom. Several snaps were pointing in the wrong direction making snapping other items unlikely. Hopefully fixed. I'm half way to senile.
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1.1.2cSorry for yet another update. I',m like senile. I noticed some Door and Hab Snaps for top/bottom where backward. I just dn't know how I goofed that .
Also a minor change with Deimos Wings. The Pointy bits on the Deimos Wing-E have had their snaps re-aligned to more closely follow Better Flips/Snaps
Finally a missing Stroud Eckland Cap LB flip was re-added. it appears it was never added from previous versions. -
1.1.2bMinor Release. Addition of missing Stroud Cap bottom flips
Change to snaps on Deimos Wing-E (the useless one) to place the pointed end, snap, on to the root side. This was done to maintain some alignment with Better Flips so that Deimos Wings can fully replace Better Flip's Deimos Wings. We shall see. -
1.1.2aMore changes in the form of more snaps for Deimos Wings. These Snaps will somewhat align with Rux's Better Snaps. However with vertical orientation, some of these snaps will be a pain in the butt. Suggest using a intermediator such as another structure, to help align things. I was a bit reluctant to add these.
Other changes are the removal of the Stroud Cap 3L-A (Long boy) from management by SMSEX for better flips. The exception are the Vertical variants of the cap..
An Error was made in adding snaps to the Nova Slim Radiator. These were re-centered, which was in error. as those alignments caused "floating" unattached radiator structures. -
1.1.1bMinor Fixes including some small Deimos radiator and Nova Radiator Fixes...
I Hope. Sorry about the constant updates. -
1.1.1aTogether we'll pluck this chicken
1.1.1a
Workfile Nifs were accidently included, causing possible data errors (I dunno, just winging it here). Meshes by nifskope can get very messy with many nodes and it could cause confusion, I guess. I mean, I have no idea. These meshes have been optimized creating only one branch. Hopefully no data errors.
People are running into conflicts vis a vs, Better Flips and SNaps and SMSEX for better flips. Mostly with snaps. My aim is to let the two co-exist, so it looks like I have work to do on Deimos Wings. -
1.1.1aTest of possible bug in creation kit or in author. Ignore for now.
It was brought to my attention that several structural items were missing their flips or that the snaps weren't working. After checking into the archiv I noticed that several meshes have reverted to earlier versions. This is bad, because the orientations of those meshes determine if the snaps you place on them will work. You only can tell by trying them out. You can then look at the snaps directly and get aggravated, noticing nothing wrong. For future modders. Check your orientation in the Moveable Statics render. it's not lying.
I have created a set of Flips for Nova Radiator (strip version) However I don't believe that SMSEX for Better Flips ever managed them as it was redundant. In any case, I have added them to the download along with a comfortable level of snapping. -
1.1.0dI have heve heard that the previous version may have been missing Deimos Wing A and Wing B Flips. This would be caused by missing meshes. If yoy dont see the vertical Deimos Wing A or Wing B flips, Then download this. Otherwise, Skip it.
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1.1.0cSmall update. Mesh file was empty, no geometry information for one of the Ramps. Also corrected a Taiyo 3x2 Color Swap
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1.1.0b== Describe this release ==
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1.1.0Addition of New Wings by Nova. These Wings not only slant, they go up, own, Side Ways and Back ways! This version include some bug fixes and long wings. Also hopefully will work for you. and should be safe for you to update, I hope.
I need critical reviews so that I may get this beast firing on all cylinders. Some pieces like Deimos Wings and Hull-A, need collisions updated. They have always been like that but I have been unable to figure out how to align them yet. -
1.0.1Version 1.0.1 Contains a Correction for missing Snap Points to Stroud 3LA (long) cowlings for bottom and Vertical Structures.
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1.00Initial Release of SMSEX for Better Flips. This version corresponds to verson 0.7.3 Beta on The Nexus. This Version is considered an introduction with newer content to follow. Bac Up your spaceships and Saves
Xbox
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1.0.1Version 1.0.1 Contains a Correction for missing Snap Points to Stroud 3LA (long) cowlings for bottom and Vertical Structures.
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1.00== Describe this release ==
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1.00Initial Release of SMSEX for Better Flips. This version corresponds to verson 0.7.3 Beta on The Nexus. This Version is considered an introduction with newer content to follow. Bac Up your spaceships and Saves
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