How to create custom Planets in Empyrion | Spanj's Build Academy

[@MozoTyce1]

A great overview of a tricky subject Spanj - Well done ! I'd like to point out that doing it this way, once you've clicked in the SSG the playfield_static.yaml and the playfield_dynamic.yaml are completely redundant as ALL further editing has to be done in the EPD. This means that if you later want to re-create your planet (it's Alpha - you may well need to !) you'll have to start over from scratch. Also, the sliders in SSG are NOT bound to the settings laid out in the _dynamic.yaml, it's possible to set them way outside the constraints set by Eleon and thus completely break the planet (you did mention the biomes problem). For advanced creators, i recommend using Notepad++ to manually edit the _static.yaml and _dynamic.yaml to your liking (and hence making new planet templates) which can then be used in the future to recreate planet, using EPD for final tweaking and pre-flight testing.

[@Thorwine]

I was waiting so much for a tutorial like this AND the custom scenario tutorial as well. Thank you, Spanj! Please feel free to expand your Build Academy with the points you left out, that would take the hours and hours you mentioned. THANK YOU! 🙌🙂

[@RichardRitenour0522]

Many thanks Spanj, you cleared up a few issues I was having! Thanks a bunch and keep rockin' bro!

[@deavonw]

I wish Eleon would release their own combined tool to make custom scenarios and playfields.

[@borlani]

Nice one Spanj. That was a good pace and very informative. As usual. Watching you do Eden has inspired me to *maybe* attempt to try to build a planet or two as I've got some crazy ideas I'd like to try out. (I might never get round to it, but who knows?)

[@douglswelsher6212]

Super thanks. Oh yeah missed the old Spanj's Build Academy videos. awsome!

[@keithstone001]

Thanks spanj great stuff

[@Belgereth75]

*Taking notes from the corner of the room*

[@SempSSY]

Oh hell yes. More of this bud!!!

[@douglswelsher6212]

The Big thanks for this and all your Videos.

[@samueljett7807]

Question: is it possible to run multiple instances of the playfield designer so you could go back and forth between the custom and a reference stock world?

[@Spanj]

probably if you extract it twice and run the seperate executables but ive not tried it

[@mellowrebel4618]

LOL, could you set up a scenario of 2 starter planets where after 5-7 days crash into each other and destroy each other to promote quick starts to cooperate and get off the planets? Where after this the respawn and it starts again.

[@dmitry9680]

Hey man. Thanks for nice guide! Maybe you know... How can I wipe/refresh all ore asteroids into specific sector in current solo game?

[@lucianjaeger5910]

So does this mean we are going to have a spanj alpha 10 lava world start?

[@TheFuzzypuddle]

Very useful! thank you! do we know if the A10 base attack function would be configurable during this creation process as well? i'm wondering if newly created planets could have custom base attacks.

[@Spanj]

As far as i know at the moment base attacks are only influenced by the playfield difficulty.

[@toonarmy8524]

can you change the way you mine with this, ie get back to the blue blob way of mining or is that something totally different?.

[@Spanj]

you can switch deposits from SSOR to Voxel or visa versa yes

[@toonarmy8524]

@@Spanj how lol im not competent in changing files.

[@Killerwombat24]

hey man great video can you make a video on if you want to pay for a planet as I have watch the last to videos on planets and that just would like to know the finer things like that if you could help

[@econ347]

Hi, does this still work after the alpha 12 dropped, because all the planets are generated randomly. Or am I understanding it wrong?

[@TheAquaAuthor]

I can't open EPD, it seems like no matter how hard I try I can't open it. I put EPD inside of empyrion and everything. It just wont launch.

[@TheSageBen]

Spanj is there a way to place plants and Rocks manually?

[@Spanj]

not manually no, you can do it in the biome cluster data of the EPD for specific biomes

[@TheSageBen]

Thanks for the reply Spanj your Empyrion Videos are always a treat and I'm looking forward to all of them.I want to create a base but have specific trees and natural Entities placed in a specific manor. This will require a degree of adjustment that has been out of scope of any mod I have see on the forums. Maybe Elion could be enticed to allow this type of editing as well. I want my base to have hedge rows of shrubbery and great palms rows leading to its entrance. Also I want to edit water so I can have a real mote. I want to be a land scaper LOL I would love to see you get into the weeds with the details you left out. Maybe touch base with other hardcore modders and have some collaboration Videos...

[@maludir]

Is there a way to get a binary solar system? 🤔 Since you can't land on the sun, a opportunity to change the skybox would be enough 😅 Any tipps? 🤓

[@Spanj]

there are some options to change the skybox of orbit playfields in the EPD but probably not to the effect you want

[@AlienAirl]

I don't have Playfield.yaml file. Only Playfield.debug.yml

[@northstargaming2363]

The playfield designer won't open up for me