This mod has been updated and reuploaded here:

https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2923913586

please update!

Is there a compatibility patch with PD - more arcologies? It would be nice to be able to restore a ruined ecu into a fortress arcology, for example

Please Update!

Please update.

whats the differnce between this and a relic world

Gimp is what I use when decomposing channels like I said. The Nivida program is only to generate the bump map. Photoshop has that functionality built in.

Thanks! It makes some sense. I might have to check out that program, Ive been using gimp

The normal and diffuse maps in this mod are modified versions of the ecumenopolis map. I recommend you try and use existing normal and specular maps from the base game even if you have to cut them.

But my process for creating new normal maps is to use a tool called Nividia Texture Tools Exporter Standalone (requires signing up for an Nvidia program) and opening a greyscale heightmap that you have created. That will produce a traditional bump map, but to get that to work in Stellaris you need to recompose the RGBA channels so R = R, G = R, B = nothing and A = G. This part of the wiki has what you need for that https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Maya_exporter#Exporting_textures

Specular maps are easy to make, you just need to paint three greyscale images for specular, metal and glossiness, and then compose them into RGBA channels correctly as the wiki explains.

Hello, I was wondering what is your process to creating specular and normal maps. Id presume you create them from diffuse maps. Ive attempted the same but I cant seem to get the correct values causing my maps to be very harsh

The circle tag of the ecumenopolis/planet misses description and appears two times on it, which is a minor annoyance.

https://i.imgur.com/QcqkeBj.png

I don't know if the normal ecumenopolis star system is random, but if not its is a sad system, maybe lesser gigants and one terraform candidate would complete the menu. Additionally the debris should disappear if one repairs the ecumenopolis. I don't feel home there.

And I have an "UI Overhaul Dynamic" mod problem, so it is optional. The picture isn't big enough to completely fill the window, if I select the ecumenopolis.

kinda wish there was a toxic planet with green or purple clouds and maybe glowing seas like the molten Awesome mod tho even tho ive only every found them an the other side of the galaxy

I'm assuming this requires Utopia?

Updated. A few minor changes, such as sound effects and GFX, using the new relic world. As to additional functionality using the new relic systems, I haven't had a chance to play the DLC yet, so that is on the todo list.

@Sam_ its fine

Oh, I also made a typo in my first comment, it should be "pc_city_ruined" and not "pc_city ruined". If that was the error then that is my fault.

Then you are doing something incorrect. If you have any planet/asteroid/star/gas giant selected and you type planet_class <class> filling <class> with any valid planet_class such as pc_continenal or pc_city_ruined then it changes to that body.

@Sam_ its not working now...

wait... it worked at firt but now it says "Ecumenopolis has 1 variety"

thanks

"planet_class pc_city ruined" and "planet_class pc_city_molten"

@Sam_ is there a console command?

Do the ruined ecumenopolises give the same bonus to discovering the megaengineering tech as the regular ruined megastructures?

Cool, and great mod btw

They are unnamed, so they use the random name pool.

Just a little question, what are the names of the systems the ruined ecumenopolis spawns in?

I used paint.net to edit the original texture of the ecumenopolis, cut holes out of it, used the ruined ringworld textures as a dark background for those holes (or the molten world in the case of the molten ecumenopolis). I used various filters and techniques to rough them up some more and add scorch marks, and manual detailing to damage the major features.

You also need to edit bump maps and specular maps, but since I sourced textures from the base game I can mostly chop and change the corresponding bump and spec maps from the textures I used.

How did you make the textures?

The ecumenopolis should now appear on the expansion planner.

Great mod.
The system spawns with the ruined ecumenopolis, but they don't appear on the expansion planner tab or on the galaxy map. Not really and issue if u don't forget where it is, to colonize after researching the techs. can anything be done about it? thanks

Is there any way to search for the planets once you find them? In my most recent game I found the molten one way before I had the tech to restore it. Once I did get the tech I couldn't remember where it was.

is this mod changes first league homeworld to ruined ecumenopolis?

You made those ruined textures yourself? If so, can I borrow them?

Pss. Russian mod? :0

Yes, unowned planets can't have a timer on decisions, so it already works through events. The main issue it deciding when the AI should spend the resources.

Perhaps you can use an event or an edict. It might mess AI's budgeting though.

That is what I thought. I had a bit of trouble trying to get decisions to work at all with unowned worlds. Hopefully the system gets patched by Paradox one day. In the mean time I'll do some testing and find a workaround.

Just so you know, tests show that AI won't pick decisions for worlds it doesn't control. If this is how you deal with ecomenopolises, you might want to re-think (Haven't had an opportunity to test your mod yet)