New to the Foundry

dragondominance

Hey all. I have never played around with the Foundry, and I am curious. I am thinking about playing around with it today, and after reading through a lot of information, I am wondering is it possible to merge exterior maps, or elements of them? Would love to take the colony and merge it with the beaches from Risa. Thanks in advance!

spiritborn

Depends on what you mean by merging, you cannot take 1 map and merge it with another directly, each map in a seperate file in the Foundry and cannot be combinied, also some in-game maps aren't avaible in the foundry yet.

However what you can do in take assets from 1 map and add them into an unrelated map if those assets are avaible in the foundry. Assets means things like props and buildings.

What you cannot change at all is the underlaying geometry of the map, so if there's hill on the map you cannot flatten it out but you can hide it with props.

duncanidaho11

A lot of what we do is taking a map originally built for a patrol assignment, mission, and (in a couple cases) social zone and putting things on top of them like an elaborate virtual train set. This can include everything up to the entire playable map. Take for example:

You can just see the base map lurking in the background, which is the Nepoda Desert from the mission Coliseum. Here I built an industrial complex with holo-bridges, gardens, and a canal running through the center.

Not every project though has to be that complex, it's really up to you. So just hop on, play other Foundry missions, and get a feel for what can be done with the available assets (added manually on dev volunteer time). Then, try your best to make the most of the Foundry. Tutorials are available to help with the basics, and we authors are around to handle specific troubleshooting.

dragondominance

Awesome! Thank you both! So no beach merging, but props and assets could be just as enjoyable! Off I go to see what I can do with it!

Thanks again!

johnnysnowball

I recall a mission involving buildings like that on Risa. It may have been Technobabble by Klintobean or something like that. Maybe check that out.
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Foundry:TECHNOBABBLE_(ST-HELFVN8ZG)

https://youtu.be/QCkHoMUyVVg?t=2m39s

klintobean81

Hey all,

I have recently just republished the Technobabble mission that I made years ago. I reconnected the starting point for the mission to the new Space Dock. Now begin the mission at the wall console in the CONFERENCE ROOM under Admiral Quinn's office.

Thanks for remembering my mission from so long ago. I put a lot of time into building these maps. While they are not perfect and the mission is quite long I enjoyed building it and pushing what can be done with the pre-made maps as a starting point to add on to them.

Now that there is new content in the Foundry from when I originally made the mission it would be nice to go back through and refine it. Here is to hoping for more adventures with DJ Spoonhead!




-Klintobean

@klintobean81