New in 1.3.0: Cruiser compatibility!
Due to uneconomical human resource policies, the Company has run into some financial trouble, unfortunately forcing it to downgrade their autopilot navigation systems to older, less accurate models... This mod makes the player ship and item dropship land in a random position each time.
Compatible with v69.
*in case you're interested in the precise technology employed by the Company, read on below.
Other than obviously BepInExPack, this mod requires:
TL;DR: yes, it largely works with custom moons
Non-TL;DR: This mod is, on a basic level, compatible with all custom moons. However, there are a few caveats to this. The mod depends on some objects being named a certain way, on AI nodes being present, etc. If custom moon authors deviate greatly from the way vanilla planets are set up, things might not work so well. There are a number of custom moons which, unfortunately, mark objects related to the ship as static - resulting in my mod, naturally, being unable to move them at runtime. This causes problems with enemy navigation on some custom moons. Furthermore, some custom planets fly the player ship through triggers at the beginning of a round, which may or may not be important, which will obviously not work if the ship lands elsewhere. Finally, some moons are naturally better suited to randomisation. Large, open maps will have many more possible landing locations than small ones with narrow paths.
If you're a custom moon author and you'd like to ensure compatibility with my mod, consider these things:
TL;DR: Don't mess with the vanilla setup of the gameplay systems.
This was the first mod I ever made for Lethal Company! It has since evolved and heavily been improved upon with the help of many members of the LC modding Discord server. The mod was part-experiment, part asking myself the question: "What if the game forced you to explore bits of the map you wouldn't normally go?". With the player ship and the item dropship landing in random places, you end up seeing more of the maps than you would normally. No longer is walking to the dungeon or to your items mindless routine - you'll need to figure out the way every time.
Originally, the algorithm used raycasts to find a random position and would then run several checks: Is it on the navmesh? Is it not occluded by other objects? However, this system ended up being too weak - it would often land you or your items in unreachable places or fly the ship through solid walls, pushing players out when trying to leave the planet. Especially when I added landing ship randomisation, it was clear a new system was needed.
As of version 1.2.0, the algorithm basically functions in the following way:
The loop keeps going on until a position is found or the maximum number of iterations is reached. Relevant objects are then moved to the new location with specific offsets to keep relative positions intact.
To AudioKnight and MrMiinxx on YouTube for their videos, which got me started initially, and to the Lethal Company Modding Discord server, specifically to Hamunii and especially to IAmBatby for their assistance, and to the Lethal Company Modding Wiki. Thanks to the developers of all the mod's requirements, especially to xilophor for his Lethal Network API. I'm also grateful to multiple people in my mod's Discord thread for providing suggestions, help and support, especially Autumnis, NecroWing and s1ckboy! Thank you to Temmie for helping me a lot with cruiser compatibility. Thanks to mborsh for assistance with with navmesh issues.
