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[Jasamus]

Combat Background Enhanced

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Combat Background Enhanced focuses on adding visual flare by procedurally generating asteroid fields and hulk fleets in the background of fleet combat.

Can be added/removed from existing saves.

Features

• Layered background rendering system that simulates depth in the visuals and fades out from the main combat action
• Hulk fleets based on nearby factions in the region.
• Automatically supports modded factions and custom ships they use.
• Asteroid fields.
• Procedural generation so each background is unique.
• Support for modular part ships and stations with broken off pieces.

Combat Background Enhanced will have an extra performance cost on combat rendering. If you are having issues with this, I added a settings file that you can use to toggle on/off some of the larger performance contributors as you need.

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Changelog

v0.2
- Updated to version 0.98
- Added support for modular ships. Previously these were skipped when generating fleet wreckage and will now show up.
- Added stations to background generation logic.
- Added config (CombatBackgroundEnhanced_Settings) for toggling off certain features to improve performance.

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Thanks to the Starsector Discord for giving great feedback

[Helldiver]

That looks really interesting, the wrecks especially. Are the hulks based on whether you're fighting near a debris field (like come other background effects taking cues from campaign location) ?
Options to set the density of the effects would be really cool too.

[Keybindet]

Wow it looks wery cool. I look forward to to future updates.

[Levana]

Reminds me of Gratuitous Space Battles! I like it.

[Keybindet]

Does this mod affect performance?

[Levana]

Does this mod affect performance?

From what I've seen, only slightly.

[OmegaInfinita]

Loving the addition to the atmosphere it provides-- makes battles seem less bland!

[Vundaex]

That looks freaking cool!

[Keybindet]

Mod is cool but imho it will bee better if broken hulls in background apear when fight is located on salvage field or near derelict ships.

[rogerbacon]

So, let me see if I understand correctly. It draws hulks and other objects on a lower level so they are visually there but no interaction with ships in combat. If that is correct I think it would be great if you could include a console command to move hulks in the combat layer down into your new layer over time. Sometimes the battlefield gets too cluttered and I think it's kinda silly in 3d space to have a wall of debris cutting me off from the enemy.

[Maelstrom]

dude this is so awesome! If you make it so these debris fields only spawn when fighting in them if thats not already the case it would be nuts!

[meatball]

to my modlist it goes

[Tecrys]

Congrats on first message and release combined!

I already love this, straight away put it in recommended mods section from OMM.

[Tecrys]

I had a quick glance at the code, am I right that for adding ships from my own mod to the background I just have to add them to the list "CombatBackgroundTerrain"
in settings.ini?
Edit: no wait, that's just for the debris. you are already picking fleets dinamically, never mind

[Maelstrom]

yeah bro cooked a masterpiece and no one noticed