[WIP] [UFO] Pyramid Ship aka Cydonian Scout

[Wolfstarr]

Hi all,

Not sure if this has been suggested but after watching stargate recently on Netflix I had an idea about using the blocks from the Cydonia mission to create a pyramid ship.

Anyone done this in another mod at all?

SQ

[Lion66six]

Thats an interesting idea, I could get onboard with that :-) Not a modder, but happy to do any beta testing!

[Solarius Scorch]

Turning a pyramid into a UFO would be trivial. Well, the difficulty goes up to "reasonably easy" if you want an interception picture as well. Or, if you want to make it an X-Com craft, the basescape, intercept and air combat icons.
But I imagine your idea is something more complicated...

[Wolfstarr]

Thanks both

So being totally new to this and watching the tutorial videos on youtube I spent tonight building this beauty, the Cydonian Scout (its nearly 2am and only decent name I could come up with lol).

I've tried adding it into the game to test but doesn't seem to work and throws up a YAML error on startup, I'm hoping a veterean on here can help me out. I used Falko's checker and it seems ok, I used LukesExtraUfos file as a reference.

Think I have done all the paths correctly but any assistance would be appreciated!

[kkmic]

I remember seeing some unused/incomplete pyramid ships that are present in the game files, but I can't find the link in Ufopaedia now.

[Lion66six]

Hey that looks quite good, nice work.

I wonder about the bottom floor also having the yellow slopes, yet a metal floor. Could do quite a range of ships of different sizes etc.

[Wolfstarr]

Thanks

Took a little while to get the interface running and understand what I was doing but is quite an intuitive process after watching the YouTube videos.

Love to do some more variants and even gulp create a custom PCK for it with new terrain detail but alas my skills are lacking to get this one working

Seriously hoping someone can find what I've buggered up here lol

The zip file has the .rul, .map and route files within if anyone was wondering what was inside

[kkmic]

Found'em: https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Talk:MAPS

[Wolfstarr]

I like the metal pyramids

Nice find! I may try and remake them later and see if I did something wrong which is why they aren't working.

[Wolfstarr]

Ok so I edited the main rule file to change a large scout to my design and interestingly it doesn't spawn in the battle simulator ... (see empty 20 x 20 space)

When I try to load the mod ruleset I created I get this error

Back to the drawing board me thinks!

[Solarius Scorch]

Looks like the .rul file is broken. Check your spaces.

[Wolfstarr]

Thank you, think I cocked up the spawn points as well.

Will rebuild tonight and try again

[davide]

Here there are some discussion about it
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,2576.msg28497.html#msg28497

[Wolfstarr]

Thanks Davide

My work continues!