@Razorback

Amazing! Thank you, premium mod-Dev right here

@Bekiffter Bar

The crash has been fixed, I would recommend you to reinstall the shipmoddingframework and the expanse expanse ships mod to make sure they are updated. Thanks for reporting the bug

@Bekiffter Bar

Thanks for the feedback, I will look into the issue with repairing the radiator.

Really great Mod, im encountering a recurring crash though. If any of the new ships get damaged radiators, the game crashes on them finishing repair. Here's (part) of the Null Reference from the Log:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at PavonisInteractive.TerraInvicta.RadiatorVisController.OnRadiatorRepaired () [0x00000] in <d8f4cff36a754a00bcc609b7ba451b4f>:0
at PavonisInteractive.TerraInvicta.ShipModelController.OnRadiatorRepaired () [0x00042] in <d8f4cff36a754a00bcc609b7ba451b4f>:0
at PavonisInteractive.TerraInvicta.TISpaceShipState.RepairPart (PavonisInteractive.TerraInvicta.DamagedShipPartData part) [0x0003a] in <d8f4cff36a754a00bcc609b7ba451b4f>:0
at PavonisInteractive.TerraInvicta.PlannedResupplyAndRepair.ProcessResupplyAndRepair (PavonisInteractive.TerraInvicta.TISpaceShipState ship) [0x00057] in <d8f4cff36a754a00bcc609b7ba451b4f>:0

Looks great but i miss my Game start on Mars for the full MCRN expierence. Who needs to defend earth when you keep Mars clean right ?

LETS GOOOOOOO

@tarus

glad you got it working, could you show me the player log ? that way i know why the game carshed?

Hello, the mod works. The MCRN ships are great, thank you!
However, the UNN ships are another story...
I built Leonidas, everything worked fine until I started a battle, and then it crashed...
It's a new game, so your patch was already installed normally.

Thanks for your mod anyway

New patch !


I fixed a bug where the game would crash if you selected an escort ship. This fix makes it so that if you build an UNEscort ship or designed it in your save, it won't be compatible with this newest version. I apologise for the oversight.

@tarus

if you did that correctly UMM should show a green icon next to the expanse ships mod and you should now be able to view ships.

@tarus

sorry for the late response but it seems you havent downloaded the ship modding framework. Just subscribe to it in steam and install through terra invicta( like how you did with this mod ). Then just enable the mod and restart the game.

and yes the ship designer , i can do reserch but that it

When the game starts, a window opens and seems to indicate that Ship Modding Framework is missing. On the page of this mod, I see that Unity Manager is also required, but I can't find Ship Modding Framework on it.

@tarus

what do you mean by conceptor, do you mean the Ship designer ?

Also do you have unity mod manager installed ? if not that could be causing the issue. If you do have it please share the player log located in " AppData\LocalLow\Pavonis Interactive\TerraInvicta" just scroll down till you see the crash error and put it here

the game crashed when i select one of the MCRN ship in the conceptor
how can i fix it?

@perl

Thanks for the kind words. I hope you enjoy the update. Feel free to give me feedback about it to see what I could improve about the mod

Amazing work!

If you have a save made before this update please use this version of the mod as the new update is not compatible with older saves from this mod.

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3546299785

New Update !

Added 4 brand new hulls from the UNN . I also added a new project research for getting the UNN ships.

I have also tweaked the names of the custom ships to have it so that they show what faction they are from, so if it was a Tachi it would be MCRN Tachi.

I will be shortly uploading an outdated version of the mod as this new one is not cross save compatible from the previous mod version.

https://imgur.com/a/vEFemAB

Progress on the Leonidas. It is mostly finished, the UN update should launch soon-ish as I only have to do some touch ups with projects or other quick fixes.

The only potential problem with this update is that it wont be compatible with previous saves using this mod as the Donnager has a different hull layout now. However I should be able to upload a separate mod from before this update that way people can continue their playthourgh

@Cybot

Do you have unity mod manager ? If you do then could you please share the player log
(its located on AppData\LocalLow\Pavonis Interactive\TerraInvicta)

game crashes, any idea?

@samMAVRS

Thanks, The plan for the OPA is to have a free navy faction and then a separate OPA faction. For the free navy I will probably add the pella and the serio mal with some other belter ships while the OPA has ships like the ashfords ship and drummers.

I might end up adding the behemoth as well but I am not 100% sure

Your framework is amazing and i cant wait to see what else you and others end up making.

Im so excited to see what you come up with, with the OPA. Their stuff is nothing but a bunch of Frankenships glued together.

NNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIICCCCCEEEEEEEE!!!!
Now we just need mods from other franchises!

https://imgur.com/a/Fion9J2

Image showcasing what I have been working on. I managed to implement a new ship based of the unused UN escort concept art.

I also got a model for the un patrol boat which is meant to be their morigan equivalent. It still is a WIP as I have to do the texturing and I might make some other model changes. After those are done the only thing left to do is the leonidas ( and meaby the armun-ra stealth ship ) and then the UN update should be done

@samMAVRS

due to my framework the hardest part of adding a ship mod is making the models(adding the ship through code is one line, unless you are adding custom weapon locations ). However there is a decent amount of set up your got to do in unity.

I did put a guide to how to make custom ships on the github repo for the ship framework.

Just curious, is it really difficult to add new ship models? I would imagine that this game would be drowning in ship p*rn but this is the only mod ive found that actually adds new designs.

And might I add, some sexy new ones with sweet curves.

Oooh, that's a neat layout! Thanks for the quick reply!

@GriffinMan

Sure, at the moment the truman is the only fully completed ship ( though I am working on an escort model for the UN )

https://imgur.com/a/Te7L5Dz

This is what the internals look like. It might be a bit much so it is subject to change but the idea is that it will be used more for nose weapons while having to rely on other ships for point defence

Out of curiosity, can you add some screenshots of the designer screens for these too? I'd love to know how many weapon and utility slots each has.

@The Rach

sorry for the late response, I was in holiday for a bit so I didn't had access to my PC,
at the moment the focus is on getting UNN and OPA faction ships in before getting any other MCRN ships. I might add ships like the D class in the future.

As for the UNN ships the current plan is to have 4 the same amount as the MCRN, I do plan on adding the stealth ship.

I am also thinking of adding free navy ships like the pella and the serio mal as well.

@Razorback Hey just wanted to pop in and ask about this mod and the upcoming UNN ships you mentioned, How many models are expected for the UNN? And any chance we could see more ships from the MCRN?

Also what are the odds of seeing the stealth ships from season one and the free navies stolen ones?

Thanks for all the hardwork you've put into this!

Wonderful mod. The Donnager though, a bit weird that I can get a cruise acceleration over 200mg easily on vanilla Battleship but less than 20mg on Donnager with the same setting (with epstein drive).

Hey, I finally got the mod working, and I like it. But since I'm in a late-game phase, the aliens have fleets of 30 or more ships, and I can't roleplay a Martian flora. Can anyone give me a design that worked for them? The ships have very little armor.

yeeeeeeeeees

@justyr1

The vanilla ships are still available, this are just new ships that you can use. This is compatible with the weapons mod and I have tested it with it though I am unsure if this is compatible with the drive mod.

Thanks for the kind words

Love the look of this mod as I'm a big fan of The Expanse. W/O having a chance to play it yet, are the Vanilla ship models still usable? If so, I think it would be cool for these to be more powerful than their vanilla counterparts, but farther down to tech true. Almost like a Gen 2 of our warships during the conflict. We've learned more about fighting the aliens in space and start looking into more efficient/capable designs to fight the alien threat: enter in the MCRN and the (future) UNN ships. Also, is this compatible with your weapon mod and the drive mod by trsohmers?

@Spaceman

Thanks for the kind words ! I am currently working on the UNN Trueman

https://imgur.com/a/Ff8bX7r

This is a WIP image of it

looks great so far, I hope you do get around to adding UNN ships as i love the look of the Agatha King

@Night Haunter

That is actually a pretty good idea, Specially since lore wise the donny was build to carry 4 railguns when reactors were powerful enough to run them. I will probably implement the change that you suggest. I also have reduced the amount of tons per armor of the donny

i think the donnager should have 10 hull slots, allowing 2 of the foehammers and some PD. any thoughts on this? again, i appreciate the great work!

I will also start working on the UNN fleet soon as well

https://imgur.com/a/Ye7QgDX

this is the new donnager refit that I have started working on

@Night Hanuter

Thanks for the feedback, I understand that it is dissapointing, the main reason why I did it is because before I could not make the ships have more weapons that the vanilla ships I used in the script, however I have found out how to overcome that limitation recently so if it all goes well I will be adding more hull weapons to the donny on the next update.

Depending on how it goes, it might make it so that the current ship designs with the Donnager get messed up though I will try to make it so that does not happen.

Yes, Donnager being a battleship is very disappointing.

great work but the donnager being just a battleship is kinda disappointing

@SilverBaSeS

thanks for the feedback, I imagine this is due to the volume ( i tried to keep it somewhat accurate to the expanse ) however I understand that for the donnager it is way too big, I try to re-balance for the next update.

The mass per armour point does't look quite right? Each point of Donnager's front armour costs 1,525 ton, and lateral armour costs 17,000 ton.
Mass per armour point of all the other ships are more reasonable, but still looks a bit too high compared with vanilla ships in the same ship class.

Makes a the Expanse Weapons Mod, also make a ship mod framework then makes the Expanse Ships Mod. Based