Hiho,



I took some time to analyze down the situations around the custom POIs as I was annoyed by not being able to do so. So.... here is the solution, I wrote a little Perl script that is also released on CPAN which can be used to modify an existing Blueprint so that it can be used in spawning, and all the spawn points and turrets and anything on it work. Additionally you can also set a flag that defines if the Blueprint spawning removes the earth around it, or if its going "into" the earth, next to a paramter to define the z-position of the base, so to allow it to be under ground (like Xenu DroneBase for example).



As I know most of you probably don't have Strawberry Perl installed, i also provide a ready compiled .exe which can be just started to modify the blueprints. So here the link to the EXE



https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68009145/EmpyrionBlueprint.exe



If you are having Perl installed, then it is enough if you tell your favorite CPAN client to download the "Empyrion" package, which includes empyrion_blueprint as command to achieve the same.



Usage example would be:



EmpyrionBlueprint.exe --from MyPreparedBlueprint.epb --spawn-group=MyTest --remove-terrain --to Content/Prefabs/BA_MyTower.epb



After that you are able t0 use the Group "MyTest" in your Playfield.yaml and so can enjoy your beautiful POI in the game. But you can also just do the following to get info about the blueprint:



EmpyrionBlueprint.exe --from MyPreparedBlueprint.epb



If you are happy, you might want to look over to our "Empire Server"''s (#1, #2 and #4) and thank us for this tool ;-). Next step here is a to make a little tool that uses some base config file (like a YAML) to generate all the sectors and other Content files for a brand new game. Later on a server manager, of course... It is btw tested with the just today released version of Empyrion and I will try to test further on that the format doesn't change. If you have any trouble please commit an issue to GitHub: https://github.com/Getty/p5-empyrion/issues



Happy Repair&Removal!

P.S.:

We are the Borg, we will destroy your core and remove all your parts.