Walk Around Moving Ships

Your crew shouldn’t have to sit down every time the ship moves

Empyrion is a great game for building ships, exploring star systems, and going on adventures with friends. But one missing feature has always bothered me: being able to walk around a ship while it is moving.

Imagine building a huge capital vessel with a bridge, hangars, corridors, and rooms for your crew—then having to tell everyone to sit down before you can go anywhere. For me, that breaks the feeling of being aboard a ship together.

I wanted the pilot to fly while the rest of the crew could move around and use the ship.

So, with the help of ****, I built ShipWalk.

What does it do?

ShipWalk uses a local reference-frame system to let players move relative to their ship. A separate local physics scene handles movement and interior collision, while the resulting position is translated back into the game world and synchronized with other players.

Features include:

• []Walking aboard moving CVs, SVs, and HVs.[/]

  []Leaving supported open seats while moving. Enclosed cockpits retain their normal exit restrictions.[/]

  []Preserving ship motion when the pilot leaves the seat. The vessel can continue moving without someone constantly sitting at the controls, although the game’s native slowdown still applies.[/]

  []Jumping, jetpack use, and elevator support within the ship-relative movement system.[/]

  []Collision with docked vessels. Docked SVs and HVs become part of the carrier’s local collision environment.[/]

  []Multiplayer passenger synchronization, including ship-relative movement and walking animation.[/]

  []Handling for standing passengers during planet/orbit transitions, normal warp, and MicroWarp.[/]

       ShipWalk is a separate mod. It does not replace the official game assemblies.

Requirements

• []For multiplayer, install ShipWalk on every participating client and the server components handling the session.[/]

  []The dedicated-server package supports the standalone playfield-server build checked by this project. Other game builds are unverified.[/]

    Use matching ShipWalk versions across your clients, dedicated manager, and playfield workers.

Installation

Client / co-op

• []Close the game.[/]

  []Download the client / multiplayer package.[/]

  []Extract its files into:

  Empyrion - Galactic Survival/Content/Mods/ShipWalk/[/]

The folder should contain

ShipWalk.dll0Harmony.dllShipWalk_Info.yamland the other supplied package files.

Dedicated server

• []Stop the dedicated server and its gameplay playfield workers.[/]

  []Download the dedicated-server package.[/]

  []Copy the supplied

  Content/Mods/ShipWalkfolder into your server installation.[/]

  []If your workers use separate installations or machines, install the same version there too.[/]

Restart the server normally.

How to use it

Multiplayer: ShipWalk enables automatically after the client receives the server handshake. You do not need to sit in a seat first.

Single-player: Open the in-game console and enter:

mod exs onOptional commands:

mod exs status

mod exs network

mod exs peers

mod exs offIf you have multiple mods that accept executable commands, use

mod listto find ShipWalk’s number, then use:

mod ex <mod-number> statusAn explicit

offstays off until you enable the mod again or restart the game.

Known issues

This is an experimental mod. Please often save before do anything.

Known issues include:

• []Sprinting does not currently work while using ship-relative movement.[/]

  []An unpiloted ship gradually loses speed even with auto-brake disabled. The game applies additional native damping that ShipWalk currently leaves unchanged.[/]

  []You have to sit a seat before leaving game because there are bug about saving state position

    There may be other bugs, especially with ship layouts or situations I have not tested.

Testing so far

I have tested with three players aboard the same ship on a dedicated server.

That is the extent of my multiplayer testing so far. Larger groups, mul