new-horizons/README.md

A custom world creation tool for Outer Wilds.

You can view the addons creators have made (or upload one yourself) here!

Check the ship's log for how to use your warp drive to travel between star systems!

Do you want to create planets using New Horizons? Then check out our website for all our documentation!

• Incompatible mods
• Roadmap
• Contact
• Credits

Incompatible mods

• Autoresume.
• Multiplayer mods like QSB and OWO. QSB actually kinda works decently as long as you don't warp.

Roadmap

• Heightmaps/texturemaps (Done)
• Remove existing planets (Done)
• Stars (Done)
• Binary orbits (Done)
• Comets (Done)
• Signalscope signals (Done)
• Asteroid belts (Done)
• Support satellites (Done)
• Surface scatter: rocks, trees, etc, using in-game models (done) or custom ones (done)
• Load planet meshes from asset bundle (done)
• Black hole / white hole pairs (done)
• Separate solar system scenes accessible via wormhole (done)
• Warp drive with target set in ship's log (done)
• Implement custom dialogue (done)
• Make a template Unity project to use with NH, including all game scripts recovered using UtinyRipper to make AssetBundle creation easier (done)
• Custom ship log entries and fact reveals, for rumour mode and map mode (done)
• Procedural terrain generation (started)
• "Quantum" planet parameters
• Better terrain and water LOD
• Edit existing planet orbits
• Implement all planet features:
  • Funnels (sand/water/lava/star) (done)
  • Variable surface height (sand/water/lava/star) (done)
  • Zero-g volumes (done, with Unity template)
  • Ghost matter (done, by copying props via game hierarchy)
  • Tornados + floating islands
  • Let any star go supernova
  • Geysers
  • Meteors
  • Pocket dimensions
  • Timed position/velocity changes
• Implement custom Nomai scrolls
• Implement custom translatable writing
• Destroy planets that fall into a star

Contact

Join the Outer Wilds Modding Discord if you have any questions or just want to chat about modding! Theres a New Horizons category there dedicated to discussion of this mod.

Credits

Authors:

• xen (New Horizons v0.1.0 onwards)
• Mister_Nebula (Marshmallow v0.1 to v1.1.0)

New Horizons was made with help from:

• jtsalomo: Implemented OW_CommonResources support introduced in v0.5.0
• Raicuparta: Integrated the New Horizons Template into the Outer Wilds Mods website
• Nageld: Set up xml reading for custom dialogue in v0.8.0
• Bwc9876: Set up ship log entries and QOL debug options in v0.9.x. Set up the website.

Translation credits:

• Russian: GrayFix and Tyla
• German: Nolram
• Spanish: Ciborgm9 and Ink

Marshmallow was made with help from:

• TAImatem
• AmazingAlek
• Raicuparta
• and the Outer Wilds discord server.