supply drop — Русский перевод – Словарь Linguee

Creating your own custom supply drop configuration file is work, granted, but doable.

Each configuration file lists the objects (crates, suits, machines, vehicles, etc.) which it will spawn. Therefore it is neccassary to state what type or category of object you’d like to create and where <i>inside</i> the supply drop you want to create it. Actually, all you have to do is define an offset position (and angle) from the center of the supply drop pod. If you punch in a position that is «outside the box» or in this case, outside of the pod, the object will be spawned outside, as can be seen in the example.cfg file video.

To make life easier on you, I have created a map or rather blueprint you can use to figure out where to put what, to plan the layout and make sure everything is inside. But even with the plan, you will have to reload the scenario and test it out. Hence the work warning at the beginning.

[Screenshot with the plan]

There are several categories of objects you can place inside a supply drop pod. You have to know which category an object belongs to. Each object you placed is defined by a relative offset position inside the pod itself. The supply pod’s controller needs this information to spawn the objects.

Placing inventory items into crates or resources into barrels requires adding a seperate line, one for the container (crate, barrel) and one for the resource or invetory item referencing the container it will be in. I’ll show an example shortly.

The BBLOCK or building block belongs to the category of objects you can print. The 3D printer, crates, resource barrels, etc. are all building blocks. In order to spawn a building block inside the supply drop pod you’ll need following config line:

The path would usually point to something like this:

The config file path that you specify defines what object will be spawned (a small box in this example).

The index is important. Should you decide to place an inventory item into the box, you have to know the index of the container (box) the inventory item will be stored in.

Now mind you, the buggy, that you get fresh out of the printer, is also a building block. Only after an assembly it turns into a vehicle.

Here’s an example taken from the stock 3dprinterdrop.cfg that makes a 3D printer appear:

Yes, you can place vehicles inside the supply drops…if they fit :). It works exactly the same as with building blocks.As with vehicles, you can place characters inside supply drops…how about a MarsZ mod with supply drops filled with space zombies falling down :). Works exactly the same as with the building blocks.Dynamic objects can also be spawned. The values you need to provide are equivalent to those for the building blocks.The «world stored» inventory item is an inventory item (datapad, construction tool, helmet, etc.) that is simply laying around. Works exaxtly the same as with the building block.This category describes inventory items that are stored inside a container, which could be a crate (or a character). To spawn an item like this you need following line:

The entries mean following:

The first number specifies the index of the spawnable object inside the config file. So if you have defined a box that can contain inventory items, and it’s index i 5, you have to supply that number here.

To explain the second number (Inventory Number) I’ll have to take a little detour into the game’s inventory system.
Everything that is able of storing an inventory, like a crate, or the mobile lab, does so by the means of an Inventory object. Now a crate only has one. The mobile lab has several storage places. You can check it out. Just go around the mobile lab and you’ll find several places which you can «open» to store stuff to. Now if you could spawn the mobile lab in the supply pod (which of course you can’t, it’s to big. Actually, it’s to big to make sense, but spawning by opening the supply drop pod hatch, that we can do), the Inventory Number would specify which one of the several storage places you want your inventory item to be placed into. To verify how many inventories a vehicle etc. has, just open it’s config file and look for the INVENTORY entries. The manned mobile lab for example has 8 of them.

The Inventory Slot Number defines which slot the inventory item has to go to. Remember, the first is always 0. The second 1 and the last is always:

To find out how many slots a certain inventory has, locate the config file if the object in question (crate, vehicle, etc.) and look for the INVENTORY_SLOT definition. For example the «Crate 02 bright» has one INVENTORY, and 4 INVENTORY_SLOT. Two of which are «Large» slots and two are «medium».

The path to the object config file defines what it is you want placed. Is it a construction tool or part of a suit?

Just beware, the object has to fit inside of the slot you specify. All inventory items define what slot types (large, medium, small) they can fit in, you should respect that restriction.

Now the resource operates some ways like the INVITEM_STORED:

The entries mean following:

The first number, here 0 is the index of the object you want the resource to go into. It should be something capable of holding a and that resource. A resource barrel is capable of storing resources, just as is a tank. It is possible that later in the game developement more objects become available (maybe the new life support system?) that can hold resources but only a certain type. You wouldn’t put Methane in your life support, now would you.

The second number specifies which resource index to use. Now for a barrel or tank, it’s always 0, since each of those objects can only contain one type of resource at a time. But the game is actually capable of dealing with building blocks that can store several types of resources (again, the life module…oxygen and nitrogen?). At the time this guide was written, there were no objects like this, so stick with a 0 here.

The resource name is self explanatory, «Water», «Oxygen», «Methane», or whatever resource you deem worthy.

The last is the resource amount. Here you should respect the restrictions of the given container, 130 for a resource barrel for example.

I hope this guid has helped you figuring out how to use supply drops and maybe how to define your own. Have fun with it, and good luck on Mars!