Question about place doors yourself mod and what needs doors

[craigsters]

Do I need to add a door to the landing bay entry way?

I am trying out the place doors yourself mod again with the appropriate Matilija's Aerospace PDY patch, I left out Tiger Shipyards 3x3x2 Hab out of my game, because I'm unsure if it's compatible with PDY ?


Last time I tried using the place doors yourself mod, my character bounce around inside the ship indefinitely and ctrl+alt+delete needed to be used to stop the game

[jonnin]

Nothing in the game normally needs a door. You may want doors and walls for some of the large empty habs that have partly enclosed areas but no doorway, or walls+door to make a room out of a section that is just totally open.

As for bouncing around, I have had a ton of trouble with ship interior mods bugging up. I keep seeing stuff that sounds good but does not work right.... for any mod, try whatever you get before locking yourself into a broken ship or unfixable game state: the creation kit does not ensure the products work or are safe to use.

[Keith V. Smith]

Cockpits, and Bays do not need doors.

[craigsters]

I'm leaving out any Bethesda creation habs as well, because they may not be compatible with PDY mod

[Keith V. Smith]

Keep in mind, on the Nexus, there's two version of the mod. The older version that had the doors removed from the habs themselves and the new version that no longer touches the habs and instead edits how doors are placed. I've used that version with custom habs mods without issue the 1x1 habs mods.

[craigsters]

is place doors yourself compatible with Tiger Shipyards Overhaul [www.nexusmods.com] 3x3x2 hab mod?

[Keith V. Smith]

As long as you are using the Version 2 of the mod, custom habs should work fine. The old Ver 1 require custom habs to be patched to remove their plugs. Ver 2 no longer requires that. That being said, there' might be compatibility issues with mods that add whole new ships.

Ver 2 does the doors in a completely different way from Version one. Also, I think the whole dropping through you ship thing was only a problem in Ver 1. Ver 2, if you fail to place a door, you just can't enter that hab is all.

[craigsters]

I read that you have to replace every hab in a ship you bought and replace the hab in ship build in order for the PDY to work properly, did I understand that right?

[Keith V. Smith]

That sounds like the Ver 1 of the mod. In Ver one, he duplicated all of the vanilla habs and you hid the originals in the ship builder. You knew you had the right hab because the duplicates had a description change saying "no doors."

Ver 2, no longer does that, there's no need to rebuild the ship. though you do need to add doors where you want them when you edit the ship. So vanilla ships will work fine until you edit the ship. Once you do, you just have to add the doors where you want them, no need to replace the habs anymore.

That is one of the biggest problems with the mod and while the guy is very talented, there's a huge language barrier and the description on the Nexus I don't think has been updated. The Creations version of the Mod I believe used Ver 2.

[Keith V. Smith]

Here's a video I made a while back to do a walkthrough of Place Doors Yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLoUBH6yUmc

[craigsters]

Originally posted by keithvsmith1977:

That sounds like the Ver 1 of the mod. In Ver one, he duplicated all of the vanilla habs and you hid the originals in the ship builder. You knew you had the right hab because the duplicates had a description change saying "no doors."

Ver 2, no longer does that, there's no need to rebuild the ship. though you do need to add doors where you want them when you edit the ship. So vanilla ships will work fine until you edit the ship. Once you do, you just have to add the doors where you want them, no need to replace the habs anymore.

That is one of the biggest problems with the mod and while the guy is very talented, there's a huge language barrier and the description on the Nexus I don't think has been updated. The Creations version of the Mod I believe used Ver 2.

the time I bounced inside the ship after using PDY, I mostly used the aft door plugin and most likely it only

[Keith V. Smith]

Yeah, I ran into that issue to with the older version of the mod, but haven't noticed any bugs with Ver 2 and I even used it with custom habs. I haven't tried any mods that add whole ships though.

[craigsters]

Thanks for all the help, it's been over a month sense I last used PDY mod, I looked to see my download history for the mod, and nexusmods didn't track it proper for me

[Keith V. Smith]

No problem, you can find me on the Nexus too. I am the mod author of the Hopetech VTOL Engine and the Cloaking Equipment as well as a few other mods.

[craigsters]

I mostly install ship build hab type mods and decor mods and the mod author that makes ship building easier Synthlight author[www.nexusmods.com] I think I have all that mod authors work installed and Matilija's Aerospace and Avontech Shipyards with those awesome side panelling to hide mixed hab use

[Keith V. Smith]

Yeah, I use all of those mods too. They all work with Place Door Yourself. I don't use Matiija's nor Avontech, by I have the two My Habs 1 by 1 habs and the SpacelabParts stairs mod and they work with Place Doors without issue.