This project attempts to authentically recreate Noctis IV in Godot. It uses a Godot GDextension, which itself is based off of a modern sourceport of Noctis IV, for most of its underlying universe generation code.
This project is currently in Beta, and the code can be a bit messy as a result. Many of Noctis IV's features have been implemented, but they may differ slightly; for example, planet generation isn't fully compatible with Noctis IV just yet; some planets - like Felysian worlds - don't have all of their sectors represented accurately.
The currently supported Godot version is 4.3 (double precision floats). Note that, although official builds are 'supported' as a development target, they are built with "single precision", meaning large world coordinates - as we see in System Reset - don't work all that well. Unless otherwise mentioned, any builds after 'beta-1' are built using a custom double precision build of Godot to remediate issues caused by this. As a developer, you can use official builds, but you'll have to keep this in mind and I strongly recommend against it; please build Godot from source with double precision (using precision=double). Because GDExtensions depend on this as well, you'll have to ensure you build feltyrion-godot with double precision as well; see its readme for details on how to do that (the default instructions in its readme suffice). It'll be very noticeable if you haven't, because either things will crash, or Godot will straight up tell you that there's something wrong with the GDExtension.
You may download the appropriate double precision float builds of Godot - including export templates - here, though note that these builds are offered as a courtesy for other developers of System Reset and I can't guarantee they'll be kept online nor up-to-date, and I absolutely strongly recommend against developers of other projects using my custom builds.
This project depends on https://github.com/jorisvddonk/feltyrion-godot, which is not included by default, and needs to be compiled for your operating system in order for the project to function correctly. Follow the following steps to compile all of the dependencies:
- Clone the https://github.com/jorisvddonk/feltyrion-godot git repository somewhere.
- Follow feltyrion-godot's compiling instructions to compile the GDExtension for your operating system.
- Find
feltyrion-godot.gdextensionin the built output and copy it plus all sibling folders toaddons/feltyrion-godot, such that the fileaddons/feltyrion-godot/feltyrion-godot.gdextensionexists. - Done! You should now be able to load this project in Godot and try it out from there!
There is no strict version compatibility - both forwards nor backwards - defined between the two projects. So if you're not on the main branch of System Reset or checking out a previous commit, make sure you compile the commit from feltyrion-godot that was most recent at that time.
If you aren't fond of Godot's default script editor, you can install script-ide via AssetLib. Note that you do NOT need to enable it globally, as the 'system reset dev plugin' loads it dynamically for you. If script-ide has enabled itself, make sure to disable it in Project Settings.