Plantoids - but with 100% less leaves (could I upload this to steam?)

[Pancakelord]

Hi all, ive got maya up and running and am screwing around with the models from some ships.

I've noticed its extremely easy to rip off the "energy leaves" for lack of a better term from the sides of most plantoid vessels (haven't checked every mesh file yet, as there are a lot).

I could - in theory - produce an alternate plantoid shipset quite quickly (one issue i have with plantoid ships is it feels odd using them if youre using a non-plant species, on account of all those leaves).

I want to check 2 things before i go ahead with this.

1. Would anyone be interested in playing with planotid ships without leaves? (provided the have the plantoid DLC)
2. Would i be able to upload this to steam workshop and force it to only activate for people with plantoids DLC? Seeing as its basically just the DLC but edited slightly.

Thanks.

Heres 2 screenshots of the starting 3 slot corvette without leaves.

If you look closely on the sides, you can still see the "stubs" that the leaves were attached to, oh well)

 

[Pancakelord]

Interestingly there are several meshes that dont seem to be used at all by the game - such as the below one
plantoid_01_battleship_mid_L2S4.mesh - judging by the name it is set up (or at least modelled for 2L and 4S slots as a central module on a battleship) - no such module exists ingame when i use research_all_technologies, or when i consult the wiki on ship parts.

In addition to those two S turret rings and 1 L turret ring on either side, it has a really cool looking Command tower.

Edit: found another interesting unused component - 1L 4M - this one even has a hole in the middle of it's superstructure.

Spoiler: plantoid_01_battleship_mid_L1M4.mesh

Edit 2: found a unique hammerhead looking bow 2M 4S that is also unused, as far as i can tell. The leaves ordinarily go behind the hammerhead section, behind the small guns, already removed them here.
plantoid_01_battleship_bow_M2S4.mesh

Edit 3: I'd forgotten about the other launcher models

After all missiles/torpedoes were moved to G slots many patches ago, instead of being S/M/L weapons, the Small and Large missile tubes are not used by the game anymore (though i think ive seen some mods use them).

 

[Pancakelord]

Does anyone know what this is used for?
plantoid_01_terraforming_station.mesh - last i checked, we didnt need stations to Terraform worlds?? (its also not the colossus, habitat, mining station or a research station).
Was building terraforming stations a cut feature from the game?

 

[Shidoni S]

I remember terraforming stations from the first released version. They were removed pretty early, by Utopia at the latest. I have no idea why there's one in the Plantoids pack.

 

[Daedwartin]

I remember terraforming stations from the first released version. They were removed pretty early, by Utopia at the latest. I have no idea why there's one in the Plantoids pack.

Because plantoids were released before terraforming stations stopped being used.

 

[Ryika]

Yep. Terraforming Stations were removed in 1.3, Plantoids was released during the lifetime of 1.2.

@Topic:
I don't know how the game restricts access to ship sets specifically (or however they're actually called), but generally when people re-use DLC-content, they just set the same limitations that are active in the DLC itself. If there's a "host_has_dlc = XYZ" tag that you can make use of somewhere in the process, then that will probably be enough, judging by how things are commonly done.

I don't think there are any official guidelines on things like this though, or if they are, I haven't been able to find them.