HIDEOUT BUILDING FEEDBACK

Felt the need to bump since many ideas here are still not implemented.

can we get like a external hideout editing software while we're at it? or does it already exist?

i know that POE isnt the sims, but the built in hideout editor simply doesnt cut it.

we have to have our character in the map and what we see is constrained by the character's position. we cant "move the camera" like in rts games.

Bumpie.

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Added feedback bingo card and a list of confirmed bugs.

HIDEOUT FEEDBACK CARD:



SOME OF THE CURRENTLY KNOWN HIDEOUT BUGS:
* Hideout Import Crashing. Reported here:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3509553
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3500733
* Lighting in some hideouts seems way off (all the new MTX bases are way overexposed). Reported here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3454561
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3414164
* Water objects glitch in Atlas Hideout (and water looks black). Reported here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3340509
* Triskelion Flame Decoration (bugged animation). Reported here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3430317
* Angelic Environmental Effect (turned transparent, used to be opaque). Reported here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3406865
* Scourge Hideout Decoration in Enigma Hideout (only applies to one of the layers). Reported here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3496494
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3474248
* Elemancer's Totem with Scourge Hideout Decoration. Reported here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3524200
* Scourge Hideout Decoration not working properly in Exilecon 2023 Hideout. Reported here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3438733
* Morbid Hideout is inaccessible. Reported here:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3498583
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3498974
* Hideout Music Tracks not looping (play once and stop). Affected tracks: Breach (can confirm personally), Shaper's Realm, Celestial Nebula. Reported here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3386478
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3340364
* All At Sea hideout decoration bugs (Sand Tracks no longer show at all). From our discord: https://prnt.sc/6_XjNzcjG708

Hope this gets some more traction!

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exsea wrote:

can we get like a external hideout editing software while we're at it? or does it already exist?

i know that POE isnt the sims, but the built in hideout editor simply doesnt cut it.

we have to have our character in the map and what we see is constrained by the character's position. we cant "move the camera" like in rts games.

I'm genuinely surprised this doesn't exist yet, given that players have access to our own locally saved hideout files. Some other app which directly edits those files doesn't sound impossible, and I can't imagine it's any kind of ToS violation.

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ARealLifeCaribbeanPirate wrote:

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exsea wrote:

can we get like a external hideout editing software while we're at it? or does it already exist?

i know that POE isnt the sims, but the built in hideout editor simply doesnt cut it.

we have to have our character in the map and what we see is constrained by the character's position. we cant "move the camera" like in rts games.

I'm genuinely surprised this doesn't exist yet, given that players have access to our own locally saved hideout files. Some other app which directly edits those files doesn't sound impossible, and I can't imagine it's any kind of ToS violation.

For sure. A service like that is comparable to PoB and Filterblade. Someone savvy enough just has to go through a huge effort to load all the assets into what essentially is a 3d modeller that outputs a .hideout file the game can work with.

The hideout files themselves are readable so recreating the format shouldn't be that much trouble. Example:

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Rock Formation = { Hash=940588437, X=448, Y=678, Rot=62724, Flip=0, Var=3 }

So we have hash, x/y position, rotation, variation and whether the asset is flipped or not.

Would just have to find out where to get the hashes from and create the modeller I guess.

Still a buttload of work

Throwing in my support here.

I didn't expect to find myself wanting to create hideouts, but it's something I've found myself enjoying recently.

Pretty much everything in the OP post I agree with and would love to see in some shape or form. The biggest sticklers for me so far:

- Undo/Redo would save a lot of headaches

- The lack of any walls in the base set of decorations is frustrating and a large limiting factor

- MTX Walls/Building Supplies being 40-60 points for a single piece is way too expensive. I'm willing to put money into the game, but am not enticed to put anything towards hideout decorations when $60 is only going to get me enough walls for one or two small rooms of a single theme

- Scale and/or Z-Axis (height) freedom would open up a lot of creative possibilities

Would be great to hear some PoE2 plans regarding hideouts, how new graphical assets are going to fit in and compatibility with PoE .hideout imports.