Project missing files needed to build

[matthewpaul-us]

The problem

The project as it exists on Github is missing files required to make it work. The ones I've replaced so far are below, but there may be others.

1. res://assets/blackhole/blackhole2D.gdshader
2. res://assets/bodies/planet_rotating.gdshader
3. res://assets/outline_ship.gdshader
4. res://assets/planets/aura shader edited.gdshader
5. res://assets/planets/planet_noise_procedural.gdshader
6. res://assets/outline.gdshader

Godot Version: v4.5.1.stable.official [f62fdbde1]

Workaround

Replace the files missing with similar ones. Some can be found on the web. Some were in the repo and then removed. Some I was able to use different shaders in the project.

[Zireael07]

I don't think I've tried running the project on 4.5.1 ;)

That's weird. What is the latest commit before the shaders went missing?

And what do you mean they can be found on the web?

[matthewpaul-us]

Haha fair enough. I was poking around the code with my default editor XD

Which version of Godot did you last use for this project? I saw the commit to bring it up to Godot 4, but didn't see which version specifically. I can download whichever version was used just to make sure it's not an issue there. I know the engine changed how it used certain files between 4.0 and 4.5.

For at least one file (Zylann's blackhole shader), I searched it on the web and found a copy.

It looks like most of them disappeared in commit 921f692. Godot 4 renamed .shader files to .gdshader (the proposal is here: godotengine/godot-proposals#2488). Could it be that those files weren't added back in post-conversion? Here's which shaders were deleted in that commit.

[Zireael07]

I think I was on 4.1 when I did the conversion. It's entirely possible that the conversion did in fact goof up and/or that I missed uploading the files post-conversion. (The project is kinda a forever WIP, with a lot of changes tracked but not committed in my working folder, as I try out various ideas)

[matthewpaul-us]

I played around with it once I got the build working. I think that you've done a great job on building out the bones similar to Stellar Frontier. I guess this would be a great time to ask if you'd like someone else submitting PRs to this project. I'm happy to hack on it as well. For instance, some of the HUD didn't have a ton of space, so I started rewriting portions of it.

Is this a project you would like to have collaborators?