No Mans Sky Base Builder

A plugin for Blender to build bases in No Mans Sky.

Key Features • Requirements • Installation & How To Use • Credits & Support • Screenshots • Community Showcase

Key Features

Build bases for No Mans Sky using proxy representations for building parts.
Translate, rotate and scale any base part to any position and any size!
Define presets to build complex items quickly. Share or download presets online.
Save and Load bases to disk (.json format).
Import and Export back and forth from the game using the No Mans Sky Save Editor.
Snapping features help with the placement of base parts. Similar to the snapping features in-game.
A Power and Logic UI panel helps manage electricity and switches.
An asset browser for searching and locating base parts.

No Mans Sky

Requirements

Latest Base Builder Release
- https://github.com/djmonkeyuk/nms-base-builder/releases
No Mans Sky Save Editor
- https://nomansskymods.com/mods/no-mans-sky-save-editor
Blender
- https://www.blender.org
The Latest Python 3 version.
- Install using Windows Store, or from https://www.python.org
bpy_externall addon. Installed and enabled in Blender.
- https://github.com/djmonkeyuk/bpy_externall/tree/blender4-patch

Installation and How To Use

Videos

Installation Video: https://youtu.be/TZKMGhNNFJQ
Getting started video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXcguoROM-A
How to use presets video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFIvRH5-S0I&t
How to do snapping video: https://youtu.be/1I3KDRiSTW8
How to manage power and electricity video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDascUR4NPA
Frontiers update and using the Asset Browser video : https://youtu.be/TZKMGhNNFJQ

Installation Steps

See video above for installation guide, otherwise follow these steps.

Download and install all the necessary requirements from the Requirements section.
Download the latest release. (https://github.com/djmonkeyuk/nms-base-builder/releases)
Open "User Preferences" in Blender.
Go to the Add-ons tab.
Click "Install Add-on from File..." at the bottom of the window.
Select the downloaded zip file.
Enable the Addon in the list.
In the right side panel of the viewport, click the "No Man's Sky" tab. If this is not visible then clicking the tiny triangle will expand the panel.

Preset Location

Presets are stored in your "%USERPROFILE%\NoMansSkyBaseBuilder\presets" directory. These can be downloaded and shared with other people.

View the Preset directory to downlaod and share your own creations. https://djmonkeyuk.github.io/nms-base-builder-presets/

Technical Dependencies

Casual users may ignore this section. These Python dependencies are installed automatically on exeuction of the Asset Browser UI.

PySide6
pyaml

Mod Compatibility

The tool is designed towards supporting the vanilla game as much as possible, however any additional base parts introduced by mods will display as cubes but will still be able to import/export to the game.

You can introduce your own OBJ's by adding them to your user directory folder. The layout for this should be...

%USERPROFILE%\NoMansSkyBaseBuilder\
- mods
- mod_name
  - models
  - category
    - MOD_WALLA.obj
    - MOD_WALLB.obj
  - category_b
    - MOD_FLOORA.obj
    - MOD_FLOORB.obj

The names of categories is up to the user.

The obj file name should reflect the name of the part in-game.

Credits & Support

Created and maintained by DjMonkey (@DancingMoonGame)

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