BBB Coolest Exocraft Ever - Open Air Roamer (4 Fishing n GR8 4 VR) v1.0

AUTHOR = BigBuffaloBill

FIRST THINGS FIRST: 
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Be advised this mod will impact not just the Roamer exocraft but potenially all the exocraft. The reason is that the one file modified to make this mod possible is a shared file between several exocraft (to be perfectly honest I have not loaded up every seperate craft so I do not have the full list affected at this time. It may be "all of them". And what it will do is open up the view by hiding interior parts as intended for this mod, but in contrast it will not necessarily be *as effective* as this mod because it will only remove the shared parts. This mod focussed on the Roamer took much more work than just that much. If any of this is an issue for you, well, I hope you love this mod but it could be that is not for you. :) 
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That said, this mod hides internal and external parts and moves the exit handles slightly to open up the cockpit of the Roamer exocraft in 1st person view. This allows driving the craft with a wide open view as if on an open motorcycle or personal watercraft, without line of sight blocked by anything or feeling so cramped. 

The techniques for this mod were roughly similar as to what I did for my Wonder Woman Starship Mod (https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3157). However the inspiration and use for this one is completely different. For this mod I really wanted a drivable boat for fishing, so I could ride around on the water and find fishing spots this way, and then cast a line in right from the boat. This mod allows exactly this! But also I am estonished at how much it COMPLETELY transforms the feel of the Roamer in general from a tight, cramped vehicle you...me anyway...want to use if needed real quickly and then get out of the thing, to where now I use the Roamer just as often as a starship for planet exploration!

It's great in VR because we are forced to 1st person no matter what and a mod like this is a game changer for us, but I BELIEVE THIS MAY BE MY FIRST GENERAL PURPOSE MOD, because if you do want to explore the planet from a craft,isn't part of the point and the emersion feel of using a craft especially on the surface of a planet, that you want to drive the vehicle from inside of it like you would in real life? So now if you want that level of immersion even on a flat screen, on land AND water, you no longer have to have your view obstructed or feel all cramped up! It's just much more like a motorcycle or a wetbike than a tank or a racecar feel where you are strapped in and constricted even while you are inside, driving the vehicle.

So I use the Roamer now as a personal fishing boat, and I will explain the method as well as provide video here, and I ALSO use this for exploring planets from ground level. It is FUN to ride around on an open air vehicle that can ride on land AND water, and on water it is purely flat and smooth so if you want that, you can look for planets with Rivers and Lakes and lots of waterways between land masses, besides just the ocean, and you can just about use water ways like streets! I also run a mod that speeds up exocrafts so I can zip along pretty quickly. Not really a time penalty in that way. And it really feels like I'm on a wetbike or a jetski except completely smooth!

So what you do for fishing...man it's just so great! I am not kidding. You ride around until you find spots. While on the water (I find it's got to be at least a foot deep or it treats it as land on exit) you exit Roamer and on the water it puts you up on top of the craft just like if you exit a starship parked on water. Now from on top of the craft you can pull out your fishing rod (I also run my mod that allows farther casts), turn 360 degrees any direction and cast. When you are done with that spot you can you can look down and interact with the cockpit and you are right back in the craft ready to drive to the next spot!

I meantioned two mods that I like along with this one. One is mine. The other is from another author:

BBB Cast Your Fishing Line Far Plus-4 VR: https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3182
Exocraft speed x3 by TwistedViking (and the speed can by customized with simple changes to the Lua file): https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2699

There are two seperate flavors of this mod. One allows MAXIMUM open air with a tradeoff that more of the external of the craft had to be removed including the main body of the craft. The other flavor maintains the body and rollcage (interior) of the craft and just removes the top canopy, so it "looks" more normal from the outside, but has more obstructed visibility when inside driving the craft. It is just a matter of your preference. Both, otherwise, maintain ALL aspects of original functionality. This mod ONLY affects the way the craft LOOKs. All that said, files included in the zip for this mod. You should end up picking and using just ONE of these four files for final use:

BBB Coolest Exocraft Ever - Open Air Roamer WITH Rollcage.lua
BBB Coolest Exocraft Ever - Open Air Roamer WITH Rollcage.pak
BBB Coolest Exocraft Ever - Open Air Roamer WITHOUT Rollcage.lua
BBB Coolest Exocraft Ever - Open Air Roamer WITHOUT Rollcage.pak

Pak and/or Lua require standard use. 

If you use a Pak and try to use any other such that affect files:

COCKPITCHAIR.SCENE.MBIN
BIKEPRES.SCENE.MBIN
BIKECOCKPIT.SCENE.MBIN
 
...you will get conflicts and not all of the offending mods will express themselves as working within the game. Using a Lua file with the option to "combine" (standard practice) will avoid this and allow the other mods to coexist with this one.