LOL. Will you think before posting just for a second. I was working on the Total Realism mod for EAW. Yep realism based on Star Wars films. For inctence removing stupid units such as arty units for rebels or making Storm troopers a dreadfull land force and not just a a meat for a grinder. Or even adding more dramatic effect to the space combats. We released 3 versions of our mod and then some memebers left for steiner modding group while others left AoW 2 mod.

Now the main difference between Sins and EAW is that Sins were implemented with idea of making the game easy to mode therefor everything is or almost everything is changeable to some extent. In EAW almost everything was hard coded. For exemple when we wanted to add repair ability to droned and force repairs on fleets after engagement we were told that it isn't possible because it was hard coded.

When we tryed to imporve the AI and force it to past tec level 1 we were unable because some of main AI functions were again hard coded and just to make things laughable when we wanted to modify the engine glow of starships the lead artist told us that they hard coded that thing too.

So what was the point of the EAW. It sucked just like UAW sucks and like C&C sucks.

Sorry but you can't blame the community for making announcements because we were promised moding tools and continious support only to find out that most interesting things were requiring the access to the code source itself in order to be moded or implemented.


P.S.

For converting to different formats you can always use deep explorer. It converts to every existing file format for 3d and 2d.

i am new to modding but i dont know how to add my own ships.
can anyone help me here?

Um.

Alright so if you wanted to have modular mods, couldn't you just have users copy the new files into the old Mod folder and VOILA, it would just add to the existing mod files/overwrite old files and it would work fine.

The problem with actual version of the game is that you need all files from a foldder that the file is in. For instence if you chenge lets say gameplay.constants whihc is in the gameinfo follder you need to copy entire folder not just that single file in your mod directory.

Final Package up anytime?

Any chance we could get the non Binary version of the 1.03 patch files so we can update/create mod's using the latest versions of the files?

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Nice mod set! And I DO thank you.

Would it be possible to have a Q&A session or section with Developers sometime relating to what can and cannot be done with the core game engine and supporting files?

What's the word on the final mod tools? Are they still coming?

I too want the full version of the mod tools, and sooner than later if possible.
Building mods of huge size, let alone merging mods together, is a huge task.
Most moddable games come with a separate program that allows you to mod it. I am hoping that this is what we have all bee waiting for. Also, the ability to get around the hard coded limits. They are so annoying, and really limit the game's potential.

DANMAN