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Adding a sixth capital ship type

November 21, 2008 1:37:16 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

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Found it... forgot to add the entry to the player entities.

Now if I can only learn how to make ship models...

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I'm trying to add a sixth capital ship to each race, but can't seem to get its icon to appear in the HUD.  I've added the necessary files as far as I can tell.

If there's anyone who's done this, I'd appreciate the help.

Thanks

 

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Reply #1 November 21, 2008 1:45:15 PM
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I haven't tried with the 1.1 stuff.. have you added it to the build list? I would assume they made it so it's automatic..

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Reply #2 November 21, 2008 1:49:58 PM
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Where is the build list?

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Reply #3 November 21, 2008 1:52:16 PM
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In each PlayerRace.entity file, for example this is from PlayerTech.entity:

capitalShipInfo
  Page:0
   count 5
   entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP"
   entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHCARRIER"
   entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHCOLONY"
   entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHSUPPORT"
   entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHSIEGE"

To add the 6th, in theory all you should need is set the count to 6, and add another entityDefName using the name of your new capital ship's entity file.

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Reply #4 November 21, 2008 2:00:38 PM
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Thanks.

Off topic, know any good XSI tutorials for ABSOLUTE NOOBS?  I just stare and drool when I look at that application.  Don't think I could model a cube.

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Reply #5 November 21, 2008 2:02:18 PM
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rofl progressbar,  i share your pain....

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Reply #6 November 21, 2008 2:07:38 PM
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Quoting ProgressBar,
reply 4
Thanks.

Off topic, know any good XSI tutorials for ABSOLUTE NOOBS?  I just stare and drool when I look at that application.  Don't think I could model a cube.

Their website has some video tutorials last time I checked, take a look:

http://www.softimage.com/products/modtool/

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Reply #7 November 21, 2008 2:14:01 PM
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Another couple questions about Capital Ship modding...

Can you prevent a type of capital ship from being built as your first free one?

Can they have research prerequisites?

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Reply #8 November 21, 2008 2:21:44 PM
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Quoting ProgressBar,
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Another couple questions about Capital Ship modding...

Can you prevent a type of capital ship from being built as your first free one?

Can they have research prerequisites?

Yes and yes.

The free capital is actually toggled in the map (don't ask me why ), look for isFirstCapitalShipIsFlagship TRUE and set it to FALSE, it's right on top.

Prereqs are pretty easy to, each ship entity has:

Prerequisites
 NumResearchPrerequisites 0

or with a research pre-req (for a Kodiak):

Prerequisites
 NumResearchPrerequisites 1
 ResearchPrerequisite
  Subject "RESEARCHSUBJECT_FRIGATEACCESS_HEAVYTECH"
  Level 1

Same can be done for capitals.

 

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Reply #9 November 22, 2008 8:38:19 AM
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It all worked great until I had a mini-dump after about an hour of gameplay.  Both the AI and I used them just fine... not sure what happened.

Also the isFirstCapitalShipIsFlagship flag disables ALL free first cap ships.  I want to enable/disable just specific cap ship types as freebies.

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Reply #10 November 22, 2008 8:52:31 AM
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It all worked great until I had a mini-dump after about an hour of gameplay. Both the AI and I used them just fine... not sure what happened.

Go to your user.setting file in the Settings follder and at the very bottom, change showErrors to TRUE. Instead of a generic minidump message, it will give you a detailed error stating which file and which line caused the crash, if it was mod-related. It's an amazing way to debug mods.

Also the isFirstCapitalShipIsFlagship flag disables ALL free first cap ships. I want to enable/disable just specific cap ship types as freebies.

Sorry, this isn't possible All or nothing.

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Reply #11 November 23, 2008 7:30:24 PM
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can you post a list of all the necessary files you modded to make this happen?

I am very interested in this also.

thanks.

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Reply #12 November 25, 2008 2:00:02 AM
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nevermind, figured out how to do it, have it done.

one nagging problem: icon buttons, other than that, wasn't too bad.

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