Is there a flowchart, list, venn diagram for modding

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People (myself included) are running into issues when modding the game and I was wondering if anyone has put together a list of what you need to change and in what locations to accomplish X?

Example, I wanted to add minimal shielding to a Trade Port.  After changing the maxshield value and getting nothing out of it, someone was helpful enough to remind me that I have to change the shield restore value, makes sense but I still don't understand how you have to have a shield restore value to have initial shield poiints.   

Now apparently I am risking a system crash if I don't do something with a Mesh file?  No idea.


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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
There's way too many things that can be changed requiring other things to be changed, so making something like this would take a very long time and would be pretty complex.

As far as shields, it's not too bad:

Buildings when constructed don't start with full shields, so even if you give them a max shield value they start at 0/max, and if they don't have shield recharge set they'll stay at 0 until something else recharges them.

Now, having shields also means that a weapon now has to do damage to shields, and since the game knows it's doing damage to shields, it needs to draw the shield impact, and for that it needs the unit/structure to have the shield mesh. So if you didn't set one it'll try looking for it and if it doesn't exist, game goes oops :P

If you have questions, feel free to post and myself and others can try to answer them as best as we can, but there probably won't be a complete listing of how to change everything for a while.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I guess I was confused because ships come out with full shields (are there any buildings that have shields, I didn't think there were?) so I was expecting buildings to act the same way :)

The people on the boards have been great and extremely helpful, there are just so many times in a day that I want to admit how much of a moron I am to the free world :)

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
That threw me off for a while too, I guess because constructing buildings is somehow treated different than building ships, I've not found anything that can get a building started with full shields, and I tried too.

One of those things ;)