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what program can I download (that's free), to open the entity file in the game. Note pad doesn't want to work for me.I have ver.1.17, and the entrenchment, and I like the star wars requiem mod. My platform is Vista! What I would like to do is increase the capship numbers, can someone help me!
You need to first convert the entity files into txt files. You can use Harpo's utility:
I got it that, thank you, but can I ask one more queistion? If I wanted to increase the number of capships in the game so I can start out have more caps, would you know the names of the files (in the gameinfo folder) in star wars Requirm - that would need to be modified? (please don't forget the line in the file that needs to be changed - I am so poor as a modder!)
RESEARCHSUBJECT_MAXCAPITALSHIPSPHASE1.entity to RESEARCHSUBJECT_MAXCAPITALSHIPSPHASE7.entity for vasari
RESEARCHSUBJECT_MAXCAPITALSHIPSPSI0.entity to RESEARCHSUBJECT_MAXCAPITALSHIPSPSI7.entity for advent
RESEARCHSUBJECT_MAXCAPITALSHIPSTECH0.entity to RESEARCHSUBJECT_MAXCAPITALSHIPSTECH7.entity for tec,
but you will also want to increasse the RESEARCHSUBJECT_MAXSHIPSLOTSrace#.entity's to allow for the increased cap ships
the names in requiem should be similar but with the race part different for each race. it is a good idea to give each race a similar bump otherwise it becomes a walk in the yard ie no challenge.
harpo
I must not being doing something right. The program turned Requiem gameinfo folder to text, but the file you say modify is not in the requiem folder, but in the sins gameinfo folder, and I can't get the program to convert that to txt.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Is there a specific place that harpo's utility needs to placed to convert the sins game folder?
copy the files to the requim folder, convert the folder and you should be able to edit them now. If you want to make mods in the future make a folder in the mod folder and copy the gameinfo folder to it, then convert it.
another file that can alter the quantities of ships/caps is the gameplay.constants, but it is in the sins folder, but can be copied to the mod's gameinfo folder
harpo
Would you know if there is a guide book that I can download to help me learn to modify the came to my liking? Say nake a mod of my own? Especially ship modifications, not much of anything else.
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