Start-Planets

There is an option for when you're choosing the type of planet in a particular cluster to be Desert- Home.

Technically, you can set any planet to be a home planet. Just set IsHomePlanet to True in the Ownership tab. Be warned, planets other than TerranHome and DesertHome may have planet bonuses on them, this is the only difference between them and the stock planets.

I need the name of the files where i can edit?

There are no files to edit...  When you're in the galaxy forge, select the planet, in the toolbox, pick the planet type you want the planet to be, there is a section called Ownership with two items under it.  IsHomePlanet and Owner.  Set IsHomePlanet to True like Lavo_2 already said, but you also have to set the Owner to one of the players.

I know how to handle galaxy forge its very simple, but if you read my first posting i want know how to change it in the _Map Designer_ and for that changing i must edit a entity file, but which is the question.

Well, you can't do custom with the map designer...  The only way around it I think would be to switch the names of the  PlanetDesertHome.entity and PlanetTerranHome.entity files and see if that works.

I thought of the correct way to fix it just after I shut my PC down last night after answering this...  Soooooo, yeah, here you go.

You need to go to your map designer folder after you've created your map and search out the galaxy files you want to change.  Open them up with something like wordpad.  Near the tops you will see this section:

randomizerParams
    starPosOffsetRange
        minPercentage 10.0
        maxPercentage 15.0
    playerParams
        startingCredits 3000
        startingMetal 800
        startingCrystal 250   
        homePlanetType "TerranHome"
        homePlanetStarRadiusRange
            minPercentage 1
            maxPercentage 1.1   
        areExtraPlanetsColonized FALSE
        extraPlanetsMaxRadius 15
        extraPlanetsRadiusRange
            minPercentage 0.9
            maxPercentage 1.0       
        extraPlanetGroupCount 2
        extraPlanetGroup
            minCount 1
            maxCount 1
            planetTypeCount 1
            planetType "Asteroid"
        extraPlanetGroup
            minCount 1
            maxCount 1
            planetTypeCount 1
            planetType "RandomIceVolcanic"

Change TerranHome to DesertHome (Green Line).  Depending on if you run any mods, you can also change the Asteroid (Yellowish line) and RandomIceVolcanic (Light Purple line) to other more sought after types as well as adding more types (Red line number changed followed by a copy and paste of all of the purple the appropriate amount of times) ensuring you know what your closest whatever number would be.

Well the easiest way to do it would be to change all HomeTerran planets to point to a different type of planet. This would effect all maps where the HomeTerran planet is used, including the map designer, but you could just turn this feature on or off with a mod.

To do that find this in the galaxysenariodef file.

planetType
    designName "TerranHome"
    designStringId "IDSGalaxyScenarioTypePlanetTerranHome"
    orbitBodyTypeCount 1
    orbitBodyType "TerranHome" #Change to the planet (defined in orbit body type section) of your choice.

Are you sure the Random maps have anything to do with the built in map designer?

I had edited and changed that while you were typing yours up. 

I was looking at one of the random maps to pull the info from and then just lost focus and went off on a tangent so to speak.

great thx! helped me very much!