Research

What exactly do you need to do with it? It's actually pretty simple, so if you post what you're wanting to do, I can help you out.

Thanks for the offer Annatar11. The thing that I am wanting to do is add the pirate gauss cannon to the tec research tree as a separate defense platform that can be added later in the game. I don't want to replace the original tec platform but add to it. I saw your notes on how to add the phase gate to the tec tree for another user, would it be done in a similar fashion? Thank you for the help.

Question: Do I need to use the convertdata.exe file to convert the txt files that I edit to a standard entity file, and if I do how do I do that. Thanks again.

Yep, basically exactly the same way. You can just make a copy of the gauss platform, modify its stats to whatever you want and save it as a different planetmodule file. In the file you'll also see references to the name and description that the infocards will show in-game (starts with IDS_ ). These are located in the english.str file in the Strings folder. You can search the string file for that line (it'll probably be IDS_PLANETMODULE_GAUSSDEFENSE_NAME or something similar) to see how it's done and add your own for your module, then just point it to use those strings.

You'll have to create a new researchsubject file also, you can probably use any military structure unlock one as a base (hangar, repair platform, etc). In there you can change the tier, costs, and location in the tree. For locations, the "first" starts at 0, so the top-left most research that can exist is block 0, pos [0,0].

Then you'd add that researchsubject as a research requirement to your planetmodule, and add both the planetmodule and the research subjects to the TEC's build list and tech list, respectively



You don't need to if you don't want to, it's supposed to speed up loading times a little bit if the game reads straight from binary. But either will work fine. I don't remember the exact syntax, but it's in the beginning tutorial pdf in the modpack

Thanks Annatar11, I will be giving my changes a test run in a little while. Thanks for all the help.

Welcome! Feel free to post back if something doesn't work