Adding a sixth capital ship type

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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... :rolleyes:

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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 from Sins Forums Top

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 #3 from Sins Forums Top

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.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

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.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

rofl progressbar,  i share your pain....

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

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

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

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

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?

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting ProgressBar, reply 7
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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Yes and yes.

The free capital is actually toggled in the map (don't ask me why :P), 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.

 

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

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.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

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.
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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.
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Sorry, this isn't possible :( All or nothing.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

can you post a list of all the necessary files you modded to make this happen?

I am very interested in this also.

thanks.

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

nevermind, figured out how to do it, have it done.

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