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Gandalf Parker November 8th, 2004 05:10 PM

Re: New SE4 Total ConVersion Mod \"SMod\" open on PB
 
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spoon said:
Pointless? I think it's cool. (Speaking as someone who is generally too lazy to download shipsets - it is nice to have them all in one place...) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

True enough but I had already added mega amounts of shipsets, and gone back to delete (actually moved to a temp dir) all of the ones causing errors. Ive been considering going back and tackling minor edits to get more of them to work but I cant seem to do that without wanting to actually look at each change to try and make it fit the race. Not just copy default files into each one. I cant believe that I might be the first one to offer a large AI load in a zipfile which will work in SEIV gold.

Fyron November 8th, 2004 06:19 PM

Re: New SE4 Total ConVersion Mod \"SMod\" open on PB
 
The SE4 Companion by Ruatha can convert pre-gold AIs to Gold compatibility... no need to do it by hand.

Snorky November 9th, 2004 03:53 PM

Re: New SE4 Total ConVersion Mod \"SMod\" open on PB
 
Nice to see other opinions, thanks Spoon. I will see what should be fixed by playing the actual game. But I already fixed the Vacuum advantage. The little tool now shows me everything is balanced, but the Vacuum's which are a little bit worse. The patch will be released later. For the actual game it's too late to fix and will only cause trouble.

I am sorry, but I don't get the AI to work properly. I tried, but I don't understand the AI-files and the AI doesn't do much in a normal SMod game. With some techs the AI will do a little bit more, but I don't get it right. So all I can say is that the AI is not included. I put the default AI settings in the Races and RaceGeneric directories for people who wants to add their own ship sets. They can use these files for their ship sets. I used them for every race I shipped with the mod and they don't produce any errors with me. Who wants to include a bunch of sets can use ai_file_copy.bat for copying the default AI files to the directories. This little batch file copies each file which starts with "Default_" to each subdirectory. It also replaces the "Default_" string with the name of the ship set directory. This should help much, but be aware, it will overwrite every existing AI file in all subdirectories.

Fyron November 9th, 2004 05:13 PM

Re: New SE4 Total ConVersion Mod \"SMod\" open on PB
 
Perhaps provide a second Version of the mod download without any shipsets then? There are plenty of Users out there with a lot of those shipsets already, so downloading them again is a waste of time and bandwidth, especially if they will not even work with the mod as AI races...

Snorky November 11th, 2004 05:51 AM

Re: New SE4 Total ConVersion Mod \"SMod\" open on PB
 
The deadline for joining the game will be november the 22nd.


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