My very own mod (lol). Help?
 

Well, its not so much of a "mod" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

I just wanted to change the ship sizes to make them larger.

So I made a complete copy of the subdirectory, then edited the shipsizes.txt and made the ships bigger.

When I changed one, the game loaded ok.

When I changed them all, I get a "your a big fat dummy" message that the game can't load that file.

I thought it was ok to mess with this stuff, was I mistaken?

Re: My very own mod (lol). Help?
 

and a test of my new sig, while I wait for help...

Re: My very own mod (lol). Help?
 

It is ok to mod that file. Perhaps you made a typo? What kind of error message does it give you?

Have you looked at my Modding Tutorial? It might help you out a little.

Re: My very own mod (lol). Help?
 

The error is:

Unable to load datafile "c:\program files\shrapnel games\malfador machinations\space empires 4 mod\data\vehiclesize.txt"

I went back, overwrote that file with my copy of the original and carefully made the changes this time, same error.

I am making this ships MUCH bigger, they double in size for each bigger size. the DN is around 50,000. Is that just too big?

Re: My very own mod (lol). Help?
 

I forget what the absolute maximum is. Try not having any ship sizes larger than 50000. If that doesn't work, try 40000, then 30000. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif