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Design Messages -- moddable?

We are all familiar with these msgs that prevent you from creating a design.

Is there a list of these somewhere?

More importantly, can these be added to or customized? I ask because I want to mod a component that can only be installed in a minimum hull size and requires a heavy wep mount. The simplest (and worse) solution is to make it of a size so that it can't fit; not good.

Doable?

[ August 11, 2002, 15:40: Message edited by: Elowan ]

Re: Design Messages -- moddable?

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Originally posted by Elowan:
We are all familiar with these msgs that prevent you from creating a design.

Is there a list of these somewhere?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Those are the results of entries in VehicleSizes.txt; the entry that defines the hullsize itself, also defines how many life support and crew quarters are needed, as well as defining wether or not the ship needs a bridge, if it CAN have an auxiliary control or not, what percent of the ship needs to be spent on colony, cargo, fighter-bay, etc components.

And some components can be set as "one per ship only".

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More importantly, can these be added to or customized? I ask because I want to mod a component that can only be installed in a minimum hull size and requires a heavy wep mount. The simplest (and worse) solution is to make it of a size so that it can't fit; not good.

Doable?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I don't believe -components- can be given a requirement such as minimum hull size, beyond the size of the component itself. Nor can components be required to use a specific mount, AFAIK anyway.

Re: Design Messages -- moddable?

"I don't believe -components- can be given a requirement such as minimum hull size, beyond the size of the component itself. Nor can components be required to use a specific mount, AFAIK anyway."

Wait til the next patch, then do this:

-restrict the mount to the correct hull size (compenhancements.txt)
-restrict the mount to ONLY that component (needs next patch)
-make the mount *reduce the component's size*
-now make the component HUGE, so huge that no ship can use it without using the mount. Instant required mount.

Phoenix-D

Re: Design Messages -- moddable?

Quote:

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"I don't believe -components- can be given a requirement such as minimum hull size, beyond the size of the component itself. Nor can components be required to use a specific mount, AFAIK anyway."

Wait til the next patch, then do this:

-restrict the mount to the correct hull size (compenhancements.txt)
-restrict the mount to ONLY that component (needs next patch)
-make the mount *reduce the component's size*
-now make the component HUGE, so huge that no ship can use it without using the mount. Instant required mount.

Phoenix-D

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I can hardly wait! But can you set the size (percentage) of the reduction? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ August 11, 2002, 20:54: Message edited by: Elowan ]

Re: Design Messages -- moddable?

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Yes.

Phoenix-D

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wowser!!