Well there are a couple things to do after the pictures are unzipped you have to put them in the SEIV\pictures\races folder in a folder named after the race inside for instance the United Flora race would be in a folder named UF because all the pictures in there are named UF_something. If you want to use them just to use as a player race thats all you have to do but if you want the computer to use them as an AI you need to add some files to the folder to tell the computer what racial traits you have, what type of planets to use and so on. UF is a good first start because Henk Brouwer the creater of that race has created a UF_AI_general.txt file that describes the race and gives the computer some info about it. Look at the origonal Races that came with the game to see the other files that can be used to further define your race. I usually try to pick the race that is closest to what I think the new race would be and copy and modify the files a bit to fit them.
Have fun there are a lot of interesting things that can be done to the files but I haven't tried too much yet since I am still too busy playing the game
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[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 24 November 2000).]