mod help plz

[kenster9119]

hi all,hope u can help,
im trying to make a new mod,just single player for now really untill i learn more,i can allready add ships to my chosen race but thats a bit unfair,and i can add components and other simple stuff,but how do i add a whole new race and get the comp to use them against me,does anyone know of any step by step tutorials to get me started,
thanks.

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, its actually much easier to create a multiplayer-only mod, rather than a single player mod.
That way, you can forget about the AIs, and just forge a universe without them holding you back.

I'm not much of an AI modder myself, but I'm sure one of them will be along shortly to give out some pointers.

[JLS]

Kenster, are you modding an AI Player for stock se4 or are you creating a whole new environment and adjusting an AI to fit that environment?

[kenster9119]

i started out just adding new ships from the ship sets u can get cos when i built the base ship it just wasnt big enough for me.lol.so i added new ships to the terran dir for myself and made the ships the size i wanted,but then i thought it wasnt very fair,so i want to add ships for the comp players to use but when i placed a new ship in their dir like the Eee for ex it didnt work,and also ive added tons of new research to my game,does the comp research and also use the new stuff ive added to the componenets folder

[ July 26, 2004, 22:46: Message edited by: kenster9119 ]

[kenster9119]

Originally posted by JLS:
Kenster, are you modding an AI Player for stock se4 or are you creating a whole new environment and adjusting an AI to fit that environment?

sorry bud but i dont know what any of that means.lol

im only modding the game cos its very similar to a game called freelancer which i used to mod and most ofit is easy to understand.MOST.lol

[Suicide Junkie]

Ok, lets see...

First, you added some new pictures, and a vehicle size to match.
The Eee image didn't work for you... my first thought there is you may have not changed the racename at the beginning of the filename to read "EEE_" instead of "Terran_"

1) As for the AI using the ship hulls you created, if the tonnage is within the range of the existing ships, they'll use one of the existing design patterns.
Otherwise, you'll need to go into the AI_designCreation.txt and copy a blueprint to use for your really big ship hulls.

2) The AI research plan is found in AI_research.txt, just add an entry for new tech area name in the right order for when you want them to research it relative to the other existing techs.

3) What the AI will actually use depends on what its design blueprints call for, and what facilities it is told to build in the text files.