Neutral AIs

Xaren Hypr · #1 April 29th, 2003, 09:41 PM

I've been tinkering around with the races on my solo game, and I was wondering..can other AIs (other races I'm not using/AI files I'm fiddling with) be used in the RaceNeutral directory? I want to give some of the Neutrals I run into a bit of spice, and with the exception of not being able to leave their system, would they be able to use the various racial traits?

Also as a side question to this, would the Neutrals be able to use (properly named) shipsets other than the generic ones? Just for a bit of variety

QuarianRex · #2 April 29th, 2003, 10:01 PM

Yes on all counts. So long as you change the files in the appropriate folder (neutral 01, neutral 02, etc.) they can be modded just like any other race.

Taz-in-Space · #3 April 30th, 2003, 06:14 AM

Did the TDM Modpack boost the neutral races any?

If not, that would be a great addition.

Xaren Hypr · #4 April 30th, 2003, 08:14 AM

I don't know if it modified then or not, but I supplemented the existing Neutrals with a few races that I had downloaded a while back and wasn't using. I'm going to see how this plays out.

dogscoff · #5 April 30th, 2003, 10:09 AM

one of the neutrals already has its own custom shipset: Download Phoenix-D's Clukruk Republic from

http://www.sandman43.fsnet.co.uk/clukruk.htm

The are intended to be used as a non-neutral race, but there's nothing to stop you renaming the files and putting them in your pictures/raceneutral/neutral004 folder. It works, and they look really cool.

[ April 30, 2003, 09:11: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

JLS · #6 April 30th, 2003, 02:01 PM

If you want to see Neutrals, check out AST mod, Atrocities has 20 Neutrals, to complement his 20 Players, that is 40 Races; most if not all, with there own Ship Sets and AI files, I don�t know how this guy did it, but I now know, the work and the detail that his AST team put in this mod is Absolutely Unrivaled.

[ April 30, 2003, 13:09: Message edited by: JLS ]