Modding SEV Thread Questions

Kamog · #1 October 9th, 2006, 02:25 PM

If you put an ability such as resource generation on a component, and put the component on a ship, will the ability continue to operate if you mothball the ship?

Barnacle Bill · #2 October 11th, 2006, 06:17 AM

What governs the availability of an empire to include in a new game?

I created a mod for my own preferences (essentially just settings.txt) and basically copied the Terrans to a new name. OK, I start a new game with my mod and run some cheat codes to look at the state of the galaxy - all the usual suspects are there, even though I did not copy them to the "Empires" folder in my mod. That's not really a problem for what I want to do (except maybe I'd like to turn off the Terrans until I've made my own flags, etc...), but what if I was doing a Star Trek mod or something where I didn't want the stock SE races in the game? Is there a way to turn them off in a mod without editing the standard SE data structure?

Also, one of the neutral empires turned up with the same flag as the Terran one that I'm using (temporarily) on my race. Doesn't it check to see if a flag is already in use?

Captain Kwok · #3 October 11th, 2006, 08:04 AM

The flag problem was corrected in a patch after the version 1.00 build.

The modinfo.txt file included with a mod can specify whether the default empires are added or not.

Q · #4 October 11th, 2006, 08:24 AM

What are the minimum files needed for a mod in SE V?
Just the data files?

Captain Kwok · #5 October 11th, 2006, 09:41 AM

You need a 192x192 image (can just copy the standard one) along with a modinfo.txt file. For the data files, you just need to include the ones you have modified.

Q · #6 October 11th, 2006, 10:14 AM

Excellent, so you can easily create test-Mods, where you only change a few items.
Thank you for you answer Kwok.

Kana · #7 October 11th, 2006, 04:35 PM

Quote:

Captain Kwok said:
You need a 192x192 image (can just copy the standard one) along with a modinfo.txt file. For the data files, you just need to include the ones you have modified.

What image? Whats it do?

Phoenix-D · #8 October 11th, 2006, 04:40 PM

Its just an icon that shows up when picking a game type in the main screen. You don't actually need it- if its not there SEV uses the default icon.

Captain Kwok · #9 October 11th, 2006, 04:40 PM

It's the image displayed when choosing "Game Type". If you don't include one it might just use the default but I've never tried it.