Editing Empire Descriptions?

[Hubologist]

Suicide Junkie said:
Hang on a sec tho...

You should NOT muck with the stock files; that'll break most other mods.

Instead, create a modfolder.
If you have a \pictures\races folder present in your mod, then only the shipsets in there will show up as options in game.

Ahh, okay; thanks for the tip, and the link.

I've found a number of different directories for ship sets already (and have been pleasantly surprised by how good most of them are), but a consolidated source should prove convenient.

[Suicide Junkie]

Shipsets will always be in pictures\races. Otherwise they won't work.

Each modfolder gets to have a directory tree which looks just like the stock tree. Although there are some minimum requirements, almost anything not overridden by a file in the mod will be loaded from the stock game.

[Hubologist]

Suicide Junkie said:
Shipsets will always be in pictures\races. Otherwise they won't work.

Oh, ah... by "directories", I meant the various different Web sites and such that host or link to various different ship sets. Sorry about the confusing terminology.

Each modfolder gets to have a directory tree which looks just like the stock tree. Although there are some minimum requirements, almost anything not overridden by a file in the mod will be loaded from the stock game.

Yeah, I've been reading up on mod folders, and apparently everything but the Data folder can be loaded from the stock game.

A little more reading and tinkering around, and I shouldn't have any problems creating a mod with the empires I want to use in it. Although it's worth mentioning that the only thing I'd intended to tamper with were the race ships and portrait images (not any actual data or file names, just the visual appearance of images).

[Suicide Junkie]

The simplest thing to do is just have a mostly-empty \data folder, with just settings.txt in it. You don't need all the files.

BTW, you don't need to shop around for shipsets if you grab the shipset megapack linked below; it has hundreds and hundreds of them.