Proportions + Devnull + special ingredients = Derek's Mod Gold

[Rollo]

Originally posted by Derek:
...One thing going in will be some changes to monsters; it is rather embarrassing to be the creator of a mod, and have part of your mod killing you consistently. My excuse is that Rollo actually made the space monsters, I merely included them.

Derek

Yeah, monsters are pretty tough aren't they. In Devnull Mod missiles work well against them, but you toned them down in your mod (no offense, just banter).
I agree that monsters need some modifications and the new Version is almost ready (next weekend, I suppose).

Rollo

[Derek]

Here's the latest changes:

v 1.04 05/14/2002

Added in BuckyTube Gel Plating, courtesy of Suicide Junkie, from his P&N mods. Also added in 'BuckyTube Engineering' tech area, to complement it.

Messed with the AI over the weekend. It still needs work.

Raised Monster Tech to 250k (from 200k) because the monsters are still kicking my butt when I play it....that'll show 'em!

Cleaned up a number of minor things

v 1.03 05/11/2002

Changed the combat to hit modifer per square from 10 to 5; I wanted long distance weapons to have a reasonable chance of hitting

Changed population mass from 1000 to 500; while I like the Proportions model, I wanted it to be a bit faster, especcially in moving people around

I would be posting v 1.04 today, but, no uploads on the board. When the uploads are working, I'll post it.

Derek

[Tnarg]

I'm trying to use a downloaded ship set. Do I just extract the image files into the pictures folder of Derek's Mod, or everyhting or what? I have never quite been able to use other ship sets in other peoples mod. I need someone to write "Modding for Dummies" Thanks.

[Suicide Junkie]

You want the shipset's files to end up in the following place:

c:\...\se4\"modname"\pictures\races\"coolshipset"\"coolshipset"_cruiser_portrait.bmp

Where the items in quotes should be changed appropraitely for the shipset and mod.

[Tnarg]

Suicide Junkie, um, I don't know how I really did it, but it seems to work. I extracted the ship set, SWemp1 into only Derek's Mod folder. I didn't do anything other than that.

I loaded up a game to see if they were there and they were. Might I be expecting some crashes in the future because I extracted this way? Thanks.

[Tnarg]

Oops, one Last thing, Derek mentioned that the mod update is done, just not available for uploading on this formum. Is it available to upload somewhere else. Thanks

[Derek]

Well, here you go. The latest Version, v1.04 is up.

Located here

Derek