SEIV Modding 101: A Tutorial

Captain Kwok · #1 July 10th, 2002, 10:51 PM

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See people? This is what comes from being in the #se4 channel on the gamesnet.net IRC server. It's a good idea to go there once in a while.

Yep. See, people were complaiming that there was no complete tutorial or guide for modding. So I said "Hey Nodachi, why don't you make one yourself...?" - he got talking to Fyron and the Imperator took it upon himself to create this excellent document.

Fyron · #2 July 11th, 2002, 12:13 AM

Fyron · #3 July 11th, 2002, 05:13 AM

I wrote chapters 5-8 today, and uploaded them.

Enjoy!

Now, most of the basic files are covered. Except the specifics on the Abilities.txt. That's gonna take a while.

sparhawk · #4 July 11th, 2002, 03:40 PM

Nice work!!!!

Can't wait for the other chapters.

Sparhawk

Skulky · #5 July 12th, 2002, 06:12 AM

And if i may be so bold... When you finish this mamoth project how about a scenario tutorial possibly, from SJ instead?

capnq · #6 July 13th, 2002, 05:54 AM

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IIRC, ships were not triggering the point defense code, only units...

Really? I assumed that that's how the DUC Auto Cannons that I saw in P&N or Proportions (can't remember which atm) worked.

P&N's DU Autocannons aren't point-defense; they're just smaller Versions of DUCs.

DavidG · #7 July 20th, 2002, 04:35 PM

Excellent Page! I notice you have a future chapter planed for abilities. One thing I would really like to know is what abilites work or don't work with the various components/facilities etc. I gather some abilites such as research generation will not do anything on a component. Also some abilities are obviously designed for stars or planets. I wonder if anyone has ever compiled a list of the abilites that work on components, and one for facilites etc. etc. I like to be able to filter the abilities in my moding tool but don't having enough modding experience to do this.