Help with mods use please...

[Slick]

I recommend checking out the Newbie FAQ. Specifically, section 16 is about mods.

link:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=005518

Slick.

[Bonefish]

Hi Atrocities.

Thankyou. I believe its one of your race packs I have too. Im very impressed. All the ship sets Ive seen have been very good.
With the new AI thats 'attatched' to each race, I hope im not installing any lunatics I cant deal with !
That said, I guess I can use a ship picture set, but give it the default AI that Ive seen in the file list, when starting a new game. Its been a bit odd getting used to the different ways se4 works after se3, but it all seems very well done and very smooth.

[Bonefish]

Wow. Loads of replies. Many thanks fellas.
I'll go and look up the newbie FAQs and see what I can learn.

Thanks again guys.

Bonefish.

[Fyron]

You can find an updated Version of the Mod Launcher *here*.

Originally posted by bonefish:
2 - how can I specify how many races/empires will be in the game as well as myself. I cant seem to find the option, and when i try to make my own empire up, it only comes uop as a pc contolled one.

1) Navigate to the folder where you installed SE4.
2) Go into the Data folder.
3) Open the file Settings.txt.
4) Look for this line:
Minimum Computer Player Low Setting := 1
5) By changing the numbers on this line and the next 5 similar lines, you can control how many empires there will be when you pick Low, Medium and High numbers of computer players in the Players screen when starting a game up.
6) You can also change how many Neutral Empires there will be. Neutrals never expand beyond their home system, and always have 1 homeworld, no matter how many starting planets you select. Note that SE4 will NEVER add more than 5 of them, no matter what you set the settings to for them.

[ August 14, 2003, 19:09: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Bonefish]

Excellent. Ive had a read, (i'll be coming back to that help file again, its a great help), and Im off to install some races. Thanks guys.

Bonefish.

[Suicide Junkie]

1 - when I tried to unzip a race file, all the files came out in one big list, and not in its own folder. I think it was the one called "starship".

Were you just dragging the files out of winzip, or were you using the "Extract" function?

Extract will retain the directory/folder structure, while dragging puts all the files in the place you dragged them to.

[oleg]

Originally posted by bonefish:
1 - when I tried to unzip a race file, all the files came out in one big list, and not in its own folder. I think it was the one called "starship".
Cheers.

That' an indication of sloppy zip file setup. Mind you, all my zip files are like this

Move all *.bmp and *._AI.txt files to the /pictures/races/"thar race name" folder. Move .emp files to /empires folder. Move "racename".txt -or something like this that is basically a column of names - to /designnames folder.

That' how to clean up this rather typical race_unzipping mess.