Space Empires V Editor 1.4 Released

[skigrinder]

Hi Devnull,

Hope things are well.

Just curious as to your progress in adding SystemTypes.txt to your editor.

I'm anxious to start generating maps with more interesting solar systems.

Thanx,
skigrinder

[Suicide Junkie]

What's stopping you?

Just fire up notepad, and have at it

[President_Elect_Shang]

What needs to be modified to get new planets and systems to work? I have added then both and when I go to generate a new game SE5 is crashing, when I generate a new map from the start-up screen not all the warp points are connecting. Can you list all the files that have to be modified?

[Fyron]

It's not as if the files are complex enough to require an editor...

Shang:
You should probably try testing them separately. Adding new systems only requires editing SystemTypes.txt and QuadrantTypes.txt.

[President_Elect_Shang]

The problem is where to start? I am remaking everything, absolutely nothing from stock except the atmosphere types. New planets, new stars, yada-yada-yada… So if I start with the system types it won’t work because I would be calling for planets that aren’t’ there. I will try this Stellar X file. I missed it before testing.

[Phoenix-D]

Simplest method is to leave the stock stuff in, make your own stuff, THEN cut out the stock stuff..

[President_Elect_Shang]

Um? You mean replace the stock stuff piece by piece? For example write my stars then replace the stock stars with mine? I have just started doing that. What we really need is a map viewer/editor, than I could generate my map and take a look at it to see what is going wrong. Can you make something like that Devnullicus?

[Phoenix-D]

No. I mean taking the file, sticking:

///
///Stock systems
///

above all the stock systems, and doing all your work above that line, with completely new entries. Then when you're done you just deleted everything after that.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Oh I see what you mean. That is just how I did the SystemTypes.txt and I still have the stock entries in. I will have to start over with all stock and replace the other files part by part till I find the one that is broken. I suspect it is in the StellarObjectTypes.txt.