Modding SEV Thread Questions

[Kana]

Can there be more than 17 or 16 different ship/unit pictures in the Empire/Shipset Files?

First off I noticed a 1 image difference between the Ship Set, and Vehicle Main Textures bmp. What I wanted to know, are the sizes of the bmp's set in stone, what if we want to add more vehicle models to the shipset/empire? From viewing the Empire style example on MM, it doesnt appear so.

Ship Set--[Empire Name]_ShipSet.bmp--378x84(each picture is 42x42)

Vehicle Main Texture--[Empire Name]_Vehicle_Main_Texture.bmp--256x256 (each picture is 64x64)

Unit Combat Texture--[Empire Name]_Unit_Combat_Texture.bmp--256x256 (each picture is 128x128)

[Phoenix-D]

Yes, they can.

All those files seem to be able to be lengthed in a manner similar to components.txt in SE4. That is, you can make them longer, but not wider.

[Kana]

Can you target an incoming Beam or Bolt based weapon with an effect?

I was going through the data files, and I noticed that there was a listing of valid targets, like ship, or seeker for instance, but it also said beam and bolt.

What is the difference between Torpedo and Directed Torpedo?

From what I can tell it looks like Directed is seeking, and Torpedo is like direct fire.

Can Shields use supplies?

Do the Formations for the Fleets and Task Forces determine the max number of ships per fleet?

From looking at the formations data file, it shows one formation for fleet as a max of 40 ships, and one for task forces at 74. I was hoping that you could use this to possibly control the total size of any fleets being used.

With out Multiplex Tracking, Do all weapons that can fire from an individual ship fire at the target?

Wont this result in serious overkill of certain ships...?

[StarShadow]

Re: Multiplex Tracking

I'm kind of wondering that too. In SEIV all direct fire shots were instant hit and your weapons fired in sequence, if weapon 4 (out of, say 10) was a kill, weapons 5 - 10 would find a new target. In SEV since combat is real-time, and most direct fire weapons actually have travel-time (the beams aren't so bad, but it's quite noticable with projectile weapons)..it looks to me like ships just completely unload at one ship after another, resulting in some amazing over-kills, unless you micro-manage your combat (ie. tell your ship to fire weapons 1-4 at ship A and weapons 5-10 at ship B, etc).

[Puke]

i think its all configurable in the stratigies. like this:

Targeting Priority 2 := Total Targeted Damage < 150% of Structure

and like this:

Target Type 1 Damage Amount := 100%

and you can configure strategies to be specific to the type of object being engaged. so you might choose to engage a carrier at a diferent range than a sphereworld. and that iss pretty snazzy.

[Desdinova]

is there any option to modify the max population of a planet as a racial trait similar to what can be done about cargo space. i found the Storage Cargo Space Percent and was shown the Storage Facility Space Percent abilities in mainstrings.txt but i see nothing that looks like i can increase max population in the same way.

[Captain Kwok]

The Facility Space Percent ability works as you want to increase facility space and I've requested A Population Space Percent ability as well - hopefully that will come through.

[Desdinova]

thanks. hopefully it will be added.
another question.
i figured out how to expand the system map size however i am having trouble placing planets beyond ring 10. they seem to end up all in the same hex as the sun. is the ring 1-10 a hard coded limit or did i miss changing something is settings.txt. i have the warppoints out around the outer 3 rings and asteroid belts beyond ring 10 (i think)

[Kamog]

There is going to be a fix for that in the first patch.

Version 1.04:
1. Fixed - In SystemTypes.txt, the "Ring" position would not register rings 10 or above.

[Fyron]

The ring limit (up to 16 in theory) is why I made my system resizing script convert everything to circle radius. It is attached to this post. It's a python script, and you will want to change the scale factor variable to the amount you are scaling the systems. You might have to fiddle a few times to get it just right, since SE5 will place systems outside the hex grid readily enough if you are not careful to make all positions inside it.