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[Fixed]Entrenchment Modding and Other Stuff

By Blair Fraser on December 16, 2008 1:51:08 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Blair Fraser

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Hi all,

Just a quick note that a bunch of modding requests are being worked but they aren't in Entrenchment beta 1 (which is also the case for some gameplay changes like the trade routes and some other thing I mentionned elsewhere). I hope to have them complete shortly after xmas and we'll make them public asap.

Next, there have been a number of very detailed questions from a variety of people (mostly modders) written to me in private messaging. I am able to read these but not respond. I wrote a public message recently to have people write me but I got zero responses. So if you are one of these people, (like EvilJedi) please c/p the messages and email me at bfraser@ironcladgames.com. I'll get to them all on the weekend.

-Blair

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Taverius
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December 16, 2008 2:08:26 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Can't respond to PMs? Did you lose a bet or something?

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Annatar11
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December 16, 2008 2:13:06 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

No, for some reason it just won't let him - and I'm assuming he made room in his inbox since there's a limit of 100 PMs between inbox/sent

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Taverius
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December 16, 2008 2:18:28 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Ah, a case of the <SOFTWARE NAME> HATES YOU LOL syndrome. They tell me sledgehammers are a reliable cure

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ShadowMastiff2468
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December 16, 2008 2:18:35 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Well guess Ill go copy/paste my message then!

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Destraex
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December 17, 2008 3:19:20 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I think i had a mod installed when i upgraded to the beta... it will not load

already tried removing all the mod directories

 

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Stephen Scalaro
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December 17, 2008 12:09:18 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

The same thing happened to me. I had to remove the entire C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire directory for the game to work.

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coreybowman
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December 18, 2008 11:56:00 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

same thing if any mod is in the file the wont load. hopefully they fix that asap

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Annatar11
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December 18, 2008 12:01:51 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

There's nothing to fix. It's expected behavior whenever there's a patch - mods need to be updated.

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TohKlidan
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January 10, 2009 4:45:04 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Where can I get the updated GameInfo files for entrenchment (in text format not binary)?

Cause the convertData.exe cant convert the entrenchment enities back into text.

 

Otherwise i dont know how to run my mod with the entrenchment beta cause all files

in the forge tools are for sins vanilla.

 

 

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January 11, 2009 7:57:44 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Quoting TohKlidan,
reply 9
Where can I get the updated GameInfo files for entrenchment (in text format not binary)?

Cause the convertData.exe cant convert the entrenchment enities back into text.

Otherwise i dont know how to run my mod with the entrenchment beta cause all files
in the forge tools are for sins vanilla.

I've got the same issue, the sooner those files are made available the better.

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ProgressBar
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January 11, 2009 10:59:23 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Use the ConvertData.exe in the Sins install folder not the ForgeTools version.

And make it easier using this - http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/335013

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Silveressa
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January 11, 2009 11:20:07 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Thanks Progress, that worked flawlessly

For those having trouble converting the data here's a link to download the .9beta Gameinfo files already converted to text.

http://files.filefront.com/Entrenchment+gameinforar/;12948789;/fileinfo.html

 

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Silveressa
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January 11, 2009 11:23:10 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

accidental double post delete this please mods

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TohKlidan
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January 12, 2009 9:41:10 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Thx for converting and the download link silveressa!

cause i had troubles to do it by myself.

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January 12, 2009 11:04:31 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Anytime, glad to help. When they update the beta I'll keeping reposting the newer files. (One less thing the devs need to hassle with doing for us modders)

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Darksxx
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January 23, 2009 12:41:05 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

@ProgressBar I dont think your files converted corretly, have you noticed when you open the file it has 3 odd chars right before the TEXT at the top of the file?  Im pretty sure those are not supposed to be there.

Can anyone confirm this?

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Silveressa
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January 23, 2009 12:57:41 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Are the three odd characters "TXT" ?

If so then they're suppoed to be there afaik, (they were ont he beta files I converted) or if not, they don't do any harm at least. (I've modded the beta of Entrenchment quite heavily and all the files I modded had the txt at the top of them)

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ProgressBar
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February 8, 2009 7:22:53 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I have some questions for Ironclad regarding the new Squad abilities:

  1. Why can squads only use Area of Effect abilities?  Squads can pick specific targets for attacking, so why not abilities?
  2. Can we get some AI coding to handle squads designed for support and/or defense? I've tried coding repair squadrons in the latest Entrenchment build, with no weapons and small repair abilities, but they always want to go attack something...
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February 17, 2009 12:19:29 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

No, this is how your convereted files look, and I mean all of them I checked each of the files.

 

TXT

 

The odd test infront, do you see it? they all have this..

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February 17, 2009 7:46:09 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

i am not quite sure but the last time I saw such characters  was as

I opened a UTF-8 coded text file with an editor that was unable to to read UTF-8 correct.

 

maybe this is your problem.

I just checked the entities and they are indeed saved as UTF-8

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February 18, 2009 12:05:43 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

these are his that he converted, I jsut downloaded them and was trying to use them.

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February 21, 2009 10:34:47 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

thats nice

Quoting Silveressa,
reply 12
Thanks Progress, that worked flawlessly

For those having trouble converting the data here's a link to download the .9beta Gameinfo files already converted to text.

http://files.filefront.com/Entrenchment+gameinforar/;12948789;/fileinfo.html

 

 

Thats nice only you have to convert them back to binary after your done otherwise it won`t work

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February 21, 2009 9:06:51 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

anyone else having an issue enabling a mod in entrenchment and only the string changes are working?

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February 21, 2009 9:55:35 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Yes, me too DarkShimmer.  They are probably working on it, but we may not see it til next week, is that the official release date on the 25th?  Or just the next step in the beta test?

Although i have to admit, i have never seen a game company as committed to its players as i have seen IronClad, they are great!!!  I'm wishing them well, and us too!! 

-Teal

 

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TohKlidan
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February 22, 2009 8:20:55 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

me also Darkshimmer.

 

@Teal:

yes IronClad did a great job, but I doupt that the final release is still the 25th.

With the new manifest system a lot of new problems arised and i think it will take a while to fix this.

But maybe we get another beta patch next week.

 

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