Sinperium

Got a quick question about weapon banks. I know that a ship will turn to the side that does the most damage, but is this determined by the most powerful weapon, or does it take the total DPS from that side. For instance, if missiles do the most damage on a ship, does it swing to that side, or if a side does the most damage only if you add in autocannon fire, will it swing to that side?

Thanks, Lavo, this helps me out a lot.

battlecrow, the first steps are

1 get a copy of notepad++

2 get a copy of the current reference files for the game/expansion you have

3 create a mod folder and gameinfo folder inside it (the mod folder needs to be in the correct mods folder for your game/expansion)

4 copy the relevant files from the ref files,

5 using notepad++ edit the files in the mod's gameinfo files.

it is a good idea to only make ONE alteration at a time then test to see if it is the way you want it.

and all modding involves trial and error, so you WILL have to play around with the files.

harpo

An update: Waaay back I had mentioned owning a Makerbot and possible making trophies as rewards here on occasion.

After having it finished it was found that one of the threading arms was out of true and it had to be deconstructed and reassembled.  Then the stage tray was vibrating and had to be realigned and remounted-modified.  Now it is all together and working--except the extruder head is not heating at all.

The person working on it is an electrical and software engineer but is having to do field work in the economy now so this has sat on the back burner.  As it turns out, my brother-in-law iis an electronics engineer and I am going to ask him to take a crack at it.

My first models will be for Sins and if we can salvage this puppy, I'll share some on special occasions.

Thanks either way to all who have contributed here--it is really appreciated.

How I remove a titan upgrade? I am trying to remove group shield from tec loyalist upgrade, but when I remove it from the entity file and change the number upgrades to 6 (7 minus 1 [the one I removed]), the last upgrade is removed and not the group shield one.

What is your checksum? If its zero it means the game cannot find your files, so you probably set up your folders incorrectly.

Unless you are working with an archaic version, you don't need to include Vanilla files you don't change. Just put the changed files plus any new ones you add (after telling the game to load them in the manifest files).

I can't remember what this error means:

Assert @ C:\Projects\P4\SinsRebellion\Release\CodeSource\GS/Entity/Interfaces/IAbility.cpp(364)

m_buffApplyAction.instantActionTriggerType == InstantActionTriggerType::AlwaysPerform

I also think it is within the following ability file:

TXT
entityType "Ability"
buffInstantActionType "ApplyBuffToSelf"
instantActionTriggerType "OnDelay"
delayTime 0.000000
buffType "BuffPhaseStarbaseSameOrbitbodyDebuffSpawner"
effectInfo
effectAttachInfo
attachType "Invalid"
smallEffectName ""
mediumEffectName ""
largeEffectName ""
soundID ""
needsToFaceTarget FALSE
canCollideWithTarget TRUE
moveThruTarget FALSE
isUltimateAbility FALSE
maxNumLevels 1
levelSourceType "ResearchWithoutBase"
improveSourceResearchSubject "RESEARCHSUBJECT_STARBASE_MOBILIZATION"
aiUseTime "Invalid"
aiUseTargetCondition "Invalid"
isAutoCastAvailable FALSE
isAutoCastOnByDefault FALSE
pickRandomPlanetToExploreForAutoCastTarget FALSE
ignoreNonCombatShipsForAutoCastTarget TRUE
onlyAutoCastWhenDamageTakenExceedsPerc 0.000000
useCostType "Passive"
researchPrerequisites
NumResearchPrerequisites 0
RequiredFactionNameID ""
RequiredCompletedResearchSubjects 0
nameStringID "IDS_ABILITY_PHASESTARBASESAMEORBITBODYDEBUFF_NAME"
descStringID "IDS_ABILITY_INCENDIARYSHELLS_DESCRIPTION"
hudIcon "HUDICON_ABILITY_INCENDIARYSHELLS"
smallHudIcon "HUDICON_ABILITY_INCENDIARYSHELLS"
infoCardIcon ""

That fixed it, thanks. 

Entity.manifest.  You need an updated one in your mod folder to go with your new entities.

Nope, if you only edit files it will use the default entity.manifest like anything else.

Yes, though I don't think it changes which player.entity file it uses, it seems like it can be made to make mutually exclusive research paths. In the reference files there are some techs with DeclareFaction in the name.

I was looking through a particular mod's player.entity files and noticed the races use research subjects from vanilla races. A specific example would be the "maxshipslots" and "maxcapitalships". Is it a hard coded limit not to be able to create new  research subjects(specifically regarding ship logistics slots) for new races? I ask because I was tinkering with some of the entity files trying to balance the power (or unbalance) of various races. However, changing one would change the original race as well. Is there an alternative?

-Draco