Yep, just make sure they extract into the proper folders and everything - modders should just package their mod folder so everything should be right by default, but you never know

ok thanks

Don't suppose you know how to add races?

Curiosity. Marketing. Spirit of adventure.   

OK annatar, i'm still having problems with the name issue. I don't know what is wrong with it but it is refusing to change the selecteable race name from TEC

I just tried doing this for myself, and everything worked fine. Exact steps:

1) Created UNSCTest mod folder in my mod path
2) Copied GameInfo and String folders with 1.03 data
3) In GameInfo, made a copy of playertech.entity and renamed to playerUNSC.entity.
4) Opened playerUNSC.entity and changed raceNameStringID "IDS_PLAYERRACENAME_TECH" to raceNameStringID "IDS_PLAYERRACENAME_UNSC"
5) Saved
6) Opened English.str in the String folder, added: StringInfo
ID "IDS_PLAYERRACENAME_UNSC"
Value "UNSC"
to the end of the file.
7) Increased NumStrings on top by 1.
8) Started game, enabled mod, switched between selectable races on the game setup screen, and UNSC showed up as UNSC.

It doesn't matter where in the file it is, I like to add to the end since it's cleaner.

As long as it's after the count and all that good stuff, it should be fine I'd think.

Your playerUNSC.entity is in binary. I see that it shows up as TEC, and the String file looks okay.

I tried your string with my player entity and it worked, so it's gotta be something funky in your player entity file.

Here's my test mod, you can compare, or use it or whatever I left it in text.

WWW Link

Whoops, it got messed up, wasn't careful when I was adding it

WWW Link