New to mapping

Yeah..well nevermind, I figured it out.

how do you download galaxy forge? it wont let me, just puts it in a folder, doesent automaticaly put it in sins, so how!!!!!!!!plz!!!!!!somebody tell me!!!!!

um... calm down man, you don't need to put galaxy forge into the sins directory..you can have it anywhare..but be sure to save your maps to the Galaxy folder in:

C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Galaxy

for some strange reason by default my maps were being saved to Users folder..or something like that.

aggggg it dosent work!!!!!!! how does it work?!?!? i press the one that looks like it would be the program and bam! error report and it wont let me do galaxy forge man!!!!aggggg!!how do you do it plz!!!!*on hands and knees*plz!!!

Make sure you have .net 2.0 installed, as GF requires it. If you don't have it, a google seach should quickly turn up the download on microsoft's site.

oooh ty kryo, i will try that

is it mircosoft.net framework version 2.0 redistributable package (x86)?? plz tell me im sry if i seem annoying but i reallly like forgeing things, like in halo 3 the forge i create soo fun maps. so plz reply and i will thank you greatly

oh and also how do u change pics?

Yep.

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Heeey... while we're on the subject of mapmaking...

So I made this totally awesome 1v1 map yesterday, but each time I try to play my map, I choose my race, map settings, etc, and hit the load button... but it minidumps as soon as it starts loading up

Anyone know what I am doing wrong, or what I may do to fix this???

If you're getting a dump on loading a map, chances are there is a syntax error in it (very possible if you did any manual editing on it, rather than pure GF work).

im having some trouble. i made a pretty sweet map in galaxy forge, but as soon as i try to play it, it says i lost, and when i hit the "keep playing button, there are no planets, and no stars(besides the background) can anyone help?

how do you play newly downlaoded maps??????

sorry for ask.i have download map for sin,and i have put it in right directory like everyone suggest.in my pc I installed soase in F:/game longue/sinsofasolarempire/stardock...etc.so i put that map in folder galaxy.but how come not all the map shown in game list?from about 10 map,only one that present in the list?can somebody tell me the problem is?sorry 4 my english, i'm from indonesia.
thnx before

@ Peststa:

Make sure you have more then one player assigned to a world through the 'owner' field.
You also have to make sure 'ishomeplanet' is marked true (this is where either of the
two factions start at.

@mesadivad

If your running in windows xp, go to my computer (or windows explorer), and look for a
folder in c:\ directory called "documents and settings". Right click it and select
search. What your looking for is a folder called Ironclad. The reason we are searching
it, cause the folder that it is in doesn't show up if you try to look for it manually.
Two Ironclad folders will come up, make sure you select the one that has the Local
settings in the folder location. Lastly, navigate that through the SOASE main folder, and
you'll find a folder called Galaxy. Put your newly made maps here.

If you download new mods like Seven Deadly Sins or Lost_WLD's graphic mods, you'll need
to put their resources in a folder called mods. you will then before hand need to create
a folder in the name of the mod for SOASE to register it.