Start by getting the Forge Tools from the downloads tab. That should have most of the easy to edit .entity files in txt format, if I remember correctly.

i thought that those tools only edit maps and particles... which one edits the objects (like ships and such)?

Game modding comes in many types of work. The majority of it (and the most important part of it) is simple text which can be edited with any text editor (thus notepad is good to start with).

ok you have the same problem i did. if you use wordpad instead it makes the lines go down scrolling. you need to get the free modd set from the site and replace your gameinfo files with the game info from that download. trust me. then you can see what you want.

When you get heavier into modding, you'll probably not like having tons of Notepad windows open. Try something like Notepad++, a free util that can open multiple files in the same instance, and other neat things.

1) You don't have to edit the gameplay.constants, unless your mod needs to change something in it The file basically contains stuff that's always true for all races, like market prices, phase jumping stuff, game speeds.. things like that.

2) You should never be replacing the core files, always use the mod folder, it'll work. You need to have *all* the GameInfo files in there, not just the ones you edited. What the game does is it looks in your mod path, and picks out folder names as your mod name. So, your finished mod path for should be something like ...\Mods\Test\GameInfo, and the mod selection in-game will show "Test" as the mod name.

One more thing now; i have almost finished my mod (it took me an hour to do and works perfectly) but i need one more tweak. That is, what file do i find the income sources for the crystal and metal asteroids? i want to increase them to make the game faster...

You could just mod the speed options in the gameplay.constants file.

no; i am looking to increase the income and not the actual gameplay... it just takes forever to get enough money to expand in the beginning of any level... that is why i am looking for this file.

how can you kill notepad....

That was a question about "And my notepad seems to have killed itself for the time being."

I use UEStudio for text editiing. Its perfect.

hello, in case you are still checking this post here is some info you may want.

truth: i did not read every post as im limited on time right now so this may be a repeat, but ill check back later...

I was messing with code, just cause thats what i do...

I wanted to leave the game in tact but speed up the "cold start" someone mentioned above.

This is how i did that.

There are different types of planets as you all know. Each type has its own file which can be opened in notepad etc.

I took the start planet and made more nodes with higher output, Bam mod complete lols.

Process:

make your mod folder, look elsewhere for help on this or ask and ill go into it...

Gameinfo folder

find your target planet file, this case is Terran Home, so the file is PlanetTerranHome

open it up, its pretty basic

in this file you can edit the planets expansions, ie: i made my home planet support up to 100 Civ buildings just for kicks. yay for 50 trade routes

you can also edit the population limits and all that.

keeping it simple, we want up to 10 nodes at our home planet.

find "planetResourceSetupInfo" (no quotes)

below that "totalMaxResourceAsteroids" change to 10

metalResourceAsteroidSetup
minCount 4
maxCount 6
extractionRate 1.400000
refineryRate 0.060000
maxRefineryCount 3
crystalResourceAsteroidSetup
minCount 4
maxCount 6
extractionRate 1.400000
refineryRate 0.060000
maxRefineryCount 3


What this means is that you will have a max of 10 nodes (8 min), at least 4 of each type. they will also be jacked up to 1.40 per sec.

Hope this makes sense, ask any questions you may have. im looking to be very active in the mod community here, thanks to this post as my starting point