How Do You Remove Research Items and PlanetModules?

(Or if you were making a Dark Future Mod, How would you Strip Almost Everything Out?) :)

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Hi,

         I'm working on a mini mod, i call it "The Last War". It was originally "Last of the Advent" but i carried the idea through to include the other races and basically consists of a future 50 years from now, when the Advent, Tec and Vasari are almost completely destroyed. The Advent have a single Capital Carrier with a smattering of Abilities and a Scoutship and a MobileDefense for the Gravwell. The Tec have three Capitals and support ships, but no way to colonize. It was an idea that happened almost by accident while i was in the playertech.entity file trimming the ships. The Vasari have 4 Capitals, but no support ships and no scouts, and no planet protection. :)  All set in a dark future map with 64 planets, mostly asteroids and space junk, uninhabitable planets and a smattering of habitable worlds in a red star system.  :)  I have altered the metal/crystal output to almost nothing, and the count down to almost nothing. Which means buying anything beyond the first rush is almost nil.  :)  Haha... sounds morbid maybe, but its dark and different, and i figured maybe different enough to be fun.  :)

Anyway, i am crashing the mod on trying to remove the research and planetmodules, so if anyone knows a safe way, could you please let me know?  And also, i am trying to find an artist that might like to "repaint" the advent and vasari and tec ships like the ones in Danman's 7 Deadly Sins Derelict Ships. Maybe i can copy the textures over from the tech ships in 7DS to the other ships and give credit to Danman and company, but I dont know  what kind of editor i need, or can i simply copy the "data" from one file to another in a text editor?

Anyway, any help would be much appreciated.

Take care and keep modding!!  :)

-Teal

 

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Anyway, i am crashing the mod on trying to remove the research and planetmodules, so if anyone knows a safe way, could you please let me know?
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Remove them from the playerrace entities' build lists :) All you have to do.

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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 1

Anyway, i am crashing the mod on trying to remove the research and planetmodules, so if anyone knows a safe way, could you please let me know?
Remove them from the playerrace entities' build lists All you have to do.
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Ahhh.. that is what i am trying, or perhaps i am misunderstanding. I am in the playerpsi.entity file, i change the values for the ships. I change count values and delete lines. like change count 6 to count 1 and delete five of the lines i dont want. That is okie, and still functional. But when i go into the planetmodule area and delete entrylines, or change values i get a crash.   Hmmm.... anyway, i must be doing something that is causing the game to have a fit. :)  Will try it one small change at a time and see if i can get it to stay workable.  :)  Thank you Annatar11, take care and keep modding!

:)

-Teal

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

In your user.setting file set showErrors to TRUE so it tells you what's going wrong. I recently made a quick mod for a few guys that wanted to play MP with Capitals only and no hangars/repair bays, and I easily removed them from the build lists with no trouble and no errors. So it's supposed to work :P

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Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

:)  Yes you are right, i suppose i made a mistake in my counting or something, but yes, when i was careful and

deleted the lines and kept the counts correct, the mod loaded fine.   :)  Thank you and sorry for the confusion, i sometimes am not as careful as i should be when changing things, but i am learning.  :)  Haha... this is coming along very nicely, now all i need to figure out is how to make the ships look beatup and wornout (its supposed to be at the end of a 50 year war between the advent and tec and vasari)  :)

Thankyou Annatar11, take care,

-teal

 

 

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I just figured out how to give karma to someone,  :)  sorry i didnt know. But now i do,

so i wanted to say thank you and to give you about 20 points, but it says only every 10 minutes,

so i will have to parcel out the points. Thank you again so much for all the help Annatar11,  :)

-Teal

 

 

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Hahaha, you're welcome (please don't give me 20 :P). Just happy to help ;)

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 6
Hahaha, you're welcome (please don't give me 20 ). Just happy to help
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:)  Okie, how about 10?   :)

Just kidding,

But maybe 5 or so, you have always been there with help in my stumbling along this modding road, which i am new at, so it has really really been nice to have your help.  :)

-teal

 

 

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Great, just the answer I was looking for.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting SEB9, reply 8
Great, just the answer I was looking for.
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:)  I'm glad  :)