Is There away to get 4 races instead of 3?

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Ya hi I was just wondering if there is a way to get 4 races not 3.

Ex: Tec, Psi, Phase and (???).

I am currently making my own personal mod...slowly...

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

yes you can. the Player(race name).enitity holds all the race information, you have to add a few things to the galixyscenariodef.galixyscenariodef file. you also need to create a entire new research tree as well as all new ships and whatnot, altho you could copy them over from anoyther file if your just looking to mix and match parts of the existing races. you also got to create new abilities if your going down that route. its a LOT of work and a LOT of testing. its rather easy over all though.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

look at 7DS they have like 10 races...

Technically, you can have a new race up in MINUTES! It's making the tec trees and models that take time...coding in itself is extremely fast!

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

well, depending shadow. getting thing to work as you intend and getting the AI to use them the same way is NOT easy or fast. it takes a LOT of time to tinker with.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Yes but OP is not asking about Ai interaction! He just wants to know if you can add a fourth race...answer to his question = YES!

 

:)

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

:)  Haha, well... i've found it sometimes easy... haha, or sometimes difficult, depending on what im doing, this last one drove me bonkers, haha, for a few days at least, but in the end, after it was done, it seemed easy, but by then i'd banged my head against the wall for a while.  :)

-Teal

 

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Teal, reply 5
  Haha, well... i've found it sometimes easy... haha, or sometimes difficult, depending on what im doing, this last one drove me bonkers, haha, for a few days at least, but in the end, after it was done, it seemed easy, but by then i'd banged my head against the wall for a while. 

-Teal

 
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Who hasnt.... :) spending countless hours over an ability looking over EVERY SINGLE LINE OF CODE and wondering WHY the comp wouldnt accept it to figure out that it was the FIRST LETTER of the ability that was a capital instead of small letter...OUH THE RAGE!!!

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Well ive started changing the string files but if i add a whole new race will it crash my game?

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Never!

As long as the string file is kept up to date (and even if it fails..you'll just wont get the name of an ability and its description), you're new race will work flawlessly (assuming all links are correct)!