hmm- one more try with SotC-Team as the user name

mephistopheles  

 Nice Find

I have been testing on Entrenchment. Thats why I making that list so I can easily add to the Dip 1.32 files when most of the bugs are killed.

Any idea what that changes? Is that going to mess up all the relations charts I made?

 I got the tec and advent now with no mesh and textures. Man what a fast game load and I can speed up to 8x with all AI and no lag at all. Test a small map balance in 10-15 min.

mephistopheles  

No, just testing out the blank meshes and game lag. Just in case.

All the files uploaded to aDrive are Dip 1.32 tested. though there is barely nothing their yet. I just opened the account.

Maybe we could use the mod gear wrench from the modding icon for SotC along with the text in Avquest for the avatar but that easy. I can do that. But we need to think of a good icon symbol that shows good when small icon size.

That vectoring would be awesome for the game logos. Can you shade them a little like the stock ones?

As for the blank meshes, I can upload them. If someone wants to do what you asked I have no problem. Every model entity used should call for the blank meshes. I had to make different ones to get rid of some DEV errors so there are 6 I think with different meshpoints attached.

 I like that. Here is a quick 1 I put together but the text is so small it's blurry. Can you vector each word as a separate file for me? I always liked that Davinci symbol even if we dont use, just another example

OOhhhh that edit one looks awesome 

Put Team (avquest) instead of SivCorp and I will put it in till we get a better one. 3D effect maybe?

EDIT: You also need an icon and optional ingame font picked for Sivtherium Co

Awesome  and uploaded to the account avatar. May take a while to show up on this post and probablly will not show on the posts made before the upload.

You can also login to the team account and edit the pics. There is room for a 150x150 and 3000x3000 but the weebly max size is around 580 wide unless we use a backgound tag.

If you ever post using the team account, try to remember to add a signature.

mephistopheles  

add-xenon.txt 

That looks great Siv.    on the new Avatars

I like my avatar (I use it on multiple forums and blogs but I might put the SotC part in the top right if I can shrink it down but I need to edit 12 or so pics and remake the animation for my blinking eyes.

I need to get workin on the mod 

Based off the templates I sent you I think you need one more mod variation.

Sins of the Creator (Debug)

This would be used to generate the files necessary for a single race for debugging purposes.

This mod would allow you to start a debug session with a single race.

I also have some work arounds for the debugger if you want to use some of the debug options with multiple races (Diplomacy only).

Once I get a hold of your source I can start refining my scripts to work with your approach. This assumes you want a scripted approach. I would probably refine my scripts to generate more of the "stuff" based on the race name. The main templates would be for the planet item types, groups and string entries. Either way I'd still be interested in building off your work as a working prototype while you collect assets.

Here's my poor man's version of what you've proposed. This loads only my Advent extension and the Plague race. I can mix and match any of the races in my mod without having to build multiple things to apply

New GameInfo file naming system

All the entities need 2 copies for the main entity manifest. 

1 set for each add-on will be complete but the entities in the main mod can be zero'ed out as much as possible.

Workin on it now. I am actually renaming the stock race entities to match up with the naming of the rest so I took out the strings for PhaseName PsiName and TechName and replaced with 

StringInfo
	ID "IDS_PLAYERRACENAME_ADVENT"
	Value "Advent"

StringInfo
	ID "IDS_PLAYERRACENAME_TEC"
	Value "TEC"

StringInfo
	ID "IDS_PLAYERRACENAME_VASARI"
	Value "Vasari"

Renamed all entities so I can easily copy each set like the Xenon is a copy of the TEC entity set. 
Then change the GalixyScenerioDef with all as a set in 1 place the I can copy and repeat till all races are in.

I hate clicking past DEV errors. Now I have 0 and want to keep it that way 

There will be way to much testing so once I have the 3 main races torn apart I just copy each set and no errors.

The GalixyScenerioDef needs all the items available and there will be an entity for each in the main mod but will not load any assets.

planetItemType
	designName "Amarr:CapitalShip:BattleShip"
	entityDefName "Amarr_CAPITALSHIP_BATTLESHIP"

 Each also needs starting templates

		group
			condition
				type "PlanetOwnerIsRaceNormalStart"
				param "Amarr"
			owner "PlanetOwner"
			colonizeChance 1
			items 3		
				item "Amarr:Module:FrigateFactory"
				item "Amarr:Frigate:Constructor"
				item "Amarr:Frigate:Constructor"
		group
			condition
				type "PlanetOwnerIsRaceQuickStart"
				param "Amarr"
			owner "PlanetOwner"
			colonizeChance 1
			items 9
				item "Amarr:Module:FrigateFactory"
				item "Amarr:Module:CapitalShipFactory"
				item "Amarr:Module:MetalExtractor"
				item "Amarr:Module:MetalExtractor"
				item "Amarr:Module:CrystalExtractor"
				item "Amarr:Frigate:Constructor"
				item "Amarr:Frigate:Constructor"
				item "Amarr:Frigate:Scout"
				item "Amarr:Frigate:Scout"

This is still all theory and I hope it doesn't choke on me.   So far So good 

We shall see soon. I will upload to aDrive once I have the GalaxyScenerioDef finished and tested and all the entities created. They will all be either TEC Vasari or Advent ship and structure copies for now all loading blank meshes.

5 out of 38 are in so far. 

Somethings that's been kinda nagging me is how will you support lan or online games with this approach. Won't both players have to use the same sound files using this approach because the mods have to be enabled in the same order to play multi-player and get the same checksum?