Well, the Galaxy Forge is now provided in the game directory like with the Dev.exe, so those two should always be up to date and work fine. Not sure about the particle forge, you'll need to ask Krdax for details. Some particles may work in it, other will need to be manually updated in txt form. Don't know if harpo has updated his tools but he has the reference data up, so that should be good for the mean time.

Hi there, I'm a long time lurker here, don't usually post in forums, but I come seeking the wisdom of all you great modders out there.

Basically, I started modding a test mod once Rebellion 1.3 came out, made two races, discovered how the new Race Selection menus work and all that. I've modded for Sins since the original, so I'm familiar with how stuff works.

Eventually, after making two new titans, I tried to make passive abilities for them. First, I coded it wrong of course, I didn't notice how the Titan ability leveling worked, but I fixed that. But now I have it more or less in what should be working order, but it's completely mad.

From my understanding, it looks like Titans CANNOT have passive abilities.

Instead the ability, which is supposed to passively regenerate extra shielding constantly, turned into an activated ability with no icon. If you click it, it does what it's supposed to, but you can obviously keep clicking and restarting the special effect over and over.

The other ability was supposed to passively give 25% damage reduction, but functions like the other one, no icon and certainly not passive.

Can anyone please tell me whether or not they've had any success giving Titans passive abilities, or that Ironclad went mad with power or something. I honestly have no idea how to get around this, I can change the shield ability to an active one if I have to, but the damage reduction ability has to be a passive.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Yholl

Many of the titans have leveling passive abilities. Check out the Advent Titans or the Vasari Loyalist Titan. 

You can always post up your files if you want a second pair of eyes to look them over.

Oh yeah--to clarify--I was assuming you meant the fifth slot for a passive...not just any slot.

Glad to help.  You should give me karma but not ZombieRus. We are racing and he's already ahead.

It's all part of the "Style vs. Substance" competition.

Vote Sinperium, vote style.

So basically, if I give both of you karma, it will only continue to fuel the karma race between you, making you even more helpful than normal in your attempts to win?

Anyway, I looked at the Subjugation Aura for reference and found the problem.

Apparently, if this;

minExperienceLevelRequired
    Level:0 0.000000
    Level:1 2.000000
    Level:2 4.000000
    Level:3 6.000000

Is kept in the ability, it gets rid of the icon, gets rid of the strings, turns the ability into an active ability, but doesn't minidump. I kinda prefered it when the slightest error at all would cause the game to have a tantrum, it made more sense at least.

So yeah, ability is now working flawlessly on a titan now, and my motivation to work on my mod further is now longer crushed thanks to your help. You've no idea how pleased I was that it wasn't impossible.

Mecha-Lenin would probably call the two of you Karma Whores and give you a special section in his troll list.

hi, i wanted to ask which entity files i would want to modify for rebellion 1.041 to increase the number of metal and crystal we can find to mine at asteroids from the normal 2-3 to like 6 of each to start with. including how i would also modify the basic planets would also be great.

I remember there once was a mod that had bunches of resources to mine, but i think it's been removed or just doesn't work for 1.041.

Thanks for any answers and i hope this is where i was supposed to ask this question.

thanks, i found them. also found that with the reference files i can read all of the rebellion files... so modding should be easier than it was before. Thanks Harpo for converting the files.

Only other question i have at this time is, How do i change the number of Artifacts showing up in a particular map. I know the number is a % of the total number of planets on the map.

Also, once I know how to change the raw number of artifact planets, where do i find the exact artifacts, so i can place one of every different artifact in a map or is the number of artifacts a random gen thing?

Thanks greatly for helping me figure out how to make my own changes!!!

oh ok thanks. but now i have another question.. i've always Created a custom map for each mod that i play, just so i have many, over 100, planets to play with in my games. I've never used the "galaxy Forge" thing, not that i know of; that is.

SO i change the artifacts in a "custom made game" in the ".galaxy" file?

oh dang, well, i havent been able to find the ".galaxy file". I'm working from harpo's reference files for 1.041. I've looked in the GameInfo/ Galaxy ScenarioDef file. Havent seen anything else in Game Info that looks like a Galaxy file. I didn't see anything about Artifacts in the galaxy.manifest either. Also looked in the 4 "galaxy" files under the window folder... didn't find anything about artifacts there either.

I don't mean to be stupid, but i can't locate any galaxy file anywhere in the text files harpo has been so kind to convert for us to use in making mods.

shoot, did you mean for me to look in the.... lets use the huge single system random map as an example... "C:\program files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sins..rebellion\Galaxy\Huge...Map.galaxy" file for the correct artifact thingie? sorry for using the super cool term "thingie" but it works for so many things. haha Ok, so i found the artifacts line, "PlanetArtifactDensity" . I changed it from .15 to .25 ... that means the map will generate artifacts in 25% of the planets in the huge map, yes?

Now, i made a master copy of the original huge single random map and i replaced the original map with th eone i made the changes to. That si what i should be doing, yes?

If i'm writing too much, i'm sorry. i'm new to this and do not know yet how detailed my answers can be on here.

Thanks for everyone's patience.

yeah, i messed up now the game is broken and i don't know how to make steam uninstall the rebellion game so i can reinstall it.

I put the original file back to what it originally was, but to no avail. I shut down the steam client, but it still wont reset to the original settings.

How do i get the game back to original? i'm gonna make a copy of my mods 1.041 folder so once the game is back to original. i can just place the mod folder back into it.

Then i'll place the updated map where you say to place it. thanks for the help though. i've learned a lot about making changes to the game so far. Guess i had to mess up sometime though. haha Murphy got me

hi Harpo, yes i just got done verifying the install in steam as you said. it says the files are verified.

Then i did as you suggested and deleted the settings folder in my games folder and restarted steam and rebellion to no avail.

The game is stuck in the sins-plus mod. I had forgot that i had the mod activated before i started messing with the Galaxy folder to increase the number of artifacts on a map.

How do i do a hard removal of a mod from the "enabled" part of the "activate mods" part of sins rebellion? I don't know where to find that aspect of the game outside of the game. I think if i can get the game to revert to just vanilla. I should be able to get the game to restart regularly and then just follow Geofan's instructions to install the updated "huge single random map with the ".25" for number of artifact planets on a map. That's what i was trying to do in the first place.

Now, when i place the updated map in the "mapDesigner" section, i take it that the new map will still show up with the designation of "huge single system random map"?

Would that map then be available as the huge single system random map for all the mods or would i have to place the updated map in each individual mod to use it?

how do i make a mini mod that would work with lots of mods. It would just be a few mega maps with my increased artifacts planets and more extractors per small planets like the asteroids and moons.

yes, i did try to find this answer on the Idiot's guide to sins modding page before asking this question here.

thanks