Help with mods use please...

[Bonefish]

Hi Atrocities.

Thankyou. I believe its one of your race packs I have too. Im very impressed. All the ship sets Ive seen have been very good.
With the new AI thats 'attatched' to each race, I hope im not installing any lunatics I cant deal with !
That said, I guess I can use a ship picture set, but give it the default AI that Ive seen in the file list, when starting a new game. Its been a bit odd getting used to the different ways se4 works after se3, but it all seems very well done and very smooth.

[Bonefish]

Wow. Loads of replies. Many thanks fellas.
I'll go and look up the newbie FAQs and see what I can learn.

Thanks again guys.

Bonefish.

[Fyron]

You can find an updated Version of the Mod Launcher *here*.

Originally posted by bonefish:
2 - how can I specify how many races/empires will be in the game as well as myself. I cant seem to find the option, and when i try to make my own empire up, it only comes uop as a pc contolled one.

1) Navigate to the folder where you installed SE4.
2) Go into the Data folder.
3) Open the file Settings.txt.
4) Look for this line:
Minimum Computer Player Low Setting := 1
5) By changing the numbers on this line and the next 5 similar lines, you can control how many empires there will be when you pick Low, Medium and High numbers of computer players in the Players screen when starting a game up.
6) You can also change how many Neutral Empires there will be. Neutrals never expand beyond their home system, and always have 1 homeworld, no matter how many starting planets you select. Note that SE4 will NEVER add more than 5 of them, no matter what you set the settings to for them.

[ August 14, 2003, 19:09: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Bonefish]

Excellent. Ive had a read, (i'll be coming back to that help file again, its a great help), and Im off to install some races. Thanks guys.

Bonefish.

[Suicide Junkie]

1 - when I tried to unzip a race file, all the files came out in one big list, and not in its own folder. I think it was the one called "starship".

Were you just dragging the files out of winzip, or were you using the "Extract" function?

Extract will retain the directory/folder structure, while dragging puts all the files in the place you dragged them to.

[oleg]

Originally posted by bonefish:
1 - when I tried to unzip a race file, all the files came out in one big list, and not in its own folder. I think it was the one called "starship".
Cheers.

That' an indication of sloppy zip file setup. Mind you, all my zip files are like this

Move all *.bmp and *._AI.txt files to the /pictures/races/"thar race name" folder. Move .emp files to /empires folder. Move "racename".txt -or something like this that is basically a column of names - to /designnames folder.

That' how to clean up this rather typical race_unzipping mess.

[Atrocities]

bonefish glad to have you on the forum and playing the game.

If any race set that you get from my site or that I have published does not extract to its on folder please let me know. They should all extract to a self named folder.

All of the races I have available need to be extracted to your Space Empires IV / Pictures / Race folder. That is where all of the races are located.

All of my races, say for the current illuminati, have 3 emp files and Design names included with them. Simply copy and past the EMP files to the Empires folder in you main Space Empires IV directory, and the design name (Normally named just the race) to the DesignNames folder lockaed in the main Space Empires IV directory.

Best of luck, and watch out for the Cardassians.