Help with mods use please...

Fyron · #1 August 14th, 2003, 08:04 PM

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

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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 · #2 August 14th, 2003, 08:20 PM

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 · #3 August 14th, 2003, 09:08 PM

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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 · #4 August 15th, 2003, 12:21 AM

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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 · #5 August 15th, 2003, 03:00 AM

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.

Bonefish · #6 August 15th, 2003, 03:56 AM

Thanks Atrocities.

Ive had a look, and installed a few races. (very cool images). I had to cut and paste quite a few bits into other folders, but could see what was supposed to go where. If I find anything mate, I'll let you know, but its very obvious that theres a lot of time spent on these ship sets. They are superb.

Now my REAL problem is the TDM mod.
Ive installed the mod launcher prog.
Ive installed the TDM mod.

When I launch the game as default, I get the default races plus the new ones Im busy installing. Thats ok.
But when using the TDM mod I only get the basic game and the few extra races from the TDM pack. None of the other races Ive put in are showing up! Its like I can only have one or the other.

Do I need to cut the race folders (and any other files?) OUT of the TDM folder and put them in the default races folder? What about the other files? Should I delete the whole lot and play chess?

ok, not the Last bit... :-)

Fyron · #7 August 15th, 2003, 04:02 AM

When running a mod, only the races that are in the mod's Pictures\Races folder are used. What you can do is create empty folders for the races you want to be available in TDM into the TDM-Modpack\Pictures\Races folders. This will cause SE4 to be able to use that race when running TDM. As there are no files in the folder, SE4 will look in the default Races folder, and load the files from there.