Modding SEV Thread Questions

[Phoenix-D]

Its just an icon that shows up when picking a game type in the main screen. You don't actually need it- if its not there SEV uses the default icon.

[Phoenix-D]

A few modding tricks:
If you have a lot of components, some of them might be obselete at high tech levels, and unlike SE4 it doesn't seem like you can get rid of them.

But this isn't correct. All components take formulas for their requirements, and those accept "less than" as an option. So you can make a component that disappears once some research level is reached, and a better replacement becomes available.

Say you want the Cannon to appear from levels 1-5 in Projectile Weapons, where its replaced by the DUC. You'd put this in the requirement field:
(Get_Empire_Tech_Level("Projectile Weapons") >= 1) AND (Get_Empire_Tech_Level("Projectile Weapons") <= 5)

the (s are important- they let SEV know where a funtion like Get_Empire_Tech_Level ends.

[Kana]

Phoenix-D said:
A few modding tricks:
If you have a lot of components, some of them might be obselete at high tech levels, and unlike SE4 it doesn't seem like you can get rid of them.

But this isn't correct. All components take formulas for their requirements, and those accept "less than" as an option. So you can make a component that disappears once some research level is reached, and a better replacement becomes available.

Say you want the Cannon to appear from levels 1-5 in Projectile Weapons, where its replaced by the DUC. You'd put this in the requirement field:
(Get_Empire_Tech_Level("Projectile Weapons") >= 1) AND (Get_Empire_Tech_Level("Projectile Weapons") <= 5)

the (s are important- they let SEV know where a funtion like Get_Empire_Tech_Level ends.

If I understand how this is working...

Do you think you could do this in the Vehicle Size file, in conjunction with other vehicle models...?

So basically for example, you have a Original series Star Treck Constitution class ship, and then when you get to a certain level of ship construction, you could upgrade to the Movie era ship image, yet they are all in the say class level of ship?

[Phoenix-D]

The old class should disappear, but your Upgrade button won't upgrade any ships to the new class.

Speaking of, let me check to make sure this doesn't cause problems..

EDIT: ok, with components it works fine. If you press Upgrade, the existing components are simply left on the ship. See the note below.

EDIT final:
Ok, it does work fine for ships; I just had the syntax on the forumla wrong.

A little note- once something is removed in this fashion, you can NOT use it in a new design, or upgrade a design that uses it. You must remove all the removed components to satisfy a "You have used technolgy our empire does not understand" warning.