Altarian Prophecy map editor complaints

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(I have the latest update from Stardock Central.)

The starfield background is distracting. I want solid black so I can clearly see the stars.

When you randomize the placement of planets, some of the yellow stars do not have size 15+ planets.

Biggest annoyance: the editor does not allow for configuring star density and occurrence of habitable planets.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
When I place Drath ships the game/map will not load, due to the difference between the Sprites used in the editor(the jpegs from the media lib?) and the "real" Drath ship models AP uses. Only ship ID 1-5 ,which is colony, scout, freighter,sensordrone and transport. The rest uses the older Minor race ID 7(?) --> crash at battleaxe,battleship,excalibur?
How about fixing/adjusting the drath.mdl and minorships.mdl ,e.g. minors start with race ID 8,9,10?

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
How do you get the big picture with the map editor. You can't even see an entire sector, only nine tiny spaces. Is there anyway to change this?
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Spacepundit, I've passed along your comments to the person who works on the editors.

MrKorx, I was able to load a game with the drath ships, but as you said, they are missing models for most of the ship classes.  I'm working on this now.

CaptainProton: either with your mousewheel if you have one, or with the + and - keys if you don't.

   

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
hmm, my loading probs with this sort of maps is reproduceable--at least on my system :sniff!:
I've uploaded 4 Drath ships, the ones from the media folder. Where are they?

Editor suggestion:

It would be nice to manually set the star density.
If I do not randomize the planets, it would be cool the "planetgenerator" was recognizing which planet you selected and sets an appropriate range of values for randomly added planets.
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Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
MrKorx: where did you upload them to?
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I've uploaded them yesterday to the ships main lib as well as 2 days ago the omega ship pack addon :SURPRISED:
But the graphix are sort of poor due to my private war on photoshop :d
I'll up them again
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Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
upped them again, I hope they gonna be there ;)
CariElf: Probably you could rename or move this thread to a new one called map editor suggestions or so?
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Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

We don't have the ability to move or rename threads. 

Probably your files are waiting for the moderator to approve them.

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, i'm having a different error on the map editor than the rest of you, but what happens to me is that the editor stops responding anytime i try to save a map that i've created.
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

Yarovich, can you please e-mail a dxdiag report along with a description of your problem to me at [email protected]

GoblinCookie: do you mean all the different classes? Because you could play the game with just those ships; those are all you really need to place on a map to set up a story.