Custom ships and map editor

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Ok I have no doubt that this question has already been asked and answered a million times, except so far I havent been sure whether the questions and answers Ive been reading mean what I think they do. Anyhoo....

 

Trying to create a little portion of the Honorverse for my own enjoyment. I went into a game, designed all the ships I could ever need, went to mapmaker, played around for a while creating the universe, then hit a snag.

I want to create a set up such as just after the second book (Look up David Weber and the Honorverse if you dont know what Im talking about), but to do this I need to put significant numbers of my ship designs on the map. So far I cant find them anywhere in the editor. They have been sent to templates I just cant find them in the map editor to put them somewhere. I have looked around the forums for about an hour but cant find anything that Im certain answers this specific question.

I also want a way to create wormholes. There are anomalys which send you across the galaxy to random locations, so how do I take this function and make it constant, and maybe apply new graphics?

 

Thanks for your help. No doubt there will be more questions to follow. Please assume you are talking to someone with the technical knowledge of a small south african doormouse.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

there is no way to decide what anomalies will go where. It's totally random...as it should be. As for the ships on the map, you cannot place custom ships with the editor, but if you edit the map in notepad, textpad etc. you can add or change any ships on the map.

here's the code for adding a ship:

Code: xml
  1. <Ship Name="Ship Name">
  2.         <X>X Coordinate</X>
  4.         <Y>Y Coordinate</Y>
  5.         <Type>Template</Type>
  6.         <Owner># of the team that owns the ship</Owner>
  7.     </Ship>

Note: Ship name is the name of that specific ship on the map. Template is the actual ship you're using.

 

have fun!


-Dave

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Thank you dave. Where in the notepad doc do I put these lines? Can I add several ships at once? I want to place at least a hundred. I dont want the anomaly so much as I want what it does. Is there no way to either give them respawn time or turn this effect into something other than an anomaly? The anomaly shows the game engine allows it, I want something rather more permanent.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

you can add as many of those as you want anywhere in the file as long is it's within the opening and closing tags of the document.

 

-Dave

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I believe the 'Anomaly_WormHole' thingy you'd want control over is not exactly possible since the game engine generates these (or any event related elements, btw) ONLY at runtime while the game is lapsing the regular turns. At pure random pace too - in fact.

 

There would certainly be an indirect way to provide such a feature though, but that involves HUGE editing of the source code itself and i don't think anyone outside SD staff has access to the program - furthermore compiling a working and genuine valid version.