Modding the Demo

Wydraz · #1 September 23rd, 2003, 02:45 AM

I know its probably not official, and likely a waste of time to mod the demo, but I want some practice before the full game appears on my doorstep.

In the 'DEMO!' thread, Aaron Hall said: "Most of the data files are not moddable."

So, which files ARE moddable?

Wydraz · #2 September 23rd, 2003, 03:23 AM

Anyway, the non-data files are moddable. The ships are skinnable. I just doubled the size of the player ship bitmap and changed the colors, and that works.

Now my ship can have some detailing!

[ September 23, 2003, 02:51: Message edited by: Wydraz ]

DeadZone · #3 September 24th, 2003, 06:12 PM

You can mod the campaign as I already have
Ive added an extra starting ship and have added a few new systems
Now Im gonna look into making the demo that extra bit harder to play

[ September 24, 2003, 17:12: Message edited by: DeadZone ]

Wydraz · #4 September 24th, 2003, 06:20 PM

Hmm... I wonder what Aaron was talking about, then.

And you want to make the game harder? Sheesh, I thought it was hard enough.

Maybe you can make the planets bigger? Maybe I'm spoiled by Freelander, where when you move close to a planet it fills your screen. SESF planets seem like beach balls by comparison.

Phoenix-D · #5 September 24th, 2003, 06:30 PM

heh. There are some exploits that make it easier. Ex: if you're attacking a starbase from close range, you can dock with it, repair, pop out and shoot it some more, then repeat until it dies.

DeadZone · #6 September 24th, 2003, 06:47 PM

It would appear tho that you cannot edit the CampaignData.txt file or the demo wont read the file.
This means that wot you can modify is extremely limited.

Edit: Skip that it is actually almost unmoddable

[ September 24, 2003, 18:02: Message edited by: DeadZone ]