custom ship names file

trooper · #1 September 17th, 2002, 03:49 PM

I've created a new race and in the ship design screen, the name drop down list box is empty.
I read somewhere that you can customize that with a text file, any info about that ?

geoschmo · #2 September 17th, 2002, 04:07 PM

When you create the race you have to select a design name file otherwise you get what you see here. You can also get the same thing if you select a design name file, but that file later gets deleted or renamed, or if you use that empire file to play a game on another pc that does not have that design name file. If you already started the game and you did not select a design name file you can't fix it during the game.

Geoschmo

Katchoo · #3 September 17th, 2002, 04:09 PM

Under the main SEIV directory is a subdirectory where you'll find pre-existing *.txt files such as "animals.txt" and "insects.txt" (for example). Just create your new text file and save it in this directory.

Hope I got this right

gregebowman · #4 September 17th, 2002, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by geoschmo:
When you create the race you have to select a design name file otherwise you get what you see here. You can also get the same thing if you select a design name file, but that file later gets deleted or renamed, or if you use that empire file to play a game on another pc that does not have that design name file. If you already started the game and you did not select a design name file you can't fix it during the game.

Geoschmo

Geoschmo, in my fooling around learning all of the AI, I noticed that you can go into the General AI file and designate the design name text file to whatever you want to. Is it possible once you do start a game to go into that file and change the name of the file you want to use?

Fyron · #5 September 17th, 2002, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gregebowman:

quote:
Originally posted by geoschmo:
When you create the race you have to select a design name file otherwise you get what you see here. You can also get the same thing if you select a design name file, but that file later gets deleted or renamed, or if you use that empire file to play a game on another pc that does not have that design name file. If you already started the game and you did not select a design name file you can't fix it during the game.

Geoschmo

Geoschmo, in my fooling around learning all of the AI, I noticed that you can go into the General AI file and designate the design name text file to whatever you want to. Is it possible once you do start a game to go into that file and change the name of the file you want to use?

You could change it, but it would not affect games in progress.