File Description
This is another pack of celetial bodies by Twitch. I think you are gonna have to look at a picture of these to see what they are, cause they are descriptionless. From Earth-like worlds, to Glacier worlds, to Geidi Prime-like worlds, this is an awesome addition to the game.
Screenshots
Readme
12 Globes by Twitch - simdoktor@aol.com All of these planets are armed with a 4000 meter range planet phaser. All my planets will be armed from now on and you can use the examples here to arm any planet. I use 50000x50000 maps mostly so you can change the range of the weapon for smaller maps in fpphas, p4phot & ppulse.odf. Armed planets really change the game and the AI uses them pretty well. I've added a planet pulse phaser on a couple of these planets with the same power and range as the phaser along with long-range photons topredoes. I had a difficult time to get planets to have weapons. First was the use of the Borg Sphere?s SOD with hardpoints scaled up. I had to fool around with the enclosed files to get it all to work. I?m still not certain if all the changes I made are absolutely necessary but it does work this way and affects nothing else. The station.odf may not really help but it is enclosed. It has resource ability and range of site added. The planet odf can over ride the station.odf on ones you may do. The station.odf will give all your stations a long scan range but resources only if you designate it in the actual odf. So it will not hurt anything to include it then all stations will have long range scan ability. The planet.odf is modified to allow weapons, alert, combat, have resources and partly give the planet a facility definition. Special weapons are possible but they do not work well with the AI using them even with the special energy added. The regular weapons are plenty potent. Many of the planets now have planet cloaks. The AI does not seem to use them but the player controlled planets will. If you cloak the planets they lose their red alert status when uncloaked and you must restore it or they get dumb and lazy if you leave them on their own. When cloaked they will never be seen by ship with out cloak detecting equipment. If you cloak your orbiter and add CloakEnable = 1 at the bottom of the gorbitalbeam.odf file you can mine while cloaked from a cloaked planet! The AI will usually not let the planet cloak when you hit the claok icon until it has reached max population but sometimes will. If you have lots of planets like I do you can just add more "named planets" file names to the e_planet.odf file like this: menuTitle = "Planets" buildItem1 = "ep_stand.odf" buildItem2 = "ep_named.odf" buildItem3 = "ep_named1.odf" buildItem4 = "ep_named2.odf" buildItem5 = "ep_named3.odf" buildItem6 = "ep_named4.odf" So whether you have this one extra group of planets (it would be ep_named1.odf) or more, the above layout works by changing the number to the next in sequence to your e_planet.odf. The example enclosed is ep_named11.odf If you have a lot of planets and want to keep planet types together you can put something like- menuTitle = "H & L Class Planets" in the heading in the ep_namedx.odf depending on what type of planets they are- Class D, H, M, K, L & J. This makes for easier map making so you do not have to search through many ep_namedx.odf lists. It will show types in the planet menu when you press F10. FILES ENCLOSED ODF/OTHER e_planet.odf -the above sample file is enclosed ep_named11.odf -lists the enclosed planets -change # as needed ODF/STATIONS cacta.odf cim.odf targa.odf pampa.odf jawal.odf zolon.odf chill.odf dot.odf buxux.odf gris.odf retreat.odf tyrol.odf planet.odf station.odf ODF/WEAPONS/PHASERS fpphas.odf fpphaso.odf ODF/WEAPONS/PHOTONS p4phot.odf pphotno.odf ODF/WEAPONS/PULSE ppulse.odf ppulseo.odf SOD cacta.sod cim.sod targa.sod pampa.sod jawal.sod zolon.sod chill.sod dot.sod buxux.sod gris.sod retreat.sod tyrol.sod TEXTURES/RGB cacta1.tga, cacta2.tga cim1.tga, cim2.tga targa1.tga, targa2.tga pampa1.tga, pampa2.tga jawal1.tga, jawal2.tga zolon1.tga, zolon2.tga chill1.tga, chill2.tga dot1.tga, dot2.tga buxux1.tga, buxux2.tga gris1.tga, gris2.tga retreat1.tga, retreat2.tga tyrol1.tga, tyrol2.tga wpulse.tga -This changes the pulse sprite color on many ships so don't use if you like the original. As always, these mods are not Activision official stuff so proceed with care. Back up files 1st & manually add these. To uninstall delete these and put originals back in. They can be used in any mod that does not have a modded station.odf or planet.odf file. Even then just add the lines I put in and it should work. You can use any of my files in any form you want- I don't care about credit on anything you may use- just have fun!
Comments on this File
There are no comments yet. Be the first!