can I select how many asteroids with resources (and eventually which resources) are spawned near a planet?

aw. I noticed, not in the galaxy forge.

so I'd need to make a new planet type for each variation I'd like to have.. very impractical, if I might say.

thanks think it's going to happen, a version 4?

heh. better than nothing, I guess.

You don't, the Z-axis position of planets is entirely random. If it seemed like that in SoGE it was pure coincidence.

What type of unit?

some mods had six(do not know if there is a maximum limit for types of strikecraft) different strikecraft with each type ship having up to 4 (actual limit from number of slots in user interface) different strikecraft, and this was even so back in vanilla with vanilla mods, along with entrenchment and diplomacy, and it might even be possible for each ship type to have four unique strikecraft in each race on a mod, BUT you would be getting close to the ram limits and mesh limits, so might not be a good idea.

and ALL the ship names/class names go in the english.str file

harpo

1 all ship names and the descriptions are in the english.str file(the strings file)

there ARE four hardcode limits in strings, ALL to do with names, and  confirmed by blair fraser, the hardcodes ARE

max number of planet names =512

max number of star names = 512

max number of starbase names =512

max number of capitalship names =512

the confirmation was by email back in july/august 2009, when I was creating the sins stringer (string file editor that burnt out my programming)

as far as the number of strikecraft TYPES it is possible for each capital, cruiser, frigate,(and for rebellion titan) starbase & hangar to field four different strikecraft types EACH(there are four strikecraft type button locations for each ship/hangar/starbase), eg ent/dip 5 caps,9 cruisers & 9 frigates could have a total of 5x4+9x4+9x4+4+4(+4) =100(104) different types of strikecraft per race, BUT as each different strikecraft is another mesh AND texture(textures might be able to be merged together)(and I seem to remember reading that rebellion had a mesh limit of about 800(in diplomacy and earlier it was only 400), but can not locate the location for the rebellion limits and as the stock game has 414 meshes in it the limit MUST be higher than ent/dip's 400).

hope this helps

harpo

The english.str file is straight up Notepad.

trying to select a determined asteroid count and planet bonuses for each planet in a custom map. since the galaxy forge does not allow it, I tried editing the galaxy file as a txt file.

changing asteroidcount to anything higher than 0, howver, makes the map unloadable and the game crash.

what about determining planet bonuses for individual planets in a map?

what's bonii?

can you explain the process more in-depth?

I have it. but it does not work at all.