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Racially Based Starting Points

September 12, 2010 6:52:23 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Well, I have dipped into making maps. Much simpler and more satisfying for me. I have, however, a problem.

 

I am making a map for Sacrifice of Angels and require that the races start at set planets. IE, I have  Borg Homeworld. How do I ensure that, whoever players the Borg, whether is be player 0, 1, 2, whatever...how do I ensure that the player playing as the borg starts always at the designated Bory Homeworld on the map?

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Reply #1 September 12, 2010 7:02:24 PM
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you would have to study the coding under the map entity files, not sure entirely if it is possible or not or even how to do it

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Reply #2 September 12, 2010 7:16:38 PM
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Where do I find the entity files for the maps? GameInfo?

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Reply #3 September 12, 2010 7:21:21 PM
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galaxy folder

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Reply #4 September 12, 2010 7:30:44 PM
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another suggestion is to turn off randomize starting positions in galaxyforge before you save the map, which will set the player start # to the planet only, otherwise you have to spawn the ships for the player at the planet and have the default start as no ships spawned, but that could cause the instant win/defeat and gets quite messy

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Reply #5 September 12, 2010 7:32:47 PM
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yeah that could be done but you couldn't have the random placements if that is what Carl is looking for

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Reply #6 September 12, 2010 7:42:31 PM
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Quoting harpo99999,
reply 4
another suggestion is to turn off randomize starting positions in galaxyforge before you save the map, which will set the player start # to the planet only, otherwise you have to spawn the ships for the player at the planet and have the default start as no ships spawned, but that could cause the instant win/defeat and gets quite messy

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Yes I have done that. But what happens then is if player 1(Federation) Chooses a different race...he is still the Federation only with the picture set for the race he chose.

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Reply #7 September 12, 2010 8:07:21 PM
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This is from the Celestial Bodies Sol System map. There are 2 players, one of which is UN or United Nations.

planetCount 25
planet
    designName "SolSystem_Terra"
    inGameName "Terra"
    type "SolSystemTerra"
    pos [ 240 , 249 ]
    owner "UN"
    isHomePlanet TRUE

 

The "owner" is linked to players at the bottom of the map.

playerCount 2
player
    designName "UN"
    inGameName "United Nations"
    overrideRaceName "Tech"
    teamIndex -1

You could try messing with those values to see what will work but I am not a map maker. Try the designName from the SOA2 GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef in its place and see what happens.

But these planets are different and not just Terran_Home. "SolSystem_Terra" is a separate planet added by celestial bodies.

 

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