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Start-Planets

March 30, 2011 10:27:34 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Hi

 

how can i modify the start-planets (for expample i want now Desert Planets as Homeplanet, and not Terran Planet) if i make my own Galaxy with the Map Designer? I searched already in the GalaxyScenarioDef file but found nothing.

I know i can do this with Forge Galaxy, but is there no possibilty for the Map Designer too?

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Reply #1 March 30, 2011 5:27:49 PM
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There is an option for when you're choosing the type of planet in a particular cluster to be Desert- Home.

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Reply #2 March 30, 2011 8:18:52 PM
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Technically, you can set any planet to be a home planet. Just set IsHomePlanet to True in the Ownership tab. Be warned, planets other than TerranHome and DesertHome may have planet bonuses on them, this is the only difference between them and the stock planets.

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Reply #3 March 31, 2011 4:18:55 AM
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I need the name of the files where i can edit?

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Reply #4 March 31, 2011 4:46:08 AM
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There are no files to edit...  When you're in the galaxy forge, select the planet, in the toolbox, pick the planet type you want the planet to be, there is a section called Ownership with two items under it.  IsHomePlanet and Owner.  Set IsHomePlanet to True like Lavo_2 already said, but you also have to set the Owner to one of the players.

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Reply #5 March 31, 2011 4:53:21 AM
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I know how to handle galaxy forge its very simple, but if you read my first posting i want know how to change it in the _Map Designer_ and for that changing i must edit a entity file, but which is the question.

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Reply #6 March 31, 2011 6:13:12 AM
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Well, you can't do custom with the map designer...  The only way around it I think would be to switch the names of the  PlanetDesertHome.entity and PlanetTerranHome.entity files and see if that works.

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Reply #7 March 31, 2011 5:59:32 PM
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I thought of the correct way to fix it just after I shut my PC down last night after answering this...  Soooooo, yeah, here you go.

 

You need to go to your map designer folder after you've created your map and search out the galaxy files you want to change.  Open them up with something like wordpad.  Near the tops you will see this section:

randomizerParams
    starPosOffsetRange
        minPercentage 10.0
        maxPercentage 15.0
    playerParams
        startingCredits 3000
        startingMetal 800
        startingCrystal 250   
        homePlanetType "TerranHome"
        homePlanetStarRadiusRange
            minPercentage 1
            maxPercentage 1.1   
        areExtraPlanetsColonized FALSE
        extraPlanetsMaxRadius 15
        extraPlanetsRadiusRange
            minPercentage 0.9
            maxPercentage 1.0       
        extraPlanetGroupCount 2
        extraPlanetGroup
            minCount 1
            maxCount 1
            planetTypeCount 1
            planetType "Asteroid"
        extraPlanetGroup
            minCount 1
            maxCount 1
            planetTypeCount 1
            planetType "RandomIceVolcanic"

 

Change TerranHome to DesertHome (Green Line).  Depending on if you run any mods, you can also change the Asteroid (Yellowish line) and RandomIceVolcanic (Light Purple line) to other more sought after types as well as adding more types (Red line number changed followed by a copy and paste of all of the purple the appropriate amount of times) ensuring you know what your closest whatever number would be.

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Reply #8 March 31, 2011 6:07:50 PM
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Quoting Darthxeion,
reply 5
I know how to handle galaxy forge its very simple, but if you read my first posting i want know how to change it in the _Map Designer_ and for that changing i must edit a entity file, but which is the question.

Well the easiest way to do it would be to change all HomeTerran planets to point to a different type of planet. This would effect all maps where the HomeTerran planet is used, including the map designer, but you could just turn this feature on or off with a mod.

To do that find this in the galaxysenariodef file.

planetType
    designName "TerranHome"
    designStringId "IDSGalaxyScenarioTypePlanetTerranHome"
    orbitBodyTypeCount 1
    orbitBodyType "TerranHome" #Change to the planet (defined in orbit body type section) of your choice.

Quoting Stant123,
reply 7
You need to go to your galaxy folder in your original Sins install directory and search out the eight random galaxy files. Open them up with something like wordpad. Near the tops you will see this section:

Are you sure the Random maps have anything to do with the built in map designer?

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Reply #9 March 31, 2011 6:25:57 PM
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I had edited and changed that while you were typing yours up. 

 

I was looking at one of the random maps to pull the info from and then just lost focus and went off on a tangent so to speak.

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Reply #10 April 1, 2011 12:23:08 PM
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great thx! helped me very much!

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