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Reply #26 March 4, 2006 9:46:09 AM
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Yes, the patch will have overwritten GC2Types.xml. I'll whip up a new one and update it.
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Reply #27 March 4, 2006 9:46:47 AM
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Actually, the mods folder should be working now, in which case that won't be an issue anymore... hmmm...
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Reply #28 March 4, 2006 9:55:13 AM
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Thanks for the Mod Kryo. Experimenting now...
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Reply #29 March 4, 2006 10:01:36 AM
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Seems the mod folder isn't in yet, so installation procedure remains the same. It's updated for 1.0X now, so if you already had KHSM and got the patch yesterday, just redownload and replace GC2Types.xml again with the new version I've provided.
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Reply #30 March 4, 2006 10:20:34 AM
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/cry when will the mod folder finally work
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Reply #31 March 4, 2006 10:23:31 AM
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Also, I forgot to mention it but the mod adds fake colony, troop, trade, and constructor modules so you can make symmetrical versions of those ships. For the trade and constructor modules there is a left and right version since those ones are non-symmetrical themselves (models for both sides were included with the game, but never made available as jewelry).
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Reply #32 March 4, 2006 7:26:53 PM
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Here are a couple of designs I made in a recent game using the mod; the Snathi SenSphere Sensor Drone (does not use a hull at all, only jewelry) and the Snathi Pounches-class Colony Transport (uses multiple hulls as jewelry):
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Reply #33 March 4, 2006 10:33:25 PM
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First version caused CTD when in ship designer. Not sure if I want to install this again... it looks so cool...
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Reply #34 March 4, 2006 11:11:12 PM
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Considering some people have been getting ship design CTDs anyway and this doesn't add anything particularly new, I seriously doubt it was caused by the mod.
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Reply #35 March 5, 2006 12:13:50 AM
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I've never gotten a CTD. Except when I used your mod. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming you or anything. It's a cool mod but I don't think I can/will use it.
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Reply #36 March 8, 2006 11:46:00 AM
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Sonofa! So Kryo, hate to say it, but I think the 3-06-06 patch killed your mod again.
Funny thing though... when I patched, I could finish my current game with yu hull mod no problem. But once I started a new game, your mod seemed to be "gone."

Very strange.

Anyways, love the mod, love making ships even more with it... hope you keep it updated!
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Reply #37 March 8, 2006 11:28:36 PM
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I'll be very glad when Cari gets the mods folder working. The problem now is that when you patch, it overwrites the modded GC2Types.xml with the new patch version.

Until I update it again, you can simply copy the modded one back from the archive, but you'll lose whatever tweaks they made for the patch that werent in the last one.
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Reply #38 March 9, 2006 9:00:24 AM
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Kyro,

Is it possible (maybe when the mod folder is properly implemented) to have your mods append the official one rather than replacing it? I am fanatical about patching, but i'd hate to lose the advantages of your mod... Im even considering keeping a second copy of the game installed on a second computer JUST to build ships with your mod in case there is an upgrade before you can update your mod. If i recall correctly since with the latest update you can use ships in all subsequent patches... if i keep an older version of the game for your mod(i keep all the patches as they come out) i can transfer the ships to my fully patched game as i complete them... sort of a stand-alone shipbuilder so to speek. Im going to take a look at the guts of your mod when i get home to see if its even possible...



LOVE THE MOD, i have made some crazy ships with it!
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Reply #39 March 9, 2006 5:07:11 PM
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link is dead, any1 have a mirror?
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Reply #40 March 9, 2006 10:53:04 PM
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Did you try the library? thats where i got mine and I love this mod. it is awesome
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Reply #41 March 10, 2006 12:04:59 AM
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The link works fine--it just points to the mod on the metaverse library. I'll try and get it up-to-date for 1.0X(1) tomorrow.

Is it possible (maybe when the mod folder is properly implemented) to have your mods append the official one rather than replacing it?


That's exactly what will happen when it's working, and the reason I commented that I'd be glad when Cari got it done. Once we can use the mods folder there will simply be a file with only the mod changes in it that you put in the mod folder and activate in-game or something. As it is now, the only way to mod is to directly edit the game's data files and that puts us in the troublesome position of having to update for every patch, and having the mods nuked evey time users patch.
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Reply #42 March 10, 2006 12:10:29 AM
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Im going to take a look at the guts of your mod when i get home to see if its even possible...


FYI, all the mod consists of is a pile of new GC2Types.xml entries adding jewelry pieces that use the hull models, as well as fake versions of colony/constructor/trade/troop modules (for mirroring on your designs), and a "Blank" hull of each size that consists of a speck so small you can't see it with a single hardpoint attached. So it's really pretty simple, just a lot of grunt-work to make it.

If you want to use it with the latest version before I update it, just find the entry in the modded GC2Types.xml file for BlankCargo. Select that entry and everything after it except the closing GC2 tag in the file, and copy/paste them into the latest core GC2Types.xml file in the same place (just before the closing GC2 tag). That's all it takes, the models and such shouldn't have gone anywhere with the update.
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Reply #43 March 10, 2006 9:32:53 AM
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Updated for 1.0X.010 (finally). Get it from the posted link above, as it won't appear in the main listing until it gets reapproved again.

Also I'm glad to announce that KHSM is once again the most-downloaded GC2 mod in existence! yay!
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Reply #44 March 10, 2006 1:04:26 PM
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Can't wait to get home so I can check this out!
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Reply #45 March 12, 2006 6:30:28 PM
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This is still simply the best mod yet.. one question I notice this release seems to be missiong the rotate hardpoint forward,45 degrees, and 135 degrees extras what happend to thses and whill they be back heh..
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Reply #46 March 13, 2006 5:16:38 PM
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It is curious as to why those things are not in the normal game... I've only seen them when I had a working version of Kryo's mod installed. But even now, the items are missing.
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Reply #47 March 13, 2006 5:36:49 PM
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They're in the data file but commented out... must have missed them when I did a patch update.
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Reply #48 March 15, 2006 8:10:53 PM
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So un coment them out and it will work? (i always modify a mod with caution especially one this useful heh)
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Reply #49 March 17, 2006 4:15:43 PM
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As I recall they're already there in the base GC2Types.xml. If you comment them out they will be back, unless they got cleaned up in one of the recent patches. I certainly didn't make them myself.

At any rate, it seems the devs figured out how to handle free-form rotation of parts, so the whole hardpoint rotation attachments thing will soon be moot (yay).
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Reply #50 March 20, 2006 6:57:38 PM
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D. Kryo,


I would only ask for one thing.... Can you put all the blank hulls and blank ship componenets in one section only... they are all over the place and kinda hard to work around... the one thing I do not like about the ship designer is that I can't re-organize the components and it makes it really hard when I have to scroll all the way through them all.


Thanks.
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