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Modding Planets in DA

January 11, 2007 4:44:56 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
So... Here's what I want to do:
I would like to mod Venus so that it is a toxic world with few usable tiles unless heavily modified. This would allow for a mid game extra sol planet-- if the player wants to invest heavily into it's teraforming. The question is: what do I add to the CustomPlanets.xml file to make this happen?
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Reply #1 January 11, 2007 5:25:27 PM
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DA supports a new tag for picking the special environment types in CustomPlanets.xml: <PlanetType> </PlanetType>. Just add that tag to the planet definition, and give ita  value from the following list:

HabitableByAll
HeavyGravity
Aquatic
Toxic
Barren
Radioactive

That will make the planet the type you specified.

To make it very improvable, you would give the TerrainPalette tag a value corresponding to an entry in PlanetDescriptions.xml with a high EnhancementPotential value (or make a new one that does).
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Reply #2 January 11, 2007 6:15:17 PM
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That's great info, thanks! I'm not sure I follow that last paragraph, though...
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Reply #3 January 11, 2007 6:21:29 PM
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See Cari's modding guide (stickied in the Modding forum) for that stuff--that last bit is the same as it was in regular GC2.
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Reply #4 January 11, 2007 6:29:25 PM
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I have been. Or trying at least. I'm sure I'm not doing it right...

How many different files am I supposed to be editing?
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Reply #5 January 11, 2007 6:47:52 PM
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Oh: and is it possible to make a planet both (say) heavy grav. and aquatic?
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Reply #6 January 11, 2007 6:52:11 PM
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You should only need to change CustomPlanets.xml at the very least. If you don't want to edit anything else, just set the TerrainPalette setting to DesertPlanets1 since that's the one with the highest improvability (40%).

Editing PlanetDescriptions.xml (located in the base Data dir rather than Data/English like most files) will let you make a new entry with even higher improvability, as well as specifying the color scheme used to paint the map you see on the planet screen. The color schemes are in turn defined in TerrainColorSchemes.xml.
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Reply #7 January 11, 2007 6:52:24 PM
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Oh: and is it possible to make a planet both (say) heavy grav. and aquatic?


No.
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Reply #8 January 11, 2007 7:07:42 PM
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Thanks a bunch! I'm gonna have some fun with this...
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