Thanks for your tips! During the next weeks I will re-work parts of the tree and will probably make it even bigger, and then I can make better pics. But first I have to complete my current game, and this can take a very long time with my custom race :LOL: The game lasts nearly 20 years now, and I just got my first fighters ;p , but I really like to play this game that slow.
Ok, you guys could be true :NOTSURE: I don't think that I will make any more grouping, because most of the techs already are grouped. Nearly every tech you can see in the screenshot is a group of 3+ techs, sometimes even 10 techs! And what's wrong with my screenshot?
Hmm, you're right there. But why is my techtree working now? I'm sure it was no typo or whatever, because the only thing I did was deleting some lines, and an eventuall typo should still be there. And when my techtree was 150KB big, I could add as many techs as I want in the editor (so a typo is not possible) but those techs didn't show up ingame. Ok, the lines I have deleted are important, but not to me. I usually play with tech-trade and tech-stealing off, so I don't need the
They are not really useless, but they are not very important. I mean lines like "Willingness to trade" or "Can be stolen" and so on.
This is what my techtree looks now: How I made this? I don't think there is a real limit of techs, the problem is the file size. Normal techtrees are somewhat about 50KB, but min
The race this tree belongs to develops very slow, is very weak in the beginning and unstopable in the end. And this techtree is supposed to represent this, thats why it has to be VERY large :HOT: You are right, there has to be a limit, but hopefully I havn't already reched it. But I think I should be able to add a few more techs, because it seemed as if I had reached the cap a while ago, but then I have just re-arranged the techs in the file and so I was able to add about 100
My custom techtree got larger and larger during the last weeks, but now it seems as if I reached the cap. I can add as many new techs as I want in the editor (or manualy), but they won't show up ingame. Here's a pic: <img src="http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3897/techoc7.9cb9c4756
Yeah! I found the problem! Adamantium Armor required Adamantium II, its own future tech :SURPRISED: But the thing is, I never changed any of the defense techs and all of a sudden they change themselves :p . Quite strange.
I have got one BIG Problem with the custom techtrees: Since TA release I made a techtree for my custom race, and everything worked fine. But since today, the techtree won't work anymore. When I try to start a game with this techtree, the game crashes X-( I havn't done anything special with it today, just added some new techs. I have already deleted these new techs, but it still doesn't work. I don't really know what to do now, because I don't want to play this game without this techtree, but
I havn't really played TA yet, so I can't say much about the gameplay. But there are two things I really would like: 1)Better editors! Not to say the existing ones are bad, but they could be better. For example the tech tree editor. It is really annoying to make all the weapons and defens technologies. It would be really cool to copy a tech from one tech editor into another tech editor, and a lot of easier. A starting starsystem editor would also be nice. 2)The
I found some Terror star files, copied them to DA and did other strange things. And finally I got a ship with the terror star model.
You're right. Actually I'm happy about it, cause if those files weren't in the Beta, I wouldn't know that they will re-work some of the ship styles. But only they know if they really wanted to leave those files in the Beta or if they just forgot them.
The "create custom ship style" option is only for the AI opponents. This means if you edit your opponents, through this option you can edit their ship style. For Instance: You want the Yor (or the Snathi or whatever) to have cube ships. You have to design those cube ships in the shipyard, save them and then edit the Yor (in the "choose opponents" window there is an edit button next to the enable/disable button). And now the button will no longer be grayed out, and you can now tell them to us
[quote] though it may be more realistic to just expect the really ugly ones to be fixed [/quote] I thought so, cause all those ships I managed to get into DA had an older and much uglier counterpart (this means uglier textures and/or less detailed models). But I still have one question: Why are those files in the Beta? The
I mean re-work, sorry, I come from Austria, so English is not my mother-tongue.
Ever asked yourself what those S2_Tiny-Small_01... files in the Twilight/GFX/Models directory are for? I did, cause I hav never seen those textures ingame. So I copied them to Dark Avatar, and did other strange things I can't remember now, and here are the results:
In Beta 1 those things are not included. Edit: Argh! Kryo was faster.
I think I will have to wait for a while, cause I preordered it yesterday. Oh, I'm getting tired (it's 00:35am here in Austria).
I'm still waiting too, and I think I will have to wait even longer cause I preordered it yesterday. Thats gona bee a long long night, its already 00:31am here in Austria.
I tried it with yahoo, and it seems to work. Although I havn't got an answer so far, but only some hours have past. I would really like to know if you received my mail, the adress is stefan.stardock"at"yahoo.com. Edit: Unfortunately both, gmail and yahoo, don't work.
Argh! I just got a confusing mail from gmail, it told me it wasn't able to send the mail to [email protected]! I will try it with yahoo.
Ok, I made a new adress and sent the same mail again (with a link to this topic). I think I will get the TA serial, cause I got every mail from [email protected] so far(in contrast to [email protected]).
Thats bad ! I hope I will receive the mail with the TA serial-number . Should I make a new email-adress? And if yes where (cause I don't want to make a new one just to see that it also doesn't work)? What exactly should I do now?
I havn't received a mail by now, so if the ticket ID is the number in the mail I should have got from [email protected] I can't post it. I thought something must have went wrong, cause 1 week is unusual for stardock, although it would be okay, cause you are working on TA at the moment. But I'm glad you are trying to help me kryo .
If they really release it at the end of the day, I will have to stay up long, cause I live in Austria (where it's already 10:20am). But the beta is more than worthy a day without sleep. I'm glad I don't have to go to school today and tomorrow.
