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Post by apricotslice » Mon, 11. Oct 10, 06:47

I dont have a model viewer either. The one on the sticky refused to install saying it was corrupted or something.

Edit :

I just looked at the original file and 2 mod files, using winmerge, and neither of the mod files have any resemblance to the original. :(

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Post by TrixX » Mon, 11. Oct 10, 07:17

Model Viewer works fine here. Just need to put the right dll's in the right place (think it's system32 from memory, or that was the X3 Editor 1...)


Try opening it in NP++ and use the compare function. That'll highlight every difference pretty easily.

Also bod files can either contain data or data pointers. For instance the ships have the body file and the scene file. First contains the ship data and the second contains pointers to everything the ship uses including the body.
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Post by apricotslice » Mon, 11. Oct 10, 07:21

I've no idea what NP++ is. :(

Model viewer just said it was corrupt and refused to load.

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Post by TrixX » Mon, 11. Oct 10, 07:36

Notepad++

Very useful app for editing :)

Re-download the Model Viewer, I had a corrupt download the first time.
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Post by Ketraar » Mon, 11. Oct 10, 11:05

Use Sunblades bod, it has all sectors already, no need to duplicate efforts if not really needed.

Its listed in the community list.

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Post by apricotslice » Mon, 11. Oct 10, 11:21

Thanks for the suggestion. :)

I'd been working around it using 3 existing sectors, so once they are working as I want, I'll try reverting to adding new sectors and using that bod.

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Post by apricotslice » Mon, 11. Oct 10, 15:45

Beta Test uploaded.

I've used 3 of the lesser pirate sectors, linking them to 14 sectors around the Universe.

Download from my download site, http://apricotmappingservice.com/X3TCdownloads/

File X3TC-Apricot-Tree-SuperHub.

Install as a mod, or rename the mod files to a number and install as the last false patch.

Changes the Text names of 3 Pirates sectors.

To create a SuperHub, link the 2 gates in Apricot Tree 2, to 2 of the Gate pairs in the Hub, and most of the traffic going through all 3 sectors will pass through the Hub as well.

Please test and let me know what you think, and any problems you can find. I still have some testing to do myself, but it will have to wait until tomorrow now.

All comments welcome.

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Post by StarCrack » Mon, 11. Oct 10, 19:19

whats the file extension (zip, spk, rar ) ?

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Post by apricotslice » Tue, 12. Oct 10, 02:06

Its a zip.

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Post by apricotslice » Tue, 12. Oct 10, 08:12

Updated to v1.02.

Version information, and more information generally included in the OP.

Sorry about the first file, I didnt notice the lack of a zip extension. Fixed now for the 1.02 version.

Only 1 known issue left, the voice naming using old names as you jump in, which when I find a fix, shouldnt need a restart.

If anyone can find issues with the gates, now is a good time, as fixing the gates in any way will require a game restart.

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Post by Ketraar » Tue, 12. Oct 10, 11:08

Use the MD power to change sector ID "on the fly".

<set_sector_override textid=""/>

Assigning an ID from page 7

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Post by apricotslice » Wed, 13. Oct 10, 07:27

minor update to v1.02.

Script change to stop the sectors becoming overrun with advanced satelites. :oops:

Redownload the v1.02 zip. Does not require a restart.

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Post by apricotslice » Fri, 15. Oct 10, 02:19

Notes :

I'm liking the way this is working on the game.

By making crossing the universe much quicker, I'm finding some interesting effects.

Trade is much more effective, because traders can now find the products stations want and get them there much faster.

The races are interreacting much more. Because the Tree creates shortcuts that join race space within a few jumps, and so I'm finding whole fleets of a different race traversing sectors (and often shooting the locals as they go). And this is without race response or improved races scripts of any kind. There is now a lot of fleet movement going on. At the moment, I have a Paranid fleet in CBSE heading north, for no apparent reason, and the locals are bailing out in droves as they progress, so they are obviously shooting.

Race fleets are turning up in the xenon sectors a lot. I've never seen this before. Now I'm seeing an M1 or M2, with M7 support and a dozen or so various fighters, not only entering the Xenon sectors, but actively engaging the xenon. The only thing they dont do is trash the stations.

This last was really unexpected, since I deliberately chose to gate sectors away from the xenon sectors, so the xenon would not find migrating easier. But it seems to allow race fleets access to the xenon sectors where before they were too far away.

Oddly, I'm not getting as much traffic through the Hub as I expected, which seems to indicate that the Tree has radically changed the directions that ships are taking. Instead of going through a gate to get to the sector on the other side, they are going through to go somewhere different. On the other hand, my Trading Dock in the hub is doing good business after I stock it up each time.

Something I tried to be different was that I thought the Hub itself should be capable of generating ecells (given the look through the gaps), so I set it to always remain full, and set to 12. So far, no sales at all, which surprised me. But there is a price of 12 within 3 jumps, so obviously the tree now joins with a sector 1 jump from a major ecell production sector. (Might have to find it and do some subtle sabotage lol)

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Post by StarCrack » Fri, 15. Oct 10, 02:29

so what do i need to do if anything to get this to work with DDTC wich adds a sector

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Post by apricotslice » Fri, 15. Oct 10, 04:12

I've just looked at DDTC, and it is much more than adding a sector. The map is very extensively changed.

I could add my changes into the DDTC map, but I dont know what the repercussions of doing so would be. There is at least 1 station change in Farnams Legend for example, and I remove all stations and roids from that sector.

What I have done is pretty basic.

Put it this way. If you are happy to lose everything in Farnam's Legend, Bala Gi's Joy and Olmankalots Treaty, I can cut and paste my sectors into the DDTC map replacing whats there, and give you a false patch to use after DDTC as a false patch, or as a map file to unzip into the maps folder to override the mod (whichever you prefer).

But if those sectors are important to DDTC (especially if a unique station is only in one of those sectors), then its probably better you ask one of the DDTC team to merge my map into theirs, rearranging their sectors so it works, releasing that as a patch to DDTC. (send me a copy to host as well). At a guess, they will need to move all roids and stations to outside the ring of gates, since the traffic between the gates is such that the whole internal area should be clear. Since I'm unfamiliar with DDTC, its not something I really want to mess with, and moving all the roids and stations is reasonable job, which is why I deleted everything in the first place.

If someone on the DDTC team (or any mod team) would like to use this idea within their mod, all I ask is that you keep the Apricot Tree sector names, and send me a copy of the modified map file, so I can host it next to mine.
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Post by TrixX » Fri, 15. Oct 10, 04:14

What about using 3 new sectors and link them to the mentioned sectors?
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Post by StarCrack » Fri, 15. Oct 10, 04:20

thanks for the reply i'll get on them

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Post by apricotslice » Fri, 15. Oct 10, 04:26

StarCrack wrote:thanks for the reply i'll get on them

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Post by apricotslice » Fri, 15. Oct 10, 04:29

TrixX wrote:What about using 3 new sectors and link them to the mentioned sectors?
So far, I havent been successful in adding new sectors.

I guess thats the next step. It was easier to prototype using existing sectors than to work out everything to do with new ones. Now I've some expereince with modifying sectors, maybe adding new ones will be easier. I'll have to see.

If I can get new sectors into the game, then that will make merging much easier, assuming that any mod doesnt already use a sector I choose.

My preference for new sectors is 12,8, 13,7 and 13,9, being the 3 sectors adjacent to the Hub sector.

Does DDTC use any of them ? (Or any other mod for that matter ?)

By moving the Tree sectors, the 3 used now would return to normal. I basically chose them, because they didnt seem to have any real significance to anyone/race/plot in TC.
StarCrack wrote:thanks for the reply i'll get on them
Worth asking the question to see what they say. But I will give creating new sectors another go, and as long as DDTC doesnt use the sectors I choose, then adding the new ones is just a matter of pasting in 3 sectors and then changing 14 gates.

I'll see how I go. New sectors would be best all round, and since I can now see the idea working, its worth while making the effort to make new sectors for this.

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Post by StarCrack » Fri, 15. Oct 10, 04:37

the only sector thet DDTC ads is west of heretics end north of Elysium of light

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