[MOD] Complex Cleaner v4.09 / Modular Complexes (TC 3.2 / AP 1.1)

[Ashley_daniels]

Hi Guys, i am posting on behalf of a very fave uncle who has recently become hopelessly besotted to gameplay around X3tc and is experiencing heavy lag on the frame rates due to massive amounts of factorys in each sector.

He noticed that (Gazz`s) complex cleaner would sort the problem out but is completely computer illiterate and so is unable to install the complex cleaner mod and as i have a very very basic computer knowledge i have been asked to install it but i have not played X3.

I was wondering if you could please post a step by step turorial type guide on how to install the complex cleaner mod for someone who has not played X3 my uncle would be very grateful because he would like to continue playing without the frustration of lag,
i realise that this is a big ask way and above the norm for these type of request`s....yet i ask as i would really like to be able to help him but would be heartbroken should i have a negative impact on his saved game that he has been working on since the New Year,



Thanks for taking the time to read the post, Thankyou.


Ashley D

[Gazz]

Why aren't my crystal fabs compressed better?

The answer is in the first line of the description of the crunch command.
And no, I'm not pasting it here.

I was wondering if you could please post a step by step turorial type guide on how to install the complex cleaner mod for someone who has not played X3

Can you be any more specific? Which part of the installation instructions does not work?

[arazar]

... is there a way to "unconnect" factories in a container?

[CaptObvious]

Maybe something to add to the OP Gazz:

When using Lazcorp's crystal-free SPP script with Complex Cleaner, you MUST crunch first, then apply the SPP script, THEN link into complex. Any other order and it just doesn't work.

[argon_emperor]

Maybe something to add to the OP Gazz:

When using Lazcorp's crystal-free SPP script with Complex Cleaner, you MUST crunch first, then apply the SPP script, THEN link into complex. Any other order and it just doesn't work.

You can quite easily re enable crystal consumption before hand, it's what I had to do on all my SPP, as I was using that script first. And let's face it, by the time you really need this script (single factories and tiny complexes are bearable), 5 mil is barely anything at all. But I do agree that maybe a small warning so people know they should re enable the crystal consumption first on ones already decrystallized, and use the crunch on ones that haven't been before they run it.

[Ashley_daniels]

hi Gazz, my apologies for being somewhat ambigious with my request,

i have not actually yet tried to install your "Complex Cleaner" mod, the one within your signiture,
itis the actual process of installing the mod unto the script editor that i am unsure about, i have found and read the "tutorial" on how to open the script editor and feel comfy so far, but, as i am a complete novice with the modding and scripting world i was kinda, hoping, requesting, a hold-my-hand type tutorial on how i would install the actual CC mod to the script editor of X3tc to my Uncle`s (this) pc.

i am sure a great many x-guys (that are not clued-up on the modding side of pc gaming) could and would use such a source of information,

yours hopefully, Ashley d

[Gazz]

Unpack a ZIP file and "activate" that mod as described.

No other leet skills are required.

Activating the script editor is not necessary.
The game automatically earns the *modified* badge through the installation of a mod.
(You install a mod and the game is modified. OMG so funny!)

PS: asking a programmer to write a manual is like asking for his firstborn.

[Ashley_daniels]

ok Gazz, wiil have a go at it later this evening,

thankyou so much for your time, it really is appreciated

[Crathes]

As everybody knows, huge complexes tend to create quite a bit of lag. This is of course because of all the extra graphics the computer has to calculate... So my suggestion is:

When you are finished with a complex you can make a choice to gather all the stations in the complex to just one, bigger, station. This could have the looks of maybe one of the headquarter buildings, or any other huge station for that matter. When you choose to gather the stations, you can however not extend the complex any further. The big station should not be able to connect to other stations (except maybe PHQ?). Another thing, just to make it look better and easier to keep order in the stations could be to enable the player to choose which model he would use.
Does this make any sense at all? Or is it just a stupid or impossible idea?

[eladan]

Complex cleaner mod by Gazz.

[Crathes]

Oh, thanks!

[Gazz]

When you are finished with a complex you can make a choice to gather all the stations in the complex to just one, bigger, station. This could have the looks of maybe one of the headquarter buildings, or any other huge station for that matter.

Yeah, amazing idea! Someone should do that.

No worries - every one or two weeks someone posts this exact same novel idea. =P

[jlehtone]

Perhaps entries in the [url=http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=216690]TC Download Library[/url] are way too hard to decipher?


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[FabryAlliance]

Hi!
I'm an Italian User...
First i would thank Gazz & Co for this cool work.
I'm in truble.....i have ReadText commands and messages and nothing happens when i try to follow the procedure:

I 've installed the mod like a "fake patch"...
I loaded the game and the savegame and it is all right.
Then i went to the sector where i have my Hercules, Magnetar(with 2 tractor beams and energy cells) and a factory complex with a lot of stations.
Once there i tryed to unfix the complex and i don't remember how but i done it! ....WITH the Station menu command -----> ReadText2010-1161 command , that probably is the autodestroy command.
However when i go to the ship (Magnetar) commands menu at the bottom of the Special commands menu i have this line "ReadText-2010-534 .......[ReadText2011-534]". (near the 7- "Repair Ship" script )

In the Personal Menu i have this line "COMMAND_TYPE_CUSTOM_25 ......[ReadText2011-725]".
When i select this command i have to write one of the words in the list above. For exemple i write "crunch".....
Then i push the enter button on my keyboard .....i select a sector .....i select a position..... i hear a sound and the voice "comand executed".....and nothing happens
Can someone help me please?

This is the list of modS/scripts installed with XPM installer

Script Packages:
Bribe A Pilot :: Nividium :: Yes/Yes :: 1.00 :: 12/11/2008
Capture Stations :: Nividium :: Yes/Yes :: 1.0 :: 13/02/2009
Community Plugin Configuration :: Cycrow :: Yes/Yes :: 1.10 :: 28/10/2008
Debris Utilize and Repair :: X420TokeAlot :: Yes/Yes :: 3 :: 24/01/2009
FDNv3.2 :: Logain Abler :: Yes/Yes :: 3.2 :: 06/03/2009
Factory Complex Constructor :: Dusty :: Yes/Yes :: 4.01 :: 25/10/2008
Free Jump (credits) :: Grax :: Yes/Yes :: 1.4 :: 03/12/2008
Freight Transporter Upgrade :: Lord Vader :: Yes/Yes :: 1.2 TC :: 23/10/2008
Improved Boarding :: Cycrow :: Yes/Yes :: 1.10 :: 28/10/2008
LazCorp Claim Unknown Sector - X3TC :: Lazerath :: Yes/Yes :: v1.02 :: 06/11/2008
Mobile Ship Repairs script version :: Graxster :: Yes/Yes :: 1.5 :: 03/11/2008
Nividium Processing Plant :: Nividium :: Yes/Yes :: 1.0 :: 07/12/2008
Paranid Nividium Processing Plants :: Nividium :: Yes/Yes :: 1.00 :: 08/09/2007
Refuel Ships (fix) :: Graxster :: Yes/Yes :: 1.0 :: 09/11/2008
Salvage Claim Software :: Cycrow :: Yes/Yes :: 1.00 :: 25/10/2008
Satellite Early Warning Network :: Cycrow :: Yes/Yes :: 1.20 :: 31/10/2008
Shipyards Combined :: AMurph0 :: Yes/Yes :: 1 :: 19/12/2008
Station Repacker :: alex2069 :: Yes/Yes :: 1.10 :: 24/11/2008
The Marauder Shipyard :: Teladidrone :: Yes/Yes :: 0.5 :: 23/01/2009
The Traveling Mechanic :: Teladidrone :: Yes/Yes :: 0.2 :: 03/12/2008
Universal Best Buys/Sells Locator :: alex2069 :: Yes/Yes :: 2.21 :: 06/12/2008
Weapons Quickswap :: Tatakau :: Yes/Yes :: 1.02 :: 01/11/2008
lazcorp-claim-derelict-v1_03 :: Lazerath :: Yes/Yes :: 1.03 :: 28/11/2008
lazcorp_crystal_free_spp_v1_02

[Gazz]

I'm an Italian User...

Hi, italian user.
You need an italian text file. That's the way X3 is localised.
(My italian vocabulary fits one one page. A very small page. No, fold it again.)

Copy t\7021-L044.xml , substituting the 44 with your country code.

Then open the file with a text editor and alter the language ID inside accordingly.

Better revert to a save from before that installation attempt.

[FabryAlliance]

I'm an Italian User...

Hi, italian user.
You need an italian text file. That's the way X3 is localised.
(My italian vocabulary fits one one page. A very small page. No, fold it again.)

Copy t\7021-L044.xml , substituting the 44 with your country code.

Then open the file with a text editor and alter the language ID inside accordingly.

Better revert to a save from before that installation attempt.

Ok i followed the procedure and all the steps on the page 16 of this topic... I have a complex and the "cube" but i notice that my Solar Powerplant XL now produces 20 energy cells every 1:30 Minutes. (situated in spring of belief - 150%).
It is normal ?

[Gerik]

When you are finished with a complex you can make a choice to gather all the stations in the complex to just one, bigger, station. This could have the looks of maybe one of the headquarter buildings, or any other huge station for that matter.

Yeah, amazing idea! Someone should do that.

No worries - every one or two weeks someone posts this exact same novel idea. =P

And still no results! For shame!

Edit: Btw, what made you choose the massive borg block of ship destruction over one of the in-game hqs?

[argon_emperor]

I'm an Italian User...

Hi, italian user.
You need an italian text file. That's the way X3 is localised.
(My italian vocabulary fits one one page. A very small page. No, fold it again.)

Copy t\7021-L044.xml , substituting the 44 with your country code.

Then open the file with a text editor and alter the language ID inside accordingly.

Better revert to a save from before that installation attempt.

Ok i followed the procedure and all the steps on the page 16 of this topic... I have a complex and the "cube" but i notice that my Solar Powerplant XL now produces 20 energy cells every 1:30 Minutes. (situated in spring of belief - 150%).
It is normal ?

Okay, that's the Crystal Free SPP script's fault. Well, sorta. What you need to do when using that script, is to re enable crystal consumption, crunch the SPP, then run the Crystal Free command from the new SPP Factory module.

The code (to re enable crystal consumption) should look something like this:

Code: Select all

Arguments:
$station, Var/Station, <insert string here>
Code:
$ware = Crystals
$station -> add ware as primary resource $ware

The 'add ware as primary resource' command is near the bottom of the sub menu "For Stations" in the Trade commands menu.

[FabryAlliance]

I'm an Italian User...

Hi, italian user.
You need an italian text file. That's the way X3 is localised.
(My italian vocabulary fits one one page. A very small page. No, fold it again.)

Copy t\7021-L044.xml , substituting the 44 with your country code.

Then open the file with a text editor and alter the language ID inside accordingly.

Better revert to a save from before that installation attempt.

Ok i followed the procedure and all the steps on the page 16 of this topic... I have a complex and the "cube" but i notice that my Solar Powerplant XL now produces 20 energy cells every 1:30 Minutes. (situated in spring of belief - 150%).
It is normal ?

Okay, that's the Crystal Free SPP script's fault. Well, sorta. What you need to do when using that script, is to re enable crystal consumption, crunch the SPP, then run the Crystal Free command from the new SPP Factory module.

The code (to re enable crystal consumption) should look something like this:

Code: Select all

Arguments:
$station, Var/Station, <insert string here>
Code:
$ware = Crystals
$station -> add ware as primary resource $ware

The 'add ware as primary resource' command is near the bottom of the sub menu "For Stations" in the Trade commands menu.

Yes, it is true, i used the crystal free script. I understood the steps i have to follow... thank you very much. This Mod is very cool...also the structure that is created looks cool.
Its remember me a spacestation see on a film....

[Gazz]

Edit: Btw, what made you choose the massive borg block of ship destruction over one of the in-game hqs?

The HQs can not grow dynamically and their poly count is monstrous.
The cube has about 1/10 the graphics load of one small station.

That ships have issues with it surfaced much much later and unless someone with a real clue about X3 models redoes all of them, this isn't going to change.