Is there a way to create your own ship?

[sk8rs_ka]

Can you create your own ship without replacing another ship? And to go off that topic can you create a new race like a faction of the Argon or something to add your ship to. I'm kinda a newbie and could use some help. Thx.

[FuzzyLightning]

Can you create your own ship without replacing another ship? And to go off that topic can you create a new race like a faction of the Argon or something to add your ship to. I'm kinda a newbie and could use some help. Thx.

new ships, possible, but probebly need to add the ship specs, to the tships file and script in part of it, like what station its located and such

No, i dont believe its possible to create a new faction, it would be difficult, hard, and frustrating if you could.




-FuZzEh!

[sk8rs_ka]

Thanks... you know any place i can learn more about modding?

[Storm_Front]

Thanks... you know any place i can learn more about modding?

http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25574

You might also want to check out Storm_Fronts Mod Kit at xscripting.com. (once you have the game unpacked for modding) You'll need an excel file viewer of some sort for the mod kit. They can be downloaded free from Microsoft or Open Office.

[sk8rs_ka]

Thanks... you know any place i can learn more about modding?

http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25574

You might also want to check out Storm_Fronts Mod Kit at xscripting.com. (once you have the game unpacked for modding) You'll need an excel file viewer of some sort for the mod kit. They can be downloaded free from Microsoft or Open Office.

Yeah but that just shows how to add mods. Do you know how i would start to create my own ship and which files i need to add to?

[Storm_Front]

Let's put it this way, as soon as I figure out how to add a new ship to the game I'll let you know. I do know you'll need to mod the Tships file and the 440001 file, but that's where I'm stuck, I can't get the new ship to show up in the scripts menu so I can add it to a shipyard. I'm probably missing alot, scripting and I don't get along.

[faye]

if you're able to add it to the TShips.txt, why not just replace another shop you really don't like by a new one ? (well i still thing creating a whole NEW ship could be rather near to impossible, since you gotta do a whole new design and stuff)
but would is be possible to just replace another one so it can be made available in the shipyard ?

[Storm_Front]

if you're able to add it to the TShips.txt, why not just replace another shop you really don't like by a new one ? (well i still thing creating a whole NEW ship could be rather near to impossible, since you gotta do a whole new design and stuff)
but would is be possible to just replace another one so it can be made available in the shipyard ?

If you did that, you'd have to overwrite a ship that was already in the script menu so you could script it into a shipyard. I think the Xenon TL and TS might be good candidates for that.

Did I say good candidate, I don't think there is such a thing.
Oh the joy of an election year. Who do I vote against?

[-logical- Chimp]

I am also attempting to add a new ship...

there is a thread in this forum (http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31345), and a thread in the xscripting forum (linked from the post, above).

so far - no luck, although i have tried several things. The post in the xscripting forum is probably the more complete (as far as documenting what i have / haven't tried).

i suspect we will have to wait for the 1.3 patch, before we can add a new ship.

[sk8rs_ka]

Do the moderators and people from egosoft ever help or give input on modding or do most modders just figure all this stuff out on their own? If they do help then this would be a pretty good question to ask them seeing as a lot of people are having difficulties with it.

[Storm_Front]

Do the moderators and people from egosoft ever help or give input on modding or do most modders just figure all this stuff out on their own? If they do help then this would be a pretty good question to ask them seeing as a lot of people are having difficulties with it.

As of this time Modding and Scripting is not officially supported, so they cannot do much to help us; however, they do provide a nice forum for us to help each other.