Modding SW3?

[Nanaki]

As far as the Charon bit goes, I noticed that if you exit the Charon system, save, than load that save and enter back into Charon, the Templar ship list will be randomized again.

Edit: Forgot to post what I wanted to reply originally, have you tried jumping to a new system you've never been in before in that savegame, and seeing if your new items are being sold there?

Standard operating procedure for me to change systems when testing scripts.

[Cheator]

Hi
How can i replace the models of the motherships you recieve?
And also, how can i change their names and stats?

[Goblin Wizard]

I tried to check the Nanaki's idea and this is what I've got.
sw3cw 2010-05-27 22-56-29-78.jpg
The first, you probably noticed, is GUI limit. Each pilot has 5 wingmens but even 3 full teams is too much. Others are:
- additional pilots take place of possible storyline pilots. First 6 pilots are showed, others exist only in memory.
- after docked, you can only lunch first 6 pilots.
- when docking, if all 6 hangar slots are occupied something bad happens. It's hard to describe but it's not CTD.
- When jumping through the gate... don't ask

These pilots have full functionality of the regular storyline pilots but only until docked. You can even give them perk tree.

Conclusion: All problems come from GUI limit. Engine can handle much more than 6 pilots and 6 hangar slots. You can edit all parts of the GUI except this damn 6 pilots cap.

Because all of these (and probably other) problems I'll stick with the idea of adding pilots in a way as summon perks work. This method has less functionality but causes much less problems.

Goblin Wizard, is it possible to somehow assign skill trees to summoned pilots? This will allow them to have an upgrade path, without requiring the summoner pilot to have multiple summon skills.

I guess this depends on the flexibility of the summon skill.

[SpiritWolf448]

Salutations, everybody. Sorry to churn in just like that, but I recently aquired Star Wolves 1 from gog.com, and after completing the campaign twice, I am now looking into the modding capacities this game has. As far as I am aware so far, modding ships requires a tool called IMD-Editor or somesuch.

Since the linked homepage ( http://freenet-homepage.de/allaway/s...x_english.html ) does not work anymore and Google doesn't really produce any usable results (but hey, maybe my search terms are just a tad off), would anybody around here know another place where one could aquire that tool and maybe read up on modding a little more?

Cheerio and best regards,

SpiritWolf448
(who's now hoping SW2 and 3 will make an appearance on GOG as well)

Welcome aboard, SpiritWolf 448.

Hmm, that page was still up a while ago - maybe someone here can help you find it. Good luck.

@Goblin Wizard:
Hmm... can we make all summoned pilots share one skill tree? That way we can teach them like Bryna&KT. About death, what about the "AI" perk? SAM copies have that one. I think it makes them not drop a rescue pod but automatically "respawn" back in the mothership.

[Goblin Wizard]

Originally Posted by Trucidation

Hmm... can we make all summoned pilots share one skill tree? That way we can teach them like Bryna&KT.

I think it's possible but I'm afraid about other problems. I'll have to check some things.

Originally Posted by Trucidation

About death, what about the "AI" perk? SAM copies have that one. I think it makes them not drop a rescue pod but automatically "respawn" back in the mothership.

You don't want them to respawn on mothership. You don't want to see them on ms at all. If they will respawn on ms they will occupy our precious pilots slots. But even if pilot is lucky and ends in pod, this pod goes to cargo bay. The only thing you can do with him is to sell him.

[Goblin Wizard]

Originally Posted by spiritwolf448

would anybody around here know another place where one could aquire that tool and maybe read up on modding a little more?

Some of these files were posted before on this forum.

IMDeditor_v3.zip

StarWolves-LUA_Manual_v1 English.zip english auto-translated version

StarWolves2ModdingHandbuch.zip generally about modding SW2 - german original

[SpiritWolf448]

Originally Posted by Goblin Wizard

Some of these files were posted before on this forum.

Attachment 2437

Attachment 2438 english auto-translated version

Attachment 2439 generally about modding SW2 - german original

Ah, I see. Thank you, GoWi. (and Truci for the Welcome )

I'll be over in that corner and read up on some things. Thanks again.

4S4W8

[Goblin Wizard]

You can attach skill tree to any pilot you want but if pilot is not directly controlled by you - you don't have access to his skill tree. You can probably make him work like Bryna & KT (teaching new perks by dialog). It's acceptable for one pilot but if you will have to do this for several pilots it becomes boring and irritating.
Other problems:
1. pilots summoned via perk act like mercenaries. They disappear after jump and don't have their progress saved. I can make another perk which will save their perks and exp points but it's a lot of effort.
2. Unlike your storyline pilots they not always end in rescue pod after ship being destroyed. They can simply die.

You can run any function via summon perk. Jump to any sector, open trade station menu, run a dialog, create dust cloud in front of you - no problem.
Summon perks have number of uses so e.g. you can make perk which summons 6 pilots group once or 1 pilot 6 times.