Trouble adding a new planet

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Hi all,

After a while away working on other stuff, I came back to Sins (Rebellion, 1.01 - Bought the retail disc, and refuse to have any more to do with Steam than absolutely necessary) the other week and immediately started tinkering again.

 

I decided to jump into something new, and that something is adding planets - just one for now anyway.

What I've done:

  • Created the planet's entity file.
  • Did the stuff in 'GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef' as per the first reply on this page so that my planet shows up in Galaxy Forge.
  • Declared my planet's entity file in the entity manifest

When I go to play my Galaxy Forge map, the planet count is correct, but all instances of my planet fail to appear.

If people need more detail to be of assistance, let me know and I'll try to give it to you.

Any help'd be much appreciated.

Cheers,

AUSDoug

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Ok, it's probably something in the galaxyscenariodef file that you've missed. I'm away from my computer at the minute so can't check but when I was struggling to add planets it turned out to be the planetorbit or something similar at the bottom of the galaxyscenariodef file.

Make sure you go through the full file and if you can't find the problem then post the file here and I'll take a look.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

What I did in the GalaxyScenarioDef file:

Added an entry to the planetTypeCount section (Changed from 29 to 30):

(excuse lack of formatting)

planetType
designName "Rock"
designStringId "IDSGalaxyScenarioTypePlanetTerranHome"
orbitBodyTypeCount 1
orbitBodyType "UninhabRock"

I then added an entry to the orbitBodyTypeCount section (Changed from 21 to 22):

orbitBodyType
typeName "UninhabRock"
entityDefName "PlanetRock"
defaultTemplateName ""

I opened the created Galaxy with Notepad++, and everything looks fine so I don't where I'm going wrong.

In this zip file is:

  • The GalaxyScenarioDef file.
  • My 'PlanetRock.entity'.
  • The Galaxy I created in Galaxy Forge, using the aforementioned GalaxyScenarioDef file.

 

The 'PlanetRock.entity' is present in the entity manifest, and the Galaxy I made is in the Galaxy Manifest, all in the correct locations inside my mod.

(I did just have the map in the 'GalaxyForge' Folder, but I wondered if that was causing me issues, so I moved it to the 'Galaxy' folder instead.)

 

Cheers,

AUSDoug

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Really basic question, but you did enable the mod right? And double checked the spelling of the entity name in the file, entity manifest, GSD and your map file?

 

Rock, rock, planet rock, don't stop. B)

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Lol, I feel like such a derp; The GSD I had in my mod was the wrong one!

Everything is working fine now, thanks for the help.

Cheers,

AUSDoug