Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => Modding => Topic started by: uss1701jb on August 23, 2013, 01:00:14 AM

Title: Noob question... maybe?
Post by: uss1701jb on August 23, 2013, 01:00:14 AM

How do I load a faction in the FactionEditor? 

Title: Re: Noob question... maybe?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 23, 2013, 01:14:40 AM

1) Never, ever, use FacEdit.  It's shamefully buggy and breaks thing right left and center if it even boots.
2) Go find where (gwilly?) posted Acedit in the Modding section of Dowloads.
3) Download it.
4) It's a pretty intuitive interface you shouldn't have much trouble figuring out.  Do so.
5) Add the alien diplomacy dialogue back into the resulting file. Acedit doesn't do that.
6) Enjoy your custom faction.

Title: Re: Noob question... maybe?
Post by: JarlWolf on August 23, 2013, 01:28:22 AM

And if you get the same glitch I had when downloading AceEdit and are forced to use FaceEdit, I can help you out. Try what BUncle said first though

Title: Re: Noob question... maybe?
Post by: ete on August 23, 2013, 02:58:37 AM

Aceedit is also pretty bugged and AC only. Just write the text files by hand, Dio wrote a good guide on bonuses which is the only remotely tricky bit.

Title: Re: Noob question... maybe?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 23, 2013, 03:13:04 AM

Who was it who was talking about making a new faction editor a while back, ete?  I would love to see that happen, ete. ;)

:D

Title: Re: Noob question... maybe?
Post by: Geo on August 25, 2013, 01:31:32 PM

Is there somewhere on the forum/wiki a list with the short keys used ingame (particularly for the missile weapons).
I looked around already, but simply can't find a list.

Title: Re: Noob question... maybe?
Post by: ete on August 25, 2013, 02:33:48 PM

Not that I know of, but I'd welcome one on wiki if someone writes it. Hotkeys (http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/index.php?title=Hotkeys&action=edit&redlink=1) is the place.

And the faction editor I was thinking of would not likely be able to load factions, just create them.. unless I figure out some tricky stuff.

Title: Re: Noob question... maybe?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 25, 2013, 02:37:35 PM

Create them is the main part I'm interested in - though it'd be a lot less useful if it can't be used for editing...