SMAC within SMAX

[Ford_Prefect]

Ummm... its currently stored on the forum.     Just not on the downloads page.  I did update the github page with a link to the forum.

[Buster's Uncle]

Coo!

Sorry; I have to worry about things like that.

[diessa]

Github has excellent version control. It is a great choice! That said, perhaps you could link to this website and our ongoing discussions? That might bring more feedback and people to the site.

[DrazharLn]

@diessa,
Ford has already linked back here.

[diessa]

That's good. I was more-so writing that post to bridge between BUncle's post and using a third party site. Thanks for confirming, though.

[Buster's Uncle]

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=8703.0

Been a little quiet on this front.  Any developments to announce, anyone?

[DrazharLn]

Mod managers are done. Text file editing (alphax.txt, helpx.txt, conceptsx.txt, Script.txt, tutor.txt) is done. File moving is done (maps and opening movie needed renaming).

As I said in the other thread:

I went ahead and modified tutor.txt to remove the Spore Launchers entry. It's now an almost-replicant of the mind worm entry. I also removed all the references to the alien factions while I was there.

If the community could pick a new set of factions to bundle with this and if someone could investigate when the bt<native lifeform>.pcx and <native lifeform>_sm.pcx files are used and if the spore launcher ones need removing, then we're very almost done with things that can be done outside the binaries.

For the friendly .exe modders, these are the most useful new alphax features for this project in order of importance:
Switch to disable sealurks/fungal towers/spore launchers being spawned or appearing in pods
Switch to disable ogres appearing in pods
Switch to disable the cloning event
Switch to disable Unity Crash Site
Switches to disable the other landmarks

To make things a bit neater, it would be good if either we had a way to stop custom units appearing in the datalinks and/or if you could make disabled native life and ogres not appear in the datalinks (I've tried and I don't think this can be done from text files)

The mod is basically done, just needs the above .exe modding and then the AI patches ported across.

[Buster's Uncle]

That's going to be quite a job for someone, probably Yitzi, who won't get to it soon, alas.

[DrazharLn]

In version 3.4 of Yitzi's patch, Yitzi added support to toggle most new engine features (and some non-engine features) introduced by SMAX. Making the SMAC in SMAX mod is now possible and easy.

I'm pretty sure I have the files I need to finish it off fairly quickly (modified techtree, help files, etc) on my home computer, but I can't upload them (again? I can't find them already uploaded here) until ~26th August.

I'll have time to finish the mod up properly and package for Ford's manager around mid September, if no one has done it by then.

[DrazharLn]

Released! http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=17869.0