Nice I'v been looking for this for a wile now THANK YOU!

P.S Very nice job well put together.
Your Truly Deaden

Run the batch file as per the readme.

from where did you get the dread lords models anyway?

Mod updated to include some 'light' jewelry whose textures were included with the game, but not the models.

Considering that the mod doesn't touch any of the core designs or files at all, I have no idea how that could happen unless you installed it incorrectly, or somehow got a very old version and tried using it with the latest patch, or something equally out-of-the-norm.

The thing with the core frieghter did not show up until I ran the Bac file., if that means anything.

It appears that the Drengin, Torian, and Altarian style freighter shipcfg files have been screwed up since the release of 1.2 (I generally play Yor myself, so I never noticed that before). This is an issue with the game itself, and has nothing to do with the mod.

Kryo Mod + GC2 = Love

Love your mod, Kryo. Always have. There's been a version of it or another running as long as you put 'em out. MANY THANKS.

Question, does it work with DA, and if not will you be making one for DA? I doubt it does work, but I'm not sure.

I noticed that in DA, you now have "blank" hulls as an option (or rather, little boxes with hardpoints on them...) I was ship building last night after install and noticed some of the default hull sizes have changed.

KHSM Blank Carge Hull vs. New DA Blank Cargo Hull went from 55 up to 60.
KHSM Blank Small Hull vs. New DA Blank Small Hull went from 26 down to 24.
etc...

Any reason for these changes? Was there some internal ship design testing that made you say, "Hey, we need to tweak these values." With the engine nerf and engines being much larger now, more space is always welcome, but is there some compelling game balance reason I should scrap or rework my existing small ship designs to work with the slightly reduced value?

CantinaFly;

They also changed the cost, HP, and Logistics points for the ships.

It's actually pretty easy to update these values if you want to give it a swing.
Here's how:

1) go to your DA Mods directory where you have KHSM installed. Mine looks like this:

D:\Programs\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar\Mods\khsm

2) Once there go into \Data\ShipComponents directory and look for KHSM-BlankHulls.xml

Open it up in Note pad - It has all the values for the Blank Hulls.

3)Now we need to get the new DA data for the ship stats. It's in a File called GC2Types.xml and would be in this directory:

D:\Programs\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar\Data\English

4) Open it up in Notepad. It contains all the info for the components in the ShipYard.

5) Hit CRTL-f and have Notepad search for "Hull" (no quoatation marks). Since all the races have the same Stats for thier hulls (same size, HP, logistics, etc.) you only need to find one set of hull entries.

6) Let's start with the Tiny Hull. You should see a feild like this in GC2Types.xml:


Hull Name="TinyHull6">
DisplayName>Tiny /DisplayName>
Description>Tiny hulls are for fighters and scouts. They use 2 logistical points. /Description>
Cost>25 /Cost>
SensorRange>2 /SensorRange>
Size>16 /Size>
HP>5 /HP>
Model>Tiny_6 /Model>
Thumbnail>TinyBrick_6 /Thumbnail>
Speed>1 /Speed>
Category>Tiny /Category>
Logistics>2 /Logistics>
/Hull>


Now since KHSM has its own names and models, you just want the stats. So update the corresponding info into the KHSM-BlankHulls.xml. So Find the Tiny Hull entry in KHSM-BlankHulls.xml and write in the new cost, Size, HP, and Logistics values. The Sensor range and Speed were not changed from DL to DA (I don't so think any way).

Do this for all the Hull types listed in KHSM-BlankHulls.xml and then save. You're done. DON't Mess with the <'s or anything in them!! I had to mess with them to make them appear in this post. If you do so, you'll prolly crash your game when you go to play.

Here's KHSM-BlankHulls.xml before the update:

Hull Name="TinyBlank">
DisplayName>Blank Tiny /DisplayName>
Description>Tiny hulls have very little space but are cheap and only use 2 logistic points. This means you can build bigger fleets of them. /Description>
Cost>35 /Cost>
SensorRange>2 /SensorRange>
Size>16 /Size>
HP>6 /HP>
Model>Tiny_Blank /Model>
Thumbnail>Blank /Thumbnail>
Speed>1 /Speed>
Category>Blank /Category>
Logistics>2 /Logistics>
/Hull>

And here's KHSM-BlankHulls.xml after the Update:

Hull Name="TinyBlank">
DisplayName>Blank Tiny /DisplayName>
Description>Tiny hulls have very little space but are cheap and only use 2 logistic points. This means you can build bigger fleets of them. /Description>
Cost>25 /Cost>
SensorRange>2 /SensorRange>
Size>16 /Size>
HP>5 /HP>
Model>Tiny_Blank /Model>
Thumbnail>Blank /Thumbnail>
Speed>1 /Speed>
Category>Blank /Category>
Logistics>2 /Logistics>
/Hull>

Hope that helps! I personally think K R Y O's blank hulls are a litle more elegant than the "Brick" blank hulls.

And K R Y O, I had a question about your Fake Hulls set of Xml's. Where did you get the original info for the models (particularly the model ID and race relation)? Am I correct in assuming that in your XXXX_1X the 1 would correspond to the 1 in 1 found in the xml's in the ShipStyles directory (ie Torrian and Drath have the same ship designs)? This would lead to a total of 6 (7 counting the Blank-Brick Hulls) different styles?

I'm trying to update your mod to DA as a personal learning experience for me. It's actually really fun!

Thanks for the help!


Edit - Wow so, I guess this board tries to convert html-like info on the fly. Crap. Tried quoting the info no dice. SO, I just took out the < before each feild, element, what ever you want to call it. PLEASE make sure that your xml files have an < at teh beginnign of each feild. Sorry, I don't know hoe else to make it appear on teh board.

Just replace every occurence of < with &lt; and the forum won't eat the tags.

I sorta do the same, I have taken about half hour per turn making new, relatively nice looking ships. It is hard to make a good ship when you dont have a mouse! Great Mod definitely, I dont use the basic hulls anymore. I have yet to actually use the Dread Lords hulls as well. They look cool, but not useful for what I like to build.

YaY!

Thanks K R Y O! I must admit this is my favorite mod. Hehe, now I can do a Silicoids race from MOO and have appropriately rocky ships!!

YaY!!