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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: ARSPR on January 04, 2007, 03:54:01 pm

Title: Species_defs.tbl & asteroid.tbl questions
Post by: ARSPR on January 04, 2007, 03:54:01 pm

Hi while playing and tweaking WCSaga I've finally learned how to change the bad guys species name from Shivan to Kilrathi.

But I've got some questions:

• Is $NumSpecies required in Species_defs.tbl? In Wiki (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Species_defs.tbl), this command doesn't appear.
• In Asteroid.tbl, the ship debris names are checked against the species names. As an example: the default 'Shivan Debris 1' is not a valid name anymore. I've had to change Shivan to Kilrathi. Is this intentional? or is it some kind of bug?.
  (I mean, why can't you use the name you want? As it is said in Wiki you have to code 3 asteroids for each species AND in the order they appear in species_defs.tbl. So you don't need the name to link to the species.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Species_defs.tbl & asteroid.tbl questions
Post by: Wanderer on January 05, 2007, 06:51:32 am

$NumSpecies: is no longer required. So it was dropped from the wiki example to avoid confusion. Possible errors in wiki entries (like the asteroid entry) are probably there just because of my stupidity...

Title: Re: Species_defs.tbl & asteroid.tbl questions
Post by: karajorma on January 05, 2007, 10:51:42 am

You might want to have a Deprecated Entries bit at the bottom of the wiki page explaining away the tags that the parser won't choke on but which no longer do anything.