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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: FreeSpaceFreak on December 07, 2010, 02:19:44 pm
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Debris fields can be created the same way as asteroid fields in FRED; however, the documentation on modding it (using custom debris pieces) is pretty foggy.
Actually, the entire implementation is. FRED seems to interpret species_defs.tbl correctly; in ASW for example, the asteroid field editor gives a choice between Ancient Small, Ancient Medium, Ancient Large, Shivan Small etc.
But there doesn't seem to be a way to define which models are actually used for the different species; try making an Ancient debris field and it will use Terran debris models. When targeting a debris piece, it is identified as "Ancient debris" again.
So, uhh, in conclusion: is there a table entry anywhere which defines the models to use for debris fields?
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Asteroids.tbl can be used to set debris models.
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Thanks Dragon, I totally missed out on that x_x
Edit: According to the Wiki (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Asteroid.tbl#.24POF_file2:), multiple models do not work for debris pieces; is there any specific reason for that?