Custom Ship Names

Homeworld Remastered Collection Homeworld Mods and Modding
#1

Now, I imaging this question has been asked, but help would be great. How exactly would one create custom ship names in the build menu?

Along with that, I can’t seem to get the icon file to change the in-game ship icon at all, it just stays on the default derelict icon.

#2

You can’t name individual ships. You can only assign a name to a type of ship. All ships of that type will have the same name.

Icons can be changed in data\ship\icons\shipicons.lua.

#3

For instance, say I make a ‘heavy fighter’, instead of the interceptor. How would I go about including that in the build menu, or give them a description?

I’m not looking for individual ship names (To clarify, individual names as per ship, or three different names for three different destroyers), rather I’m looking to create a different ship class/role name.

#4

data\scripts\races\hiigaran\scripts\def_build.lua

#5

I’ve been looking through there, and I’m running into these lines:

	DisplayedName =			"$xxxxx",
	Description =			"$yyyyy",

How do I get to create/determine what numbers x and y are? The in-game build menu utilizes whatever is programmed to them.

#6

Those are in the buildresearch.dat file in English.big. Or whatever language you want.

You can just replace the numbers with whatever text you want tho.

#7

What folder in the date does this go in? I imagine I have to create one, but I haven’t fiddled with the English big file before.

#8

data\locale\english\buildresearch.dat

#9

Despite every edit I make, the names in the build menu and ui are just numbers. Any help?

I have tried adding lines in the hw1buildresearch.dat (as I’m just testing a cloned probe with a different name and test description), and I have edited the hw1ships.dat as well for the .ship file.

#10

Scratch that. Turns out I had to add a line to the shortcut target, so this is working. Now on to the ship icons…

Thank you Mikali, you helped a ton here!

For anyone in the future who gets stuck here, in your shortcut:
"…HomeworldRM.exe" -overrideBigFile -moddatapath YourModName

Add the line : -locale YourLanguage, such that

“your drive path to HomeworldRM.exe” -overrideBigFile -moddatapath YourModName -locale YourLanguage

Make sure to substitute the YourLanguage and YourModName lineswith your actual local and mod folder name.

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#11

moddatapath YourModName

should be -moddatapath YourModName

Other things I’ll mention:

  • YourModName folder needs to be in the HomeworldRM folder, not the HomeworldRM\data folder.
  • You can still work in the data folder, and then transfer finalized items into the mod folder — as long as -overridebigfile is present
#12

Thanks radar3301! I edited the post to reflect what you said.