New want to add new ship type

[isais007]

Hello I am brand new to the game this is day one for me. I have a few questions I would like to be able to add a new ship type Cutter. How would I go about doing that?

Also looking around the Internet I know is there’s a lot of mods. Is there a star wars va star trek mod?

And if you add a mod will it overwrite the basegame? Or will that Content from that mod be implemented to the base game?

[Dom2 (Taiidan Republic Mod)]

Do you want to create a new ship (model and texture) or just clone an existing ship?

If you want to create a new ship model and texture, have a look here:

[TUTORIAL] Blender - Getting a simple ship in game

This is the long-awaited Blender equivalent to my first 3DSMax tutorial: It relies on the fantastic work done by @DKesserich and his YouTube tutorial: Tools used in this tutorial: Blender (version 2.76b to be precise) a) The Blender dae import plugin b) The Blender HW ToolKit and exporter HODOR

If you want to clone an existing ship, you need to start by extracting the big file. This should get you on the right track:

@Dom2

Ok, I never actually used that tool I was just being lazy by linking to it instead of actually explaining.

In C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\GBXTools\WorkshopTool or somewhere, you will find archive.exe . In that directory, hold shift and right click to open a command prompt (now called a powershell for some reason…)

Then type something like:

.\Archive.exe -a "C:\Program Files (x8 6)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\HomeworldRM\Data\German.big" -e C:\Users\Dom\Desktop\data_german\

This will extract all the contents of German.big into a new folder on the desktop called data_german . You probably aren’t interested in the German language files, so you should do this with:

• Homeworld2.big
• HW2Campaign.big
• HW1Campaign.big
• HW1Ships.big
• HW2Ships.big

That should give you enough files to be getting on with. You can use notepad++ to search the directory of the extracted files to find what you need to edit.

When you are ready to mod, put the modified files in the /data/xx/xx/ directory (equivalent to where you found them). E.g. if I were to edit kus_supportfrigate.ship I would place it in the following directory on my hard drive:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\HomeworldRM\Data\ship\kus_supportfrigate\

Then create a shortcut to HomeworldRM.exe and add -overridebigfile to end of the “target”. Double click on the shortcut and you are playing you mod!

Also, are you spoonfrog?

Yes

[isais007]

Thank you You’re putting me on the right track. What if i take An existing Corvette and chage the ship type from corvette to cutter and make slightly faster?

[Dom2 (Taiidan Republic Mod)]

To change the speed, go to the ship file and change the max speed parameter.

I have not done ship classes before, so someone else will have to answer that. @Pouk @eatthepath ?

[Pouk (REARM V2)]

Oh right, it’s been a while since I looked into that. To make a new ship class, you need to edit entries in several places.

The obvious:

scripts\familylist.lua

You need to add a new “unitcapsFamily” in there. Later maybe even build and display family, if you want to separate which subsystem can build these new ships and if you want to create a whole new build tab for them. But for the start the unitcapsFamily will do.

Then the unitcaps in so many places:
scripts\rules\deathmatch\unitcaps
…
scripts\races\vaygr\deathmatch\unitcaps

Then in the ship itself:

setSupplyValue(NewShipType, “Corvette”, 4.0)

And I may be missing some other entries…