Making Mod's for space empires V |
Submitted by Ackbar on Mon, 2008-01-14 14:46.
Space Empires V General
I'm very new to this whole game but I like some of the mod's every one else has done but what I really want is to learn how to do the mod's myself can some one help me? Like give me a addy of a teacher site or something?
Re: Making Mod's for space empires V
Submitted by Astorax on Tue, 2008-01-15 01:17.
http://www.spaceempires5.com/files/se5editor_install_1_58_1_0.exe
Try that link for a nice SE:V editor by Devnull (the maker of Devnull Mod). I have heard good things from other modders about it in threads but I'm not a modder myself so can't say from personal experience. Still, I've downloaded it and poked around with it and it would seem to make alot of things easier to access/change.
Anyways, give it a go, it may just help. 
Re: Making Mod's for space empires V
There's really no tutorial on modding, so it's mostly trial by fire for newbies. The docs folder in your SE5 install has modding .pdf file that describes the fields for each data file in the data folder. The editing itself is accomplished using a text editor like Notepad.
There's some brief descriptions and a couple of examples found on the SE wiki site:
http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.php/Modding_Tutorials_%28SEV%29
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