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Re: Ultimate Editor

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im kind of new here but i heard there was a mods that as all the mods already patch and ready to play, is it true.And also that there was a way to change the size of the map like you want?
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Re: Ultimate Editor

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I may not be in the right forum but I am trying to change the background images on the maps and other screens. I can't find it anywhere in the UE editor's menus so I wondered if I was missing it or of it was someplace else. I'm also having trouble with some of the ship modifications I've made, specifically in trying to change the ship's descriptions. An example of what I'm doing is I'm starting with the All the Ages large map mod and I took a Norway Class destroyer and I'm making it a scout in place of the Nova class. When I later use the ship, it's still saying in the text it's a destroyer. Operationally, it's working fine. I'm just trying to clean up some of the text and descriptions. I'm having the same problem with editing the race descriptions.
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Re: Ultimate Editor

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Race GUI

each race has around 700 seperate image that makes up a single races GUI. what screen you tring to edit?

norway, Did you change ship type?

race discriptions, did you edit the lecicon?

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Re: Ultimate Editor

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Well that's odd, I must not have clicked save or something because the ship problem is fine now. I am trying to find the screen that gives diplomatic messages. In the original All The Ages Mod, there was always a screen that still mentioned the Sheliak although they were replaced. This was when they joined you as a member and was on the diplomatic section. I think it says something like "You may join us but you may not call yourself Sheliak." If I remember right this was the Gorn.

The biggest thing I want to change is the main map screen background, or maybe foreground, image. It's the image that covers the unexplored sectors on the main control screen.
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*m_glmap.tga is the file for unexplored area. and the minor text has to be edited in lexicon (I think that one would be there) but there should be many of them at least 1 per major if not more.

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I can find how to convert a file to a .tga file, but I can't find where the original map file is.
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you can get the original file from BOTF\stbof.res with UE and add it to BOTF\AAML\stbof.res

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Re: Ultimate Editor

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That did the trick. Now we'll see what I can do with it all.
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Re: Ultimate Editor

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Hello

Please could you help me with [UE 0.7.0k].

I edit ship names, save the changes (accepting the warning / modification to trek.exe), start a new game, click on [Ship Building], and the game crashes.

The following mods / installers are installed:
1. BOTF_1.0.2_English_German_e
2. Balance_of_Power_1.2c

Any assistance would be much appeaciated.

Thanks
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Re: Ultimate Editor

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what ship names are you editing? The name in ship stats or ship names list? are you editing BOP or vanilla? if BOP did you install english or german version?

any crash log in edited version of install?

also you might want to get latest version of UE 0.7.1b from DCER's 4 shared. (see first post)

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Re: Ultimate Editor

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Sir

You r a genius.
Thank you.

The latest version of ultimate modifier even updates saved games.
It's beautiful.

They should update the Home page to link to the latest version.

Cheers buddy.

All The Best
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Re: Ultimate Editor

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Good Day

Again, thanks for the help so far.
May i trouble you once more?

I'm trying to edit [Building Stats], increase [Ship Experience] received from [StarFleet Academy] from 50 to 100.
I click save, load a new game, but the experience gain displays as 50, which is confirmed after clicking Turn and checking that crew experience has only improved by 50.

So, I tried to edit the [Shield Generator] to provide 30 [Ship Experience] instead of whatever rubbish SG is supposed to do, but it fails to save with 'Shield Generator expected for all races cannot be found'.

My final attempt was to create a new building which allows 30 [Ship Experience], but that causes the game to crash upon attemting to open the program.

Apppreciate the assistance.

Thank You
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Re: Ultimate Editor

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I'll give the below a try.
If it doesn't work, I'll reply; if it does, thank you.
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Re: Add new Buildings (UE) ?
yeah you are missing a few things

1. after adding or editing any building you need to go to edit/starting conditions/starting technology. then "auto set all"

2. next go to edit/ AI/AI building requiremnets and add the new building for population and energy requremnets

But also keep in mind there are reasons why this is an experimental function.

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Re: Ultimate Editor

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Unfortunately, it didn't work.
I increased [Ship Experience] gain, followed the steps below, saved and launched game.

Do you need any other info from me?
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1. after adding or editing any building you need to go to edit/starting conditions/starting technology. then "auto set all"
2. next go to edit/ AI/AI building requiremnets and add the new building for population and energy requremnets
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Most grateful for a hand.

Thanks
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Re: Ultimate Editor

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What version are you editing vanilla, BOP?

I just tested on UDM and only changed bonus value and worked fine.

So make sure you are editing the correct install path you are wanting to change.

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