Buildable Galaxy & Classic ships for 3.1.5 ?

posted on April 5th, 2011, 7:31 pm

Hey I've looked back and can't find any Galaxy class ships that are buildable and just plain that you can build in a factory. That also show as 3.1.5. Does such a thing exist?


Also, I noticed a pretty fun looking pack for classic ships - the Constitution/Reliant etc but they're for 3.1.3 -How would I get those to work for 3.1.5 ? Or is that not possible?

posted on April 5th, 2011, 7:38 pm

Getting older ships to work in a current version needs code renamed to stock (the guide lists the changes), locations for weapon icons (which can be copied from another ship and edited) and a new wireframe for the single-ship select. The wireframe would probably take the longest but it should be easy aside from that.

The game already comes with buildable Warp-Ins in the McKinley Yard. Just open fed_mckinley_yard.odf and copy the entry into another yard.

posted on April 5th, 2011, 7:49 pm

So if I just copy  fed_mckinley_yard.odf into another yard I'll get the warp in ships to build?

posted on April 5th, 2011, 7:52 pm

Fed_mckinley_yard is the name of the yard odf, it has a ship build list in it like the normal yards. Copy the ships entry from that list into another yard and it'll be available there.

Though adding fed_mckinley_yard to the build list of a constructor would also work, making the yard itself buildable. All warp-in ships would be available by extension.

posted on April 5th, 2011, 7:55 pm

or just add fed_galaxyA.odf to a shipyard buildlist.

posted on April 5th, 2011, 7:55 pm

if u are playing single player you can use map editor to place a mckinley yard each game without the need for odf editing. just push control+e and add the mckinley yard to the map. then control+e to go back to the game.

posted on April 5th, 2011, 7:57 pm

or just add fed_galaxyA.odf to a shipyard buildlist.

My first 2 lines in half a line...

posted on April 5th, 2011, 8:03 pm

Cheers Tyler.

Took me a few reads (as I'm pretty mod/code illiterate) but I've done it.

Hurrah for me!

posted on December 7th, 2011, 9:43 am

I'm very new here. I also want the Galaxy Class starship in the game buildable.

I tried to edit the fed_mckinley_yard.sod but in NOTEPAD I got gobabdygook :-). Is there a special editor I need?

posted on December 7th, 2011, 11:28 am

I'm very new here. I also want the Galaxy Class starship in the game buildable.

I tried to edit the fed_mckinley_yard.sod but in NOTEPAD I got gobabdygook :-). Is there a special editor I need?

No. What you need to edit is the ODF file, and that one can be opened with every editor. The SOD file is just the 3D model. 

[anonymousmoose]

posted on December 8th, 2011, 3:13 pm

Last edited by anonymousmoose on December 8th, 2011, 3:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.

No. What you need to edit is the ODF file, and that one can be opened with every editor. The SOD file is just the 3D model. 

Ok, I found the ODF files in the ODF.fpq

I made the following change to:
fed_antares_yardY.odf
fed_antares_yardZ.odf

basename = "fed_antares_yard"
verbosetooltip = "AUTOTOOLTIP-fed_antares_yardY.odf"
builditem0 = "fed_saberY"
builditem1 = "fed_monsoonY"
builditem2 = "fed_intrepidY"
builditem3 = "fed_akiraY"
builditem4 = "fed_canaveralY"
builditem5 = "all_alliedrepair"
builditem6 = "all_halt"
builditem7 = "fed_galaxyA"

basename = "fed_antares_yard"
verbosetooltip = "AUTOTOOLTIP-fed_antares_yardZ.odf"
builditem0 = "fed_saberZ"
builditem1 = "fed_monsoonZ"
builditem2 = "fed_intrepidZ"
builditem3 = "fed_nova"
builditem4 = "fed_akiraZ"
builditem5 = "fed_canaveralZ"
builditem6 = "fed_norway"
builditem7 = "all_alliedrepair"
builditem8 = "all_halt"
builditem9 = "fed_galaxyA"
classlabel = "shipyard"

Still not working :-(

posted on December 8th, 2011, 4:03 pm

YAY! Got it to work. I moved the builditemX = "fed_galaxyA" before the builditemX = "all_alliedrepair"

Off to bed now, I'll add more ships on the weekend. Cool game. Plus I like the Galaxy class ship a lot!