Topic: Adding new ships in SFC1 (Read 2426 times)

sfcv · « **on:** April 02, 2010, 06:46:42 am »

I was thinking about adding new ships in sfc1, but in ShipEdit 2 you cannot add them because there is no New Ship option available, so i tried to add one manually, in sfbspc file, fixed what should be fixed and started SFC1.
There, the ship appears in the vessel library but if i try to play with it i cannot.
Why can't you add some more ships, rather than modifying the existing ones?

intermech · « **Reply #1 on:** April 02, 2010, 07:56:42 am »

You cannot add new ships in SFC1, it don't work.

sfcv · « **Reply #2 on:** April 02, 2010, 10:30:34 am »

well then, if i cannot add new ones, why can i even change the ship names without the game to crash?

intermech · « **Reply #3 on:** April 02, 2010, 10:35:37 am »

I am not a programmer, but I think changing an existing name, and adding a new one are different things in SFC1. The games allow for a certain number for each "class." In SFC:OP I think it is 200, but in SFC1 it is much lower and used up by the stock game. If it is possible, I have never found a way to do it and I think anyone here would be interested if you discover that it is possible. If you figure it out let us know, but I think it is fairly commonly known that this is a limitation to modding SFC1.

sfcv · « **Reply #4 on:** April 02, 2010, 10:40:33 am »

right.. at least i can edit existing ships to reach my expectations.
I have a question about hydran campaign. i started the campaign and played untill script 5/10 (youreIT.scr) i got the nineth one (trophies.scr) and after that i got the black hole mania which i cannot skip by moving in another territory. where are the other 4 scripts and how can i make them work? and in gorn campaign, in Muddy Waters, after i scan it, if i shoot it, the game crashes.

Magnum357 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 02, 2010, 04:19:32 pm »

Actually, you can add ships to SFC1. Someone (forgot who it was) showed me that you have to edit the shiplist file manually (with excell or access). I haven't played SFC1 in a long time so I can't remember exactly how this works, but if you create a custom ship, you must select a "stock" ship, then the custom ship to your fleet. Then you could swap to the custom ship and control it. I beleive the custom ship will appear normally for AI players. The system is not as good as SFC:OP or SFC3 but it is what it is.

Again, I might be wrong on this so maybe someone else can varify this aswell.

sfcv · « **Reply #6 on:** April 06, 2010, 03:00:41 am »

i tried to add a new ship in Excell 2003, and none of the output extensions do not match, and i get a warning that if i save as the Unicode format, some data from the file will be lost.

Age · « **Reply #7 on:** April 06, 2010, 05:32:28 pm »

Chris Jones did a mod for SFC1 and added a few more ships iirc.

sfcv · « **Reply #8 on:** April 07, 2010, 01:45:18 am »

Quote from: Age on April 06, 2010, 05:32:28 pm

Chris Jones did a mod for SFC1 and added a few more ships iirc.

really? can you give me a link to it?
thanks.

Age · « **Reply #9 on:** April 08, 2010, 05:11:54 am »

Here is his site don't know were the exactly it is but look around.

http://www.chrisjonesgaming.net/news.php

sfcv · « **Reply #10 on:** April 09, 2010, 02:57:13 am »

but, what about at least change the names of the Ships? I mean i wanted to change the D6X ship (from sfc1mix) to DDX and i couldn't.
if i try to modify them manually the game will certanely crash.
Example: i changed the H-DWH ship to H-HB, 2 things happend.
1) i couldn't play the TechDD with the hydran
2) the game crashes when i select it in skirmish.

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