modding Aliens

[HalfTon Midget]

I was going to use halsten's leader and minister generator's to take care of those aspects. However as I understand it, the aliens are defaulted to democratic, but i want them to be national socialist. Is there any way to change this? or any of there starting slider settings?

Also I want to change there starting techs. Normally I would just go into the revolters.txt file, but ALI isn't there. Is it possible to do this? If so, where do I find the file that needs to be changed?

thanks in advance

 

[mib]

For sliders just use the "freedom" cheat. ALI doesn't have a .inc file so you can't edit their starting conditions... IIRC.

 

[unmerged(12544)]

That does not mean, that you can't create an *.inc file for them. I have already created one for Rebels (REB) and it works, so you might try.

 

[Antiochus V]

I thought the aliens simply copied the slider settings of whichever country they start from?

 

[HalfTon Midget]

panther... If I create a .inc for them, I would need to put in the province numbers for them too right? or does that automatically happen when I go through F12

and the .inc file would go into whichever scenario/campaign i wanted to play right?

Sorry for all the questions, but I do understand that if I create a .inc file then I would be able to set the sliders, techs, etc that way. I've just never created one (or modified) before.... There has to be a first time for everything though

 

[unmerged(12544)]

panther... If I create a .inc for them, I would need to put in the province numbers for them too right?

Probably, for REB this is not necessary.

and the .inc file would go into whichever scenario/campaign i wanted to play right?

You have to add to the scenario file (end), that it has to load the *.inc file.

Sorry for all the questions, but I do understand that if I create a .inc file then I would be able to set the sliders, techs, etc that way.

Sure. It is best to copy an existing *.inc file and modify it.

I've just never created one (or modified) before.... There has to be a first time for everything though

You don't have to apologize, at some point everyone is a beginner.

 

[HalfTon Midget]

Panther.... you said for REB (partisans) that you didn't have to enter in anything into the province fields (understandable because they can happen anywhere)

I would have the same situation with ALI, how where able to get around not entering that info in? just leave the fields blank?

 

[unmerged(12544)]

I would have the same situation with ALI, how where able to get around not entering that info in? just leave the fields blank?

Yes.

ownedprovinces = {
}
controlledprovinces = {
}
nationalprovinces = {
}

 

[HalfTon Midget]

awesome! Thank you for the info panther