Need help, How do I make certain enemies come from start of game, or force show them?

[VanPimpbroo]

I want to make my game have ALL repears for a mod i'm making. Kinda like an aliens thing, but I just want only Repears to show. All the time. How do I define what enemies get shown, and how many per geoscape mission or whatever.

It'd be nice to have them spawn with a few humans civs on the same ship too, but thats what I want. anyone?

[Max_Caine]

go into assets/ufocontents. The contents of every ufo (i.e. aliens) is stored in there, so you can alter it to your hearts content. Best done with Excel or a spreadsheet program which is compatible with Excel. Ishantil reccomends LibreOffice.

[WalrusJones]

The AM_Folders can effect ship-mission spawns, UFO contents is probably what you want.

[VanPimpbroo]

thanks for the help both of you

but can you tell me how I can create my own aliens and I assume I just define the entry into the ships xml right?

id like to make a different kind of repears.

[Max_Caine]

If I didn't have ten minutes before I went to work I'd give you the full run-down, but there's a fair bit of work that goes into making a new alien. Instead, I will point you to a mod by Stinky which has a new alien type, so you can d/l it and learn from that.

[VanPimpbroo]

lol i cant get this to work, replaced a ton of simple low level ships with just reapers_repears_aggressive using the power point libre u told me to use. Nothing spawned. Not sure what I did wrong.. o well.

[Max_Caine]

Well, you can always use a text editor instead.

Using notepad++, a caesan light scout would look like this:

   <Row ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="13.5">   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Caesan_NonCombatant_Aggressive</Data></Cell>   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Caesan_NonCombatant_Aggressive</Data></Cell>  </Row>  <Row ss:Index="4">   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Caesan_NonCombatant_Passive</Data></Cell>   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Caesan_NonCombatant_Passive</Data></Cell>  </Row>  <Row ss:Index="6">   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Caesan_NonCombatant_Defensive</Data></Cell>   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Caesan_NonCombatant_Defensive</Data></Cell>  </Row>

You'd want to change it to something like this:

   <Row ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="13.5">   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Reaper_Reaper_Aggressive</Data></Cell>   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Reaper_Reaper_Aggressive</Data></Cell>  </Row>  <Row ss:Index="4">   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Reaper_Reaper_Passive</Data></Cell>   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Reaper_Reaper_Passive</Data></Cell>  </Row>  <Row ss:Index="6">   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Reaper_Reaper_Defensive</Data></Cell>   <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">2-3 Reaper_Reaper_Defensive</Data></Cell>  </Row>

"Passive", "Aggressive" and "Defensive" refer to inital spawning points, as well (I believe) as AI.

Edited September 4, 2013 by Max_Caine

[VanPimpbroo]

hey it worked!! maybe having them set to aggressive only made it not work..

thanks!

[Max_Caine]

If you don't have all three "sets", it won't work. You can set "passive" and "defensive"to zero, and set "aggressive" to whatever number floats your boat.