Matrix Games Forums

**Updated July 22nd, 2011**
**Changes**
**Added Kalthaniell's Shipyard**

This is a general announcement to those players loving Distant Worlds,
if you haven't stopped by the Mod Section
you are really missing out on some wonderful mods that has really extended the enjoyment of Distant Worlds and may do the same for you.


Also if you would like to get involved and maybe learn how to mod a ship from scratch and for free check out Gary Childress excellent tutorial thread on Wings 3d.

Any questions or help for installing the mod, just ask and I am sure myself or any other person would be happy to help you out.

Conversion Mods

Star Trek
Total Conversion Mod 1.0 by Conflictx
Star Trek Sounds and Music by Fulgaris
Drillerman's Star Trek mod - includes the Federation Shipset
Igard's Comprehensive Star Trek Conversion Mods
The Romulan Star Empire v1.5 - Complete TNG races and shipsets for all DW races, including Federation, Klingon and lots more.
tm.asp?m=2497781
Archer Era Star Trek Mod - Not yet compatible with Return of the Shakturi Expansion. New version coming soon.
tm.asp?m=2562947
Kirk Era Star Trek Mod - For ROTS expansion only. Features several ST original series races and shipsets.
tm.asp?m=2619128
Star Trek Weapons Mod - With new torpedo, missile and other effects.
tm.asp?m=2674267

This next one's not Star Trek it's a game asset mod.
Battlefleet Gothic Mod
Click Here

Battlestar Galactica
Click Here

Star Wars Mod
Click Here

Ship Sets

Kalthaniell's Ecellent Shipyard set,
"The ships were made using various artwork found on the internet, or ships from mods or games like Homeworld 2 or Sins of Solar Empire. Except from shipsets I've also made other addons like weapons effects or custom ships for minorsets (pirate ships). Hope you'll enjoy. "
Kalthaniell's Shipyard Thread

Eve Online Ship Mods
Amarr
Caldari

Diverse Worlds
tm.asp?m=2662394

Battlestar Galactica Ship Mods
BSG Colonial Shipset [WIP]
Conflictx Excellent BSG ship Mod

Transcendence Mod
Based on a Space Combat and Adventure Game

Random Ship Sets
MIHS Shipyard-Excellent!
MIHS Shipyard Click Here

Eve Online Ship Mods
Amarr
Caldari

S7 Shipyards
Click Here

Homeworld 2
Click Here

Ferion Tigon Battleship
The Tribe from Gratuitously Big Spacebattles
Stargate The Tauri ship set
The Robotech Super Dimensional Fortress SDF-1
X3 Terran Conflict Ship Mod
Gary Childress Excellent Custom Ship set he personally designed!
Kathaniell's Custom Race Sets**June 4th, 2011 Update
Kalthaniell's Custom Ship Sets **June 4th, 2011 Update

Game Asset Mods (Planets,Effects, etc)
Racial Troop Mod! Excellent!
Super AI Mod
Weapons Effects Mod
Realistic Moon Mod
Custom Galactic Backdrops
Ascendancy Music
Excellent Planetary Graphics Overhaul
Alert Message Mod
Shield Effect Mod
Excellent Post for Adding the spacey Infiniti:The Quest for Earth Soundtrack
Smooth Star Mod
Realistic Star Names
Shark7's Ship Names List- Royal Navy Edition Very Cool!
Shark's Updated IJN Edition Name list *Removed some repeat entries.
Racial Troop Icons- Awesome Race Specific Troop Icons!! A Must
Shark7's Message Alarm to replace what is annoying to some players the default sound.
Igard's WIP Planet Texture Mod & Request Thread


***Modders if I have missed your mod, please pm me with the link to it and I will add here.

the star trek and planet graphics mods are hosted on rapidshare which i cant access

if anyone is able to dl them and reupload them to another site like mediafire it wld be much appreciated

ORIGINAL: Sliverine

the star trek and planet graphics mods are hosted on rapidshare which i cant access

if anyone is able to dl them and reupload them to another site like mediafire it wld be much appreciated

Within those threads I have uploaded the mods directly to one of my hosted servers, and now everyone can access through my servers SSL for a direct download. [:D] (I hate Rapidshare)

Thank you, lordxorn. I agree completely that the mods posted and in progress so far are impressive and I'm glad you are giving these some more attention. We plan to add more support for modding in the future, as soon as time allows.

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Thank you, lordxorn. I agree completely that the mods posted and in progress so far are impressive and I'm glad you are giving these some more attention. We plan to add more support for modding in the future, as soon as time allows.

That brings up a good point worth mentioning. That is outstanding news that there are further plans to expand the support for modding, which there has been already OUTSTANDING support for the mod community. For example the Customization Guide being released days before Distant Worlds street date. So even though DW has been criticized for it's lesser degree of what is open in terms of mods, there is already a plethora of community content.

So props to Matrix/Codeforce as well! [:)]

Awesome !
Finally after threads in the mod section, in the wishlist, and in the general forum an answer about the very limited modding present atm and the intention to add real modding in the future

Beautiful stuff here! I'm certain that most DW players will love the mods. Thanks for your work! And for sharing!

So I downloaded some of the cool ships and extraxted them into images/units/ships/family10

why arent they showing up? do i need to replace a older style to get these in the game? could someone explain how I can use these new models in game. Thanks.

ORIGINAL: Druthlen
do i need to replace a older style to get these in the game?.

Almost spot on.
You need them to replace an existing set.
Refer to the customisation guide if you want to avoid overwriting your original files by using a theme folder. Altenatively you could back up and replace but I wouldn't reccomend it.
Either way you need to use your ship set In place of an existing set.

Edit-----
Link for guide
ftp://ftp.matrixgames.com/pub/distantwo ... _Guide.zip

Mr. Rutins,

I like your attitude, but needs a dash more soonerratherthanlater-thusiasm. (Although, i do understand that its not always the choice of an employee to pick the next project)

But one thing i will state right here (the interwebs) and right now, When pricing, components, research trees, and component/research types are externalized (and hopefully a scriptable economy pricing based on supply/demand so the mod maker can tweak to his liking), I will buy your game, and so will everyone I know or I will kill them.
I will also buy the sequel if the above conditions are met.
Also to ice the cake ill spam-vertize you across unconventional online massive communication (4chan etc.)

Keep up the good work guys this game has serious potential, I'd like to see its chastity belt taken off.

Need to add this thread to the list, its a shipNames.txt file (with possibly more on the way) to give a little flavor to the game.

tm.asp?m=2467645

very nice list

op, can you add the following mod:
tm.asp?m=2443210&mpage=1&key=

its awesome racial troop icons

ORIGINAL: xx32racer32xx
Keep up the good work guys this game has serious potential, I'd like to see its chastity belt taken off.

I hear you on that and thank you for your patience. We do plan to give modders quite a bit more to have fun with, but to date we've had to prioritize that a bit lower than fixing the reported issues. It is fairly high on our list though, but it is also a fair amount of work to really expose some of these things.

Updated both [:D]

Original=Shark7

Need to add this thread to the list, its a shipNames.txt file (with possibly more on the way) to give a little flavor to the game.

Original=taltamir

op, can you add the following mod:
its awesome racial troop icons

Where's your stuff lordxorn?

ORIGINAL: Dadekster

Where's your stuff lordxorn?

LOL, forgot to include my own. Updating now. I made this thread before my own. [:D]

I for one, am looking forward to more moddability.

The flexability of the game means we have the potential to do a lot with it.
I am interested in working towards a warhammer 40k mod, for sure.

I cant wait until we can ADD MORE SHIPS, and CUSTOMIZE RACES, without replacing the great stuff that is currently in the game. I would also like a button that we could press to make all races present in a game so we dont have to manually go through and select each one individually. Also, it would be nice if when you go to customize a game it saved your options from the last custom game you made, that way I wouldnt have to keep entering the same values in again every time I start a new game.

I've released a new shipnames.txt, the Imperial Japanese Navy Edition, same thread as Royal Navy Edition