HELP I NEED NEW PLANETS!!

Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time, 4X space strategy game which models a "living galaxy" with incredible options for replayability and customizability. Experience the full depth and detail of large turn-based strategy games, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game. Now greatly enhanced with the new Universe release, which includes all four previous releases as well as the new Universe expansion!

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Univeraakh HG7
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HELP I NEED NEW PLANETS!!

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Does anyone knows how to create new planet types in Distant Worlds...
First step i know how to do: open Photoshop and draw a planet and save it as 256 X 256 PNG file next step ?????[&:][&:]
If some one could help me.... PLEASEEEEEEE[&o]
I explore, colonize, exploit, defend and...
CREATE
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You can only replace the existing planet graphics, you can't make a new type of planet or add new graphics.  So you need to find the planet graphics in your distant world directory where you installed it and save over them with your new graphic.  Game mehanics for planets can't be changed or added, just replacement graphics.
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And make sure you copy that whole directory BEFORE you make changes so that you can back out to it, if your graphics cause the game to AbEnd.
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ABEND - you must be in IT and an ol' timer at that
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ORIGINAL: Grubwurm

ABEND - you must be in IT and an ol' timer at that
...and he uses 'The Force' as well... be careful! [:)]
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Abend
I now have something to look up.
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ABEND = ABnormal END of run, from the days of punch cards and batch jobs.
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