Star Trek The Next Generation - Coming Soon

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Distant Worlds 2 came out in March 2022, and I have tried several times over the past 4 years to create mods for this game.

I used to get help from a guy here called Q, who was a great source of information... but then he left before I had gotten everything I needed to do this mod.

Well, I did take notes, which allowed me to do portraits... and I still have those notes...


I have a plan to complete this Star Trek TNG mod now...


Stay tuned.........

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An early thought of what I need to do first.

Screen 1 - the working file layout.png (39.34 KiB) Viewed 63 times

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These are the 15 races I am adding to the mod today.

Federation
Klingon
Romulan
Borg
Q Continuum
Cardassian
Ferengi
Betazoid
Bajoran
Vulcan
Nausicaan
Bolian
Andorian
Jem'Hadar
Vorta

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Instead of manually adding the 15 races into Distant Worlds 2, I will just run this script I generated....... took 10 seconds only.

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Now to add the 15 races into Distant Worlds 2...... Press Modifications

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After clicking the Modifications button, you get this screen....Now enable the Star Trek Races Starter and when that finishes:

Restart Distant Worlds 2

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The result was an error:

"There is also a second overflow error later in the load process for a ShipHull XML document at line 281524, column 6, which means at least one generated ship hull file is also bad in the same way."


In other words, I need to fix the script and to start with just do a test to create the Federation, Klingons and Romulans and not
generate ship hull files, research files, or other extra XML

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With the amended script, this time no errors in Distant Worlds 2.

Now to see if it actually created the Federation, Klingon and Romulan races.

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And the test was successful........ the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans added to the Races screen
Yes... I still need to do the pictures......

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I created a mod to remove all the default races apart from Human.......

It worked, but for keeping the Ikkuro and the Quameno, which are DLC addons

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A little more tweaking to give me just the Federation, the Klingons and the Romulans

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I finished adding 26 Star Trek TNG races to the mod............

Now to work on the next step of the mod.