Matrix Games Forums

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.........

An early thought of what I need to do first.

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

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

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

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

Restart Distant Worlds 2

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Now to work on the next step of the mod.