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Scenario Editor

cliffski

I’m a big fan of modding and game editors. people love to tweak a game they way they want it, and I support that 100%. So with this in mind, here is a work-in-progress screenshot of the custom scenario editor.

The idea is that there is a new way to launch a challenge (maybe from the challenges window), rather than selecting an existing singelplayer mission. That new button takes you to this screen which lets you tweak everything. Once done, you can then click deploy, and arrange your fleet like any other mission, then issue that as a challenge to anyone else. You can only use backgrounds that already exist in the game, but everything else is tweakable.  The only big chunk not done yet is changing the deployment zones. I may end up adding that later and using defaults for now. My UI coding is sadly slow and inefficient :(

Together with in-game messaging, this is the second big feature that will be in the next patch (alongside many bug fixes) which will be 1.28

8 thoughts on Scenario Editor

  1. Sounds great. I’m fascinated by the amount of extensions you add continuously. Most products don’t get such care after their releases.
    I have one question about this from a developers view: Do you plan in advance to make these extensions or do you serve them as they come to your mind?

  2. i kinda have one question about this. will this work to make new single-player scenarios also? For some reason, i can’t seem to issue challenges at all. :(

  3. EDIT: nevermind, i know the reason. somehow, i’m missing GSB_Base package. i think that’s the reason for my troubles, including the “You’re missing content” error i get with EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN CHALLENGE.

  4. And so the editing continues… I can now play all challenges (yay!) but i still can’t issue challenges. at all. D:

  7. Hi Cliff, just bought your game a month ago. Please, please, please make this custom scenario editor available for single player. By this I mean the ability to sand-box i.e. I can design, choose and place enemy ships just as I can do for my own fleet. I should then be able to play this custom scenario just as any other original missions. This would tremendously extend the replayability.

  8. that would be the solution to my not-able-to-post-challenges problem… kind of. i would at least be able to actually use the scenario editor that way. or, you could add a ‘test’ button. (is there one? i haven’t downloaded the new patch yet…)

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