How do I make myself a Masters of Orion mod?

[Yolky]

I have no idea how to mod. I tried looking at the links and alot of the links I click on, Google says "sorry link no longer exsits".

So I am not shure if I am in the correct area to ask, but I would like to know how to mod this game. Do I just use the editor to change things?

How do I make new units? How do I make new pictures? Can anyone post a valid link on how to mod this game? I am out of work for over a year, so maybe trying to mod this game will take my mind of things right now.

[Martin Gühmann]

I have no idea how to mod. I tried looking at the links and alot of the links I click on, Google says "sorry link no longer exsits".

What did I say about the old server and the settler4 prefixing. Well, anyway, the section is now here:

http://settler4.apolyton.net/ctp2/modification/

So I am not shure if I am in the correct area to ask, but I would like to know how to mod this game. Do I just use the editor to change things?

You use a zexz editor to edit the text files and the slic files.

How do I make new units? How do I make new pictures? Can anyone post a valid link on how to mod this game? I am out of work for over a year, so maybe trying to mod this game will take my mind of things right now.

For units you add a new unit entry in the units.txt. For pictures, you need a drawing software like Paint Shop Pro, well something with that you can edit targa and tiff files. Maybe you can start with a trial version or use a free drawing program.

-Martin

[Yolky]

Ah yes, I totally forgot about the "settler4" prefexing. So that applies to everything then? I will make shure I do that next time. Thanks for the reminder.

Thanks for the help. I will try it and see if my lil ole brain can handle it. I will look for this zexz editor. Hopefully I can understand it.

[Yolky]

Can you give me a link to a zexz editor? I googled it, and some porn show up. So I want to make shure I am using the correct one because I am also getting hex editor, and stuff for corel and no zexz is showing up.

[BureauBert]

zexz-editor

This is just a typo: "z" and "t" are neighbors on the german keyboard.

Here you can find a text-editor suitable for modding CTP2.

[thistleknot]

i want to do this mod. i have the civ2 moorjr mod. maybe we or i can extract it.

[thistleknot]

I've been doing some work on this mod. I got a few of the tiles made.

The hard one was some planet with what looked like a red/black cross written on it. But I got it. The rest should be easy now.