Galactic Civilizations IV

Galactic Civilizations IV

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Astus 18 May, 2023 @ 3:50pm
United Earth Ship Components
I have been trying to port one of my designs from GalCiv3 to GalCiv4 but found out that all United Earth components are missing. From what I can see it seems they are the only parts that are missing from GalCiv3.

But since most of the data structure between 3 and 4 seems to have remained the same I tried to grab the corresponding files from 3 and put them into 4. While doing this I found out that almost all of them are already there. Only the files in the objgfxcfg.zip and the entries in CosmeticComponentDefs.xml and CosmeticPlanetComponentArtDefs.xml are missing.
This leads me to believe that this is not intentional but that those were simply forgotten.

After adding these entries (and adjusting the style to be that of Terra so that I don't need to fiddle with the UE Style) I have almost gotten it to work but the Icons don't show and when I try to select it it crahses (btw this is also true for the Slyne_EnergyBall (before I messed with anything) so that needs a fix (I have already send in a crash report)).

But since it now seems to me that adding the UE ship components was merely forgotten I want to kindly ask the devs to add those awesome components to the game. The shipbuilder community needs those (I don't care about the assembled ship Models or UE as a race. If there are reasons holding these things back then that should not hold back the inclusion of the cosmetic ship components).

(I hope that Technical Support is the correct sub forum for this)
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Astus 18 May, 2023 @ 3:59pm 
Just figured out that I forgot to save my changes to the CosmeticPlanetComponentArtDefs.xml. Now that I have actually saved those the UE parts are accessible in my game! Thus I can finally start porting over my designs! (UnitedEarthModel_031 is such a useful component when designing the bridge of a ship! Simply the best looking bridge part in the gamefor medium sized ships! And UnitedEarthModel_038 just awesome!)
z|A|bik2  [developer] 19 May, 2023 @ 2:29am 
Hey, thank you for this thorough description!
I will let the team know.

It may take time for this to be patched, but you have written almost a guide, on how to circumvent the issue!
:lunar2019wavingpig:
Astus 19 May, 2023 @ 5:21am 
I want to note that to get all of the files you need to look into DLC6_RiseoftheTerrans and DLC8_AltarianProphecy (the latter containing the components that the ship editor calls classic)
Astus 24 Jan @ 9:17am 
I understand that it may take time to fix this, but it has been almost a year and if I am not mistaken it has still not been fixed (I at lest didn't see anything in any patch notes and I can't see the parts in my in-game ship designer).
Maybe the ticket for this issue has gotten buried in the list?
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