Wanting to create a custom race and problems?

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It seems that I'm not allowed to create a custom starting system? I have to choose whether if its a dead, serenity, minor or one of the major's starting system? And name of the starting star either. I'm not allowed to specify what type of dead planets, habitable planet sizes and number of planets inside the starting home system. And whether if I want the planet to be tidally locked, or has a moon or many or none at all. Nor what type of the sun it has.


And how do I create ship templates for a custom race? I've been looking for it in custom race menu but it's unavailable. It seems like I have to choose a hull style and then start a game to create the ship templates for them. If I save the templates will it be always available for selection whenever I play a game as custom race as long as I have needed techs unlocked?


And then how exactly do I unlock everything in a game with a command, what command so I can modify all the hulls for a custom race?


Thank you for your time.


edit: erm, sorry about italics, not sure what I did. I think I hit a wrong key somewhere.


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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Creating a custom system requires modding, but is certainly doable. You can make basically anything you want.

 

Creating a custom shipstyle again requires modding. There's a sticky in this subforum with a tutorial.

 

adding -Cheat to your launch .exe enables cheats, and opening the console with tilde (~), enter "unlock" to unlock every tech and ideology.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Oh, there's plenty of ways to make custom planets, names, stars, systems, and have them all be your own. I've made custom planet types, art, and gradients for my home system. The only thing that doesn't work right now is custom heightmaps, but those USED to work, so keep your fingers crossed for their return. Thing is, all of this requires XML modding. Star systems, thankfully, aren't too difficult.

And how do I create ship templates for a custom race? I've been looking for it in custom race menu but it's unavailable. It seems like I have to choose a hull style and then start a game to create the ship templates for them. If I save the templates will it be always available for selection whenever I play a game as custom race as long as I have needed techs unlocked?
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That is correct. Even if you want to make a custom hull-style, you can only make new ships after starting a game. If you save the templates, they will always be available for that custom race, as well as any other race that uses that hull style. Making a custom hull style is doable, but that's a long-term project because of all the work involved.

There are guides that go into detail about everything you've asked about in this forum. Some are even made by devs.

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