Editing Ships

[pantner]

Ok, i know that we are waiting for the de/recompliler for the .ship files....but ive had a look through these forums and people have beene editing them somehow....i have downloaded the ion scout and the frigate balace mod thingies.........

so how did you do it!?!?!?!?!!?

[Sandalpocalypse]

You need to grab the latest data.zip off the "LuaC Modification" thread. the simplest way after that is to extract the "data" directory to your "Homeworld2" directory. Then you need to add -overrideBigfile in the HW2 commandline.

Then open up any of the .SHP files using NotePad or WordPad, or any other text editor.

Be careful, though.. if you mess up and enter something invalid or forget to close a bracket, etc., HW2 will refuse to load into a mission.