How to change race name?

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opticlops
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How to change race name?

Postby opticlops » Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:11 pm

This may be a stupid question, and it may be on a different topic, however I have not managed to find it. So, I was wondering how to change the race names i.e. Engi ---> Dalek (for my mod) etc. By this I don't mean starting name (that you can rename in hangar) but the actual defining race name :)

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stargateprovider
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Re: How to change race name?

Postby stargateprovider » Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:59 pm

You'll have to copy the Engi race data from the Blueprints.xml (or from here), paste it in your Blueprints.xml.append, then change the title and the short like I changed it to cheese and you may change other things as well here:

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<crewBlueprint name="engi">
   <desc>It's unclear if the 'Cheese' are partly organic or entirely soda, but it's well known that they make exceptional cows.</desc>
   <cost>50</cost>
   <bp>2</bp>
   <title>Cheese</title>
   <short>Cheese</short>
   <rarity>2</rarity>
   <powerList>
      <power>Repair speed is doubled</power>
      <power>Combat damage inflicted is halved</power>
   </powerList>
</crewBlueprint>
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opticlops
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Re: How to change race name?

Postby opticlops » Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:14 pm

cheers mate :)
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Re: How to change race name?

Postby opticlops » Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:34 pm

actually... pasted it in... and it doesn't work, it loads up and then crashes before it gets to title screen. Any help- cheers.
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Re: How to change race name?

Postby stargateprovider » Sat Dec 21, 2013 9:44 am

opticlops wrote:actually... pasted it in... and it doesn't work, it loads up and then crashes before it gets to title screen. Any help- cheers.

Did you copy the original or did you copy my example? Try adding 4 spaces to the second description line.
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Re: How to change race name?

Postby opticlops » Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:44 pm

ah, dw now- got it working, thx :)