Copy/Paste a Terrain Feature?

[Black Fox]

I've played through Final Frontier and I've got to say, it's a great mod - so much so that I'd actually like to implement some of its ideas in my own. I'm a novice modder, and all I've worked with thus far are sound files and XML files, because they're easy enough for me to understand. My question is this:

If I wanted to cut and paste the Black Hole (and its Black Hole Gravity Field) from Final Frontier into my mod, what would that entail? I've found all of the references I can in the XML files, and copied those over making requisite changes, but to no avail. I'm guessing there's some Python coding to be done, but I haven't the slightest if it's possible to easily find, cut, and paste a bit of Python code, nor where in the world I would paste it.

Does anyone have any suggestions on this subject? Has it, or any similar ideas, been brought up before?

Thanks for anyone's contributions!

 

[deanej]

What is your mod about? If possible, I would base it off of Final Frontier - it's much easier to mod your stuff into Final Frontier rather than the other way around.

 

[Black Fox]

Well, it's not really a mod with a goal in mind, yet - I'd just like to be able to place a black hole on an otherwise normal, earth map. I think that being able to do that would be reason enough for me to further develop the ideas I have.

I recognize that it would be easier to mod something into Final Frontier, but I really was looking to extract that one, useful thing. Kind of like the Inquisitor unit from Gods of Old that eventually got modded.

 

[deanej]

The black hole stuff is complicated. The gravity field is a separate feature, and the gravity is done in python. The placement is hardcoded into the map script too.