Sharing Ship Designs

[Ranbir]

I love how creative people have been with the s hip designer.

Is it possible to share your designs, so people can use other people's designs?

Also, where can I go to delete certain designs?

 

[bonscott]

You can delete them by going into the ship builder, highlight the design and click the delete button.

As for sharing, I believe that is coming soon as Stardock finishes up the modding guide. I think you can do it now but it's pretty complicated.

 

[Leonel]

I'd love to see some custom ship designs! Importing various models etc.

 

[Ranbir]

What if I pressed Obsolete instead.

They've gone from the list, but I know they still, 'exist'.

Also, maybe a bug, but when I click on a planet (don't zoom in) and choose the build option the small list that comes up shows up the designs I obsoleted.

When I zoom in to the planet and choose to build, it only chooses the designs which are current.

 

[BlizzardGR]

What if I pressed Obsolete instead.

They've gone from the list, but I know they still, 'exist'.

Also, maybe a bug, but when I click on a planet (don't zoom in) and choose the build option the small list that comes up shows up the designs I obsoleted.

When I zoom in to the planet and choose to build, it only chooses the designs which are current.

Have you installed the latest patch? In the previous versions when you saved a ship with the same name as another ship to replace it, they both showed up in the quick build list and i think this is supposed to be fixed now. Did you save your design with the same name as one of your ships?

 

[bonscott]

There is a bug where obsoleted designs can show up in the quick build list.

Obsolete = Remove the ship from the game but it will be there in your next game (assuming same race/ship type)

Delete = Deletes the ship design forever

 

[oxboxnox]

Has anyone found out where the designed ships are actually kept? I designed a quick ship last night, exited, and scanned the game directory for changed files (by date), but came back with nothing. Anyone else have some insight on this?

 

[BlizzardGR]

MyDocuments/MyGames/GalCiv2/ships

 

[oxboxnox]

>>>MyDocuments/MyGames/GalCiv2/ships
Blasted! And so right you are BlizzardGR. I have my games directory on one drive and /my docs, etc on a different drive. As for sharing, it "should" be as easy as uploading the particular *.shipclass and *.shpcfg, and maybe a screen shot and text description. Anyone tried this yet?

 

[bonscott]

Note if you're playing Metaverse games they are actually located in MyDocuments/MyGames/GalCiv2/Metaverse/ships