Galaxy Forge Questions

How many maps have you made before? If you haven't made many, I suggest starting small.

what is the scroll height and width?

SCALE: for really large maps, like the one I have that is 5000x5000, try 8000 to 12000 and save often, load up the map until the distances are manageable/playable to your liking. Mine is set to 10000 for that massive 5000x5000 map, but something else might work for yours.

Remember, you can create massive maps like that, but remember it'll be a whore on your CPU to play it if it's heavily populated by npc's, pirates, etc...

the number of planets you can add too a star is limitless, however for that epic feel make multiple stars

Thanks
I have been using the huge multi-star map as my base to save time

One more question how do you make wormhole connections, can they be random?

I don't believe they can be random, always need a static pair.

also can they be one way

Doubt it.

They can be one way if you connect a wormhole to a anything other than another wormhole.

I also have a Galaxy Forge question...How you get the map from Galaxy Forge into the game to play online? I can't seem to figure it out.

Thanks!!

Save it in your Sins install Galaxy folder, look for it among all the other maps. It will not show up in Custom maps.

If you're running 1.09b, you'll also have to edit the map file with notepad and change versionNumber to 2.

hahaha, you responded to the other one in the other thread. thanks again too

i changed the version number like you said but i noticed all the other formal maps are version 1. and it didn't work either way...any further suggestions?

Did you save it here:
C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Galaxy and do you have 1.09?

Technically speaking, nobody actually said before that changing the versionNumber worked. kryo suggested it in one thread when someone asked, and since then it's spread around other posts and nobody until now said it actually didn't work. So the assumption was it did

hey i saved my galaxy in that proper folder but have yet to see it

Are you checking for it among all the other maps? It won't be in custom. And even though now apparently we don't know if setting versionNumber to 2 works or not, make sure you do that too and see.

rofl
but i'm 90% it worked that way in v1.03 or somewhere around that.

Yeah, that's why the suggestion spread around But yeah, all the previous threads that asked about it never got "It didn't work" replies after the suggestion to change the version number.. so it's a fairly substantiated assumption. It is funny though how it picked up even though it may not actually work

i looked for in it every map location in game both online and off and it wasn't there. i'm going to try it again and save it as something else and not change anything. maybe that'll work but im at a loss as of now