Galaxy Forge: A question

Frustrated about the lack of lack of planets

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Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I need help from anyone experienced with Galaxy Forge in SOASE: Rebellion.

A while ago I thought of an idea for a map in which 6 players would get a Titan of a specific faction, have 1 planet that didn't allow them to build an army (I intended for there only to be the Titans to fight with), and 1 star where the players would send their Titans for the showdown to end all showdowns.

So I finally got around to building the map, and had it all set up, but when I tried testing it there were WAY more planets than there should have been; another 14 planets had been dumped across the system, which would have messed up the map in relation to its purpose.

So my question is: Is there any way to have a map spawn with specifically what the editor wants it to? Or is this an automatic thing that is impossible to deal with?

Any help at all would be deeply appreciated.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I can honestly say in all my uses of Galaxy Forge, I have never had it spawn in "extra" worlds that I did not place.

Try uploading your map file for us to look at?  It's a simple text file... just open it, copy all the contents, then paste it up to pastebin.com and give us a link to the location pastebin puts it to.  Don't post the raw text here in a forum post... it'll be way too long.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Check your galaxy file in a text editor. You might have some random (planet) ring in there, which will generate a bunch of planets. If you can't figure out yourself what's wrong with it even that way, post the galaxy code on pastebin and someone will probably take look.

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Are you sure you are actually using the GalaxyForge? Keep in mind Sins has two different map editors, the in game Map Designer, which is for random maps and is definitely not unusual to have what you describe happen, and Galaxy Forge, which is an external what you see is what you get editor.

If you're certain its Galaxy Forge, no that is not normal.  ;)

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

TXT
versionNumber 4
isBrowsable TRUE
browsePictureName "ScenarioPicture-UserGenerated"
browseName "IDS_CUSTOMGALAXY_NAME_USERGENERATED"
browseDescription "IDS_CUSTOMGALAXY_DESCRIPTION_USERGENERATED"
isFirstCapitalShipIsFlagship TRUE
randomizeStartingPositions TRUE
planetArtifactDensity 0.150000
planetBonusDensity 0.600000
normalStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:Population 3
normalStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:CivilianModules 1
normalStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:TacticalModules 0
normalStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:Home 1
normalStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:ArtifactLevel 10
normalStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:Infrastructure 2
quickStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:Population 4
quickStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:CivilianModules 1
quickStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:TacticalModules 0
quickStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:Home 1
quickStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:ArtifactLevel 10
quickStartHomePlanetUpgradeLevel:Infrastructure 2
recommendedGameTypeCount 1
recommendedGameType "FFA"
metersPerGalaxyUnit 25000.000000
pixelsPerGalaxyUnit 1.000000
useRandomGenerator TRUE
randomizerParams
starPosOffsetRange
minPercentage 10.000000
maxPercentage 15.000000
playerParams
startingCredits 3000
startingMetal 800
startingCrystal 250
homePlanetType "TerranHome"
homePlanetStarRadiusRange
minPercentage 1.000000
maxPercentage 1.100000
areExtraPlanetsColonized FALSE
extraPlanetsMaxRadius 15.000000
extraPlanetsRadiusRange
minPercentage 0.900000
maxPercentage 1.000000
extraPlanetGroupCount 2
extraPlanetGroup
minCount 1
maxCount 1
planetTypeCount 1
planetType "Asteroid"
extraPlanetGroup
minCount 1
maxCount 1
planetTypeCount 1
planetType "RandomIceVolcanic"
starCount 1
star
type "RandomStar"
radius 100.000000
moveAreaRadius 10.000000
hyperspaceExitRadius 10.000000
connectionStarRadiusRange 0.500000
connectionChance 0.750000
maxPlayerCount 6
ringCount 1
ring
starRadiusRange
minPercentage 0.300000
maxPercentage 0.870000
militiaColonizationPerc 0.250000
planetGroupCount 1
planetGroup
minCount 2
maxCount 4
planetTypeCount 1
planetType "ShatteredMoon"

 

Ok, hopefully you guys will be able to make sense of this. Thanks for the feedback :)

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

This is not a galaxy forge created map. It is a random map, most likely made in the map designer as I said before. The reason you're getting extra things is right here.

Quoting Chaot1kShadow5, reply 4

useRandomGenerator TRUE

To use the true galaxy forge, go to your game install directory, then go to the "Galaxy Forge" folder, then "GalaxyForge.exe"

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

But how do you get to the proper Galaxy Forge file? This is the path to the one I was using:

 

Computer/Local Disk (C:)/Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion/Galaxy Forge

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Chaot1kShadow5, reply 6

But how do you get to the proper Galaxy Forge file? This is the path to the one I was using:

 

Computer/Local Disk (C:)/Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion/Galaxy Forge

That looks correct, however the galaxy forge should NEVER create a map like the one you just linked me. If it is, then you are doing something with it I did not think was possible.