Custom City Sets?

[Jecrell]

Hello everyone. I've started developing a cosmic horrors mod based on the Cthulhu mythos. Currently I've got a lot done (Cthulhu (+variants), Hastur (+variants), name-lists, traits, custom systems, flags), but I just keep finding more I want to do!

I'm looking into creating cities with non-euclidean geometry.
I can only seemingly replace existing assets.
Is it possible to create custom city sets and add them to the empire creation lists?

 

[Jecrell]

Okay! I found out how to add your own set instead of replacing it. So I will answer my own question.

1 - Choose a vanilla city set to get started from Stellaris\gfx\portraits\city_sets
2 - Copy that to your own mod directory.
3 - Rename the files (e.g. mammalian_01_city_l01.dds -> cosmichorrors_01_city_l01.dds)
4 - Set your graphic culture in your 00_species_classes.txt file.

PLA_CHR = {
        #Cosmic Horrors
        portraits = {
            "cthulhu"
            "hastur"
        }
    graphical_culture = cosmichorrors_01
    move_pop_sound_effect = "molluscoid_pops_move"
}

5 - In Stellaris\common\graphical_culture\00_graphical_culture.txt find your vanilla race (e.g. mammalian_01). Copy it over to your own file in your mod directory.

6 - Change the name to match your graphical_culture text in your species_classes.txt file.
Example below

cosmichorrors_01 = {
    fallback = mammalian_01
    ship_lighting = {
      
        cam_light_1_dir = { 0.4 0.0 0.0 }
        cam_light_2_dir = { -0.5 0.0 0.0 }
        cam_light_3_dir = { 0.4 -1.0 0.0 }
      
        intensity_near = 1.0
        intensity_far = 3.0
        near_value = 700
        far_value = 4000
        rim_start_near = 0.5
        rim_stop_near = 0.99
        rim_start_far = 0.3
        rim_stop_far = 0.99

        ambient_near = 0.0
        ambient_far = 50.0
      

    }

7 - Test your results and have fun!

Let me know if this helped.[/code]