[QUERY] Fourth Tier Planets?

[gerishnakov]

Is it possible to mod in a fourth tier habitability level? In this I mean allowing a continental preference species, for instance, to have a habitability cap above 0% for arid and tundra planets.

I've created a mod for my personal use, currently, that increases the habitability cap on 3rd tier planets (desert & arctic for continental) to 40%, up from 20%, with which I am also using a mod that halves the number of colonisable planets in a galaxy. I'd like to also then place a fourth tier of habitable planet into that now vacant 20% slot, but the game seems hard coded to only accept three levels of habitability.

 

[ShadowDragon868]

It's dead easy to do what you want to do.

At the top of 00_habitability_traits.txt, you will find the following lines:

@primary = 0.80
@secondary = 0.60
@tertiary = 0.40

These are defined variables. Later on in the file, you will see @Primary, @secondary, and @tertiary used a lot.
You can change the values for @Primary, @secondary, and @tertiary to whatever you like; you may also define your own variables.

By way of example, if you were to add

@awesome = 0.95
@meh = 0.51
@FUBAR = 0.01

To the top of a habitability traits file, you could then make any entry below @FUBAR to give the race with that trait a whopping 1% habitability, @awesome to make it 95% habitable, and @Meh to make it 51% habitable.

You can, and probably should, look at colonize_unlimited_species_traits.txt from the More Technologies mod to get an example of this in action. They cheerfully add the @almost_primary trait that gives 70% habitability.


You can also just cook a number directly in; for instance, if you wanted, say, people from Continental worlds to have 5% more habitability for all the other planets than they already do, it's probably not worth defining @continental_race_primary, @continental_race_secondary, etc, so just cook in 85, 65, and 25 respectively as applicable.

 

[gerishnakov]

It's dead easy to do what you want to do.

At the top of 00_habitability_traits.txt, you will find the following lines:

@primary = 0.80
@secondary = 0.60
@tertiary = 0.40

These are defined variables. Later on in the file, you will see @Primary, @secondary, and @tertiary used a lot.
You can change the values for @Primary, @secondary, and @tertiary to whatever you like; you may also define your own variables.

By way of example, if you were to add

@awesome = 0.95
@meh = 0.51
@FUBAR = 0.01

To the top of a habitability traits file, you could then make any entry below @FUBAR to give the race with that trait a whopping 1% habitability, @awesome to make it 95% habitable, and @Meh to make it 51% habitable.

You can, and probably should, look at colonize_unlimited_species_traits.txt from the More Technologies mod to get an example of this in action. They cheerfully add the @almost_primary trait that gives 70% habitability.


You can also just cook a number directly in; for instance, if you wanted, say, people from Continental worlds to have 5% more habitability for all the other planets than they already do, it's probably not worth defining @continental_race_primary, @continental_race_secondary, etc, so just cook in 85, 65, and 25 respectively as applicable.

Thanks that was really helpful! I've done the following:

@primary = 0.80
@secondary = 0.60
@tertiary = 0.40
@quaternary = 0.20

As well as adding the quaternary planet habitability level for each planet preference type. This hasn't worked in game though. Is the problem that I can't add anything after tertiary, and that any new level has to be somewhere between primary and tertiary for the game to recognise it, like Colonize Unlimited's 'almost primary' level?

EDIT: The problem may be, I believe, that as I'm changing the vanilla planet preferences my file name needs to be 00_habitability_traits.txt in order to override the base game's settings. Which is of course irritating for comptability reasons.

EDIT1: Yup that fixed the problem.

 

[ShadowDragon868]

Glad to have helped.

 

[gerishnakov]

Ok so now the mod works, for some reason I'm getting species being spawned with multiple planet preferences. Never had this issue before so I have to assume it's my mod causing it, but I literally haven't done anything except follow the existing syntax of the file. Help?

This is what my mod's habitability traits file looks like:

@primary = 0.80
@secondary = 0.60
@tertiary = 0.40
@quaternary = 0.20

trait_pc_desert_preference = {
   icon = "gfx/interface/icons/traits/trait_pc_desert_preference.dds"
   modifier = {
     pc_desert_habitability = @primary  
     pc_arid_habitability = @secondary
     pc_tropical_habitability = @secondary
     pc_continental_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_tundra_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_arctic_habitability = @quaternary
     pc_ocean_habitability = @quaternary
   }
}
trait_pc_tropical_preference = {
   icon = "gfx/interface/icons/traits/trait_pc_tropical_preference.dds"
   modifier = {
     pc_tropical_habitability = @primary  
     pc_desert_habitability = @secondary
     pc_continental_habitability = @secondary
     pc_arid_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_ocean_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_arctic_habitability = @quaternary
     pc_tundra_habitability = @quaternary
   }
}
trait_pc_continental_preference = {  
   icon = "gfx/interface/icons/traits/trait_pc_continental_preference.dds"
   modifier = {
     pc_continental_habitability = @primary  
     pc_tropical_habitability = @secondary
     pc_ocean_habitability = @secondary
     pc_desert_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_arctic_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_tundra_habitability = @quaternary
     pc_arid_habitability = @quaternary
   }
}
trait_pc_ocean_preference = {
   icon = "gfx/interface/icons/traits/trait_pc_ocean_preference.dds"
   modifier = {
     pc_ocean_habitability = @primary  
     pc_continental_habitability = @secondary
     pc_arctic_habitability = @secondary
     pc_tropical_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_tundra_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_arid_habitability = @quaternary
     pc_desert_habitability = @quaternary
   }
}
trait_pc_arctic_preference = {
   icon = "gfx/interface/icons/traits/trait_pc_arctic_preference.dds"
   modifier = {
     pc_arctic_habitability = @primary  
     pc_ocean_habitability = @secondary
     pc_tundra_habitability = @secondary
     pc_continental_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_arid_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_desert_habitability = @quaternary
     pc_tropical_habitability = @quaternary
   }
}
trait_pc_tundra_preference = {
   icon = "gfx/interface/icons/traits/trait_pc_tundra_preference.dds"
   modifier = {
     pc_tundra_habitability = @primary  
     pc_arctic_habitability = @secondary
     pc_arid_habitability = @secondary
     pc_ocean_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_desert_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_tropical_habitability = @quaternary
     pc_continental_habitability = @quaternary
   }
}
trait_pc_arid_preference = {
   icon = "gfx/interface/icons/traits/trait_pc_arid_preference.dds"
   modifier = {
     pc_arid_habitability = @primary  
     pc_tundra_habitability = @secondary
     pc_desert_habitability = @secondary
     pc_tropical_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_arctic_habitability = @tertiary
     pc_continental_habitability = @quaternary
     pc_ocean_habitability = @quaternary
   }
}
trait_pc_ai_preference = {
   icon = "gfx/interface/icons/traits/trait_pc_ai_preference.dds"
   modification = no
   modifier = {
     pc_ai_habitability = 1.0
     pc_desert_habitability = 0.01
     pc_tropical_habitability = 0.01
     pc_continental_habitability = 0.01
     pc_ocean_habitability = 0.01
     pc_arctic_habitability = 0.01
     pc_tundra_habitability = 0.01
     pc_arid_habitability = 0.01
   }
}
trait_pc_nuked_preference = {
   icon = "gfx/interface/icons/traits/trait_pc_nuked_preference.dds"
   modification = no
   modifier = {
     pc_nuked_habitability = @primary
     pc_desert_habitability = @secondary
     pc_tropical_habitability = @secondary
     pc_continental_habitability = @secondary
     pc_ocean_habitability = @secondary
     pc_arctic_habitability = @secondary
     pc_tundra_habitability = @secondary
     pc_arid_habitability = @secondary
   }
}
trait_pc_gaia_preference = {
   icon = "gfx/interface/icons/traits/trait_pc_gaia_preference.dds"
   modification = no
   modifier = {
     pc_gaia_habitability = 1.0
   }
}
trait_pc_ringworld_habitable_preference = {
   icon = "gfx/interface/icons/traits/trait_pc_ring_preference.dds"
   modification = no
   modifier = {
     pc_ringworld_habitable_habitability = 1.0
   }
}

 

[ShadowDragon868]

Um... You're having races with multiple habitability traits?

That... Should not be happening. Screenshot?

 

[gerishnakov]

Um... You're having races with multiple habitability traits?

That... Should not be happening. Screenshot?

I turned it off because it was doing that, but I'll enable it again and try and get some screens.