Porting SRU mods to SR2030

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Porting SRU mods to SR2030

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Hello,

Since we have already seen a few comments about users hoping to revisit their current mods in the new game, I thought I would start the conversation about what is required to move a mod over. This of course may change over time and ever file will have different requirements. We've done only the most basic testing of this process, so results may vary.

The usage rules and data structure changes should for the most part be documented already on the SupremeWiki.

Tech Tree
The structure of the tech tree has not changed extensively. Some new columns have been added.

To convert an SRU .TTRX file to work in SRNG, the following steps need to be taken.
  • Add column I Effect 3
  • Add column J Effect 4
  • Add column M Effect Value 3
  • Add column N Effect Value 4
  • Add column AA StartExclude
  • Add column AB PlanetaryDefenseTech
  • Add column AC leadsto1
  • Add column AD leadsto2
  • Add column AE regavail
Equipment List
An extensive rebalancing of the units has been done, so the combat stats are significantly different. We'll provide more details on that closer to release, but the data structure also changed.

To convert an SRU .UNIT file to work in SRNG, the following steps need to be taken.
  • Add column BL HeliCarrier
  • Add column BP FTL
  • Add column BQ Survey
  • Add column EG uSpecialType
  • Add column EH FTLRange
  • Add column EI upgradecompadj0
  • Add column EJ upgradecompadj1
  • Add column EK upgradecompadj2
  • Add column EL upgradecompadj3
  • Add column EM upgradecompadj4
  • Add column EN upgradecompadj5
  • Add column EO upgradecompadj6
  • Add column EP upgradecompadj7
  • Add column EQunituptech0
  • Add column ER unituptech1
  • Add column ES unituptech2
  • Add column ET unituptech3
  • Add column EU unituptech4
  • Add column EV unituptech5
  • Add column EW unituptech6
  • Add column EX unituptech7
  • Add column EY UnitDesc
3D Models
The format for 3D Models is not .CMO instead of the previous .X file format. Converters are available to go between these formats.

... More details to come
Chris Latour
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Re: Porting SRU mods to SR2030

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Just a quick note to say that earlier this week the SR2030 mod tools were updated. We're still doing some testing, but the Asset Manager should not be able to import an SRU Equipment file or Tech Tree file and then export it as an SR2030 formatted file. It should add the missing columns in the right places. We'll be doing some testing of this ourselves, but wanted to let the community know about it. The Asset Manager also has a new function available for "root of". The attack and defense values of for units were rebalanced for SR2030 and the values were also square rooted to match engine changes. So if you have an old file, you should use root of 2 for all attack and defense values. Unfortunately you have to do one column at a time. Highlight the rows you wish to affect.

Also, with the recent update we added an extra .EXE file in the game's root folder which opens the map editor directly without having to go through the tools.

Once we've done more testing with the tools ourselves we'll try and add more details here and on Steam.
Chris Latour
BattleGoat Studios
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