Understanding universe_tables.txt

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OneSalient
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Understanding universe_tables.txt

#1 Post by OneSalient »

Hi all,

I've just recently been playing FreeOrion and I love playing around with the universe_tables file to come up with different systems and whatnot.

But I have searched this site and in search engines for a detailed understanding of how the universe_tables work. Some things I've changed seem to have no effect at all, or have a different effect to what I expected.

Can someone point me to a place where the universe_tables are explained in more detail?

Thanks

(Ubuntu 15.10)

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Geoff the Medio
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Re: Understanding universe_tables.txt

#2 Post by Geoff the Medio »

What version of FreeOrion are you modifying?

As far as I know, in the latest development builds, universe_tables.py is used, and this has been the case for almost a year.

universe_tables.py has comments in it to explain how it functions.

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Re: Understanding universe_tables.txt

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0.4.5 [build 2015-08-18.a590f7e]

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Re: Understanding universe_tables.txt

#4 Post by Geoff the Medio »

Looks like that change wasn't in v0.4.5: https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/ ... generation

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