New Faction

[Yanderechan]

So, I created my new faction, give them names, a new race, squads, weapons, a leader (or though, not exactly sure how to set her as that) and a town. Don't actually plan to give them a town, but thought they needed one to spawn there. So, after all that, got in game, placed the statue that looks a lot like Athena, and clicked populate. But, nothing appeared. Is, there something I am missing between the Forgotten creation kit and the game that effects spawning? Spawning them as homeless wanderers I can do, but I don't know how to do it as a faction, or spawn my unique leader to them. I tried reading the Ronin guide, but it was different to the construction kit I had.

[Hatsune_Neko]

you should first read the modding forum area. not just a few articals but everything.
the Athena statue was you using the in game editor, different thing all together. and not usable in a mod.

when you populate it does more then what you see. The in game editor is a powerful tool but you have to know what your doing first. you need to do a lot of reading.

and by the way. what ever you made in your attempt. is now in all your saves. using the FCS is the only way to go as the in game editor doesnt support modding at the moment. now you will need to delete your data folder and re-validate your game cache to reset your games back to normal.

[Yanderechan]

I do have a spare Kenshi folder for if things went tits up. So, restoring the game won't be a problem.

I have read a The Ronin Mod, and the Complete Construction Set Tutorial and Important Links but they both seem to reference features my FCS doesn't have. The spawning doesn't have a min spawn, or a max spawn. Ronin mod says I need UTC West and UTC east. But, I only have central and The Desert. Spawning factions needs Faction Templates, which is where the default relation is, not in Factions, but there isn't any of them on the spawn areas, so I am wary of adding them. Don't want anything to go snap.

[Hatsune_Neko]

you can do a separate install.
download the non steam version so you have one to mess around with and don't have to worry about breaking the game, as you can simply re install it over the corrupted version.
down side to that is no access to the experimental branch.

as for the faction templets, im not sure on that as i only played with the stats and what they wore. tried to make a custom start but it didn't go as planed. but you can look at my topic, i did explain a few simple things i found.
http://www.lofigames.com/phpBB3/viewtop ... =11&t=4815


On a side note, they might have changed because the game is still in development. best to just look around in the FCS and test things out. the Mod might break the game, but you can disable the mod if it does. then go back to working on it to find out any issues.

This could be a moot point as the new map is coming soonish. which could break all location based Mods.

[Yanderechan]

I just took a copy of the entire Kenshi folder, so I can delete my current one if it becomes too corrupt, and paste in the uncorrupt one.

I buggered about a bit with the homeless groups, in the Spawn Areas, hopefully I'll get something. The problem with homeless spawns is I have no way of telling if it works straight off, or if I am just unlucky running into the groups. Also, thinking of making a squad with just my Super-girl to get her to spawn. The truth is, I just want to kill her for her sword and armour (if that is at all possible, I gave her good stats, and good armour) but, I am wondering how to go about making slight edits to the Katana mesh to fit in more accurately with my idea for the unique weapon.

Also, stat wise, is a 3 on the bleed multipler good, or does it not really make much of a difference? (I want this sword to make people bleed to death, a lot)

[Yanderechan]

Update.

It kinda works. I put the town down because the race is meant to be defending it until the unique girl gets killed, and then they go to war against the killer. The City says 'three squads, twenty seven people' so I know they have spawned, just....not on the town, and somewhere....else.