1.GETTING STARTED
1.1= Make A Folder On Your Desktop, call it how you want and in that Folder You Need To Make Another Folder that needs to be called exactly like that: ships .
1.2= Go To The Following Link: Atg.lychnobi.com
thats a wepside to make the Blocks Without the need to code yourself it will do every thing for you.
Make as many blocks as possible Hull Blocks of different sizes and Forms, Thrusters, Weappones, Generators, Tractors, Missiles, Drones, and maybe even some special Blocks like Repair Beams.
(if you dont know waht some things mean Like :MUZZLEVEL,just hover with your mouse above the field and a explaniation will pop up)
1.3= you can also make the faction on this wepside, and the region or at least a basic region.
wehn you are done with the Blocks,Faction and the Region, Downloade them, they need to be named The Following : factions(for the faction file)
regions(For the region file)
blocks(for the Blocks File)
normaly they should alredy be called like this but if you downloade more of them they will be renamed so make sure to name them correctly.
2.TESTING
2.1= Important:Search on youtube for tutorials how to use the sandbox
Go in game in to the sandbox and type in the box the following:
Palette (and Then Your faction number)
then : test every block
2.2= Fix the blocks that are wrong or currupted by loading them again in the wepside from before and chancing wahtever is wrong.
3.BUILD YOUR SHIPS
3.1= you have to do that in the sandbox mode.
4.TEST YOUR FACTION IN AN STANDART GAME
4.1= Play a little bit with your faction to find bugs.
4.2= Fix all bugs,and then Comes the last step:
5.HAVE FUN AND MAYBE SHARE YOUR WORK
If you have any questions contact me via modDB (send me a private message or post a comment)