26-03-2002 07:28									#1
	Can you help with how to use custom faction Enter the AD-FREE zone

I got a ton of custom factions from network node.

I can sometimes get them to work and other times the game will crash or not run on the faction selection screen. I could not find a clear answer on the right way to get them to work.

Can someone give me a step by step on the right way to do this?

	27-03-2002 00:52									#2
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

An easy-peasy guide to installing custom factions...

A: SMAC

1st way:
* unzip the files into your SMAC folder
* at the "select faction" screen, choose load and type in the faction file name without the txt part (eg. AGRI or GENX)

2nd way:
* unzip the files into your SMAC folder
* edit the alpha.txt file in this line:

quote: #FACTIONS GAIANS, GAIANS HIVE, HIVE UNIV, UNIV MORGAN, MORGAN SPARTANS, SPARTANS BELIEVE, BELIEVE PEACE, PEACE

and replace one of the factions with your desired one, for example:

quote: #FACTIONS GAIANS, GAIANS HIVE, HIVE UNIV, UNIV MORGAN, MORGAN SPARTANS, SPARTANS GENX, GENX PEACE, PEACE

so now, when you start the game, you will have the Gen-X faction instead of the Believers.

B: SMAX

1st way - as above

2nd way - similar to above but you can change both the #FACTIONS and #NEWFACTIONS lines

3rd way - change the CUSTOMFACTIONS, or something like that , as above

4rd way- load up the bugged Custom Faction Editor and load up the faction in the game, which is exactly the same as letting the computer do the 3rd way instead of you.



But there also seems a problem with some files you can download from the NetworkNode (I can't write down which off from the top of my head right now), you meet lines where instead of the text going into the next line you get a black box. This is probably because Matt uses/used a Mac computer.

OK now?

Or is there something else?