Subset Games Forum

Hi all,

Has anyone found a way to disable nebulas? Is it even possible?

Thanks in advance,

Abs

Thanks for the reply, and sorry I guess I should have been clearer. What I mean is - Nebulas are the third sector type that appears in the sector map (Civilian, Hostile, Nebula). I still want the Nebula sector to appear, but I want to disable all nebula effects (such as backgrounds, pooched sensors, etc)...so that it essentially is a third type of normal looking sector.

Abs

Good idea! If I replace the nebula files with the space backgrounds, it should do it (maybe). Thanks for pointing me in the right direction...can't believe I didn't think of it before!

Abs

You'll still get Nebula events including ion storms. You need to go through and change all those to at least have different wording.

Replacing the nebula background will not affect actual game-play. You'd have to remove all <environment type="nebula"/> and <environment type="storm"/> tags and rename the NEBULA_ lists to something else that does not start with NEBULA to properly remove the nebula mechanics. And yeah, apart from that the events would also have be rewritten if you want to make things coherent. A much easier way would probably be to remove the NEBULA_ lists from the sector blueprints, at last for any sectors you don't want nebula to exist.

The last few comments are fair enough...I know that the events and stuff have to be disabled, and am familiar with how to do it. But so far I have been unable to find where the game calls the background nebulas, and I am assuming that it is actually in the exe since it is animated and different from the static backgrounds. The only reference that I've found for the nebula background is in events_imageList.xml which calls a static image as the background. This is the main reason for my question.

Thanks for the feedback everyone! Looking forward to more replies.

Abs

The event lists used by the sectors are found in sector_data.xml. You can remove the nebula lists there.

Just remove nebula events from sector descriptions. Then they won't spawn. Simple as that