This may have been mentioned before, but is there a way/process for just adding the new ship hulls with this mod? Specifically minus the weapons.
Making a personal mod-pack that has vanilla combat/weapons with some tweaks, but as many new ship hulls as I can cram in.
Tried simply removing the folders relating to weapons in the data master folder, and the one in the scripts folder but encountered an error, probably unsurprisingly.
You'd have to go through and clean up any references that are shared between ships and weapons. This will be the case for any ships that have built-in unique weapons, such as the Excelsior's cannons, the Cathedral's missile, the Vindicator's Gungnir cannon, etc. You'd also have to change every single ship variant file that uses a weapon from the mod to use a vanilla equivalent.
Your checklist of things to do is basically:
- Pick out all MODULAR ONLY weapons added by the mod
- Remove their blueprint tags in weapon_data.csv (this should prevent them from being used by any factions who have weapons allocated by tag)
- For those weapons that are picked on a singular basis, you'll also have to check each and every faction file for references to that weapon, and remove (comment out) that reference
- Go through each and every variant file in SWP and replace all references to mod weapons with an equivalent vanilla weapon
And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head, I'm real out of practise at the moment and I'm likely to be missing something important. AND I know SWP has a lot of cool integrated functions which means a lot of mechanics you can't simply remove by "deleting them", they will have functions referenced in scripts elsewhere that will likely be a pain to trawl through and clean up for every weapon. This is something you'd want to do one weapon at a time.
Put simply, this is a LOT of work, and I don't know why you'd bother just to play with vanilla-only weapons, especially for something like SWP who's weapons are pretty vanilla-alike already.
But hey, to each their own.
I wish you luck. You'll need it.
You'd be surprised how often that comes up.)
Well done!