AI War 2:Defining your own planet names

To set up your own file of planet names, you need to change two files in the XML.

You need to create a directory and then put the files in the directory. Then you need to tell the game to look at the directory. These instructions assume you have the game installed at ~/AIWar2 (you might instead have it installed at C:\ProgramFiles\Steam\AIWar2 or something like that, the procedure is the same).

• First go to ~/AIWar2/GameData/Configuration. This is the base directory with all the XML data contained in various subdirectories. We are interested in the PlanetNames directory. In this directory you will see a bunch of directories for existing sets of planet names; Kahuna's Real Stars, Cities_UK, etc... You want to create your own directory (lets say NewPlanetNames), then create a file called NewPlanetNames.txt inside it. Put your planet names in that text file, one planet name per line.

• Then you need to tell the game to look at NewPlanetNames when reading the XML. Go to ~/AIWar2/GameData/Configuration/PlanetNameType and open the file CMP_PlanetNameType.xml. You'll see a number of entries, one for each of the sub directories in the PlanetName directory.
  • Create a new entry that looks like

 <planet_name_type name="NewPlanetNames" display_name="New Planet Names (the display name is the name the Game shows" subdir="New Planet Names"                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
         description="Some new planet names from a modder. Text within these quotes is shown to the user when they hover over the option in the map lobby." />