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SMAC/X Original Faction Selection Window Button
« on: April 01, 2015, 10:33:10 pm »
This "HELP" button could appear when you select a faction with SMAC or when you start a scenario both SMAC or SMAX. Four steps are involved in adding this button.

1. First go to the directory containing the game folder for SMAC/X.
2. Then, inside the game folder, open up the text file called "script.txt" and search for a heading called "FACTIONX" if you are using SMAX/Yitzi's most recent patch or "FACTION" if running SMAC.
3. Now underneath this heading should appear a line that contains "#button OTHER." Underneath this line add the following "#button HELP."
4. After adding the line, save the file and this feature will now function.

Attached below are before and after pictures of the faction selection window.

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Re: SMAC/X Original Faction Selection Window Button
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2015, 11:58:42 pm »
What does it do?

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Re: SMAC/X Original Faction Selection Window Button
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2015, 03:14:04 am »
It switchs between the blurb and the datalink information on a faction when you start a random game or scenario.

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Re: SMAC/X Original Faction Selection Window Button
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2015, 02:26:41 pm »
So "script.txt" has a bug, that prevents that help button to appear.
This could be a part of next unofficial patch.

Offline Yitzi

Re: SMAC/X Original Faction Selection Window Button
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2015, 11:22:06 am »
So "script.txt" has a bug, that prevents that help button to appear.
This could be a part of next unofficial patch.

It will be, but there's no reason players can't do it sooner (or remove it afterward if they feel it's not a bug).

 

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