AB Construction Kit Q

[JL_Stinger at yahoo.com]

If I want to create an AB file using rules for a homebrew Space
Marine chapter, can I just make a copy of the SM file with a
different name and start editing it? Or do i have to start it from
scratch?



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[Dean_Kirkpatrick at nas.a]

Yes you can copy a record and rename it. But depending how the data
file is constructed it is a lot more involved than that. Most
likely you will need to rename quite a few files if the data file.
What I would suggest is starting from scratch and just copying a
file manually with everything, yes it is more data entry, but it
saves on trying to figure out what link is messing up.

--- In armybuilder@y..., "jl_stinger" <JL_Stinger@y...> wrote:
> If I want to create an AB file using rules for a homebrew Space
> Marine chapter, can I just make a copy of the SM file with a
> different name and start editing it? Or do i have to start it
from
> scratch?


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[demandred at skrill.org]

At 00:03 18/02/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>If I want to create an AB file using rules for a homebrew Space
>Marine chapter, can I just make a copy of the SM file with a
>different name and start editing it?

I'm afraid not. While you could just make a copy of the file, it would
still hold the same data as the old file - so when AB tried to read
everything in, there would be a huge number of conflicts and it wouldn't
work.

The way to go is by using 'augmentations'. I believe the Construction Kit
tutorial covers them, so try looking there.


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[rob]

One thing you COULD do (but I don't really recommend it) is to copy the
current SM file and then assign new unique ids to all of the units,
options, etc. If you renamed everything, as well as all reference to those
records within the SM file, you could make this work. But I'm not sure if
that would actually be worthwhile pursuing as a solution.

Thanks, Rob


At 08:36 PM 2/19/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>At 00:03 18/02/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >If I want to create an AB file using rules for a homebrew Space
> >Marine chapter, can I just make a copy of the SM file with a
> >different name and start editing it?
>
>I'm afraid not. While you could just make a copy of the file, it would
>still hold the same data as the old file - so when AB tried to read
>everything in, there would be a huge number of conflicts and it wouldn't
>work.
>
>The way to go is by using 'augmentations'. I believe the Construction Kit
>tutorial covers them, so try looking there.


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Lone Wolf Development www.wolflair.com


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