sins of a solar empire galaxy forge maps not showing

SoaSE is very sensitive to spaces and/or Characters that are missing, added or out of place. Speaking of note pad, BE CAREFUL what you edit in your map file. It will help you tremendously in debugging your problem. READ the tutorial on CREATING MAPS with NOTEPAD. Not really different, but why put yourself in a handicap position right off the get go. The versions between 1.02 and 1.03 are different. IF you are using an old copy of GalForge, DELETE it and redownload the latest edition. Opening a premade game map and modifying it seems to cause the most trouble. I recommend you just avoid doing it so you have one less thing to worry about. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. for whatever reason, it can render a map unreadable. When naming maps, don't use special characters. SOME names for maps make them invisible, SOMETIMES. The game appears to look for a certain # of players to be available depending on what is entered there. You also have to remember what type of map it is. IF you change number of players, ie from 10 to 3, SOMETIMES the map gets corrupted and won't show, especially when you eliminate players. This is what I know so far, maybe it will help you. Even I have been unsuccessful in duplicating the 'non appearing map' issue. I have posted twice about it and received only the completely unhelpful 'change the version number to 1' response. It is not documented because no one has been able to explain or document how or why it happens. I am working on adding asteroids to planets but I don't think it can be done in the same way. I have uploaded my copy of this file to the mods area but it will take 5 days to be approved I think.

The changes also need to be made in the identical file in the GameInfo folder. I have managed to implement all artifacts and planetary bonuses into my custom maps by changing the GalaxyScenarioDef file to include planetItemType entries for each. Do not change this if you haven't updated yet. To change the version of your galaxy, just open it in notepad and the second line should say 'versionnumber 0' change that to a 1 for version 1.3.

Read through this thread a bit, a few people with Vista were especially having problems with things showing up in game but I think most have been resolved.

I didn't use Galaxy Forge until tonight after I updated to 1.03, so I can't say for certain, but I changed the 'version' listed in the galaxy file from 0 to 1 and everything seems to work fine. You can use CTRL+Leftclick to crate lanes between planets.

Sins of a solar empire galaxy forge maps not showing