names.txt resource

Resource - Names.txt - part of the ongoing guide by Dancing Moogle

These are the last lines in the default 1.10 version Names.txt. Any new Skirmish unit templates should be added after these entries:

// added by Marc 15th September - Upgraded Command Turrets

CommandTurret2 "Command turret MkII"
R-Comp-CommandTurret02 "Command turret MkII"
CommandTurret3 "Command turret MkIII"
R-Comp-CommandTurret03 "Command turret MkIII"
CommandTurret4 "Command turret MkIV"
R-Comp-CommandTurret04 "Command turret MkIV"

New Skirmish templates should be no longer than 20 characters in length and the generally approved method of writing a new template is as follows, but it can be anything you like:

// added by ChainsawMonkey on 7th March 03 - New SK Templates
SK-Mantis-H-HCannon *SK-Mantis-H-HCannon*

This would be a Mantis Hover with Heavy Cannon for example.

The note above that is really just a courtesy thing when programming or scripting, to tell anyone that might read it what you've done. The // tells the game that this is a note and shouldn't be read (this is important! If you don't add // before annotations like this the game will crash).

Anything enclosed within * * will not be translated in the game, it's just an internal reference to the new template. If you were adding something like a new weapon to the game which would obviously be viewable within the game you wouldn't enclose the second name with * *, otherwise it's name wouldn't be displayed.