For Taking Aerial Screenshots

    Contents
  1. What It Does
  2. Version History
  3. How To Install
  4. Important Notes
  5. Download

Screenshot of the Speeders: XP38 to Asteroid SWG mod in-game

What It Does

Fly, my friends, don’t skim!

There’s a fun use for this mod and a cool practical use.

First, it’s just neat to fly an asteroid 100 meters above the ground instead of drive an XP-38 1 meter up. It also messes with people’s minds when you demonstrate that you can see what they’re doing half a kilometer away, on the other side of the city.

Now, the practical use: If you want good aerial screenshots of a town or area you have to get up high. Modders have been temporarily replacing vehicles with asteriods for a long time for that purpose. I’m just putting it out there for use by everyone who doesn’t want to dig through the TRE files to do the replacement themselves.

When you call the asteroid it will float just above your head–look up and click to mount it. As you fly you’ll be roughly 100m up in the air, but subject to ground-level obstacles. Dismounting puts you back on the ground; you won’t fall from 100m up.

Version History

Version 1.00 (Released 28 October 2007)
- initial release

How To Install

Before installing please exit SWG and Launchpad. Installing it while SWG is running will not harm the game, but you may not see the result of the mod until after exiting and restarting SWG.

  1. To install this mod, use an archiving utility such as Winzip, ExtractNow! or WinRAR to extract the files from this ZIP or RAR archive to your desktop or to a temporary folder.
  2. The archive will extract with a ReadMe.txt file and one or more subfolders such as /texture, /appearance, or other folders. Inside these folders are the actual mods.
  3. Copy all subfolders and their files into your main SWG directory (usually C:\Program Files\Star Wars Galaxies\).
  4. Start Star Wars Galaxies.

Important Notes

This mod will put folders with some files in the game directory that will be used instead of the files in the game. No actual SWG game files will be overwritten.

This is a “client-side modification,” which means that only you will see a change while all other players continue to see the default object/appearance/whatever. This mod is not an exploit, and this mod does not violate the SOE Terms of Service for using Star Wars Galaxies. According to SOE you are allowed to mod the client side of SWG as long as your modifications do not affect other players’ experiences or provide you an unfair advantage. This mod will neither affect other players’ experiences nor alter your personal game play to provide you an unfair advantage over other players.

To share your new SWG experience with friends and guildies for roleplay, ask them to install this mod as well. Please don’t forward around the archive. Instead, please point friends and guildies to this page so they–and you–can stay up to date with the latest version of the mod as well as exciting other mods released by RailMagnor.com.

A complete ReadMe.txt is in the download archive.

DISCLAIMER: The author(s) of these files do not accept any responsibility for anything related to them. Use at your own risk! Please ask the respective author(s) for permission if you want to use these files for anything else.

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