Building Health

Finally, some useful bloody values

Whilst rummaging through Spore's files, looking for building health values, I stumbled upon a file known as combat.prop, found within the so aliased animations~ folder.

Upon closer inspection of the file, and after running a few tests, I deduced that there's two very important properties to take note of:

float CivilianBuildingHealth and float CityHallBuildingHealth

These are infact the health values of buildings in Space Stage, something that I as a modder have been searching for since day 1 of the development of my overhaul mod. How I came across these properties was a case of coincidence and curiosity, I searched the default health value for City Halls (3600) in SporeModder FX, and this nifty file just so happened to have both the City Hall AND other building default health values in the same file.

Hopefully, if someone finds the actual name of these properties, we won't have to rely on aliases for them. But, for now, we can cherish this discovery for any future Space overhaul or rebalance mods.

Drakrylos, signing off.