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Okay my turn to ask a question now.

Does anyone know what map the game uses to create the little solar system in the background before you launch a game? If we could determine which one it was (assuming its with the rest) we could create some awesome background battle scenes such in Empire at War.

No. Burst count is purely cosmetic, the game does not associate damage values with individual shots. All it is used for is spawning multiple lasers/missiles etc. with each volley.

Look at the Advent hangar shield bestowal ability. If its possible you'll find it there.

Holy $%!#, that's awesome. I guess it just got so ingrained in people's heads that fighters can't have shields that no one bothered to try. If it works and I've got some new features to add to my mods.

Okay guys, my turn for some help.

I am trying to develop a method through an ability/buff setting using the Fleet Beacon concept that when a ship dies another ship is called in. I got it "stable" but it doesn't call in a ship when it dies. This is the coding I have.

http://pastebin.com/25B9ArYs

Thanks, I will give it all a try.

Are you spawning a capital ship or a frigate. It works well with a capital ship because fleet supplies are ignored.

If you are spawning a frigate are your min/max supplies right?

I forgot to put in a point for it. That explains why it didn't work.

Works now thanks.

Yeah I was used to my settings which was set to fixedlevel0 setting. I just copy/pasted ZombieRus5's and didn't see that change up to intrinsic setting. But I fixed it and it works great.

levelSourceType... Intrinsic is only for leveling capital ships. Setting it to FixedLevel0 allows the ability to be used without any pre-requisites.

It is easier to make multiple models use the same texture sheet.  than to use multiple textures, and one mesh to represent different units. The requiem mod, and SotGE ships share many textures. A Sins mesh cannot "switch" textures through scripting (afaik). How sins is set up now each unit is represented by a separate mesh with a separate texture for each mesh.

Tec, Pirates, and planetary defenders pretty much share the same meshes, and resources. However Pirate meshes share some textures with each other. This is something you may be interested in checking out.

As far as making a single hull mesh, and having mesh add ons called for to represent different units.. Aint gonna happen. If you look at the starbase, and structure upgrade meshes, each upgrade mesh is the whole structure with the add on that represents each upgrade added to the mesh. So tech, advent, and vasari starbases have 3 meshes of the whole starbase the only difference is the add ons. It is kind of stupid imo how they did it, but i didnt build the game. Homeworld 2 does the same thing with some units with its module upgrades. If it was possible to have small module upgrade meshes added to a single main hull it would save so much in system resources.

Not a question, but I recall awhile ago one or more people were wondering if it is possible to play with the backdrop that shows up when the game boots up. I'm pleased to say that this is possible, and that I have done so. The scene generator or whatever it's called uses the Random, WeightedRandom, and RandomStar (groups from GalaxyScenarioDef) to generate the backdrop. An example with a blue star and only asteroids for planets.