New races?

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Has anybody actually created their own race as in ships, and not just re-textured exsisting ones? I know about the startrek ones but are there any others? I checked the library and didn't find anything.

Edit: Does anybody know what happened to the mod that was creating a insect like race from scratch? I searched through 20 pages and couldn't find it.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Well, there are several projects in the works which are aiming on creating entirely new races. But it takes a lot of time to make all the new assets (I think there are about 32 models to be made for just one race) so I advise patience. ;) To name a few, there is Dawn of Victory, a high-profile mod with which I can cay I am impressed even though it is early in development, DANMAN is planning on making (if I am not mistaken) new races for his 7 Deadly Sins mod, Bailknight has been making new stuff as a part of his effect overhaul mod which you can find here and so on...

To self-advertise a bit, my mod, the Last Stand is also aiming to bring entirely new races to Sins, and unlike a total conversion, is more geared towards being an expansion mod to the existing game.

Some of my early models also have a vague insect-like appearance, so it may be the one you have been wondering about. ;)
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Well there really aren't any mods with new races that have all custom ships, but there are a lot of plans out there or one.

If you like Insect/Organic ships you should efinately check out Sins: The Last Stand.
The dude doing the models is like a freakin professional
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
I have a dream about a game with over 100 races with over 10.000 diffrent units and a galaxy with over 10.000 planets with 1000 stars, but like i said its a dream and will prob never be true, becouse you will need a super computer to run this game. but its a dream i have about the greatest RTS X4 ever. I hope they will solve the max limit of 10 players, and i hope that everyone will summit there work with DANMANs 7 Deadly sins so they can work togheter...

And i will point ones again that this is just a dream of my game of all games.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
ManSh00ter:
Thanks for the props man. I hope my mod can become even a fraction of greatness of your mod. I highly recommend your work, and your modeling skills are amazing.

Klentrogen:
As far as I know, and to do a little self promoting of my own, my mod, when nearing its full glory, will be featuring between 20-30 races. I think this is as close to your dream as you are going to get. Like Mansh00ter said, it takes a LOT of work just to do one race, especially when using all new models and not just rehashing the original races.

FearlessDefiance:
Just look around in the top mods out there, like the Dawn of War, THe Last Stand, 7 Deadly Sins, Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, and other mods.
You will find new races and new models. I saw that insect race mod too, but it kind of faded from the spotlight.
Good luck on your search!

DANMAN
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Klentrogen:
As far as I know, and to do a little self promoting of my own, my mod, when nearing its full glory, will be featuring between 20-30 races. I think this is as close to your dream as you are going to get. Like Mansh00ter said, it takes a LOT of work just to do one race, especially when using all new models and not just rehashing the original races.
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I know that, thats why its a dream, but i will be glad with every new race to the game... 100 new races was just a number i took from the air... But i am very happy with all ur modding ppl out there... I belive that u can make this game the best ever just becouse of the mods... =)
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Danman, it may also turn out to be one of the biggest mods out there if you see it all the way through. I estimate that the first installment of The Last Stand will be anywhere between 250-500Mb heavy, unpacked. Say you don't go for the very hi-res textures like I do, so you average 1.3Mb per texture file per model, each model requiring 7.5Mb of texture data (aside from frigates and fighters, most larger models require 1024x1024 for optimum resolution; many big models I make use 2048x2048 resolution or 15Mb per model)
So that would be 30(races)*32(models)*3.9(texture data)=3744Mb or 3.7Gb of data in textures alone.

Nice, eh? :)
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Ah, make that 3.9Mb per model, not 7.5 (was calculating something else and it stuck). The end figure stands though.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
3.7Gb of data in textures alone
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nice thats something i would call a new game not a mod ;D