Thanks. Do you know which file that is?

I hope you are also replacing the planets themselves with Star Textures and covering the resource asteroid "moon meshes" with planet textures for a large scale galactic feel. Also, replace the "colonize" ability with the crew extractor ability and make all the resource asteroids into neutral extractors.

Those modifications will make the SINS "solar systems" into Proper Galaxies, as they always should have been in the first place.

The only problem is you will be colonizing stars themselves if you keep them colonizable, and if you make everything not colonizable to fix it, the game will end with a defeat message on startup because you need at least one planet colonized to stay in the game

Thanks, I'm glad you're actually doing a galactic style rewrite, SINS is all the better for it...

About volcanic rendering: try it and see

(my guess is that is does extra self-illumination, so it looks more fiery

-if you need any help, just ask

added pics.

Can I get some feedback?

hmm... I cant get my particle forge or my dev.exe to work. Is there another way to change particle effects?

Wow... I feel pretty stupid now

Im still working on it regardless. I just did not realize that this had already been done. I cant crack open DANMAN's mesh files anyways, I cant convert them from binary.(none of my forge tools work for some reason)

I say this because the different ways of doing things will lead to many more things than just having the parts in place.

For instance, up above I stated that one could make a new gravity well setup that would in effect completely change the apparent scale of the game, so that you can have entire galaxies instead of an over-filled solar system, as designed by the developers.

Such a setup requires stars placed where the planet is, and resource asteroids remeshed to look like planets. You took the first step, so I felt it necessary to suggest the rest of the changes (although I could easily implement my list of changes in my own mod), but just as an example of how the same parts can lead to different results...

Added new pics with the new texture. Looks a whole lot better I think.

Does anyone know how I can keep the moons from reflecting the teams color?

Do you by any chance have a smaller mesh? I don't have any modeling experience or a 3d modeling program so I cant make any different meshes.

And regarding the size, I was trying to replicate the earth/luna proportions. I hope to add in more sizes to give it a more random feel.

Problems I have encountered:
1. Planets reflect team color
2. I cannot make a smaller moon mesh
3. I cannot make the different type of moons circle certain planets. (I want just Ice moons around Ice Planets, Baked moons around Volcanic/Desert Planets, Neutral moons around terran planets)

If you know any way to resolve these problems PLEASE let me know.

Thanks a bunch for helping me get this far, I never would have made it if it wasn't for you guys.

well i just realized that you cant have more than two meshes for resource asteroids, this bums me out just a little bit. this means that I'll have to get rid of the neutral moon mesh If I were to add in smaller moons.

about the reflection, its not the normal skybox reflection. whenever you colonize a planet the moon changes to your teams color. Its a minor problem, but it really bothers me because I cant figure it out.

Umm is there any other info, because that is worthless on its own (its just the point in the code where it found the error, which dosn't tell you much).