Well its not in the text itself, it says that the forge tools has it, which is all well and good, except that nothing seems to work in it aside from Galaxy forge...I don't know why but particle forge has never worked for me... and I can't seem to get the other programs to activate...They say that I'm missing a dll (this includes things like developer), so they don't work, but a few like Conver XSI pop open this dos window for a split second and before I can read the command, it closes...The same goes for convert data...

What dll files are you missing? The programs require .Net 2.0 to work, have you double checked that you have this up-to-date on your machine? Everything seems to run fine for me so perhaps it is simply updating .Net to get things working correctly for you. If not, list the dll's that you need maybe someone knows where you can get them.

You can go to Windows Update site and search for .NET Framework, they should have a download there and it will probably tell you if you need to update yours or not.

Well it didn't download correctly, said it was incompatible with the current version...

Okay, let's start from the beginning a bit. The mod pack should have the following:

- Galaxy Forge for making maps
- Particle Forge for making weapon/ability effects
- Reference Data with text versions of every data file the game uses, where applicable
- Developer .exe that lets you have a bit more error logging and allows you to apply changes while the game is running.
- Convertdata/convertxsi programs.
- PDFs for a generic modding tutorial, and more advanced ones for the XSI modeling/importing, etc.

You said Galaxy Forge works, so that's a check. The Reference Data is modified by hand, and convertdata takes the text and translates to binary once you're done with the mod. How to get started with the data and the usage of convertdata should be covered in the generic intro tutorial pdf.

ConvertXSI is used after you make a completed model in XSI and it converts it to the Sins meshes so the game knows what to do with it.

So that takes care of those..

Particle Forge and the developer .exe don't work?

Yes However, you can get the free version of it, which the company released for mod-makers. It's a little more limited in features, obviously, but it still does a good job.

You can grab it here. There are also some very nice video tutorials for it, and people on the forums can probably help you out some. I don't do any modeling, so that's where my help will have to end



I saw the other thread where kryo was trying to help you make sure you have .net 2.0 running. I think the issue is something related to it. You mentioned a missing dll earlier, what was that about?

Edit: Did some digging, check out this thread. Specifically, DANMAN's upload of the missing DLL that should fix it. Also, make sure you're running the mod tools from the same directory where your Sins of a Solar Empire.exe is.