NEXUS THE JUPITER INCIDENT MOD

Yes, lots of people want a Nexus the Jupiter Incident mod.  Usually people come out and say something like "Nexus is about tactics." or "How will you implement customizable ships?" or "Nexus weapons can only damage shields or hull, not both." or "How can you do maneuvers like disabling weapons, engines, and shields?"

Me personally, I have responses to all three.

1. Nexus is about tactics yes, but Sins of a Solar Empire is about STRATEGIC moves.  All we would be doing is taking Nexus from the tactical level to the strategic level.

2. Just have different ships with different weapons.

3. And that can be done in Sins as well with "Affects_Only_Shields" or "Affects_Only_Hull" for the DamageAffectType.

4. Abilities.

And for IP jumping, that's why we have particle forge.  As far as I know, all a lot of it would be is rescaling and adjusting Vasari engine exhaust effects to go around the ship.  Plus some other tweaks.

would like this too.

I just started playing this a week or so ago and the first time i saw a TEC battle ship unload i thought wow.. its fkin nexus..

I woud definetly like to see something that could encorporate more of the nexus modelling/theme into the game.

gl!!

tht game....ehhhhhhhhh yawn, i'm sorry

The head guy at 7 Deadly Sins (DANMAN3712 here) wants to add in a bunch of sci-fi ships to the TCA.  I know Sovereign from ME is already in the works, and I think we have a Normandy model fully texxed and hardpointed.  I know DANMAN wants to add some Wing Commander ships in too so I hope that all goes well.

And he has Nexus, and he wants to get some of the Noah ships in for the TCA.  Hopefully he can pull off the Colossus and the Battleship.  Angelwing is too OP and doesn't fit human design aesthetic.  And don't mention the Mechawing either.

I think that the NOAH ships are the most human looking ships i have seen in a game.

The earth ships are nice as well but the middle rotates.

Also I just wanted to know what you all thought of my models nothing amazing but i am still working on them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26168844@N07/sets/72157604918170754/

I don't know.  I posted some pics on the 7DS site and they look awfully similar to the battlestars from Battlestar Galactica.

But yeah, they are pretty realistic.  And the Sol ships can have rotating parts.  Its a particle effect added on as a flair.  The Babylon 5 mod group has a model with a rotating part to it.  And yes it works, and yes, it is in-game.

But I do love the Noah ships.  They certainly seem the most realistic ships humans would make in space.  Well, except for the Sol ones.  Those have to abide by our current laws of physics, so THOSE are the most realistic ships.

But with artificial gravity and inertial compensators, yeah, I see us making the heavily armored bricks like the Noahs did.  And possible some BSG-ish ones too.

Any chance of a HW2 Pride of Hiigara?     The Psi Colony "almost" looks like it.

-Teal

I know, he's a HW2 fan too.  I think most SoaSE fans are, simply because SoaSE is like HW on a much bigger scale.  MUCH bigger.  Almost epic.

However, I don't think he plans to add in Pride of Hiigara to any of the factions sadly.  However, IF someone was to make a HW2 mod with the Hiigarans and the Vagyr, then DANMAN would DEFINITELY want that mod in 7DS.

So Teal, any plans for a HW2 mod?

P.S. DANMAN is seeing if he can extract the Nexus models from the game and then get them into 7DS.  So hopefully we can all relive the Gorg-blasting fun.  Who didn't enjoy sending those Gorg lizards to Shaglok?

A Nexus would still make one of the best Mods for SoaSE as the ships look like what Human ships of the future would look like well in my opinion anyway.  They are probably the most relistic ships as well. 

Also check out my Flickr site i have lots of models and pics Enjoy : Flickr Site  

And my YouTube site : YouTube Site 

I loved playing Nexus, even more fun modding it. I think the ships would fit perfectly in this game

Well don't worry.  JaggedSparFel and I, while not making a Nexus mod, have plans to have one of the races use Nexus ships.

But we need people to fix the Nexus models, rig, and texture them.  So if you know how to do those things darkshimmer, post in the Flames of War thread and/or PM JaggedSparFel.

i know how to convert the models from LWO format and get rid of the 3 point polys needed for the weapons. I'm just not sure how to convert them back from the mesh format they are in. The texture files aren't an issue. you can combine them all into one texture file and remap the whole thing. It takes some work but its worth it. Alot of those models are just great.

Well, what JaggedSparFel and I did was rip the models and textures straight from Nexus using this nifty program called 3D Ripper DX that output the models in .3DS format and the textures in .DDS format.  So we have the models, unfortunately neither he nor I know a damn about modeling and getting models working in Sins.

Is there a chance ripping them is illegal?  Yes.  Does Mithis look like it gives a damn about Nexus, seeing as how they don't even have forums for it?  No.  Is there even a Mithis anymore?  I'm not sure.

Of course, if you would be able to make new models and textures for us of the Nexus ships, that would be best.

i can't model to save my life, Major stress does that for us, however if you have the models and the textures that is enough to get them going in 3dmax to clean up the extra polys required before porting them into xsi

I wish!!!     But to be honest im merely a file tweaker, i like moving things about and changing the frigates to "look" like caps, and making a frig that looks like the beam defense and calling it mobile defense.  I would LOVE a HW2 mod, Wraith did a HW1 mod, awesome!!!!!     But its pre 1.13 and i dont think it will run in the new version. I think it would take someone like that though, Wraith, or DanMan, or ManShooter, somebody who can work with models, not just the file tweaking i do.    But i could lend a hand, tweak files with the best of them!!    It would be cool to have a HomeWorld2 mod!! 

Thanks for the flattery though,

-Teal

So what about NEXUS who wants a second one cuz i do.

Ya i would love a nexus mod as well. Maybe i could get its started but i will need a lot of help espacialy with the models. I already have some idea about the tech tree. There is maybe a little to much tech in nexus for sins to handle but there is no need to incorporate them all.

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