Oh yah if anyone can tell me how texturing gas giant sized planets works (all I have done to do it so far is copy the mesh file of a gas giant and change the linked texture to a texture intented for a normal sized planet like a swamp planet, but the size of gas giant textures are the same as normal planet sized ones 2048x2048 so I don't see what's going wrong) please let me know.

Will it also have BailKnights' graphics mod because his is pure awsomeness?

DarkArk:
Unfortunetly this mod will not have any type of compatibility for entrechment untill the expansions come out at retailers (futureshop, best buy, ebgames etc.)  This is because I don't have a credit card to get entrechment.  To solve this issue I will ask you guys who have entrechment and know how to make it compatible to do so.  I will release the Vanilla Sins version and one of you who test it and make it entrechment compatible can send me a link for the download and I will post it on the Urban Expansion filefront page.  Once again unless I get some other peoples help entrechment will not be compatible with this mod.

redrevolution129/SpardaSon21:
I really want to merge those mods in as well.  They look great but I will do this in version 1.2 since I haven't released an update in a long time.

Update:
As of now I have scrapped the idea of Bonus classed planets completely due to hard-coded limits limiting the variety of abilities I can put on planets (I can only put common abilities that aren't unique such as increasing resource income or health/shield/anti-matter regen and stuff that has already been done.  I can't do unqie things like increasing trade income PERCENTAGE not just for the planet but for all planets with a trade port for example)

I will be rebalancing all planets again too add in one planet to classes with only 3 (Metal/Crystal/Credit)  The paradise planet will remain unique with it's ability to increase culture spread rate but I will decrease it's spawn rate and increase it's affect to increase culture rates from 100% to 250%.  On a side note I think version 1.1 should be released by the end of this week or as early as tommorow since I have scrapped the Bonus planet idea.

Here is a look at Urban Expansion 1.1:

Adds the Purple Star to the game
Rebalances all planets to five unique classes; Mult, Credit, Crystal, Metal and Horder
Adds matching colored skyboxes to match every star including the White and Purple stars.
Merges the galaxy view from Sins Enhanced.
Fixes many spelling errors and glitches that were in 1.0
Adds Desert Colonization research (Allows colonization of Desert and Fossil planets)
Adds a completely redone/reorganized map creator to suit Urban Expansion and it's planets.

Removes Toxic Colonization and it's research due to hard-coded limits
Removes Gas Giant population research due to hard-coded limits

Improves framerate by a few FPS
-(this may only happen on my computer not completely sure since I havn't tested the mod on anything but my computer)

The Volumetric Effects thread has a link to a merged version.

First I would like to say that I have merged Volumetric Explosions with my mod and it works perfectly.  I experianced no performance decrease at all as well.  I will release two versions of Urban Expansion from now on.  Version X.Xb (fill in the x's with the appropriate version number) will contain merged mods but version X.Xa will be Urban Expansion as a standalone.  Anyways I think I will release 1.1 today or tommorow depending on how long it takes me to playtest it through one full game and how long it will take me to fix any random errors I find, other than the playtest 1.1 is good to go.

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/327224/page/4/#2057102

Alright I just finished uploading Version 1.1 to filefront.  It is about 50mb bigger to download than the previous version but the uncompressed size is about 100-200mb bigger than the previous version.  Sorry about the big file size jump but the new Skyboxes took a lot of space since compressed pictures look terrible.  Anyways 1.0 was really still a beta stage but I didn't realize how many glitches it had so 1.1 is a competely stable version and the real out of beta version.  1.1 has made Urban Expansion much more unique compared to other mods that focus on the same thing and hopefully you will enjoy it as much as I did making it.  Anyways I decided not to make a 1.1a and 1.1b version of the mod due to the newly merged mod Volumetric Explosions not making to much of a performance decrease to the game.  Anyways 1.2 won't come out for a while but I will be releasing small patches for 1.1 if I want to merge another mod or fix a bug and give the patch a name called 1.1x.  For example the first patch will be called 1.1b, the second 1.1c and so on.  Please report any bugs and I'll do my best to fix them .  Alright than I got to go to a date now so I won't be answering questions till tommorow, peace.

Side Note:  My purple star looks similar to Danmans purple star (which he has not released yet) but I did not modify any of his files or take any of his files related to that star to make my version.  All I did and so did he was take the blue star texture and recolor it and slightly modify it to make it look unique as apposed to a full out recolored copy of the blue star.  I ended up with a similar result as him but I created my purple star solely with my own work, not taking anyone else's.  I wanted to make this clear before I got any posts saying I stole the design because I didn't.

ok i still see an bug where you cant see the ships and buildings owned in the left site of the screen by the planet list

I'll be sure to merge in bailknight's mod in as well than since Volumetric only focuses on explosions.  As for the resistent black hole research I will add that in to 1.2 as well, the reason I didn't add it into 1.1 was because I made you guys wait long enough and making that research would take a long time (since I havn't made brand new research yet).  How I learn to mod is by trial and error so once I learn how to do something once I can usually do it pretty quick.  I am planning on including new textures for current planets as well since all the Sins Plus planets only have one texture as opposed to Vanilla having 3 or 4.  The only thing is I am not the best texture artist so it might take me a while.  Anyways back to 1.1.  How do you guys the new features, specifically the Purple star and unique skyboxes.  I would really appreciate any feed back and ideas you could give.

Also if anyone of you knows how to make a mod entrechment compatible and would like to help me with my mod by making it entrechment compatible it would be really great!  I will add you into the credits of course.

Edit:
I have succesfully merged Bailknights Graphics Mod (Version 1.3) into my mod.  I will keep using Volumetric Explosions explosion effects since I think they look much nicer but I have merged in everything from Bailknights mod that doesn't have to do with explosions.  Hopefully this will add the the experiance of my mod, and won't make to much of a performance decrease.

To Anderas:
Thanks for the pm, sometimes I forget to read all the posts.  Anyways it sounds to me that you are in cinematic mode in the game.  If this is the case go into a normal game with the mod loaded and then do the following.

1. When in game look at the top bar on the screen, this is where the research tree button, resources and all the other info is located.  One of the buttons on this bar (located near the "Menu" button and "Zoom to Cursor") is a button that says "Toggle Cinematic Mode".  Click it so that  when you hover your cursor over it (so gives you a description of what the button says) and it should say "Cinematic Mode Active: No".  The icon will have a shaded blue background instead of shaded orange background as well.

2. If this does not fix the problems you are having then do the following.  Make sure cinematic mode is off, then go into your Menu while in a game (Hotkey is F10).  Go to the tab on the right and click "User Interfaces".  There will be a whole bunch of checable boxes, these boxes do things like make gravity wells always visible, show names above planets, show phase lanes.  Check the boxes that you like and then close the menu.  You're problems should be fixed.

3. If that doesn't fix your problems either than it is either that Urban Expansion has a bug, or you need to reinstall sins.  Let me know if the first 2 options I gave you fixed you're problem, if they didn't I will be sure to look into it further for a fix.

As for the crash after zoomingn out from you're desert planet, try redoing everything you did except disable my mod.  If it crashes while not using my mod than it is a problem with Sins and I can't help much there but reccomend a reinstall of sins.

If it works while not using my mod I think it might have something to do with me redoing the galaxy creator, although I did make sure all the Vanilla string files were still used with the new Map Creator I may have done something wrong.

To SpardaSon21:
Lol I really should but I can't.  See me and Ordion discussed merging our two mods together and actually teaming up to make one super mod.  We both had differant views on the situation though and decided it was best that we left our two mods seperate and unique from one another.  I would love to "steal" his research tree and use my own research for it but I can't since I would need his permission first and I didn't get it since we decided not to work as a team.  In the future though we both said we may join up as a team but as of now unless I figure out how to do it myself I can't do it.

Thank you for the reply, XselenS. My worse problem, the crashing, seems to have been fixed by my updating from 1.12 to 1.13... for the most part. I still crash if I enter a game, then either exit and start a new one or load another one. Still, that is easily bypassed.

As for the other problem, it's nothing to do with Sins itself, or options on my part; http://www.gamingsteve.com/images/2008/02/sins_of_a_solar_empire_3.jpg

In the Empire window, the little colored blocks that represent units, buildings, ect, and whos team they are on; they are missing. Not the portraits for the things themselves, just the little blocks next to the planets. The other thing, the minor bug...

http://www.consoleme.ca/wp-content/gallery/sins-of-a-solar-empire/sins5.jpg

The bars to the left of the planets, showing the general strength of the forces stationed there; when I hover my mouse cursor over it, while the bars representing enemies remains, the background of it disappears. It doesn't affect gameplay at all, but it's a bug. Both of these are unique to Urban Expansion, as far as I have been able to tell, and were both present in 1.0 as well.

I hope I have been able to help, and thank you for taking the time to review my problems.

Edit; Bah, nevermind... still crashes after a little while.

Ok, I just have a few..... discrepancies... here. I updated to v 1.13 before installing the mod, and booted it up. Everything seemed to be running fine, but then a few things, none of which make a lot of sense, happened. Some of them go away when I reload the mod, some of them have yet to...

1.) Everything has a sort of reddish hue to it, including the Advent ships, and it makes them look really lame

2.) Planets became seethrough sometimes

3.) Faction colours didn't show up on ships, so coloured spots were gray instead.

4.) The white skybox has little..... "tears" in it, sort of... holes in it where it changes to red.

5.) The when I try to upgrade a planet's tactical slots above 15, it goes to 0

Any idea what's causing this? ;;

Here, let me go ahead and give you a refresher.  Here is a direct quote of your post.  Let me go ahead and highlight what I am talking about.

And yes, I did read the other responses as well.  It was posted over an hour later after XselenS responded respectfully that that was not an option, and that he would need permission first.  It was then that you had suggested that he ask, but between the time of the first post to you second there is no indication of any humor of any type, so I have to assume you were serious.

Anyways, I consider the matter dropped.  I really do not see the need to continue this discussion any longer in this thread.  If you really feel the need to discuss this further, my PM box is always open.

Ordian