Well, "our" planets are just the planets from the celestial bodies mod and sins plus mod, with some minor tweaks here and there.  So the easiest way would probably just to get those mods and incorporate them into your mod like DS does.

That disclaimer aside, straight porting them over to another mod requires a fair amount of work.

First, you need all of the entity files for every planet, (referred to as objects from here on out since there are moons and other things as well as just planets).

Second, you need all of the mesh files for every object you're porting over.

Third, you need all of the abilities each entity refers to.

Fourth, you need every buff every ability refers to.

Fifth, you need every bonus that the objects can produce.

Sixth, you need the new picture sets for the buffs and bonuses.

Seventh, you need to update the galaxysceneriodef file with all of the new objects, and bonuses in their proper sections.

Eighth, you need to update the English string file with all of the proper wording.

Ninth, you need to add in references to all of the associated window files for the icons and hud, to show the images when you're zoomed out.

Tenth, you either need to modify each entity to allow for colonization based off of current research, or add in new research to be able to colonize.  Adding in research of course, means more work similar to sixth, seventh, and eighth, but also with the addition of adjusting the window files for the research so that it's a possibility and has a location to show up in, as well as adjusting the player files to make that research an available possibility.

At any rate, try it with one object first, let's just say forest planet, and copy everything over.  Run the Dev.exe and get into a game and find the planet, zoom all the way in, out, colonize it, do all of the upgrades, etc...  Take note of the errors that pop up.  Fix those errors and run the Dev.exe again.  Once you get to a clean running version, you'll have a pretty good idea of every little thing you have to do for each object you port over.

Another Disclaimer, the planet abilities were made by Carbon, so before you get crazy with those, bug him repeatedly for permission to steal them, or just delete the reference to them in the object's entity file and it's less abilities and buffs to copy over.  There's probably a step or two that I'm missing, but you'll figure it out soon enough.

Hey DS team!

Wonderful mod first off, secondly may I use your Skybox(s) for my EvE-Online mod?

Please PM with approval so I can keep tabs for my thanks list

I cant believe this mod is STILL going strong
Just reinstalled the game again (for the 5th time), and the first thing i always do is go to the forums to dl this very mod

Hey now, DS is like part of the main game at this point, you almost have to dl it when you get it, these guys are gonna be goin strong till the game itself ends, and that most likely aint gonna happen with this community

                                 BadTune~ I'll bring the nachos it you bring the fireworks~

I have nothing but respect for the DS team as this mod is the ONLY reason I even look at Sins anymore.  I still can't believe Ironclad didn't think to add some of these improvements in either of the official expansions.  New planets kind of seemed like a no-brainer addition, but then Diplomacy in general smacked of laziness all-around.  I look forward to seeing what changes and features the new DS version will bring.

i think this is an exelent idea. ive been trying to combine the Sins Plus and CB mods for a while now. good job! just wondering, is this compatible with v1.19?

not quite yet

oh. well no matter. i tried harpo's mod updater but that was bogus. im reinstalling with v1.18. solves SO many problems. the beauty of torrents.

Harpo doesn't make crap stuff, and the updater works great.  You just have to get into the PipelineEffects folder and delete the files GS_planet, GS_ship, GS_shipbuilding, and GS_shipphasedout...  (Maybe a new feature of the updater would be to look for those files and remove them during the update, Harpo?) The reason is the game doesn't like older versions of those files being used on newer versions of the game.  There are slight differences, and it screws everything up if the changes aren't made...  It's easier to just delete them.  You can always run the dev exe to see what error comes up and busy yourself fixing it...  Or you could just wait a little bit longer and play with an official release.  Reinstalling is bogus when the solution is far easier.  ;Þ

agree with Stant123, Harpo is an upstanding fellow modder who's tools have come in very handy, please don't knock him

stant, the current version of the mod updater DOES remove the GS_planet, GS_asteroid, GS_ship, GS_shipbuilding & GS_shipphasedout files from mods that it updates and has done since the problem popped up it's invisible head back in 1.18/e10.4/d1.00.

the problem that doberman is complaining about is the convertdata's failing to convert, which I have no control over as I use the same convertdata's as everybody else as they ALL come from ironclad games, I even tried everything I could to minimise the problem by supplying the convertdata's from each version as the later convertdata's tend to fail to convert files that were binned by older versions, but it is beyond even MY programming ability to fix utilities that I did not write.

harpo

Hmm, odd, your tools have never remove them for me...  Even the newest.  Oh well, no big deal.  I know to always run the dev exe on the first run to see what errors there are and fix them.

Maybe my copies of DS have separation anxiety and don't want to be away from those files?  =]

How is the AI doing with this mod? Last time I played (2 years ago or so) I remember the AI being really weak because it couldn't cope with the longer research times.

does just fine now

in fact with vicious (which gets a kick in research) its down right scary sometimes

Very nice, thanks for the info. Now all I hope is that my laptop is able to handle sins, last time I played was on a better rig, but it's broken atm ^^

lol our next version will have some major changes that will help with lower end machines

just run with everything turned down to low settings and that should help

nah, it's fine, apparently I was just scarred from Elemental lol

I'm having a blast so far, great mod as it always was.

well im just too impatient and really want to get to play the mods. Not rly im usually very patient. i like tweaking the data files and renaming the in-game ships and stuff. i also made a galaxy forge but im not sure how good Filefront is and if it still works. i plan on getting back to that soon.

is the CB mod in the original sins release or just the entrenchment? either way im planning on getting the v1.15 patch. downloading right now.

yes we incorporated the CB mod in the original days, we just need to update it

have been busy trying to get entrenchment/diplomacy up to speed 100%

Thankfully there are confirmed rumors of another patch coming down from IronClad for Sins, just depends on when it decides to show up. No idea on what it fully contains other than a small fix which will allow for a huge multi-star map (100 plus stars) to be created. Running it is a different story but that's another challenge. In about a month I will have a map put together for testing that would utilize this fix.

ok, did this a while ago but forgot to post the results(wondering if it matters now but oh well I'm doin it!!) Found out the thing fighting with running DS and Optimized together on the skyboxes was the graphics mod, explains why the new added ones had no troubles but the originals did, anyway END OF BELATED REPORT lol

                     BadTune~ What's this letter for?....oh.~

yeah, we had already figured the out as we slowly worked the two mods together

and as we love our skyboxes we kept ours (plus MajorStress found out that it didn't really help all that much and put them back to normal)

Hello DS Team,

  First off, amazing mod.  I always load it in when I play.  Love the added tech and the expanded planets and all the other goodies.  Keep up the amazing work!

  So onto my questions.

  Music.. is it possible to add more background music? is this something I can do myself perhaps? Does the music mod I've seen on this forum work with DS?

  Leads me into the next question.  What other mods on here work with the DS mod?

  A case of strange lag.  I find that when I've been playing an all out solo game (massive multi-star and planet area with 9 npc and myself) that it lags out after a while.  Someone else who plays told me that its the mines the npc players are seeding.  If that's so, is there a way that one might, turn of the mines? I'm more than happy to play without em lol.

  Have you guys thought about adding a new race perhaps? Or maybe some new ships to the next mod for each of the three races? Destroyer class ships? a super-cap (only one per race at a time)? Monitors (ships incapable of using jump lanes so they have to stay within the system)? Variant space stations?

  Just curious.  Anyways, keep up the amazing work and looking forward to the next updates.

Yes you can add your own music to the mod.  The easiest way is to just replace the ones there with the one's you want, however, you can also just add to the list of music that plays if you have them in the right format so you have the ones included and more.

Technically you can play other mods with DS, but the largest problem is memory.  DS already takes the memory usage up to a very high level on it's own, adding another mod on top of it would likely prematurely crash your game.  Another not as big problem would be balancing.  Lot's of time has been spent balancing the units and tweaking everything so the game doesn't have any glaring one sidedness to a fight, nor with resource acquisition, adding a mod on top would change that balance.  Best thing to do is just try it and see if you're happy with the results.

Edit: As for the mines, you can reduce the allowable per gravity well, or you can remove the research for them all together by removing the mines from the allowable research list from the player entity files.

It is my understanding that some of what the TSOP team has been working / worked on is reducing the resources required for the mines? This would help with late game lag somewhat correct?