lol

The first one.

Oh come on, say both!  ;Þ

BTW, PMing you, Nacey, and Carbon with a set of new files that fix all of the research errors as far as I can tell...

Went through the sound folder last night and removed a bunch, found a couple duplicates for the background music too.  I blame Carbon.  =D

I guess next step for me is clean up the mesh errors.

Edit: oh and BTW, visit the DS wiki for info on what's been added.  It's still at version 0.7, but it's still better then what's in the change logs  I'll be updating it to 1.0 standards once there's nothing left for me to do here besides lore writing.

Just taking a look at the wiki page and the front of the forum. The mods listed that combine together to form DS are listed by sound mods, graphics mods, and object mods. Which mods go into changes to the research tree? (obviously some of the objects since new colonization options are made, but specifically to changes in levels of mining, shields, hull etc)

Cheers

Anybody have this problem

!   D:\Our Downloads\Sins of a Solar Empire\Distant_Stars_(D)_0.99_B5_[73603744].7z: Unknown method in Distant Stars (D) 0.99 B5\Sound\Advent Battle.ogg
 !   D::\Our Downloads\Sins of a Solar Empire\Distant_Stars_(D)_0.99_B5_[73603744].7z: Unknown method in Distant Stars (D) 0.99 B5\skybox.manifest
!   D:\Our Downloads\Sins of a Solar Empire\Distant_Stars_(D)_0.99_B5_[73603744].7z: Error - operation failed



Total errors 1225

I get this when I unzip the file. I didn't want to show you all 1225 files.   What should I do?

Edit: Now Down Loading  1.01 SoaSE Full Download [453701567] and the patch too.



saintmaria, you need to update your 7zip program

harpo

That would be DS itself.  For the most part, it's just a doubling of the stock research to not only get you to spend more of your resources to advance to higher levels, but also to make it take much longer forcing you to choose what route to take in short games.

Yes, I had that problem a while ago with the test 1.0 release sent to me and talked a little about it with Nacey before the last public release.  One solution is as Harpo said, update your 7z and you're good to go.  The other is to tell Nacey to use the older compression method so that those of us who don't update these things don't have this problem. 

If you're downloading the full version, cancel the patch (and delete the old version of DS from your mod folder).  The patch is only for updating the previous version to the current version, and as always, it's preferred that every get the full download each time anyway just in case things have been removed which won't happen if you're only patching.

Edit: Update on my progress...  Meshes fixed and being uploaded to be sent to the boss as we speak.  The only remaining mesh issues are native to the core game so I'm not going to mess with them.

Now I am a little confused so which is the newest down load for DS for Diplo v1.32. Thank for the help



@SaintMina

Current release (B5) for diplo v1.32 http://distantstars.mmobase.com/diplomacy/Distant_Stars_(D)_0.99_B5_%5B73603744%5D.7z

It needs a recent version of 7zip to properly unzip (uses new compression format)

And Trib beats me to it again.  You want the full download under the Diplomacy 1.32 section as pointed out by the "That thing you want" link of his.

Spent the past couple hours rewriting the entity.manifest after going over it line by line removing duplicate lines and removing lines referencing files that are no longer used.  Hopefully it makes things just a little bit better for us all.

... if you call me we can talk about it.

Throw me your digits there hot stuff.

I'll do you one better and link to the source I got it from. How's that sound? 

http://youtu.be/gZNqyYgFdQA

To help out

Here is a link for 7zip

I used it to open 0.99 B5 (Beta Five) so I know it works

Edit: I am happy and I can say that really enjoy this Mod. Your team is on top of things in helping with problems and giving advice on how to solve them. My thanks to you and to the people that help to put this forum and this Mod together. I started a game and so far it works, so if it crashes, I will ask about to see why and help you as much as I can to debug it.

Now if can find out where I read how to change the movement of my frigates to Dynamic Movement. I know how use the Notepad but the Notepad++ is greek to me.

About the pirates, should I be afraid???

Edit Edit:

In my notepad it looks like this so what do I do with this? Add or Change?

    (   F R I G A T E _ P H A S E L I G H T _ O N A T T A C K O R D E R I S S U E D _ 0 (   F R I G A T E _ P H A S E L I G H T _ O N A T T A C K O R D E R I S S U E D _ 1 (   F R I G A T E _ P H A S E L I G H T _ O N A T T A C K O R D E R I S S U E D _ 2
      F R I G A T E _ P H A S E L I G H T _ O N C R E A T I O N    )   F R I G A T E _ P H A S E L I G H T _ O N G E N E R A L O R D E R I S S U E D _ 0 )   F R I G A T E _ P H A S E L I G H T _ O N G E N E R A L O R D E R I S S U E D _ 1 )   F R I G A T E _ P H A S E L I G H T _ O N G E N E R A L O R D E R I S S U E D _ 2 

Is the entity file necessary with the current b5 full version?

@SaintMina - 1. Notepad++ is just a fancy version of Notepad. It took me seconds to learn though mastering it will take a while.

                    2. You need to change the entity file from the binary to the text setting. harpo99999 has some tools you can use for that.

@ReadyMan - Well technically you just need to change the count from 2201 to 2202 I believe.

You don't have to do any of that, I already updated the dynamic movement and posted it.

Though if you use any of the tools that convert from binary to text, you can see exactly what was done by comparing the files so you have a starting point for your own education.

(Edit:

I'm redownloading B5 just to be sure of it.

Edit2: after 2 hours of playing and allying and getting all of the pacts and getting and giving all kinds of missions...  B5 is working without editing anything.  And no, the count is correct for the manifest.)

Btw, anyone following my little blurbs about error squashing, fixed a few more yesterday and now I'm down to only getting 6 or 7 errors about buffs on the load which I intend on fixing tonight (pending any interruptions from my daughters like last night, little cock blockers.  ).  Once I get those, and pass the fixes along, should they all get used, then we'll have a smooth loading DS once again which will definitely make future problems much easier to figure out...

*goes about modifying the usual files before dropping DS into the mod folder* ahh, why do you guys keep these things around~

Dynamic movement mod: all scouts must be deleted, otherwise they kamakazi the mines they try to sweep.....

Dynamic Movement mod: The Turret's movement speed......honestly......this one has no right to exist

Aside form those six files, everything else i touch is personal ascetics and taste so i won't post those =X

ahem, btw........before anyone catches me for flaming, i'll let you all know now I practically refuse to play without DS anymore.....they've spoiled me

Because we don't care for the DM mod.

pssh, I like it and others may too. Joke was on me anyway though, apparently the extras weren't included in the release this time.

Suppose it would cause conflicts if I cut and paste the rest of them in Ryat?

(besides, dynamic movement makes a few "area effect skills" a little more effective, such as the enforcer's for example)

anyway, still wanna ask how to change the lighting effects of those(OMG I'M BLIND) sky boxes you guys added in, i got the background changed but the reflections on the ships elude me ;O

I doubt it. But don't quote me on that.

Sadly the one DS modder that did like it left a while ago. The rest of us that don't maintain it but that is it.

well, it's not like there's been anything to break it anyway, so just adding it in was enough I guess.

Taking things out is far better than trying to put things in anyway so there is that.

maybe if I get some free time or a lull in my home work once rebellion comes out I'll try updating it. I'll have to figure out the movement mechanics from referencing between vanilla and dynamic files, but that shouldn't be too difficult to figure out...i mean it's not like there's much to change or alter in the case of new files.

I'm well aware that by saying that I may have just gotten ryat to think, "Ha, that's what he thinks now" but oh well ;O

Edit: also, a handy hint, if you don't feel like having folder spam for every version of sins in your files...just rename the current one and edit the text file in there to say 0 instead of 4(in my case). Saves time with copying stuff from the old folder to the new one, since nothing is moved.

And this has been another Wasting time with Bad tune

System Message:wisdom -99 points for reading this message skill:Sentient thought no longer available

I liked that skill!!!!

I gave Nacey a list of files that are completely unnecessary as of the B3 or B4 release, in the version 1.00 release, nearly all of them have been removed, so when this version is made public, you'll only get the files you need to have, not what you're getting right now.

Okay, I'll take them out.

I assume they were made to turn fast because ships fly by now rather then stopping.  At their slow rate, the ship would have time to turn around and make another pass before the turret turns around to take another shot.  That's one of the things I actually like about the DM minimod.

I know I don't.  I prefer the old style of naval warfare where ships run up on each other then hit 'em with every cannon on the broadside.  Reminds me of naval warfare pre 1850's.  Yarrrrr!

Nope, but if you ever get the urge to play someone online, you're kinda screwed until you put the old files back.

The skyboxes DS added in are missing their properties and thus don't show up in game.  I fixed them over a year ago and they never got included, so I had to 'fix' them again for version 1.00.  Their cube environments are not in the proper format either which causes a few more issues with them.  Undo your changes and download this: http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/DSSkyboxFix.rar   Put the meshes in the mesh folder the textures in the texture folder and the skybox properties in the GameInfo folder.  If you open up the properties file, you will see hex color codes for diffuse and ambient light colors, on the dark backgrounds, those are for lighter colors, on the two light DS backgrounds, they are darker colors so you shouldn't be getting blinded by having light on light.  I may make a few more DS backgrounds, so don't go too crazy into playing with things.  You'll just mess up my work.  ;|

Pretty much.

Been done already.  See my previous post in the quote box for the link.  There really is nothing else to update about them.

Nope.  Which is why you don't need to do something I've already done and posted for the public.

Maybe I'll get to these buff errors sometime tonight...  =\

Update on 1.00:

All of the minidump errors are now fixed, it turned out to be 5 separate errors all generated by different combinations of units and so on generated via the GalaxyScenarioDef file.

All research costs, research times etc have now been normalised across all research trees (something that should have been done a long time ago).

The majority of errors have now been fixed bar a few thanks to Stants help for fixing quite a few of those.

There are only a couple of final things left for me to check / create and for us to play test before the final release is ready now

Dynamic Movement:

I'll be updating this once 1.00 is finished for the moment its fallen a little out of date and quite a few little changes that have been included in the core DS for a while now.

Nice work Nacey and Stant

@Stant: All the changes I really made was altering the 2 skyboxes with Gimp, toned down their lighting a bit. But with B5 I just went to the manifest this time and stopped the game from looking for them. This way your work isn't touched and they don't appear at the same time(my gimp changes came out a little pixiled anyway, I'm not that used to the program yet) I was kinda rude in how I described them though, sorry stant.

I understand the reasoning behind lowering the turning speeds of the turrets a bit, but with what they were set at, by the time the turret turned to fire, it's target would be behind it again. slowed down is ok, but a dead crawl is not. I could understand if they turrets had a MASSIVE dmg increase for this, but as it stands, it's a long wait for a small result.

Glad to hear that the changes for DM don't require much of anything from another person lol, was thinking more about when Rebellion comes out though, see what could or shouldn't be added at that time for the Titans.

Added: also, still trying to figure out exactly which files need to be edited how for changing the planetary elevators. I'd like them to look a bit larger and more like floating continents than small structures.