1. Is there another site with SoaSE forums that is active?

2. Why is there not a model showroom?

3. Are people creating models?

4. Is SoaSE as "mod/model friendly" as Howmeworld Franchise?

Thanks Dan the Man!

FOUND IT, at least for build counts and such, it doesn't seem to affect the market though:

For a specific race, I think you can't. Because in the players' entities there is no command for how to build up the research window, but how to fill it up. There is no reference to the global windows, only for the blocks, that will be under the tabs...

If you translate the EmpireWindow.window from binary, you can check, maybe you can prevent the load-in of the tabs... but it will effect all the races... I'm not sure about that window, perhaps it's another .window you're looking for.

I can't use the converter (because I have Vista x64, I think)... so that's all... I hope I was helpful and I didn't say anything stupid

hey ah DANMAN it is me from a while back...i finally got around to trying your advice...also if you dont remember this was my problem...  

" i have made a good map using galaxy forge for sins 1.05 and i am using it to make 7 deadly sins plants and i have 7 deadly sins 1.3 but on the loading screen of the map it mini dumps....anyone know why and how to fix it?"

then you said to

'Try putting ALL your Galaxy Forge stuff in the 7DS mod itself.  That should fix things.  Also though, after moving everything over, open up all your maps and save them again, specifing the GALAXY FOLDER within the 7DS mod.  If you don't have one, copy the stock folder and paste it there, then move or SAVE AS you maps there.  That should work.  Let me know if it doesn't."

and it didn't but that might be a careless error on my part but still....any ideas?

it is sins 1.05 and it is the galaxy forge intended for 1.05

this is the problem i had that led to so many dumps. you need to fill in this area for all the frigates, and i am sure capitals also...

typeCount ? (this is a number)
frigateRoleType "Siege"
frigateRoleType "Carrier"
frigateRoleType "Scout"
frigateRoleType "Light"
frigateRoleType "AntiFighter"
frigateRoleType "Colony"
frigateRoleType "ResourceCapturer"
frigateRoleType "Heavy"
frigateRoleType "Support"
frigateRoleType "Lrm"
frigateRoleType "StarBaseConstructor"

and provide all the different types available... you can do it in 1 ship if you like
line #10 or #38 in np++ (depending on bombing or not)

rnick

question 1 the main reasons are the textures for models and sounds that are changed/added, also on vanilla sins mods ALL files are needed in the mod, in entrenchment the mods only need the changed files

question 2 he does answer if others do not beat him to it

harpo

Thanks guys. New to the sins mod community, but not mods in general. one more question:

What exactly will developer.exe let the community do?

@ soasertsus:Heh.Yeah I read that. That's the danger of such a huge mod. Still, with any luck he will find the problem. Or restarting will be a reinvention for 7DS. But i hope the latter is not the case. 

Alrite I have a question relating to planet modding.

You aleady know that I work on the mod Urban Expansion but what I tried doing in version 1.0 was adding new research to benifit the add-on planets.  The specific planet type I used was the toxic planet.  In the gameinfo folder I went into the toxic planet file (named planettoxic in the mod if I remember right, should be the same in 7DS since I changed none of those important file names).  In that file there is a line that says something like, Planet Type for Research "_____".  I know that using the word desert, terran, ice, volcanic, asteroid, or uncolonizable works there but what I tried doing was adding the word Toxic into that blank space.  I than made the appropriate icons and research data file that I called toxic colonization and toxic population.  I linked the word toxic on those research files as well, linked the new icons with the research and did all the work to make the research look official.  Then I went to playtest it.  Well it worked, but it worked to good.  See the Toxic planet was able to be colonized and before colonization it even said that you must research TOXIC COLONIZATION before you can colonize this planet if you tried to.  But upon researching it, all planets were allowed to be colonized, even those that were linked to the word Volcanic (like the volcanic planet).  The population research worked the same way, it made it so ALL planets got a pop boost, not just the toxic planet.  This also goes for the gas giant pop research as far a I know and have tested.  In 7DS you should double check whether researching gas giant pop boost research helps all planets or just the gas giant because in my mod at least researching that helps all planets.  What's weird though is that Gas Giant colonization research works perfect, unlike what the result of my toxic colonization research was.  The Gas Giant colonization research only affected Gas Giants, so here's my question.

What are the rules to linking planets and the research you want to make to benefit them.
Which files are needed in order to do this process (so far the only files I know that relate to this are the appropriate research game info files and the planet game info files.)

Thanks in advance man, you have already helped my mod a lot by allowing me to use your own planets and your white star and all the other stuff I merged in.

Edit:  I also want to make a pulsing effect for some of the stars in the game but I have no idea how particle forge works.  If you could give me a tutorial or direct me to one I would really appreciate it as well.

lord jaroh answers from harpo regards your questions

1 yes, see mad scientist and distant stars mods

2 as far as i know no, but I do not know everything, and so far no mod that I have seen has done it

3 YES, see the following mods, 7deadly sins, startrek SOA, starwars, stargate races, stargate, halo, sins of a galatic empire, battlestar galatica sins of the thirteenth tribe. these mods are just off the top of my head.

hope this helps

harpo

to do any modding you WILL need the text versions of the files for your sins/entrenchment version. assuming you have 1.16 &/or entrenchment 1.02 I had uploaded both sins 1.16 and entrenchment 1.02 un-official reference files that you can download

you also probably will want the complete forge tools which includes a pdf on how to mod sins and can be downloaded on the sins download page

harpo

reiverta in my working reference sets they are in txt in both sins & entrenchmentwould you like me to email to you?

harpo