Boys, don't worry about Entrenchment... soon, we will organize some competition ( modeling, segmenting/UV/template, texturing, coding, art work, voice, etc ... ) on the 7DS forum... winner will be rewarded with a Entrenchment version...

Just give us one or two week for organize it... i will make a post here once we start a competition...

There is no "guide" to converting things backwards, try doing it yourself, preferably with a comparison program. Most of the knowledge here has been acquired through people daring to try new things through trial and error, and that's the obvious first step when something is that niche.

soasertsus,

Though I can't really try it myself at present, I don't *think* there should be too much difficulty back porting the Celestial Bodies planets to 1.05.  I'm not sure if the size variations would be a problem, but I don't expect they would be.  The meshes and textures should probably be non-issues for the most part.  May wanna compare some of the 1.05 planet meshes to the CB ones just to be sure they're similiar.  It's the entity files where all the fun is gonna be.  You will definitely need to compare the old ones to the CB ones there, and alter the CB ones to match the setup.  (Obviously, numerical values can differ here, but they will otherwise need to have the same layout, with all the info in the same order.)  You'll also need to do the same with any abilities on the planets you want to keep.  Everything else will be the usual stuff needed to add new things.

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So, question of my own: When stamping the UV in Softimage, is there a way to make the output less blocky?  I've tried stamping with multiple sized backgrounds, and I *think* need a smaller one to stretch to get the nicer looking textures later (I'm not entirely sure there either), but in the end it always comes out hard to really tell what's what on the smaller parts.  Even more so once it's stretched.  And I don't really have much room left on the uv map area to make'm larger (it's a relatively large ship I'm playing with).

Which race do you prefer to play as?

On a side note.

I WOULD BE ADVENT TO THE VERY END!!!!!

is it possible to make ships runout of ammo?

Yes !!! but you need to use a non usual way...

By example, let say that you wish a limited amount of missile... create a ability who use antimatter for shot missile... once all antimater is used, you are out of ammo... you can create entity file for ship who don't allow regeneration of antimatter... and create orbital structure who reload the antimatter ( ammunition depot )... so, using several abilities for missile, gun, flak, etc will allow ships to run  out of ammo...

If you wish add more realism, again by using a non usual way, you can make ennemy ship able to intercept and destroy your ammo, by example missile... a missile can be created by using abilities like describe up... but the ability will be similar to actual abilities like these creating a defence platform or bombardment platform... the abilities will create a missile who is itself made of a entity file and a mesh... can make them mobile ( entity ), targeting ennemy ( entity ), once near ennemy can make some damage and self destroy ( like a real missile )...

The first mod who was created for sins ( in 2007 ), before the official launch of Sins in Feb 2008, was called "Kin of the Stars 20071019"... some interesting features of these mod was :

- Colony ships can now launch troop transports to attempt to capture an enemy world without exterminating the population.
- Capital ship missiles can be shot down by point defenses.
- Capital ship missile ammunition limited by antimatter. Supply ships replenish the antimatter of friendly ships.

If you wish, i have these mod, i can maybe upload it on my server... only 430.8 kb... it was for the sins beta... sure that you will need to heavily modify the code for the actual version of sins... but these old code can help you to create ships who run out of ammo !!!

Danman,

I am not sure if this is even possible, but could you make the abilities of cap ships variable or random maybe. I think that would be cool to have a random chance for a new ability or weapon based upon your research level at the time the cap ship levels. Just a suggestion.  can't wait for the entrenchment version of this mod!

Don't worry, time will help you to learn... i am myself only a modeler working for Danman but i am a curious guy... with time, i have begin read entity file and try to understand them...

Now, about your previous request, take a look at these topic : https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/345637 ... seem that these guy have similar idea that you... why not team up together and work on it... by the way, i have post a download link in these other topic... it is the old mod that i have speak about...

is there also a way to make it so when a ship jumps, no antimatter is lost or is that hardcoded?

take a look at the research tree... by example, the Advent have a research called "High Efficiency Jumps" who reduce from 11.1% the use of antimatter when jump... nothing stop you to modify the research and put a 100% value !!!

Anyone?

the deep space skybox does not solve the whiteout problem. i suspect that you might have to create a mod changing the skyboxstars.mesh or the skyboxbackdrop#.mesh files

hope this helps

harpo

I use KDiff3 ... work very good and it is free... you have version for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows...

http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/

Normally, it is a programmation tools... but work very good with sins ( don't forget to convert everything in text mode, binaries don't work )...

Okay this is wierd. My galaxyscenariodef file in the gameinfo derectory of 7DS is unreadable. It is in text but it looks like this:

TXTstarTypeCount8 starType designName"RandomStar" designStringId"IDSGalaxyScenarioTypeStarRandom"   orbitBodyTypeCount 10  orbitBodyType "BlueStar"  orbitBodyType "GreenStar"  orbitBodyType "RedStar"  orbitBodyType "YellowStar"  orbitBodyType "BlueStar2"  orbitBodyType "GreenStar2"  orbitBodyType "RedStar2"  orbitBodyType "YellowStar2"  orbitBodyType "WhiteStar"  orbitBodyType "BlackHoleStar"
 

and its all like that, about 40 pages long. I cant edit it because it a nightmare to find anything in there. Why is it like that? It never was until i got 7DS 2.0 and 2.1. Can it be fixed?

And Thoumsin, thanks it works great.

I'm doing an Honorverse Map and I want to increase flt supply and cap ship supply. I played around with increasing some of the values in the game info folder. It just locks up if i try to load it. Specificly the tec research for caps and flt supply. I did it like a mod that was done along time ago. The Capital War Mod. How do I do it or where can I find the info to do this? I read something along time ago, but can't find the thread.