is it possible to make a phase jump instant?

What do you mean including alpha? Is there currently a black.dds file in the folder that I can copy and rename to overwrite the proper files? Or would I have to create one? If I have to create one, how would I go about doing that?

Yes.  You can do this by editing the race file or giving them a custom research.  Either way, you simply increase the speed of hyperspace travel to be instant.

No, each DDS file is broken down into three graphic channels of R, G, B, and ALPHA.  The Alpha channel acts as a mask.  You need to edit it to cover the new stuff you did, or the game won't see it.  The mask tells the game what actually to display.  You need Photoshop or a like graphic program to see the different channels and edit them.

DANMAN

to load the dds pictures/images you NEED the nvidia dds filters from the Nvidia site then your photoshop 7 will be able to read AND write dds files

harpo

Alright, I'll probably get around to trying that out sometime tommarow (friday). Could someone link me to the files at nVidia? (I'm going to bed now so, I figure if someone links me the files it'll save me some time searching)

I'll probably try messing around with the .dds files in photoshop jsut to get familiar with them before I try anything else. Thanks!!!

(will let you knwo what's up, and Carbon, thanks. I'll let you know if I need it.)

~Reuben

  I'm simply trying to make the ships larger, do i have to edit all the meshes, if so what converters do i need, i use milkshape and gimp, among other things, I've been trying to tinker with it, but as is having trouble with the converting to XSI, i haven't actually had much experience with this, as most all my other modding was done with total war series.

 So, simply hoping for either a link to any converters i may need, or at the very least if theres a tutorial that outlines this that would also be of help, i have looked around the site, but as is the search engine can be somewhat unhelpful when it comes to searching for the little things.

 Anyways thanks in advance, for any help or advice on this subject, i wish everyone the best, and of course hope for more, peace. 

Okay I found it!

the forum is https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/326876

the link to the file is http://rapidshare.com/files/153653076/resize_085.zip.html

Hope this helps,

Soasertsus

okay, i did what you told me to do and now when i try to play my game it says Cannot start because it cant find fmod.dll or something like that ... i tried to get two games and failed

Edit, never mind, figured out the problem 

SWEET! Thank you SO MUCH guys! I edited the .dds file and changed the alpha channel to white. Guess what. It works like a dream. All you see when you zoom all the way out instead of galaxies are little stars. So, just take the black-da.dds, change the alpha chanel from black to white and replace GalaxySpiral.dds, GalaxySpiral2.dds, and GalaxySpiral3.dds to get rid of the galaxies and replace them with stars.

You know what's even cooler? This change does NOT cause mismatches online or during mutliplayer play!!!! When I get done with my 50+ star map, I'll put them together in a little download pack and reference it back here. Thank you so much.

Time to get map building. ^_-

~Reuben

1. no

2. no (i think), unless maybe you set the antimatter really high or made it an ability where the ship only had one fighter and the rest 'regenerate' using a buff

3. no

4. see #2

maxHullPoints 60.000000
hullPointRestoreRate 0.000000

Can I use models from Google's 3D Model Warhouse thing?  If I can, how do I put them in the game?

does the 3d modeling program "Blender" work with sins?