How can I create new planets? And how can I add other people's planets to my game?

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I just got Sins of a Solar Empire Entrenchment and I really like it a lot.  However, one of the first disappointing things I noticed about it though is the number of planets the game has.  For instance, there are only two types of Terran planets.  It seems kinda weird to have like 6 Terran planets in a solar system and 3 of them look exactly the same.  I want some diversity.

 

Is there a way to create my own planets?  I really want to mod one of the Terran planets (a Terran planet with continents and water) and create a new Terran planet with different looking landmasses.  I also want to change the locations of the dots of light that show up on the dark half of the planet.   

 

I've tried to find tutorials on how to mod the game, and I found this thread:

 

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/318314/page/1/

 

But the link to the tutorial doesn't work. 

 

So I thought I could try to add someone else's custom planets to my game.  I found the Sins Plus mod by Uzii, which has the kinds of planets I want to create:

 

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/301574

 

This mod pack has some really cool looking planets, such as Toxic, Industrial, and Paradise.  I can't firgure out how to add these to my game though.  I extracted this mod into the required directory:

C:\Documents and Settings\Ryan\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Entrenchment v1.01 

 

And I enabled the mod in the Options menu of the game.  However, once I hit apply, the game froze.  I don't know what to do!

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

the freeze is because the mod is for a different version. If you had downloaded from the OP of the thread then that is DEFINATLY your problem as the files linked on the op are for 1.04 & 1.05 sins not entrenchment, but if the link you downloaded was on the last page in reply 1163 then it is for entrenchment 1.02 NOT 1.01 and several mods have proven the incompatibility between mods & reference files of entrenchment 1.01 & entrenchment 1.02 and again that is your problem ie the WRONG version of sins for the mod.

hope this helps

harpo

 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting harpo99999, reply 1
the freeze is because the mod is for a different version. If you had downloaded from the OP of the thread then that is DEFINATLY your problem as the files linked on the op are for 1.04 & 1.05 sins not entrenchment, but if the link you downloaded was on the last page in reply 1163 then it is for entrenchment 1.02 NOT 1.01 and several mods have proven the incompatibility between mods & reference files of entrenchment 1.01 & entrenchment 1.02 and again that is your problem ie the WRONG version of sins for the mod.

hope this helps

harpo

 
End of harpo99999's quote

 

Yeah, that sounds like my problem.

 

I went to reply 1163 and found the link to the mod for Entrenchment 1.02:

 

http://files.filefront.com/SinsPlusOriginalEntr102zip/;13554566;/fileinfo.html

 

But it doesn't work!  It brings me to the main filefront page.  Just as it did when I tried to download the modding tutorial v1.1 in the Modding & Texturing sticky. 

 

Does this not happen to anybody else?  I would really like some working links to some planet creating tutorials or this mod. 

 

Thanks.

 

EDIT: I found a thread where Uzii made a link to a tutorial on how to create a planet.  It's reply #44:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/300281/page/2/#1613655

But when i clicked on it, it gave me a 404 error. Forbidden access.  I cant get to it!

 

I am really getting frustrated because of all these faulty links!!

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I have pmed arron moore asking if I can have permission to re-upload his work and post a link in the thread as I have a copy of the mod in my personal archives (17.6gb of sins files)

harpo

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Thank you so much!  I really appreciate it!

Do you also have the modding & texturing tutorial found in this thread?

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/318314/page/1/

Would you mind reuploading this .doc tutorial?  Thanks!

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I do not have the tutorial unfortunatly, but I did pm the author letting them know that the link was broken, so hopefully they can reserect it

harpo

 

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

You could also try in this thread which details the Urban Expansion Mod similar to Sins Plus (I think it expands upon the base mod Uzii made in the first place).

 

Also, the author XselenS will be releasing it for entrenchment in the near future, so he should know a bit about compatibility and modding planets for entrenchment if you want to find out more. :)