Nah i dont mind, just roll on. Hehe.

Had a terrorist attack here just today, could feel the shockwave, didnt expect that at home.. but hey shit happens. I blame all the greedy stupid people that populate the world, we could have lived in a paradise if we had gotten our heads out of our asses but nooo.

A little bit off topic there.

Windows live mesh i dont know anything abouth but i have dropbox somewhere. Can use both probably.

Yup, live in oslo and thanks. Dropbox is a server that directly connects to your computer as i understand, kinda like local file sharing, you drop a file a picture or anything into your "dropbox" and it is then made accescible to your online "dropbox" and the people that can access it. Ive actually never used it but i think this is somewhat what it works like.

Yeah, i was pretty sure it was you know who, but seems like it was some crazy extreme christian guy who hated them. /shrugs. its a darn crazy world.

I propose we just use dropbox then. You just lump over the neccesary info when you feel like it, and i will be good to go.

As i said ive never used it so not sure how it works, is what you are looking for my account? If so its malanthor@hotmail.com

Okay i got it now Zombie. Although its not working in any configuration i tried - so i reckon its not gtg for testing yet?

Ok, I found a borked file with PlayerHyp.entity (Still had the old relationship modifier lines).

It should work for you now... Plus I've added a quickie tool for migrating only files that have changed from your dropbox to your mod directory. It won't handle file deletions from dropbox but I'll try to keep that from happening as much as possible.

Here's the complete checksum I have right now (Hopefully it's the same you can get with the dropbox share).

The tool I made for migrating from dropbox to the Mods-Diplomacy v1.31 works like this.

In the .\My Dropbox\SOTF MOD\ directory I added a migrate directory.

In this directory there is a folder for apache-ant-1.8.2 (You shouldn't have to touch this) and 3 files: migrate.properties, migrate_build.xml and migrate_sotf.bat.

migrate.properties:

I need you to copy this to c:\sotf\ on your harddrive then modify the following two entries in this file.

dropbox.dir=[Your Drop Box Full Path]/SOTF MOD
mod.dir=C:/Users/[USER NAME]/AppData/Local/Ironclad Games/Sins of a Solar Empire/Mods-Diplomacy v1.31

This file is specific to your machine and will allow others to use the migrate.bat file on their machines.

migrate.bat:

After you setup the migrate.properties in c:\sotf\ you can execute this program to copy ONLY changed files from the dropbox directory to the mod directory. This will help automate the process of copying files and significantly speed up the copying process.

Feel free to open the bat file... The main line of code here is the .\apache-ant-1.8.2\bin\ant -buildfile migrate_build.xml which invokes the ant distribution included in the dropbox.

if not exist c:\sotf\migrate.properties goto notthere
:there
.\apache-ant-1.8.2\bin\ant -buildfile migrate_build.xml

goto end
:notthere
echo c:\sotf\migrate.properties not found!
echo ...
echo Please copy migrate.properties to c:\sotf\ and
echo modify the dropbox and mod directory locations for your specific machine.

goto end
:end
echo finished.

migrate_build.xml:

You won't need to modify this file, but feel free to open it and poke around. This file has one main target called "migrate". In it you can see it calls a templated ant command to copy from the dropbox directory to the mod directory.

You will also see at the top of the migrate_build.xml a reference to the property file I asked you to copy to c:\sotf\:

    <property file="c:/sotf/migrate.properties"/>

You shouldn't need to modify this file.

Running the Migration Batch Script:

Once the migrate.properties is setup correctly try executing the migrate.bat from the command line.

If it doesn't work check to make sure you have a valid java installation by typing java at the command line.

I uploaded a patch to R3 on the 21st of July. This patch also supports Distant Stars .99 B3. Both of which are only compatible with Diplomacy 1.21.

It should only be as follows:

SOTF Distant Stars (D) R3

Distant_Stars_(D)_0.99_B3_[...]

SOTF (D) R3

SOTF (E) R3

Don't include the transhuman stuff, as the distant stars addon only works for the original Sins of the Fallen.

Seems to be missing alot of icons right now, cant really see what im building, whether it is extractors or ships.

Hmm, which faction? Might be not all the files sync'd when you copied them to the mod folder.

Edit - where you able to figure out the little migrate script? Let me know if you need help, it will speed up things for you alot and allow you to copy changed files before you play. Also, I updated some textures for Hypercorp yesterday for a few of their modules.

Edit2 - I just checked all the races and didn't see any missing build icons. You might give the migrate script a try. I tried to keep it as simple as possible only requiring the one properties file to be setup on your end. Hopefully using that or recopying the mod will fix your missing icon issue.

Yes, I'm getting a late game ctd occasionally, though it's after the mod runs for a long while. It may be tied to some of the new factions I haven't tested much yet and are still much a WIP. Also, Hypercorp is getting some work too with the research tree being in a state of flux.

I'm working on getting moons back in. I ripped them and a few other things out when I was putting together the last 1.21 release.

Hoping to get the research trees going again for Hyp too. Work picked up a bit recently including some weekend release related activity so not as much time for the mod as I liked.

Atleast managed to get something colored over the Hyp Hangar, repair and culture center yesterday.

Ok, I finally got the model for the Rogue superweapon to work in game. It will kindof act like the vasari phase gate but will open bi-directional wormhole between the two points. Just don't ask where they stole the technology...