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Reply #326 August 7, 2011 2:20:53 PM
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Quoting myfist0,
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If you open a SoaSE ships -cl and look at the alfa channel you will notice different shades of white on black. Solid white would be solid team colour where if you use a slight eraser it would look more greyish, this lets some of the ships actual colour come through the team colour. Or zoom in close and use a 1 px solid eraser on the white and make a few scraggly lines to make it look like the team colour paint is cracking. Solid black is ignored and shows the ships RGB colours.

Hmm seems the problem was on my end, in paint.net it looked like the alpha channel was somewhat opaque, but in photoshop the alpha was completely white. Guess I know to always go with photoshop on ship textures.

Quoting myfist0,
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The best way to blend the team colour would probably be to use the eraser tool set to 50% or so. I have not tested this though but it works with other graphic textures.

Yeah that worked as intended, though you'll probably want more than 50% (at least I did on my models).

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Reply #327 August 7, 2011 3:55:58 PM
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Quoting GoaFan77,
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Yeah that worked as intended, though you'll probably want more than 50% (at least I did on my models).

Well, you got the gist of what I meant. Glad to see you are all fixed up. 

I had the videos from the textures page uploaded to a site that's no longer hosting. I am uploading to YouTube and will add more information to the Texturing page today.

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Reply #328 August 10, 2011 2:35:33 AM
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In discussing the idea of invading in a separate thread, I began to wonder...  can you set up new pages in the HUD?  What I'm thinking of specifically is instead of making the Emergency Facilities infrastructure an individual upgrade, it would take you to another page of planet upgrades all related to defense.  Perhaps...

Surface to Orbit Weapons (let's planets attack)

Infrastructure Redundancy (increases planet health)

Underground Tunneling (reduce population loss from bombing)

Bombardment Shields (reduces bombing damage)

 

Just things of that nature.  I'm sure I could find ways to do any of those things, but the point is, can you make a new build tree like that, and if so, how?

 

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Reply #329 August 10, 2011 12:06:47 PM
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Quoting Volt_Cruelerz,
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can you set up new pages in the HUD?

Nope, sadly.

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Reply #330 August 11, 2011 11:15:38 PM
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Quoting Volt_Cruelerz,
reply 328


Surface to Orbit Weapons (let's planets attack)

Infrastructure Redundancy (increases planet health)

Underground Tunneling (reduce population loss from bombing)

Bombardment Shields (reduces bombing damage)

Maybe you could add research options that tag these effects on to the standard emergency facilities upgrade? For example, the advent have that underground tunneling as a research option in the civilian tree. Would it not be possible to make that only work with a certain level of the upgrade? I would set it up Tunneling->Redundancy->Shields->Weapons

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Reply #331 August 12, 2011 12:07:22 AM
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Quoting SithLordAJ,
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Maybe you could add research options that tag these effects on to the standard emergency facilities upgrade? For example, the advent have that underground tunneling as a research option in the civilian tree. Would it not be possible to make that only work with a certain level of the upgrade? I would set it up Tunneling->Redundancy->Shields->Weapons

I'm not entirely sure what you are saying, but research can only make planet upgrades cheaper or quicker to construct. You can't add secondary effects via research that are active after researching a planet upgrade. If you are just saying to implement those ideas via research that does work.

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Reply #332 August 14, 2011 10:08:37 AM
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Is there a way to make a buff that slows down the build rate of enemy starbases?

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Reply #333 August 14, 2011 1:28:21 PM
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Quoting chaos_forge,
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Is there a way to make a buff that slows down the build rate of enemy starbases?

Nope.

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Reply #334 August 15, 2011 8:31:45 AM
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Has anyone looked at the .xsp ships from X3?

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Reply #335 August 15, 2011 10:49:33 AM
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I forgot I don't have X3 installed anymore. I have to dig threw loads of discs but I will find it.

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Reply #336 August 20, 2011 7:07:15 AM
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Hi Guys! Is there a chance to download Converted Game info files for the latest version of Sins Of Solar empire diplomacy?

I have windows Wista, i tried convert the files manualy and whit the SinsDataConverter program, but it did not worked.

I have a 1.31 version of Game info files but it not whole, half of the files are missing.

If annyone can give me a link or pass me on dropp box a full converted Game info files pack i would be verry happy!

Thx

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Reply #337 August 20, 2011 7:38:05 AM
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Original Sins 1.191 Entrenchment 1.051 Diplomacy 1.32

 

SoaSE.weebly.com/modding-tools.html

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Reply #338 August 20, 2011 7:50:17 AM
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Thx Man! I am verry GreatFull!

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Reply #339 August 25, 2011 7:49:00 AM
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Not sure if this question has already been asked, but is there a way to alter how resource asteroids are spawned?

Specifically I would like my resource asteroids to be spawned in a tight circle around each of my planets, rather than scattered randomly'ish within the gravity well.

If anyone can point me to the line of code I need to edit etc I would be very appreciative.

Many thanks,

Ben

 

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Reply #340 August 25, 2011 10:41:18 AM
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I get the feeling that is hard-coded.

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Reply #341 August 25, 2011 11:09:53 AM
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I saw something about a minimum distance offset and maximum offset which I thought might relate to the spawning (in the Resource Asteroid Entity Files) but it didn't seem to do anything at all, and certainly caused no errors when editing.

Really hope it isn't hardcoded :/

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Reply #342 August 25, 2011 1:20:34 PM
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Well, ranges in Sins are kind of funky...  Try setting one ability on a capital ship to 10.  Set the next to 20.  Notice any difference?  No?  Because that's how it works.  I don't know if a similar bizzareness is the cause of this, but it might be...

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Reply #343 August 27, 2011 9:49:27 AM
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Managed to get it to work, my mod now spawns asteroids in a tight circle

 

The maximum offset relates to the distance from the edge of the gravity well, the minimum offset relates to the mesh of the planet/asteroid etc they are orbiting.

 

So if you have a moveable area of 45000, then the max distance offset should be 35000 - 40000 and the inner/minimum should be 5000 - 10000 and ta da you have asteroids which are in a tight circle that look like they have been positioned there by gravity or your race

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Reply #344 August 29, 2011 9:42:18 AM
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-Another question if I may.

 

Does anyone know how to alter the maximum zoom difference for Planets? Presently in my Mod I have to zoom quite far into a particular Planet, to be able to see the Gravity Well, is there a way to alter this so you don't have to zoom in quite so far?

 

Kind regards, Ben

 

SOLVED, increased the Mesh Size using re-size tool

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Reply #345 September 5, 2011 7:31:20 PM
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I have a mod I'm making, and I keep getting these errors (Note: a <NEXT> denotes different errors.):

<START>

Text FileArchive missing Label

<NEXT>

Failed to convert " to an enum value

<NEXT>

Assert @ c:\gs\main\CodeSource\GS/Entity/Interfaces/IAbility.cpp(139)

false

<NEXT>

Assert @ c:\gs\main\CodeSource\Engine/DataStructures/FixedArray.h(128)

i < MAX_SIZE

<NEXT>

Assert @ c:\gs\main\CodeSource\GS/Entity/Interfaces/IAbility.cpp(224)

m_minExperienceLevelRequired.GetValueAtLevel(i - 1) <= m_minExperienceLevelRequired.GetValueAtLevel(i)

 

What do all of these mean and how can I remedy them?

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Reply #346 September 5, 2011 8:08:23 PM
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Quoting ImperatorPavel,
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Text FileArchive missing Label



Failed to convert " to an enum value

You screwed up the file structure of an entity somewhere, as well as possibly use a line value the game does not support.

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Reply #347 September 5, 2011 11:15:20 PM
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B5 mod is running into some issues. Mostly with the AI Research stalling out after a few items. Can anyone assist them? Here is the link the related thread and reply.

 

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/361694/page/105/#2992410

 

Thank you very much for any assistance in this matter.

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Reply #348 September 7, 2011 11:25:24 AM
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I want to edit fleet capacity and upkeep, how do I go about doing this?

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Reply #349 September 7, 2011 11:35:54 AM
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RESEARCHSUBJECT_MAXSHIPSLOTS<race>

and in that file:

researchModifier
	modifierType "ShipMaxSlots"
	baseValue 0.000000
	perLevelValue 150.000000

 Modify the perLevelValue

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Reply #350 September 7, 2011 11:49:26 AM
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Why thank you. Though does that also edit fleet upkeep?

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