why?

Pitch algorithms in large part tend to be really bad and sound terrible. Any pitch modifications you want to make should be done manually in something like Audition for maximum quality, then use those sounds as alternates for the main one.

I try to avoid using straight random pitches, though. I use pitch benders and micro stretches as well as compressor changes to make different variations of the same sound.

Audition... I have audacity and Sound Forge

Ok, In rebellion is there a way to disable the choice of loyalist or rebel forces?  And simply have it be 2 simple races?  

Thanks for answering my newb questions.  

Cheers

Technically the Rebels/Loyalist thing is semantics, they are two different factions for gameplay purposes.

Is there a way to disable that screen that prompts for Loyalist/Rebel then?  I just want a simple drop down box with 3 choices and that's it.  Not the secondary window of faction choice.  

Oh, well why didn't you say that? 

There isn't a drop down, but you can get rid of that screen and go to the pre-Rebellion system if you edit the PlayerSetup.window file and change the last line to "useRaceSelectDialog FALSE".

Ah, sorry I was not being very clear with what I was trying to do.  It's been a long day last thing I should be doing is modding.  Thank you! Much Appreciated

Also, I seem to be having an issue with actually linking said race to the choice selection.  I am working off a mod that was in progress that I have since picked up.  I have linked the race to the entity.manifest and also in the English.str files...what else would I have to do to make them playable?  The player page is ready to go (I believe)

http://reference-files.soase.x90x.net/Reference_Files_Reb_v1.52/GameInfo/GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef

search for

playerTypeCount 7

and

validPictureGroups 3
pictureGroup "PlayerPhase"
pictureGroup "PlayerPsi"
pictureGroup "PlayerTech"
validThemeGroups 4
themeGroup "PlayerPhase"
themeGroup "PlayerPsi"
themeGroup "PlayerTech"
themeGroup "NPC"

planetItemType
	designName "Tech:CapitalShip:Colony"
	entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHCOLONY"
planetItemType
	designName "Tech:CapitalShip:Support"
	entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHSUPPORT"
planetItemType
	designName "Tech:CapitalShip:Siege"
	entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHSIEGE"
planetItemType
	designName "Tech:CapitalShip:Transport"
	entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHTRANSPORT"
planetItemType
	designName "Phase:Titan:Loyalist"
	entityDefName "TITAN_PHASELOYALIST"
planetItemType

A quick question, anyone know of a way to apply entitymodifiers to specific weapon types? I want to make a toggle ability that boosts one of the weapon types on a ship but not the others.

Entity Modifiers are not modifiable in any way. There is only Energy Weapon Cooldown and Physical Weapon Damage if your ships weapons happen to be divided in a way so that only the weapons you want boosted are in one of those categories.

The way can give extra damage to a weapon type is by using the "ApplyBuffOnWeaponFired" instant action type, like incendiary shells, then have the buff deal extra damage for you. However, note this only does raw damage, it cannot do a percentage like boost like the entity modifiers.

Darn, oh well. will have to go with "ApplyBuffOnWeaponFired" and just work within that

Thanks for the help!

Does using CAPITALABILITY as a regular weapon's AttackType cause the game to throw any errors/whine? As I've confirmed it appears to work without issue, though I don't know if this works well under the hood.

As for why I'm using it as an AttackType, got a weapon that has no advantages or disadvantages for hitting a given armor type, and I noticed that CAPITALABILITY can fill that job.

I don't think anyone knows for sure, but my guess is cap abilities, like the "Dart" (Advent Planet Bombardment) weapon type, were originally programmed to work via standard weapon types, but this system was later thrown out, leaving the unused types behind.

So then this is actually a flexible, totally unused, AttackType? If so, that's even better.

It works. I use it as a FLAK AttackType in FoK.

Well now that I reread your post, do you mean the list of stuff in the Gameplay.constant files (antilight), not weapon type (laser)? Either way I think its unused, but I am less confident in the Gameplay.constant case.

The Gameplay.constant entry affects abilities.

This is what I was inquiring about with reference to the entry being "flexible". Karma to both of you for solid answers.

Hi All,

I'm not sure if I should post this here , but here goes. I've a three part question here.

Firstly, in terms of the game engine mechanics, are starbases limited to just one type/class of starbase per race?

Secondly, if not, is the game engine capable of handling an entity metamorphisis?

Finally, can a buildable entity be limited to specific area or terrain, like starting homeworld or terran worlds only?

The idea I'm toying with is using the current starbase template within the game as a flexable/multi role 'outpost', while being able to upgrade it to a ristricted role stationary starbase by using multiply contructor ships to upgrade it through multi phase contruction events (probaly 4 or 5 construction phases), much like the research process for titans.

At this stage I'm looking looking at limiting to starting homeworlds, but I'm as toying with the idea of limiting them to terran worlds as a population centre defense.

Many thanks,

Greyseer

No, but you might need to have different construction ships for each starbase.

What exactly do you mean by that?

Uh, depends what you want to do. You can indirectly do this by A. Making the building unbuildable, but spawn them in at the beginning of the game for things like homeworlds, or if you just want a unique structure you could make them captureable. If you really want the structure to be buildable, you can B. make it require so many tactical/logistics slots that only one type of planet could support it, but that is a bit crude.

Hmm, how different are these things? You can only really change how a given starbase looks through the regular starbase upgrades or research, you can't really induce a change via an ability from another ship. You could do things like double its weapons damage with other constructor ships though.

Really you'll probably just have to play around with it yourself, much of Sins modding is figuring out how to get your general goal to fit with what the game can do. It will almost never turn out exactly how you envision it in your head (until you're one of us olde veterans who already know the limitations through painful experience ), but I think you can get close enough with this.

Thanks GoaFan77,

Your help and feedback is greatly appreicated.

I came up with this idea of a 'capital' class starbase (I consider the current starbases in the unmodded game to be 'crusier' class/level) while in between two lectures at Uni this morning and sufferingthe consqences from lack of sleep.

Now that I've had a chance to reconsider my idea and reread my post I can clearly say "Damn, what was I thinking???".

I'm wanting the 'captial' class to be a real challenge for capital class ships to deal with, but still able to be taken down by a titan and its supporting fleet.

I'm not want it to be a unique auto spawned at the start to the game, as it would really unbalance the game early on and it should be a major investment in time and resourse to complete (something for mid to late game).

I really need to flesh this idea out more, but what you've said has given me food for thought.

+1 Karma for the mental munchies

Many thanks again,

Greyseer

I don't know if I am just mentally challenged or what but I have tried the past few days to cure the problem of getting 

Failed to convert '' to an enum value. 

error to stop.  I have checked all the strings values...cross referenced with my files...checked the count.  \

Also I have checked the brush manifest to no avail.

Nothing seems to work.  No idea what I can do next. 

Any ideas =/?

download the reference files from Harpo. 

Download Eclipse classic 3.6. 

Download my eclipse plugin. 

Setup eclipse with my plugin and the reference files. 

Validate your project and the tool will tell you which enumeration is invalid.