Good Job! You found stuff that we missed in TSOP:R.  Plus i wanted to re-incorporate the old trinity planets too, but didn't get around to it yet. Would you mind if i incorporated this into the next build of TSOP? You get full credit of course.

No problem...if you want more specific details on what was changed let me know...

In the future I may make additional changes to the "meshInfo" of each planet to make each icon/picture set appear with equal probability, as the current version was made simply to be functional...but, at the very least the proper matching of icons, pictures, and textures may save other people some time...

The icon selections for planet bonuses were also somewhat judgment calls...it seems that many of the bonuses using the cavern icon actually have two viable icons that seem to "make sense"...almost as if the devs were undecided as to which icons they liked best, and forget to finish the job...

I would like to fix these issues but I'm not sure how...I assume it's a mesh issue...if I recall, was there also not an issue with some capital ships firing from the wrong places?  Revelation and a Vasari cap I thought were affected by this, but maybe those got fixed....

I fixed this by symmetrizing the left side polygons to the right side. This also fixes the texture issue in addition to the GAPING hole on the right side 

Here's a shot of the bad texture and hole which is still broke in in the current version...

Here's the link to what should be the corrected mesh: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5790092/tsop/Titan_PsiRebel.mesh

I didn't see any mention of that in the 1.1 patch notes.

Also, last I talked to Yarlen the Art guy wasn't able to fix the Eradica. I can't recall if it was a technical issue on his end or he just wasn't available. I'm leaning towards the latter iirc.

Regardless my fix is fairly straight forward with all the original null points copied from the original file.

Major, you may have already known this but, here goes....

The "Infocard" references for artifacts (located in InfoCardIcon-Planet.brushes) are completely unused (easily noted by the fact that they all reference the same 0,0,0,0 region)...also, the "Infocard" references for planet bonuses (also located in InfoCardIcon-Planet.brushes) are duplicates of the original planet bonuses (those that existed before the new ones added in expansions) and thus are also unnecessary....

When I get back to modding sins, I'll add a few changes I have in mind...I'll also fiddle more with the meshInfo for each planet to make each texture equally likely to appear...

Can probably make up most of that converting all the particle effect textures to compressed DDS.

I'll look at it, but to be honest I don't really remember what the old icon was....

Anyway, I will hopefully be able to release a new gfx patch soon...it will include the relevant fixes of course from the current patch, but it will also include pictures/icons for all the new planet textures...

I'll probably switch the icons for furious defenses and group shield, and maybe recolorize them....I may fix some of the gfx inconsistencies with pacts, but that's really pushing it....I will also probably shift all the buttons that come from ResearchButton2...in case no one has noticed, they are all offset by a few pixels....

It was a small picture of Vorastra above a planet. It can be seen in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90D44l8qiBM

4:20 

Would it be possible to use your mod in addition to other mod? Just yesterday i installed the one improving shield effects based on the hit direction and i quite like it, so do not want to give up on it.

As an update, I have planet pictures done/redone for the following planets:

• Terran
• Ice
• Desert
• Volcanic
• Oceanic
• Ferrous
• Barren
• Greenhouse
• Dwarf (both of them)
• Gas Giant (both of them)
• Occupation Planet

I will likely only be using one mesh for the asteroid (and the 2 corresponding sets of icons/pictures).  Dead asteroid will be like it was in first patch...

I will be working on HUDIcon/MainViewIcon and UndetectedMainViewIcon next...

I'm no 3D artist and I really can't add any new meshes or corresponding textures...best I can do is recolor existing textures or fix 2D art...

I'm not actually aware of anyone tackling the asteroids in a mod...is there even a mod where they have better asteroids?  All the mods I've seen just improve the planets...

There is only one metal resource asteroid mesh and only 2 crystal resource asteroids...I will be omitting the crystal asteroid that does not have any corresponding picture/icons (in my opinion the one I'm keeping happens to be better looking)...

As for the asteroids, I will be using the 3 that have corresponding pictures and icons...one of these will be the dead asteroid and the other 2 will be normal asteroids...in my opinion, this happens to include what I think are the 2 best looking asteroids plus an okay asteroid...but, that is of course a matter of opinion...

If a compelling argument was made to make icons and pictures for the other 2 asteroid meshes or other crystal resource asteroid, I would consider it but it would not be an immediate priority....