Baleurion

But IC, the gas giants use normal "pinching" textures, why cant we do the same with other planets?

As they are now, they consist of 3 equatorial squares, and 2 polar squares. Fine. But i can see wierd edges here and there, suggesting that you generated this image somehow, or split it somehow, rather than actually creating it from scratch like that (lol). So i ask, how? How do i transform a normal square texture into a 5-box map like here? Ive been googling, photoshoppin, etc. I cant figure it out. If i could just use a square texture i could, you know expand the polar regio

If you cant add particle effect, perhaps it would be possible to add a custom sun corona/halo/glow texture instead, with the jet already displayed if you know what i mean. Like if you were to draw a solar flare to the glow texture. As a last resort :)

[quote]generally most girls have an extreme aversion to video games, it's a "guy thing".but the girls that do play are usually extremely skilled... and scary...so I think it attracts the really skilled girls, which is why we get dominated.[/quote] Visit sweden. You'll have a hard time finding a girl here that isnt a huge WoW / Diablo 2 fan, seriously :)

What DANMAN said, a black hole never actually "sucks" things in, its just a gravity well like any other massive stellar object. Like when our star eventually swells up gradually to a red giant, it wont just "swallow" or "suck" earth up, earth will still keep going around in orbit, and the orbit will actually be slightly elongated as the star swells up, resulting in a bit more earth-time before the sun has gotten large enough to encompass the earth's new slightly wider orbit. The onl

.......................... :SURPRISED: It has like 2 tri-barreled, i dunno, 5000000MM artillery guns? And two HUGE nuke launchers? Omg.... lol awesome stuff. Firepower, i like.

Yes yes yoadjla! But i was more thinking in terms of simplicity for making the stuff work ingame, since the moon-orbit thing is already in =P I guess you could replace the planet with the black hole, and simply have a larger moon-mesh with a planet texture orbiting it.. But then everytime an enemy bombards that sector, he will aim at the black hole, which will look silly to say the least :D

Danman, i have a MAD suggestion :D I heard you got your new black hole ingame, and when i see that you say it has an accretion disk, i wondered. What is it sucking in? Then i thought... O_O What if you had a very rare black hole + rogue star [I]"planet/zone/whateveryoucallthesethingsinthesamegravitywell"[/I].. The blackhole could be orbiting slowly like the moons you currently have ingame, have a nice accretion disk effect tied to it, and possibly your jet effect, but sort of aimed a

[quote]Actually, I believe they called themselves Alterans. Being the precursor race to just about everyone else in the Stargate mythology they were then referred to as the ancients by everyone else.-dolynick[/quote] Indeed, its like having "Terrans" and "Humans" in the game as seperate races. They are the same.. :p If we are going by Stargate lore, the "Ancients" are called that by people discovering about their prior existance through their ruins and artifacts.. Now, they ca

[quote]I can do the cube in under 7 polygons[/quote] I can do a cube with only 6 polygons, try to beat THAT ;) :LOL: Soo, when was danman coming back from his vacation? :P

The black hole is supposed to look black, with a tiny vague purple cloud-looking shimmering shader.

Yeah i know, but i basically just wanted the bailknight 1.3 mod merged into this one asap lol. Oh well good things come..

Yeah, the snake eating itself, thats infinity. Then if there is a "church of satan" lol, and they also use that symbol, fun for them :P Doesnt change the original meaning. As for the planetoids, wouldnt that just be a matter of making scaled down planets? Or even an asteroid with a different texture? I suppose it could be like the dead asteroids, but with some sort of small usage, like extra tactical slots (compared to dead asteroids) or something, making them into a good cheap defensiv

Actually i do have an abundance of art skills. And if your grammatical comment was supposed to be an insult, consider that most people in the world has English as their second, third or fourth language. Thank you. But i dont see why i should make a new one myself, in order to have the right to say what i think? Then we might as well just praise everyone for "actually doing something" regardless of the result, and bathe in a world of mediocrity :) Im sorry but i just dont unders

[quote]I Think someone shud make an official poster u know the one on top looks a lil kiddish..[/quote] Kiddish and.... Lack of any kind of art education or sense of taste :P

Who made the 7DS "poster" here at the top? :P

wow lol rings around rogue stars looks insane, almost too insane (resets to the default 0%) :P

I love still not being able to edit posts :P Anyway i noticed u do have diff ringchance values, but alot of the new planets have 0% chance. So i just upped them all by .05 Makes a nice change ingame =)

Danman, a final question :P Big mod = big questions Could a future version [I](2.0 ?)[/I] contain a tiny change if enough people desires it? ringsChance 0.050000 to something like ringsChance 0.100000 :P They look so nice ingame [I](can they occur around rogue stars btw?)[/I], but its a pity they dont appear more often. Will change it myself for my own use now [I](editing every planetfile, ouch!)[/I], but yeah i figure this is something that may have been overlooked

CrazyJoe, copy the contents of the 7DS mod folder into the main game folder, overwriting any existing files (backup if u wish). That worked for me :)

Danman, just to get it 100% clear, im looking for your mod, but that contains absolutely everything BUT the new races. Even if some of them contain slight gameplay altering changes. So basically: Sins Plus - by Uzii (now DANMAN)(most current update, and updates will be from me now) Bailknight's graphical mod (ver. 1.2) Sins Enhanced - Sky Box Edition v0.5.4 BETA - By Kcissem Solar Sins ver.1.0 - by DANMAN (adding extra stars, anamolies, skyboxes, etc.) <

Please please please provide a version without any new races, when you merge the star wars etc mods. I truly love this mod (and got it to work by copying it straight into the game folder), but i dont like any of the races, nor do i wish to see a bunch of tie fighters flying around :P I know that its just a matter of removing the playerSomething files, but then you are still left with leftover meshes/textures/sounds for no use :P It'd be a smaller download too due to the new meshes/v

Was running the game in Vista previously, everything worked great, never a single crash. Now in XP i cant even enable any mod (some work, like bailwhatshisname graphical mod) without getting a minidump when trying to enable them.. And to think people bash Vista for being crashy.. lol :P Tried with the exact same drivers as i used in vista, and with 2 newer ones, same issue. Tried in a lower res, same issue. Its really driving me nuts, i was looking forward to playing this with the

[quote]I'm so glad you are able to play. I know Vista has big problems with all the graphics, and Sins in general. Try to see if there is an updated driver available. I doubt its your rig, those stats kick tail.UEF:Thanks man.Canadaman:Glad you like!DANMAN[/quote] Update on my crash issue, 7DS worked perfectly in vista, however im now running in XP, and i get the minidump (same drivers as i used in vista). So i doubt its a vista issue ^_^ EDIT: it seems i may have stum

Sorry if this has been posted or asked, but im having a crashbug with the latest version of this awesome mod, i try to enable it in sins 1.05 and i hear the music after a while, but then a minidump crash just appears :( If this is a known issue, how do i fix it? Also, will you be adding the new graphics mod as soon as the download link for that is up? :)