Stress, I use 3D MAX too, but with a Sins MESH plugin. I would love to help with the Skyboxes. If you want, go ahead and email them over to me, and I'll take a crack at it. [email protected] Messing with sounds and textures has mixed results, as I have tried a lot of those before. Using different compression in both DXT format, and the OGG formats for sound, can give results in which the Sins result cannot read the files. A l
A very good then. Well, if you still need help with planets, let me know as they are my specialty. I made some of the ones in Sins Plus, all the stuff I added in Solar Sins, and several others. Just to let you know I am serious. Anything that I, or the DMG team to help this project along, please let us know. Also if you need anything for SOA2, just say the word. Best of luck with this,and great work. DANMAN
Stress, I am working on optimizing the planet textures and clouds if you are interested to add them to the mod. Also, I did you optimize stock particle effects, or modded ones like Bailknight's? Just curious. Thanks for all your hard work on this and the SOA2 mod. Awesome work! DANMAN
Greetings All, Stress, you have done what I have been thinking about for a long time. I have been doing some optimization of my own. For example with the Asteroids. Does anyone care if every asteroid they colonize is different looking? I made them all the same mesh, saving 5-6 meshes and textures in the process. I am also working on optimizing the particle effects, especially engines. They are not that much different from each oth
OMG. Looks like all or work, pestering, contacting the developers, including Blair personally, and our prayers have finally paid off! My hat goes off to IC! And the mention of the 2GB limit and to use the new limits at our own risk? Yeah Yarlen (and you too Blair!) I know that was targeted at guys like me LOL! Thank you once again. You continue to support us, and we will continue to support you, by making mods that drive people to buy you
Greetings All, Progress is continuing slowly, as I am dealing with TONS of RL issues right now, both at work and at home. I am very busy all around, so there is no real release date, as it always changes on me. Also, as of right now, I am technically the only person working on 7DS. Most of the other team members are making their own mods within the DMG team, as it should be. 7DS is the showcase of all these mods, along with my own work. So
Semaz! Good to see you man! I thought you retired!? Welcome back man, you have come at a very good time!!! Don't forget, we are no longer using Sins 1.05 for 7DS, but we have moved on to Entrenchment and the latest versions of it and Sins. But I will welcome any map you make of course! DANMAN
You beat me to it! Yes guys, we are back up and running. Here is another link to the new forums, and I will change the header post for this too: http://forums.danmangames.com If you posted before June 2009, then you are good. If you came to us after that, then you need to re-register please. Now that this is up and running, we now have total control over all the content, unlike the last time.<
In the event that we do not get the database back from Maxsim, I have decided to keep the old backup as a live archive on the new forums, that way we will always have that data. It represents 1000's of hours of work, especially all the tutorials we have. I am also looking into setting the wiki back up too. Just trying to figure it all out. DANMAN
Actually the Halo mod and B5 mods are going strong, just in their own threads right now. And don't forget the server switch and forums going down was unexpected too, so all in all its not that bad. If we can just get the database, all will be restored. But Maxsim is still not responding to us. The 7DS Alpha itself is going niceley, and several people have the new one via the Sync program. So, while we have the forums looming overhead, things are not that bad,
Yes, Microsoft's Live Sync. Basically it is a live per to per system, like torrents, but it is live. If you are synced to me, then the moment I make changes to the mod, you will also have those changes. This way, errors can be pointed out, then then when I fix them, you will see them instantly, rather than waiting for me to release the next update / patch. Cool huh? DANMAN
Thoumsin, As far as I can tell, the wiki and everything else has been saved, so all that hard work you did we still have, it is just all the last 6 months of activity, including new members, boards, and actual posts that we don't have, and Maxsim has right now. If you got my email, you should have his email. He is not responding to me emails, maybe if you send him a friendly email, he might get back to you. I would hate to lose you, or anyone else due to the forum
Greetings Everyone, here is an excerpt of an email I just sent all the DMG members which should hopefully fill you all in: HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope every
Yes, you will need to install a second copy of the game, in a completely different location. It would be best howver if you totally removed the current one first, install the game again, then rename that version to Sins 1.05 for reference. Then reinstall the game again, and update that version if you want to have two versions of the game. Also, Just an update, so far I have not heard from Maxsim since last week about our forums.
Hi guys, I have to apologize for the site being down, and the total lack of notice on this. File, once again I need to apologize to you too my friend. I feel like someone just pulled the carpet from under our feet, and just when we are all getting ready to release mods, this happens. I am telling you the truth, in that I HAD NO IDEA that this was going to happen. MAXSIM was supposed to give us plenty of notice when renewal time came up for the
Greetings All, Been very busy trying to get Alpha H done, and it should be done this week for the holidays, my little present to all of you who have waited so patiently. This "should" be the final Alpha, but nothing is guaranteed. I would like to move to BETA ASAP, but there are still many things up in the air right now with several other modders. Also, I will check to see if we can crank up the download speed as well. Mediafire will not work, as I would need
Greetings All, Just to share a little of what is going on behind the scenes, here are some pictures of a Mycon Podship, which is planned for release AFTER 7DS 2.5 comes out. I did not make this model, so I can't take any credit. This model was made by a new recruit testing his skills fresh out of school. Not a bad job! <img src="http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu
Someone finally noticed LOL. Yes, the Atlantian ships are based on Boron ships, heavily altered and re-textured to become the Atlantians. I received full permission to use the models in the port, so don't worry about that. There are a few others from a few X3 mods, in which I also hope to port over, replacing some of the redone Vasari/Atlantian ships. Glad you like the ships. DANMAN
Greetings All, Yes, unfortunately you need the CD version of the game to get the old version, direct download is not backwards compatible. Good news is, if you become a playtester, you can get the most up to date version of the mod. Also, I have been working hard on the Sa-Matra Star Base. Here is a teaser, unfinished picture for you all: <img src="http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu224/danmangames/TeaserSa-Matra.jpg" alt="" width="640" hei
Hi guys, The mod has not been updated to the new version of Sins and Entrenchment, it is called Alpha G. Located in the Playtesters section on our forum. DANMAN
Thoumsin, I completely agree with you. I ahve been trying to get the DANMAN GAMES members to be more active, but they have not been, even Cliff who is supposed to give a weekly report on what is going on, since I do not have the time to do so. I will speak with him, and if still unresolved, I will just do the posts myself somehow. I have been relying on people to do work other than I as you have suggested, but many people are not dedicated the same way
Thoumsin / Fileosoft, I apologize for misguiding you. I AM going to use your model that you worked on. That is for the ACTUAL SA-Matra Starbase / Battlestation, the way it is supposed to be. The model you see in the pics is Gihren's model, one that he made a long time ago before you worked on the Sa-Matra model. Your's is a more perfect model, which is why it is going to be the actual Sa-Matra battlestation. In the original Star Control game,
[quote who="ManSh00ter" reply="1292" id="2402164"]When I have a definitive ETA it'll be displayed in bold red letters in the opening post. Currently I am rigging ship models for gameplay, which includes adding particle effects, tweaking stats and testing them in actual gameplay (hence the combat trials). I am also working on models for structures, that part is going relatively quickly. And of course, I am also working on UI elements, such as icons and coding research trees and abilities.<br /
1 Sa-Matra against all 5 Empire type Star Destroyers (one of each). Notice it is going head to head with an Imperial Class Star Destroyer II. Notice the huge size difference. (BTW - the Sa-Matra wins this fight.) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: medium 'Times New Roman'; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-hor
