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ill have to re-upload it but when i do Ill post a second version of it that is totally merg ready and has by coincedence Manshooters explosions and balknights graphics mod incorperated... its very handy when you merg it with other mods that do not contain any of the others like ohhh. soa23c and many others im also doing my own version of bsg i have all the capital ships and fighters done except for the textures but i have basic ones in place and its playable and fun! the reason im doing

xsi modtool is perfect for modeling if you need help ask away ill help but i have to warn you im shite at texturing and am still getting the hang of that part, ive made a ton of models but they have one problem BAD TEXTURES!!!! but hey like i said im good with the modeling so just holler! ds ps... i almost forgot i posted this the other day take a look at the uv mapping for clues... https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.

there is a tool and it is very easy to use in xsi. in the top menu bar whn ou have xsi open and with your model selected ((you know its selected if its white.)) there is a text button called modes... click it and you should see theree modes i use the modtool layout as i find it handy but to do this you need to have the second one selected called XSI DEFAULT (pro mode) once youve done that and there is a huge pointer in the upper right hand corner with a button

well since im messing with a planet i figured id try for a shattered moon since i know ive seen it requested a number of times so here it is... now to see if i can export it into sins correctly lol. and here it is! <a

ok ill take a stab at this.... mod the pirate ships and make them the monsters! just thought id point that out seeing as how you already mentioned them. happy monstering. ds

i was just messing with your texture in xsi and the only problem i have with it is that your poles are getting some pinching when applied with the uv's i would recoment you ake the polar caps bigger or make them ocean so that the terrain doesnt look so badly... other than that tiny problem it looks really good in xsi. the only thing i can think of is if you can do a top and bottom shot in the program you created the image in and we can use a second and even a thir textu

essentially yes, i found some videos on uv mapping that are helping me with mapping your textures to meshes and ill work on a simple tutorial to that end as well just in case you have any problems. here is the post i made about the videos i found... https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/358279 hope it helps. ds

ok just to recap you want to know how to export it into XSI? you need to export it from 3DS into a format XSI Modtool can read then you need to open that file in XSI have you tried using XSI Modtool? i wrote something to help someone else a long time ago but i found it and am going to repost it below if you need more help pm me and ill try to hellp. ----- repost ----- I know I'm being really simplistic but I'm writing this for not

hi, dont know if this will help any but here goes... http://so.tudou.com/isearch.do?kw=SOFTIMAGE+XSI+UV+Layout+in+XSI a few video lessons on uv mapping for textures i was and am having problems too so i found these. good luck! ds

Hi folks, i was having a lot of problems mapping the uv's and did a lot of searching and i found some good videos... http://so.tudou.com/isearch.do?kw=SOFTIMAGE+XSI+UV+Layout+in+XSI i found it very usefull and i hope you do too... btw i did not post these videos. good luck to you all... ds.

if you have spaces between lines it dumps too ds

I recently did very much the same thing only with planets and moons. if you are not adverse to the idea maybe we could merge the two ideas? mine is more a merge of other small mods besides sins plus into one nice mod and a few size and other tweeks by me, but its eminently mergable took me 15 min to merge it wiyh soa2 v0.3b. ( only took so long cuse I fogot a few files ) ds

well I hope you folks like this "merge" of some great mods so far, Its been d/l about 20 times so far but no one has commented soI guess you like it and have no complaints yet... ( crosses fingers ). I was messing around and finally got around to removing a few small errors it had been trowing nothing youd notice if you dont play with error notification on and it didnt effect game play but it bugged me because it meant there was a problem somwhere. <

hmm what version sins are you running and what mods, also as I just sugested with someone else to make sure when moding you dont hit return and leave a space anywhere because that will definatly thow an error. ds

well without seeing the minidump file its imposible to say with any conviction but I would suggest you look over what you did and make sure you didnt hit return somwhere or drop a decimal. good luck ds

[MOD] Planetary Mod v0.1 - - Updated: 01/11/2009 This mod is for all those folks that enjoy a little spice in thier planets while playing vanilla sins as this mod will do. I have tried my hardest to make notes of everything I have changed to make merging this mod into any other mod due to the fact that I enjoy mods period but they all lack in some way and its ussually the planets suns and moons that suffer. mods included in this new merge so far ar

sometime today I plan to make a new post with a new combination of merged mods I plan to name it - Planetary Mod v0.1 - Its a big file but with all the new textures and meshes its going to be so I plan to use 7zip like uzii did for his sins plus. mods included in this new merge so far are: Sins Plus - created by Uzii [ w/o the graphical mod as updated to 1.11 by annatar11 ] Solar Mod - created by cybdevil

here is just a couple screen caps of earth and her moon. http://www.solsticewebgraphics.com/sins/Capture_01112009_082911.jpg http://www.solsticewebgraphics.com/sins/Capture_01112009_082934.jpg you like? oh and you can probably see whats wrong with the resourse asteroids, the crystals and metal outcropings are all wonky but hey I figure is an illumination problem and can be fixed graphically unlike the moons problem... speak

hang the asteroids the moons are much more important! thanks for the tip zagfel you rock buddy! It worked I copied the planet.fx file into the asteroid.fx file and it worked!!!!!!

you think his original mod was awsome wait till I finish the rework Im building. assuming I get their permissions of course to release it. sins plus , cybdevils mod , parts of hammersuns mod , sections od danmans solar mod , and lots of size and code tweeks from me. Its gonna be huge! literally! the suns have already been resided the blue one is 10x its original size which is 6x bigger than the jupiter in cybdevils mod and it dwarves the punny planets of origin

WELL AS FAR AS MOONS GO IM DONE. and not with the results I was looking for, the best I was able to do is us upscaled stock asteroids in various sizes. and as far as how they look? well... like huge asteroids posing as moons. this was NOT the look I wanted but I gues its as good as it gets unless someone out there feels my pain and can come up with a solution. things I have tried. make a moon from a planetary moduale with a planet mesh.&n

well im sorry to say I have no clue but that I too share this interest... not for you reasons byt because I want to be able to texture a moon properly, I have been able to incorperate moons into any mod but they look terrible at best. my question is if a planet can have resourse asteroids and other space rock debries that looks good why is there a problem with rendering something that looks good as a planet but so horrid as a moon? <

yep if your going to merg it you need to follow the directins i left. [e digicons]:P[/e] hope you backed up the string file and since you messed up that file you probably messed up the galaxydef file too. ds

thats probably why, youd need to look at all the notes i made in the main mod folder and see if you can get them to work. or someone can send me non binary string and galaxydef files and i could make the adjustments. ds

i do not have entrenchment, but it just mods the GalaxyScenarioDef and string files alxo I included instructions to make this mod work in any mod so if you have it feel free to update it. ds