JasonFJ

JasonFJ

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Reply to "Star Wars - Requiem" mod for Entrenchment and Diplomacy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

There is now a v2.4 release which I'm hoping is bug-free patch... someone reported having an issue patching but it works fine for me. Can someone verify? PATCH 2.4: http://db.imperial.cc/show.cgi?id=sins&a=view&f=3&t=25 Check these out for anyone else having install/bugs: <span style="color:

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Reply to Requiem v2.3 minidump error in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Check these out :) Installation Help Post: http://db.imperial.cc/show.cgi?id=sins&a=view&f=2&t=4 Bug Report Readme Post: http://db.imperial.cc/show.cgi?id=sins&a=view&f=4&t=12 </spa

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Reply to "Star Wars - Requiem" mod for Entrenchment and Diplomacy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thanks for all the feedback, I'm been checking this all out For the XQ not having the 30% phase penalty, this has been fixed in 2.4 release For the Phase Inhibitors not working, I have confirmed these are working. I haven't made one Phase Inhibiter cover the entire gravity well for the reason Lotek gave: you have to sacrifice tac

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Reply to "Star Wars - Requiem" mod for Entrenchment and Diplomacy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Hi Sathykaraoke , My initial thoughts are: The Maria was intended to be the main-line battleship, while the Liberty was supposed to focus on control and support. Animosity is a way of protecting ships both early and later in the game. Since the Alliance has weaker firepower compared to the Empire, and relies somewhat on regeneration and shields to sustain itself

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Reply to XSI Mod Tool, GMax, and Sins in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yup. That's the one. There are other converters around as well but I like how 3DO perfectly shows the textured mesh... a pity it's so crippled you can't even test to see if it actually does successfully convert the meshes!

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Reply to "Star Wars - Requiem" mod for Entrenchment and Diplomacy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Actually that's a very good idea... maybe it's time to buy that VMWare workstation license! Then should I run the VMWare on Windows or Linux. Probably Linux but then I'd need a primary Linux partition. Or maybe I should just created a third primary bootable partition and boot into Vista, Win7 and XP as required. Or maybe I should make everyone happy and find a way to convert

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Reply to Sorry to Ask Again, But What is the Mod Tool Used to Edit Meshes? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The only way I've been successful in importing existing meshes was using 3DS Max and using the Maxscript v1.x that somebody on the forums wrote. I used Adobe Photoshop with Nvidia DDS plugin or Gimp 2.0 to fiddle with the texture files for the UV source, and if you want to do ultra fine tuning of weapon, flairs, hangar and aura locations I tend to tweak the mesh text file in notepad. Still looking for the magic fix to edit existing .mesh

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Reply to XSI Mod Tool, GMax, and Sins in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The matter of modelling and UV texturing existing meshes/textures is an on-going problem in Sins. Simply put, there is no easy way to convert the existing .mesh files into XSI Mod Tool or Blender: the ConvertXSI tool only converts from XSI back to .mesh. As you mention if you have 3DS Max there is a MaxScript written for Sins can help you there but of course 3DS Max costs money. When I was running XP I used 3DS Max and Adobe Photoshop (with the Nvidia DDS plugin) to do modelli

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Reply to "Star Wars - Requiem" mod for Entrenchment and Diplomacy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I think I'm going to just include a batch file in the release that simply deletes /Textures/xxxx files relative to the Requiem directory. Those who hate the minimalist hud can get rid of it with one click. On another note, I'm stuck releasing 2.4 because of a problem with the Golan 3 mesh. Unfortunately it's been tilted on it's side and since I'm now running Vista and Windows 7 I don't have an easy way to get 3DS Max r

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Reply to "Star Wars - Requiem" mod for Entrenchment and Diplomacy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I didn't think people would dislike the minimalist HUD so much... I'm running a poll over at http://sins.imperial.cc to try to gather some overall user feedack but if people overwhelming vote against it I'll take it out and perhaps make it a selectable mod download. Yes, the Venator shifted over to the Empire due to overwhelming public demand(!) and the 2.4 release will replace the fighter craft back to Empire (my bad)

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Reply to "Star Wars - Requiem" mod for Entrenchment and Diplomacy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Hi Historic.. thanks for the feedback and I'll look into those bug fixes right now. For starbases, I'm very interested in replacing Alliance and Empire vanilla starbases with SW specific ones. I have meshes for the XQ1 and Golan3, but the starbases you've referenced also look really good. If you are interested in building a starbase replacement mesh I'd be happy to work with on the entity/mesh text tweaking... I just need help on the actually mesh and UV texturing (my Vista won't run

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Reply to Help - overkill shadow effects or a lighting bug? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yes I've also seen some wierdness when rotating the camera. It seems the camera does some form of illumination because it also happens on regular capital ships (just tested this on the Dunov Tech battlecruiser - and even on a dark ambient map (the blue skybox) I get illumination when I rotate around the ship to where the darkest shadows are. I personally don't like it. I don't think camera angle should influence light maps or sources.

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Reply to ship spacing in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yes I suspect it is the shield mesh that dictates spacing.. I've fiddled with everything to no effect. Somebody might want to resize a shield mesh on a scout by say, 10 times... and see if they still huddle closely in formation. There is a resize tool in the Modding forums over to at http://sins.imperial.cc

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Reply to [MOD] 7 DEADLY SINS : by DANMAN GAMES (DANMAN3712) ver 2.5 FINAL AVAILABLE to the PUBLIC! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

There are 11 Star Wars tracks in Requiem, including Imperial March that I have converted to .ogg format. Needless to say they are used with only implied goodwill from the copyright owner but feel free to pillage :) A little bird told me that 7DS team might have a Golan III or Death Star mesh lying around somewhere and dying to find it's way into Requ

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Reply to "Star Wars - Requiem" mod for Entrenchment and Diplomacy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Can you go into this directory (or your equivilent) C:\Users\Jason\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting and edit user.settings and change ShowErrors to TRUE. Let me know what error popups you get here, or you can post them over on the Bug Reports forum at http://sins.imperial.cc

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Reply to [NEW RELEASE] Volumetric Explosions&Damage Effects ver. 1.41 Entrenchment compatible in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I'm not actually having any problems with Volumetric merge into Requiem 2.3... but then again I don't include the manifest.entity from the Entrenchment pack (I'm not sure why this is needed ManShooter - it works fine without?!). One thing that might interest you is that a couple of people who are playing Requiem 2.3 have gotten around minidumps by deleting the PipelineEffect folder. It seems to be a Volumetric issue relating to either regional language naming of the folder or perhaps

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