XRaptor321

Reply to Creating a new Terran planet, and in need of modding advice. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="dresda" reply="8" id="2287637"]no extremely awesome artwork necessary...if you need some help, you pm me, or look at the texture files on the planets XRaptor321. sorry if my first post came of as cras, i was trying to be encouraging[/quote] Thanks for your reply! I have seen the planet textures that come with SINS. They're in a "cross" shape, and I understand why. Circles are stamped out of the top & bottom squares of the cross, and they becom

Reply to Creating a new Terran planet, and in need of modding advice. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Can anyone help me with my questions here? I'm really eager to get this in my game!

Reply to Creating a new Terran planet, and in need of modding advice. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yeah, it sure is cool! Making that texture took no time at all. To see if my texture looked good on a sphere, I loaded up 3DS Max and created a sphere with 100 segments. I then applied my bitmap to it. Below are the rendered results. Click on them to see more detail. Without clouds, atmospheric glow, or ocean detail, the planet looks pretty basic. But those details can be added later. Surprisingly, the texture seamlessly fit o

Reply to Creating a new Terran planet, and in need of modding advice. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thanks GoaFan77 for your advice. As a matter of fact, I do have that mod. I think it's called Celestial Bodies. :) Well, for the last couple of days I've created a new terran texture. I used a Photoshop plugin called LunarCell. You may have heard of it. It's a plugin that allows you to create your own "maps": continents, oceans, and color schemes. Here's a bitmap of the texture so far. Click on it for increased detail. I a

Reply to Creating a new Terran planet, and in need of modding advice. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Yeah, good idea. But having looked at the 2 Terran textures, it seems like it takes some skilled artwork. Which I lack. :( lol Maybe there's a guide somewhere with which I can make realistic looking continents and oceans... ;) Thanks for your idea. If anyone else has any input, it would be greatly appreciated!

Creating a new Terran planet, and in need of modding advice. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

EDIT: I am now working on a new Terran Planet. I am using Photoshop to create the textures and 3DS Max to make my planet models. To see the progess of my project and/or answer any questions I might have, read through posts below. I have found a ton of mods on t

Reply to How can I create new planets? And how can I add other people's planets to my game? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! Do you also have the modding & texturing tutorial found in this thread? https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/318314/page/1/ Would you mind reuploading this .doc tutorial? Thanks!

Reply to How can I create new planets? And how can I add other people's planets to my game? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="1" id="2246551"]the freeze is because the mod is for a different version. If you had downloaded from the OP of the thread then that is DEFINATLY your problem as the files linked on the op are for 1.04 & 1.05 sins not entrenchment, but if the link you downloaded was on the last page in reply 1163 then it is for entrenchment 1.02 NOT 1.01 and several mods have proven the incompatibility between mods & reference files of entrenchment 1.01 & entrenchment

How can I create new planets? And how can I add other people's planets to my game? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I just got Sins of a Solar Empire Entrenchment and I really like it a lot. However, one of the first disappointing things I noticed about it though is the number of planets the game has. For instance, there are only two types of Terran planets. It seems kinda weird to have like 6 Terran planets in a solar system and 3 of them look exactly the same. I want some diversity. Is there a way to create my own planets? I really want to mod one of t

Reply to [Tutorial] Modeling, texturing and importing models into Sins... in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Thronde" reply="11" id="2243291"]Is it just me or does the link not goto a file to download?[/quote] Yeah, I noticed that too! The link to the tutorial document leads me to the Filefont main page. Can someone fix this? I'm really anxious to make some new looking planets.