Well its not a Sathanas but i have finished a port of the FreeSpace 1 & 2 music to Sins. (~90megs)

I also managed to get some portraits done using material from the original games. I included the FreeSpace Maps i made as well. I modded my String file to use all FreeSpace Race names but it is specific to one of uzi's older planet mods so i didn't release it here.

Portrait Screenshot:
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Portrait download:
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Music Download:
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There is sooo much material to glean from the original games, i cant wait until this mod gets in full swing.

Next i'm thinking about replacing some TEC voices with voices from the FreeSpace games, Advent with Vasudan. Also start getting images of ships, weapons, research items, etc for use in research trees.

I even converted the original intro films to work on Sins startup but they are a bit big for upload right now.

Anyway, just a teaser for now.

nice, cant wait till the mod gets going

Midterms right now, I'll quantify some tech trees and side compositions in a few .txts and send it over to you within the week.

Hello all. I was working on a Freespace 2 mod for Universe at War, but I decided to switch to the Sins engine. Being new to the game, and mod tools, I have tried very unsuccessfully to get some models in game. The XSI Mod Tool material editor is a pain and I have no idea how to work it. Also, the model that I exported to XSI and then tried to convert using the convertxsi tool didn't work. It said there were no vertices. If someone could offer some assistance, I could start getting some models in game fairly quickly. Nice job with you guys have so far.

Edit: Well, I managed to get one model in game, but I'm still having trouble with the textures. I guess I can just edit the mesh file manually to reference the texture file, but it doesn't convert my UV coordinates. I wish someone could show me the proper way. Also, how do you add "hardpoints" such as weapons to the model? I can figure out the code stuff, it's just Mod Tool that's in my way.

This mod needs a name (if it even exists. If it does, everyone needs to work together on it so we can finally blow up those damn Shivans.) For the name, how about "Sins of a Shivan Empire"? If I had any idea how to mod, I would gladly help out. Hell, I'm willing to learn well, anything, just b/c I want to have a massive Colossus/Sathanas battle in Sins.

BoE Syndrome? What's that? We just want massive fleet battles!

Hey, someone help out Hoho5000. He's trying to import the models! No models, no mod. I would help, but I know nothing about modding. And like I said before, the people need to work together on this mod so it ends up as more than a bunch of weird slapped together files because no-one knew what everyone else was doing.

The meshpoints? As in "Ability-0" etc? They are all automatic (or in the case of particles refrenced by the name with "Flair-" first then the name of the particle effect). "Weapon-0" refers to the first weapon in the ship file, bomb is where the planet bombing effect comes from etc etc. Is that what you mean or something else? The only thing I don't really understand is how the orientation works.

You know what I really love about Sins of a Solar Empire? Its the world's biggest case of Battle of Endor Syndrome, which cause its victims to go absolutely insane and create impossibly huge fleet battles, to the delight of players and the misery of their lagged processors.

Oh, I almost forgot.


BUMP

Things are happening again.  Have patience, Before 2009 ends there will be a FS2 mod for Entrenchment.  Not many details for now but it will have the HQ ship models and maybe even freespace-ish tech trees.  I wont be doing much on the forum until we get it closer to release but it is coming.

 

So if someone wants to contribute i could use one other person.  And by contribute i mean actually work on game files (text and art files).  If you can model, great but i dont expect there to be many people for that.  I want to keep this small and manageable so one more should be all we need.  send me a message if you are interested.

Damn it.  Vasudans ftl.  NTF FTW.

Yours mod-team have forum or site ? Because after B-5 unverse my first loved universe is a Freespace 2 [especially Shivans].