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Star Wars Mod

Star Wars Mod

I figured since it is inevitable, I will start a thread to get ideas out on a star wars mod. Who will the sides be? What will the map look like? Units? Tech? etc.
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Reply #1301 Top

Propably Real Life, the greatest enemy of mods has struck again!

 

I'm not, by far, the biggest Star Wars fan, but i'm eagarly awaiting too. Eville's work on the Homeworld 2 mods was top notch, so i can't wait to see what he can do with Sins.

 

BTW (and sorry for being a PITA) is the Super Star Destroyer in the next release?

Reply #1302 Top

Quoting ToJKa, reply 3
Propably Real Life, the greatest enemy of mods has struck again!

 

I'm not, by far, the biggest Star Wars fan, but i'm eagarly awaiting too. Eville's work on the Homeworld 2 mods was top notch, so i can't wait to see what he can do with Sins.

 

BTW (and sorry for being a PITA) is the Super Star Destroyer in the next release?

Curses! We must find this "Real Life" and destroy it! lol

Anyway, you're right, EJ's Homeworld stuff is amazing. And yes, the SSD will be in the next release. Here is the final (or mostly final) ship list: http://warlords.swrebellion.com/SOGEunits.htm

Reply #1303 Top

Maybe I should stop hiting refresh on the warlords site : )

Reply #1304 Top

I'm going to really try to get something out this weekend, but I hit a snag, no ship can build fighters without crashing!##@

 

there is a bunch of other things to work on, but this one has me stumped (the 1.11 patch also hasn't been tested so I don't know the impact of this)

Reply #1305 Top

Damn.  The Empire better have some big-ass guns to get through all the shield-restoring capability of the Alliance.

 

Dibs.

Reply #1306 Top

Quoting EvilleJedi, reply 6
I'm going to really try to get something out this weekend, but I hit a snag, no ship can build fighters without crashing!##@

 

there is a bunch of other things to work on, but this one has me stumped (the 1.11 patch also hasn't been tested so I don't know the impact of this)

That really sucks. I hope you figure it out. And I don't think that the 1.11 patch will affect anything. I've seen other posts that say it doesn't affect any mods. All it did was fix one thing, so it shouldn't do anything, so you shouldn't have to worry about that.

Reply #1307 Top

1.11 was a hotfix for a resource exploit (according to front page), so if you have altered resourcing it could have an effect. Also, there is a 1.12 patch coming soon, that is supposed to fix the mp desync bug.

Good luck with the bug hunt :thumbsup: , i know it can be a real pain.

Reply #1308 Top

SpardaSon21 

the Ex is just comical in its ability to fill an entire star system with death

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Reply #1309 Top

less posting, more working :-P

jk, Eville. Looking great, can't wait to play. I have some proficiency in coding, so let me know if you'd like any help.

hope you had a great T-day.

Reply #1310 Top

Quoting EvilleJedi, reply 10
SpardaSon21 

the Ex is just comical in its ability to fill an entire star system with death

 

How much death?

Reply #1313 Top

Its not out yet...

Reply #1314 Top

There will be a new thread when it comes out so watch for that instead of here. I am simply giving occasional updates on the progress of the release here, but I won't be posting the link here.

 

this will be repeated in the release notes in the new thread, but gives you some guidlines on what bugs to reportand which are already known.

 

most of the mesh/texture bugs I wanted to squash have been

 

ships in red on the ship list are not in this version.

 

the ships that will have broken textures are the following(on the ship list these are pink or yellow) ships with light green need work

Republic

consular, invincible

CIS

malevolence, geonosian dreadnaught, adv trafed destroyer, trafed carrier

Alliance

liberator, cc-9600

 

the acclmator II, cc-2200 and victory II will share the meshes with their other variants, but will have different stats

 

as part of the fix to the fighter issue all of the fighters have been replaced with the default fighters from the stock game, sorry no xwings and tie fighters this release, I am still trying to squash the bug.

 

ships tend to clump together I can't figure out how to change thier formation spacing

 

alot of ships may have engine and weapon points that are not in the right spot, this will be fixed in future versions.

 

very few ships have shield meshes, this will be fixed in the future

 

very few ships have proper glow textures, smoothing or normals this will be fixed as it can be addressed.

 

abilities are temporary almost all of them will get changed to new versions

 

research is completely worthless in most cases. (other than ship cap and support cap)

Reply #1315 Top

Eville, please disregard my post earlier in this thread.

Reply #1316 Top

I imagine its not looking good for a Sunday release?

Reply #1317 Top

I'm still hoping to get it out, but this fighter thing is a big problem (the AI will build them so it will minidump all over the place)

Reply #1318 Top

depending on what time zone you are in I will at least upload something (stupid fighter bug) there is a lot of benefit to the delay though a lot of issues have gotten ironed out. though I haven't sat down and played a game (just been testing for 5-10 minutes at a time) so I don't know how stuff works out and I still haven't been able to get the AI to play without minidumping on the fighters without putting the fighter count to zero on every ship (trying to find some fix for that right now)

 

Reply #1319 Top

fighter bug squashed enough to make a release, no SW fighters for now, but at least they work now. check for a new thread shortly

 

Reply #1320 Top

go here for new discussion

 

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/331584

 

 

mods can I please have this thread locked, it is no longer needed, thanks

Reply #1321 Top

well im not a modder but i know what needs to be in them to make them good. 

add in new types of planets maybe, like black holes (uncolonizable obviously).

not sure if possible, but maybe ramming ships? (set up a weapon that surrounds a ship with such short range it only covers the hull, and recoil effects)

 

by the way, why does everybody bash on EaW? its a good game basically the same as soase just more basic. EaW beats soase in ground combat obviously so they cant make extreme detail on space