[MOD] Stars - Star Control Forums

Reply #126 June 7, 2011 11:27 PM from

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Quoting Sinperium, reply 123

Yeah--DS, Maelstrom and Stars all have some highly desirable features. Each one has areas where they stand out. Stars is the most like an actual board game of old though--hands down.

You should collaborate on a merged mod release--which would probably melt the game.

lol tempting (for personal reasons) to do. Would love to see this with DS research and caps.

Reply #127 June 8, 2011 12:28 AM from

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Quoting Sinperium, reply 123

Yeah--DS, Maelstrom and Stars all have some highly desirable features. Each one has areas where they stand out. Stars is the most like an actual board game of old though--hands down.

You should collaborate on a merged mod release--which would probably melt the game.

I too would very much like to see this.

Reply #128 June 8, 2011 12:54 AM from

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Quoting Ryat, reply 126

lol tempting (for personal reasons) to do. Would love to see this with DS research and caps.

I think Scotty would say, "Cap'n, the engine can'na take tha strain!"

Reply #129 June 8, 2011 3:38 AM from

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Thanks, guys!

As for the phase lines, I just turn them off.

Quoting Ryat, reply 126

lol tempting (for personal reasons) to do. Would love to see this with DS research and caps.

I don't mind if someone will do the DS add-on for Stars .

Regards.

Reply #130 June 8, 2011 5:46 AM from

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Quoting Aplos, reply 129

As for the phase lines, I just turn them off.

They...turn off....duh.

Why me not know this?

Reply #131 June 8, 2011 1:00 PM from

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A DS add-on would be highly anticipated. I can tell you that much for sure.

Reply #132 June 8, 2011 2:22 PM from

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@Aplos - About the pirates and wormhole tech. Were you able to field test and see them use wormholes? Or did you just add the research to the pirates tech line?

Reply #133 June 11, 2011 10:26 AM from

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Quoting Ryat, reply 132

@Aplos - About the pirates and wormhole tech. Were you able to field test and see them use wormholes? Or did you just add the research to the pirates tech line?

Hi!

I gave the research to pirates that unlocked interstellar phase jumps (and of course tested).

As for the wormholes (or gates), giving them the research should work too (In Stars 2.4 they don't have such).

Regards

Reply #134 June 11, 2011 6:26 PM from

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Hmmm--I've tried it way back and they never used it within the first two hours--worth a shot to test I guess.

Reply #135 June 13, 2011 12:29 AM from

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I got the same test results as you Sinperium. Interstellar worked just fine but with wormhole they never even sent out an attack when they were only linked by wormhole and when I connect them but made the wormhole the shortest route they still didn't use it. Oh well.

Reply #136 June 13, 2011 3:12 PM from

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All the planets are transparent. Is that normal?

Reply #137 June 13, 2011 4:43 PM from

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well..., frankly speaking, not

Reply #138 June 13, 2011 5:10 PM from

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Quoting Ryat, reply 135

I got the same test results as you Sinperium. Interstellar worked just fine but with wormhole they never even sent out an attack when they were only linked by wormhole and when I connect them but made the wormhole the shortest route they still didn't use it. Oh well.

I mentioned on another post the desire for wormhole use by pirates and a dev responded and said they would look into that for Rebellion.

I notice pirate raids phase into the pirate bases from "outer space". I wonder if they already have a kind of hardcoded phase gate potential?

I'll try giving them the research for it and add a "pirate phase gate" and see what happens. At least this way you could make hubs to connect to phase lanes

Reply #139 June 13, 2011 7:21 PM from

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Quoting Theophantus, reply 136

All the planets are transparent. Is that normal?

Your Pipeline Effects folder is messed up then.

Try looking up the fix or updating your sins version.

Reply #140 June 13, 2011 7:23 PM from

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sounds like the old entrenchment 1.04 issue, which was caused by several fx files in the mod's pipelineeffects folder ie

GS_Asteroid.fx
GS_Planet.fx
GS_Ship.fx
GS_ShipBuilding.fx
GS_ShipPhasedOut.fx

just delete these files and it should fix it for you

harpo

Reply #141 June 14, 2011 5:03 AM from

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Nope, still transparent. I've deleted the files from Stars pipeline effect folder and diplomacy aswell. If I delet them from the core game files it mini- dumps.

Reply #142 June 14, 2011 8:40 AM from

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you should ONLY delete from MODS, NOT the game files. you can repair the sins/entrenchment/diplomacy installation by verifying the installation in impulse ie open impulse, when logged in hold a shift key down then RIGHT MOUSE click on the sins/entrenchment/diplomacy lines and verify the instalation, and download the update(fix for the damage)

harpo

Reply #143 June 14, 2011 10:03 AM from

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Wow, this mod is truly wonderful!
Solar planetary textures are very realistic. Congratulations to the authors!

A fusion of this mod with DS would be great...

With your permission, I will now translate this mod into my language, Spanish, as I already did with the DS mod.

Reply #144 June 14, 2011 1:02 PM from

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Harp thanks that's a lot better. I've been playing this game for years like that. The suns are solid now and I have the colourful planets when I zoom away. The planets are still transparent even on the highest setting. I even tried it on low to no effect. Have you got any other ideas?

Reply #145 June 14, 2011 3:01 PM from

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Quoting Saustatar, reply 143

With your permission, I will now translate this mod into my language, Spanish, as I already did with the DS mod.

Wait for 2.41 version , it comes out soon.

I'm sorry, Theophantus, but I have no idea why.

Reply #146 June 14, 2011 3:05 PM from

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Any idea on how to remove the spiral effect with multiple stars? It worked on the older version of Stars (think 2.3), but I can't seem to find the spiral textures lol

Reply #147 June 14, 2011 3:12 PM from

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Aplos it's nothing to do with your mod I'm sure. I've done something my end, with all this messing about! Great mod really polished. My mod would be awesome merged with yours.

Reply #148 June 14, 2011 3:58 PM from

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Quoting AxelDude, reply 146

Any idea on how to remove the spiral effect with multiple stars? It worked on the older version of Stars (think 2.3), but I can't seem to find the spiral textures lol

Hi, Man!

I suppose, You could simply modify

"SkyBoxProperties" file, by removing these lines:

	numFarStarIconCloudTextureNames 3
	textureName "Stars_SKY_Lavender_Spiral_1" - (by the way, the names of that textures)
	textureName "Stars_SKY_Lavender_Spiral_2"
	textureName "Stars_SKY_Lavender_Spiral_3"

It should look like:

	numFarStarIconCloudTextureNames 0

I think, it might work.

Reply #149 June 15, 2011 5:03 AM from

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With your permission, I will now translate this mod into my language, Spanish, as I already did with the DS mod.

Wait for 2.41 version , it comes out soon.

Ok, thanks Aplos. Are you going to modify the text's files?

Reply #150 June 15, 2011 5:04 AM from

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Quoting Aplos, reply 145

Quoting Saustatar, reply 143With your permission, I will now translate this mod into my language, Spanish, as I already did with the DS mod.

Wait for 2.41 version , it comes out soon.

Ok, thanks Aplos. Are you going to modify the text's files?