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Reply to [BUG] Multiple Monitor Resolution Detection, plus others in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

No, the primary (according to both Windows and the Nvidia Control Panel) is one of the 1920x1080's, and is also the monitor from which I ran the game. Though having thought about and investigated it further, I have a Geforce GTX 295, and to get it to support 3 monitors you have to disable SLI, which makes it count as 2 GPU's, and the 3rd monitor is detected (in the Nvidia control panel) as being the sole connection to one of them, so It maybe that it's only questioning the one GPU<

[BUG] Multiple Monitor Resolution Detection, plus others in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

First Bug: Prior to start up the game pops up a window saying "Your desktop resolution is currently set to 1280 X 720. The minimum supported resolution for Elemental: War of Magic is 1024 x 768..." The bug being that 1280 x 720 is the resolution of my third monitor, the other two are both 1920 x 1080, so I assume it's either checking them all and complaining about the lowest, or for some reason only checking the third monitor. After Cli

Reply to Adding ability points to meshes. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Additionally, If you really are going to add them by hand I reccomend using the Developer.exe, firstly because it has a function that shows the location and orientation of all the points on a mesh, and secondly because it automatically enables file watching, combined making it so that you will be able to see what your changes do instantly.

Reply to Modding problem in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Alright, just had a test of this, and it can work, I changed the basic AbilityDeploySpaceMinePhaseExplosive to being an "applybufftoself" and then had that buff apply the aforementioned effects. Now, what intrigues me about it is that I could not get the exact same ability to work on a custom race. It just minidumped at the moment it tried to spawn the mines.

Reply to Modding problem in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Whats the problem your having? Surely, although admittedly i haven't tried it, it's just a matter of using "CreateSpaceMine" with an additional OnBuffFinish "MakeDead"?

Reply to Is a colony frigate required under the first page of frigates in entrenchment 1.03? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I can assure you that having the "Colony" ship on the second page works fine. So you must be running in to another issue

Reply to Piggybacking Fighters in Sins Modding Sins Forums

For the record, negative numbers work fine for "ApplyForceFromSpawner", I used it whilst making a Black hole. Though I'm not sure it would suit this particular purpose.

Reply to Movies during Lunch at Stardock in WOM Ideas Elemental Forums

Hawk The Slayer Best Fantasy film Ever. What better representation of magic is there than bouncy balls and silly string?

Reply to Pirate Bay is gone! (Edit: Not anymore!) in Everything Else Sins Forums

I will point out that the Pirate Bay is back up already.

Reply to Elemental News starts tomorrow in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Try getting to the UK side of the gamespot website, but just to prove the point they do exist try http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2009/235/954860_20090824_screen003.jpg

Reply to Elemental News starts tomorrow in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

There are some new screenshots up on gamespot

Reply to Elemental News starts tomorrow in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

It seems to be an old video, he references GDC which was back in march, plus the engine seems older than some of the more recent pics

Reply to HELP!! Animated Ship Parts in Sins Modding Sins Forums

No, you don't need 3DSMax, dummy points are merely what Max uses for the Weapons,Exhaust, and other particle effect locations. As XSI is the "official" tool It can clearly place the points as well, but I don't use it so can't confirm that Null Point are what we mean.

Reply to Hit chance... in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I would imagine they are taking the ChanceToHitTargetType at face value, and for circumstances like that its not as big an issue, and hard to test. What ChanceToHitTargetType seems to do is change damage from being a set number to being a calculated range of numbers e.g. 100 damage done to a ship with it set to 1.00000 does 100 damage, with it set to 0.5 you get results of 17, 34, 50, and 67 damage. In fact, theorising briefly, I suspect that it's a left over

Reply to Hit chance... in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I'll point out that, contrary to the name, ChanceToHitTargetType doesn't actually effect the chance to hit something, it's essentially just another damage modifier, if one that makes little sense,

Reply to developer builds in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yeah, I have to say people seem to drastically under appreciate the Dev.exe, in addition to the aforementioned advantages, it has a huge number of very useful analysis tools, it's brilliant for checking the effects of changes on the AI, as well as everything from checking on mesh point errors to setting up specific scenarios for testing. To say nothing of the things about the inner workings of Sins you will learn from playing around with it. Alright, mini rant over

Reply to Good memories, old cartoons in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Silverhawks Thats a link to the first few minutes of their origin story, and it is completely worth the watch

Reply to Question on creating a new ability in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Link For the record, Some of the files will reference icons\meshes etc that are part of another mod so won't work, but the important files (Abilities and Buffs) should be fine (strings aside)

Reply to Can Trade/Refinery Ships have weapons?!? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Whilst they can have weapons, you would be lucky if they actually used their weapons. as to combat ships having cargo types, technically yes, essentially No, because adding cargo overrides the other roles and AI of the ship and just turns it into a cargo ship

Reply to Question on creating a new ability in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Ha! Success! Well with the ship being a frigate\cruiser at least. Though it's not perfect it's atleast a start Essentially what i've got is an ability on ship A that spawns Ships B,C, and D and destroys ship A which is the simple part obviously Then on ship B, there is an ability which will destroy ships B,C, and D and recreate Ship A, said ability will only work if Ships B, C and D are All within range otherwise it does nothing. The main flaws are that <

Reply to Does Anyone Know of a way to "Spawn" CapitalShips? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Simply put, use the "SpawnShipsAtPlanet" instantactiontype

Reply to Will/should Stardock consider revamping other games from the microprose bucket!!!! ? :D in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I will point out that they did almost make an X-Com FPS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM:_Alliance , and it didn't actually look too bad. But admittedly I would prefer a proper X-Com game.

Reply to Brad’s Quickie Eval of Elemental Alpha 1 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I think the difference is that you keep being able to research and improve the "Civilisation" tree (infinitely assuming it's in) even once you have acquired all the "Diplomacy" style branch offs that it has, Basically, i see it as a way of removing the feeling of redundancy in the tech tree by framing them in a different way, ie your not wasting your empire researching Phasors II even though 3 turns later it will be superceded by Phasors III, you're just researching Phasors and th

Reply to Buff questions in Sins Modding Sins Forums

"BuffStackingLimitType" determines whether the stack limit is "PerPlayer" or "ForAllPlayers", for example if i set the stacking limit to 1 "ForAllPlayers" then it really will only stack once, however if i set it to 1 "PerPlayer" then each player will be able to apply 1 instance of the buff. "PrioritizeOldBuffs" means that it keeps the oldest instance(s) of the buff when reapplying, so if I have a 30 second long buff and 10 seconds in it gets reapplied it will just ignore it and kee

Reply to Abilaty buff file creation. in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Where you have buffInstantActionType for OverTimeActions it needs to be buffOverTimeActionType As to the question about having different lengths for overtime buffs, you would need to have them as seperate files, but it should work fine.