@Lavo & noing,

There is a distinct absence of Republic/Alliance ships because initially, I didn't think they would form an alliance.

The Mod was actually in its early days the Empire Vs Starfleet. I then learned how to add more ships to the empty slots, so I thought the CIS Remnants would more likely join forces with the Empire and have their ships stationed at Empire Ship yards.

However, I've made a mistake because i've read the Yuuzhan Vong War and alliances were formed then, i think Imperial Remnants which are the old Empire, against forces from out side of the  Star Wars Galaxy. That is why now, Starfleet/Star Trek have Klingon, Romulan, Dominion ships stationed at the ship yards. They would all unite against a common foe. Even the Dominion would put their conquest on hold, for these outer dimension races put their Gamma Quadrant under threat.

Would you believe that the Centauri of Babylon 5 fame have joined forces with the Narn!

I'm undecided if the Ori would join Stargate Command though?

So yes i will add a few more Republic/Alliance ships at some point.

Btw the two lists i've done are all in game, meshes, textures, icons, pictures, most sounds, 50% weapon effects.

Theo

1 true i hadnt thought of that

2 yes they would lol

4 those must be some interesting conversations between those 2 main characters that i can never remember their names lol

5 the "ori" died in ark of truth and their priors became peaceful after seeing the ark of truth and then returned to their own galaxy...... if called upon i think they owe homeworld command a favor or two

6 yay!

7 awesomeness

Ive used up most of the free space on the Unit_Picture sheet, in the textures folder.

How do i get the game to read my new sheet which is a copy of the first one but named Unit_Picture2.

Is it a file in the Window folder? or is it a manifest file?

Theo

Make a new sheet using the same properties like 512x512 tga and place your new pics on that. Tell the .playerPictures file in the Window folder to look for your new race pictures on the new texture sheet that you put in the Textures folder. The .playerPictures file list the size of the pic and the space to the next 1 and the space to the next row.

http://soase.weebly.com/race-pics-basics.html

Window\PlayerPhase.playerPictures

TXT
pictureCount 8
LargeScreenPicture
	textureName "Player_Portrait_Large.tga" <--New Sheet here
	startTopLeft [0,444]
	width 195
	height 219
	rowItemCount 8
	horizontalStride 198
	verticalStride 222

I made a sheet that fits all the sizes for each race on their own sheet. Just have 
to rewrite the code above a bit to use it.

 crap I didnt upload yet. Let me know if you want it.

If you are using (assuming permission) parts of the stargate races mod you must use the Ori they are fantastic! If there are memory issues I would advice removing the Jaffa or the wraith or possibly something from another universe.

@myfisto,

Mate its not the playerpictures/portrait file, its the Unit_Picture that the ships, pops up in the small window at the bottom.

The file is the Unit_Picture.

Which Window file do i add my second sheet to, so the game reads it?

Theo

It's the same primes. Create a new sheet for the textures. Add your Unit pictures. Tell the brush what texture sheet they are on and where.

I did not like how Ironclad designed the UI textures and brushes so I started from scratch.

Create a new .brushes file for each race you are adding to the mod. All the brushes for each race gets their own brush file for easy finding, modding and moving to new versions of Sins.

Add each new brush file to the brushes.manifest. All the brushes from all the .brushes files are loaded so what file they are on makes no difference other than where to find it.

So I make some new .TGA texture sheets called
RaceKlingon.tga
RaceFederation.tga
RaceEmpire.tga
etc etc

Start placing the new textures on the new sheets and tell the new brush file like
RaceKlingon.brushes
RaceFederation.brushes
RaceEmpire.brushes
etc etc 

Now edit the new brush for lets say a Klingon Ship that I added to RaceKlingon.brushes

RaceKlingon.brushes

brush
	name "MAINVIEWICON_CAPITALSHIP_KLINGON_COLONY"
	content "Simple"
	fileName "RaceKlingon.tga"
	pixelBox [ 1 , 1 , 28 , 28 ]

That brush will tell the CAPITALSHIP_KLINGON_COLONY.entity to look at the new 
texture sheet RaceKlingon.tga that you have in the mods Textures folder 
in the top left corner and the icon in 28x28 pixels.

You might look at the Flair-Flair_OrbGlow particle. It's from the Advent superweapon. 

@Zombie- would you have a step by step guide on how to do it. Code wise?

I've learnt to get all the ship meshes/textures/icons/pictures/more strike craft (Thanks to Sinperium)etc, in game.

Gimp wise and code wise.

I've not yet looked at particles and what files/entity files i would need to change.

@Myfisto- you mentioned to sheets in a .TGA format. I thought they should be done in.DDS due to the memory restriction?

is there any chance one of you code monkeys Gods, take a look at it and point me in the right direction?

Theo

Easiest way is to do all your modding in TGA then when the sheets are complete you can convert all at once. ZombiesRus knows a good tool.

Then you can use Notepad++ "Replace" feature to change all the ".tga" to ".dds" in the open brush file.

You can do them one at a time converting to dds. Icons do not need "Mip Maps"

brush
	name "MAINVIEWICON_CAPITALSHIP_KLINGON_COLONY"
	content "Simple"
	fileName "RaceKlingon.dds"
	pixelBox [ 1 , 1 , 28 , 28 ]

When i said "it", i meant to say my mod.

Will someone take a look at my Mod....

Theo

I can look at the Ent version but dont rush me. I have little time at the modding computer lately. I can message from work and the road but no modding.

Please add a Cheyenne-class Cruiser to the roster for the Star Trek faction! m

I assure you its a tool worth learning to use. My WIP guide may prove helpful, and always feel free to ask questions about it.

Amen on the Dev exe. Modding and testing would feel next to impossible without it.

Show me a what it looks like or where i can get the ship mesh from.

Ok thanks guys, i will do my very best to learn its features!

Couple of questions:

1.   Is there a limit to how many textures from a Mod, the game will load? Im at 1,299 and counting.

2.  How would you change the stock Milita ships that are in the gravity wells when you first jump in?

3.  Myfisto, wherefore art thou? Have you been able to modify any X3 ships? Did you get my PM reply?

Theo

for question 1 the answer regarding the limits of the sins engine is in this thread by blair fraser

question 2 is in the galaxyscenariodef for each of the gw types.

harpo

harpo, sorry what does gw types mean?

Can i replace thses ships with say the ships from the Eve online mod or ships ported over from X3 terran conflict?

Theo

"GW" probably means gravity well in this instance.

The hook for the glowing orb is built right into the models.  All you need to do is put the appropriate particle effect in the Particle directory.

-dolynick

Sorry I've been busy. 

I finally figured out how to add 100's of races to a single m0d using one hell of a big galaxysceneriodef and a stackable mod for each race. The textures, meshes and pictures for for each race will only load if the stackable mod is enabled with the main mod. Going to do the same for a planets stackable mod.

Now I have 1 hell of a job ahead of me  .

but i would be awesome

good luck