Okay... so a female Advent in the Vasari place. A Vasari in the Advent place. Is the Advent I originally had the only creepy one or are there other no-gos?

Keep in mind that I might not get as good a profile. Depends if I can find a full body shot or not.

That is a lot closer to what I was thinking picture wise. It looks good. I'm curious to see what the other variations you've just mentioned would look like.

I must confess that I like the Vasaari and the TEC players on either side with the Advent in the middle. The main reason for this being that the initial conflicts in the Sins universe was between the TEC and the Vasaari with the Advent coming into the picture third and mostly meddling with everything. I do like human and the male advent in this particular picture. The Vasaari I think there are a few others that would look good in his place, with and without glowing eyes (they should have a bit of a 'sad' look to them) I think.

TEC = Stoic / Determined (will not fall to the invaders)

Vasari = Sad / Mournful (doing what needs to be done to survive)

Advent = Mischievous / Knowledgeable (messing with everything until it falls asunder beneath their will)

Agreed.  Just noticed the David's Lions logo included in the images.  Clever.

The Vasari doesn't look quite right. And the 4 one did work better.

I got a weird issue with DS and the latest Diplo patch (1.33).

So far the mod seems to be running fine, though something is wrong with the ressource asteroids. I played a large random multi system map and all types of planets have both metal and crystal asteroids, except for Paradise for obvious reasons.

While there are some planets with only one type of ressources, it doesn't seem to be tied in any way to the planet type. As far as I can tell it's completely random. I even had one ice planet with only two metal asteroids.

I tried starting random maps three times and every time the same result. On a start of DS-Aurelian map every planet seemed to be in order, with the exception of a single Relic world that had three crystal and one metal asteroids.

Without the mod, ice and volcano planets have only their supposed ressource.

Anyone else experienced that issue, or have a clue as to why the game is suddenly doing that?

We haven't found any issues with 1.33. Still tracking -Norbert-'s issue.

I've been playing the game a little bit almost every night and I've not noticed this at all.  Most planet types have the ability to spawn resources of both types.  Some depend on the size of the planet to guarantee both are spawned, but nearly all have the potential.  That doesn't mean you'll see it happen, but when the entities are set to spawn 0 to 3 for both and there's a max of 3 total, for example, you can get several games with all of one type, several more in a row with only the other type, and a few more after that with both.

This shouldn't be.  The only time an Ice Planet has metal asteroids is when Ice Home is the planet and it spawns two of both.  This is telling me that you have messed up entity files or your update to Sins didn't go perfectly and it's not doing what its told by the entity files.  So there are some things to have you check.

The first is to verify that your DS checksum is still the same as it was before you moved everything over to the new folder.  If it's not, then there's your problem.  Get a new copy of the mod.

The next thing depending on the result of that check, would be to verify your install of Sins to make sure it updated properly, or to verify your DS files are showing the correct information.  If Sins didn't update properly, you may have to uninstall the entire thing and redo it.

To verify the DS files, if you can convert the entities and brushes to text to see what they say, Harpo's tools are great for batch jobs like this.  If the ice planets and proto ice planets are showing what you'd expect, then it's not the entities fault.  If you can't or don't want to convert them over, then copy all of the planet and proto planet entity files (found in the GameInfo folder) somewhere, as well as the HUDIcon, infocard icon, main view icon, picture brush files for the planets (found in the window folder), zip them up, and upload them somewhere, post the link, and I'll go through them all to verify them.

If DS is messed up, then you'll have to download a new copy or re-copy it over to the new folder if you had a previously working mod and still have that copy.

In either case, if time is an issue or this seems like a lot of work you don't feel like doing, you may just want to scrap it all and start over with a clean install of the game and a new copy of DS and be done with it.

This is expected.  Relic planets have values of 1 to 4 for both resource types with a max of 4 total.  If in the event that there are 4 metal asteroids, the crystal value is not used since it would exceed the max just as any value which exceeds the max isn't used.  Dwarf relics have 0 to 3 metal and 1 to 3 crystal with a max of 3.  If 3 metals are used, the crystal will not show up.  Huge relics have 2 to 6 of both with a max of 6, again if 5 metal are used then only 1 crystal will show, if 6 metal are used then no crystal will show.  Relic moons have 0 to 2 of both with a max of 2.  So you can go from having 0 resources to 1 resource, to 1 of each, to 2 metals and no crystal or no metals and 2 crystal.  Isn't random settings fun?

This tells me its probably an issue with the DS files you moved over or something is wonky with the random map.

Verify it's only happening to the original planets.  If its all of the planets, redownload the mod.  If it is the originals, your options are to delete the offending textures and meshes for those planets affected, or redownload a set that is verified to be working with each other and overwrite the existing ones.

http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/TextureFixA.rar
http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/TextureFixB.rar
http://sites.google.com/site/steelers086/gamefiles/Mesh.rar

And queue stant and his rant.

huh... tame

That is understandable.

LOL. K cool. Sorry to stir the pot on an old issue. Just trying to understand why one leap is possible and another not. I will install my own Large Anger Aware Patch and go from there

Keep Sinning

-Cepheid

I replaced the GameInfo folder and all the manifests with fresh ones (luckily I kept the 7z archive, so I didn't have to re-download it) and that helped.

When I now started a new random game (or three actually) almost all planets were as they are supposed to be, with the exception of a single Ice Planet, that had two of each ressources.

I converted and checked the "non-home" Ice planet entities and they look fine - 0 for metal and numbers for crystal asteroids. So it seems that for some reason Sins is now putting IceHome Planets on random maps on occasion (the planet in question was not the starting point of any player, though it was just one jump away from my own TerranHome planet).

As far as I'm concerned the issue is fixed. A single ice planet with some metal every few games is something I can easily live with, but just in case: My mod checksum is 73603744 with only DS activated.

Thanks for the help.

That is expected.  If you personally don't like it, you'll have to go into the galaxy scenario definitions file and delete it from the randomicevolcanic list.  You'll probably also want to delete the volcanichome one from there as well since that one behaves the same.

As for the other issues, glad they got sorted out.