Mod - Celestial Bodies by TohKlidan - version 0.9
Inspired and based on Solar Mod by Cybdevil
Requirements:
or Entrenchment 1.03
Mod Features:
This mods main focus is about adding more celestial body types and extending the existing ones. Which means more size and effect variety, new bonuses and abilities. Also some new researches are included but only things that had to do with colonization or avoiding effects from planet/star abilities. Also this mod contains special scenarios some of them taking place in our own solar system.
Current Celestial Body Count: 104
Overiew of Celestial Body Types:
- Desert 4 sizes (Moon, Dwarf, Normal and Huge)- Ice 4 sizes (Moon, Dwarf, Normal and Huge)- Terran 4 sizes (Moon, Dwarf, Normal and Huge)- Volcanic 4 sizes (Moon, Dwarf, Normal and Huge)- No Atmosphere 4 sizes (Moon, Dwarf, Normal and Huge)- GasGiant 2 Sizes (Small, Big) and 2 variants (stable gas and unstable gas) also colonizable via new researches- Homeplanets (Terran, Desert, Ice, Volcanic, PirateBase)- Blackhole (from 7 Sins Mod with new fx)- Deep Space Sector- Nebula- all existing asteriods, stars etc. have now adjusted sizes and gravity wells.- White Pulsar (star with new ability)- Blue Magnetar (star with new ability)- 6 different Companion Stars (for multi systems)- 44 different Celestial Bodies of our Solar System. (14 with a unique texture, thanks to Cybdevil)- special scenario planets, like Consciousness of the UnityAddtional Changes:
- new HUD icons, pictures and Galaxy Forge icons- new player portraits- new Milita and Starting Templates- new planetary bonuses, abilities and researches
For further informations and detailed change list, read Sins_Celestial_Body_Overview.xlsScenario Maps:
- CB Birth of the Trade Order [ making of blog ]- CB Mars Wars [ making of blog ]- CB Purple Saturn Day [ making of blog ]- CB Sirrius Odyssey [ making of blog ]
- CB Black Hole Pirates- CB Alpha Centauri
further informations about the maps: post 1 , post 2
And 2 Demo Maps (not balanced for gameplay) to see the new features in the ForgeTools and ingame.New Galaxy Forge setups:- for all new Planets- Random for Sizes- Random Moons- Random Companion Star- Random Anomaly- Updated orignal setups with new planets
Here are some ideas and things that will be included with future releases:- new bonuses and abilities for planets and stars- new planets and stars- New Maps and Updating my maps with events/story (if ever possible)...Known issues:- sometimes the corona effect of the companion stars are shown before you zoomed in or explored the star, The problem exists with all effects that attached to meshes via mesh points. (see the TEC starbase you will see the glow on the top before the body shows up, too)
vanilla Version issues:- only the custom scenarios appear in the map menu, to fix this: Sins treats the mod's Galaxy folder as the Galaxy folder, meaning it ignores the standard one if a mod has one. So the solution is to copy/paste every map you have in the Galaxy folder in your Sins install folder into the mod's Galaxy folder. (Thanks to SpardaSon21)Credits:- Cybdevil for the solar system textures.- 7 Sins Mod Team (DANMAN) for the Black Hole, the White Star- RS-fx for the french version- sinsofasolarempire.de team for translating the unmodded entrenchement version to german- Annatar11 for his Q&A help
CBMod v0.7 for Sins Vanilla 1.15/1.16 download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?f5gqynz1myj
CBMod v0.9 for Sins Entrenchment 1.03 download:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/2yjmwezyn2h/SoaSE_CBMod_Entr_v09.7z
Some Screens:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2e5457e5e6f97f655a3d773badf214305e748e3298e784fbb8eada0a1ae8665a
So i hope you enjoy it...
stay tuned for future updates, and feel free to post some comments.
Changelog (only latest changes):
v0.9:---------------------------------------------------- compatible for entrenchment 1.03- french translation by RS-fx- finished german translation, and updated german str file.- new stars: Magnetar and Magnetar Companion with special ability- new planets: Consciousness of the Unity - new maps: CB Black Hole Pirates, Alpha Centauri, preview of "Now and then, Here and there"
v0.8b:---------------------------------------------------- added new Templates for TEC, Vasari and Advent Militia- added new templates: Rebel Outpost and Pirate Outpost- added new auto players for TEC, vasari and Advent Militas- fix in the blackhole attraction field buffs- small adjustments for the militias on all CB maps
v0.8a:---------------------------------------------------- Unstable Gas Ability targets now also planet modules- Pulsar Radiation now works on stars (thanks IC!)
v0.8:---------------------------------------------------- decreased max mines for asteriods, moons, anomalies and the white pulsar- increased the hyperspaceradius for moons (from 15000 to 17000)- added pulsar radiation ability to companion pulsar- added german version (most of the new strings are translated)- new anomaly: nebula and its ability- updated demo2 map- added, reworked and tweaked blackhole abilities- fixed starting setups for map: "CB Purple Saturn Day"- added new templates (vasari-milita, advent-milita, special scenario milita) - small milita changes on all maps - new map: CB Sirrius Odyssey
Thx Teal!!
And thank also Cybdevil he made the textures for our sol system.
The only two planet textures I made are for Mercury and for the generic NoAtmosphere Planet.
And I think they look not so good as the others.
This looks awesome! will try it out! can the extra planets be added to galaxy forge in any way?
All new planets can be used in Galaxy Forge, you just have to put the galaxyDef file and the icons folder into your
GalaxyForge folder.
I just made no special icons for the sol system, but all generic icons are in there.
What happened? is the filefront link broken? i click on it, and it instantly takes me to the filefront home page. its not on the users filefront homepage either.
strange, the beta2.5 link still works,
but if I go to my filefront profile both files don't show up.
I don't know why this happends. Does filefront delete files without any warning?
Will you update your Mod to the current Version of the Entrechment!
Yes, iam still working on it.
Most changes are done right now and i am now testing and bugfixing.
I hope i finish the new version today or tomorrow.
The new version (0.7) is up and ready for download have fun!
See first post for infos and downloadlink
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
This looks incredible!
You are my hero!!
Okay, like I asked earlier, any chance of a version for vanilla Sins? The whole inability-to-play-and-mod-vanilla thing has gone away with Entrenchment being installed to its own folder now.
Hello,
I downloaded this mod and it looks awesom. I love the new scenarios and th elook and feel of it. I have a problem though, soon as I downloaded it and enabled it , it was only a few minutes before the game began to "minimize itself to the task bar. I thought that sounds weird.....sorta sounded like one of those pop up ads klik klik sound an then poof down to task bar. Ok that is strange. So I exited the game after it did that a couple times and started it back up.....np ran ok for bout 15 minutes and then started again. So I disabled the mod and started a game in Entrenchment, ok this part blows,,,,game minimized again to task bar.
Any ideas? Bad instal,,,somehow picked up a virus,,, something I am not thinkging of?... any ideas? Because everything worked before I installed the mod.
Valkajin
sounds like a virus/adware, might be a spy blocker, firewall, or virusscanner trying to get your attention...also might be the OS trying to get you to run an update
if you got steam running and are part of any groups that have an event or got invited to a new group that could do it too
probably alot of other possibilities
(for some reason if i exit the game normally i end up having a "process overload" type effect (closed process are unable to properly close and take up 50% of my cpu each...not just the game processes...but any process i close after i exit the game, i force a game crash to avoid this problem))
Spyware I believe..evidently one of my cousins kids has been allowed to "play" on my computer while I was not around to guard it from the lil crumb snatcher...never needed to pw protect it til now that it is too late :/
I think I have it removed, time will tell.
I haven't forgot you SpardaSon!
Now that i works again with the current entrenchment version i will downgrade it for vanilla.
I can't say when it's ready for release cause i got a lot of errors with the vanillaDev.exe right now.
I rechecked my release files with my anti vir program it found nothing.
Its never to late to pw protect your computer, and good to know you killed the virus!
For some reason I am getting a purple tint to all the planets and asteroids, instead of being red marz is purple and foggy looking. I have bloom disabled and the rest of the graphics settings maxed. Anyonelse have this problem?
can you post a screenshoot?
I am not shure what you mean exactly. But I never noticed a purple fog on all planets.
Now you can download the mod also for Sins 1.15.
Link is in the first post.
Here are two known issues that happen in the vanilla version:
- the main hud menu background is messed up since i used the same texture as for the entrenchment version
- only the custom scenarios appear in the map menu, but i haven't found out what the problem is.
I hope all non-entrenchment players enjoy this mod also.
I have a solution about the maps. Sins treats the mod's Galaxy folder as the Galaxy folder, meaning it ignores the standard one if a mod has one. So the solution is to copy/paste every map you have in the Galaxy folder in your Sins install folder into the mod's Galaxy folder.
but then wont you have 2 copies of all the maps on your harddrive? easier and more efficient to just delete the one in the mods folder :-/, unless i'm misunderstanding something
If both ways work, than everyone can choose which way is the best for himself.
I wrote down a note for the next vanilla release.
So its time to get the pulsar and the black hole to work in entrenchment.
I don't know if it is just me but when I down load this mod foer 1.15 I don't get the Icons that go into Galaxy Forge so that i can create my own maps
Sorry for that i forgot to include the galaxy forge icon folder in the zip file.
If you download the entrenchment version there is the folder included.
For the release i won't forget it !
So its time for an update again.
I finally got the pulsar and the blackhole to work under entrenchment. Version 0.8 is Entrenchment only, cause for the next version (which will be for vanilla too) I still have to change the buffs and abilities. As i want to make some new researches that reduce the effects from pulsars and blackholes. And so I just want to downgrade the stuff once.
Everyone who tried to work with researches and abilities may know this is the most difficult task in sins.
A special thank goes to Annatar and the IC Devs!
Annatar for his patient help and IC for getting the "DoDamage" instant action to work on stars with the next offical sins patch. I am looking forward to it, then also the pulsar star will work
All further infos about changes and the new download link are in the initial post above!
Finally some infos about the 4th scenario that is included in v0.8:
Scenario - Sirrius Odyssey - v1.0Story: Fleeing as outcasts from the Sol System the ancestors of the Advent reached Sirrius.
To gain some supplies for their fleet they etablished an outpost. But Alien Nomads stand in their way totravel further...Player/AI - Factions:1vs1 - Size Small
DoD - Daughters of Dawn (Advent) - starting with a poor developed planet and a fleetSN - Sirrius Nomads (Vasari) - starting with a well developed planet and no fleetOther features:- no Pirates- all milita are vasari- Binari System (Sirrius A and Sirrius B )
A new version (0.8a) for Entrenchment 1.02 is out!
Finally the Pulsar Star work ! Thank IC!
The 0.7 vanilla version is compatible to 1.16. You just have to copy the maps into the new GalaxyForge folder.
For updating vanilla I have to wait until a new dev.exe is out, because the v1.15 dev exe is incompatible.
I also started a blog on http://tohklidan.impulsedriven.net/ where you can get additional informations about this mod or discuss ideas, or stuff you like or dislike.
It would be great if you leave me some feedback here about this mod! So write a few lines and make me happy
TohKlidan,
Great job on this mod! Having the Sol system planets that Cybdevil was working on was always the ultimate for me. I'm not savvy at moddeling, texturing, etc so I always appreciate the hardwork people like you do in addition to your graciousness in sharing.
Call me obsessed with details, but I find the mainview icons a detraction from a realistic experience. I keep LazySumos minimal mod on hand to unclutter galaxies in the mods I play. One thing that I have not figured out is how to change the rotation of the planets. Currently, they all rotate clockwise, meaning that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east for each planet. Any idea on where this can be changed or is it hardcoded? I've searched the threads and never encountered a solution, let alone, the question.
I want to help you keep your mod going. Though my skills are limited, I do understand the basics of changing and merging files and am willing to learn more.
This is my favorite mod!
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