Good luck,

I'm waiting that with impatience , i hope that you think about introducing the league of non-aligned world (drazis, vree....) like playable faction when you will have finish your two developpements plan?

You should also get a season 4/5 portrait of the 'new' Deleen for the Minbari. You don't have enough Minbari portraits, and she's pretty iconic...

Any News?

Hi

I've been putting some thought into the jumpgate problem and i have a different not totally satisfying idea.

wormholes could be used as jumpgates and all these wormholes could end up in one starsystem which serves the purpose of hyperspace. so flights from planet to planet are flights in realspace. the only problem with this is that jumppoints opend by ships will probably be impossible to be made.

there is allways the possibility of making phaselane jumps from the hyperspace "sun" to the other systems suns but thats still a big workaround and only enables to open "jumppoints close to suns".

well it might need some rethinking and tweaking and mybe there are some abilities which i don't know of that can be tweaked to make this type of hyperspace idea work better.

think about it, discuss it a little, discard it if you dont like it.

i've been looking for this mod since the games was released and i'm really happy to see it being realised

i'm a huge fan and i'm  rewatching the third season at the moment ^^

YellowDisciple

As far as my part is concerned, I opted for using the phasegates, because building jumpgates this way gives you a huge advantage especially on big maps. I also use this ability to open a jumppoint (which means that you can't jump to any system so far - working on this) but to every other Hyperspace Entry / Exit. Phasetravel this way is immensly accelerated.

The only limitations are:

Cannot use Hyperspacejump to distant star system
Cannot make hyperspace exit animation

I made use of the ability to lower the grav well when forming a jumppoint
Jumppoint animations for all ships in a radius of the caster (till hyperspace exit - if someone knows how to make them static i.e. not to rotate when the caster ship rotates I would appreciate your help)
Jumpgate as a Planetmodule
Jumpgate as a Starbase
Jumpgate opening animation, including flashing lights (though one problem: when I load a savegame, the animation no longer displays until I deactivate and reactivate the jumpgate)
Ships have Jumpengine dependent on Bab5 specs.

Completely redone Textures (from my first pics)

BTW, I am using ENB Series for the game therefore the mod may look different on your system.

I'm using this version + config:

http://files.filefront.com/Sins+of+a+Solar+Empire+ENsrar/;13837178;/fileinfo.html

Homepage of ENB Series

Credits, where credits are due!

This video shows it about a minute in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB5mhrZiWlY

Hi there Overthrow!

In reply to your wishes:

As of now, Lord Tareq did not tell me of any other volunteers. I have got no roadmap, so I don't know what he really wants to be done. So far I have done the Jumpgate (the only model as of now) and besides that, started converting stats from the tabletop game (A Call To Arms) to to SOASE (Earth Alliance so far). I'm not sure if I will adhere to the goals of Lord Tareq or if I just share everything I do with him, so he can move on with his mod as fast as possible. So far, Lord Tareq sent me one Sharlin Cruiser model, which, btw, is much more suited to rendering and animation than to strategy gaming (it has > 22.000 polygons and no uv-mapping). I probably will, as a next step, create a model for the EA Explorer and construction drones to support Jumpgate building with the proper model. I know, most of you just want the models and start fighting, but since this is the most tedious and complicated part you really need to be a bit patient about it. AND we could use some experienced modelers to create thos models, as I personally think it is no good to "steal" the models off of someone else. But thats just my opinion.

And theres so much more to a B5 mod than just the ship models!!

Any advancement on the mod?

@ ajfoster:

As we all have a life and work and relationships / friends / family to care for, it will take some time for us to do this. All you asking for progress should consider helping us out in any kind of way. I know you want it now, but as Lord Tareq said at the beginning - it'll take it's time before we can post anything.

@vp21ct

Have you any idea in which format these models are? xsi, dxf, 3ds, obj, ...
Can you post me a link? Or if you know someone from the scene, a contact?

Thanks

(I assume we would still need to make a host of models, and redo all of the textures (for lightening, specular, teamcolors, bump and illumination, but it would cut down development considerably)

Ahh... the Babylon Project. Well, as I said to Lord Tareq,  most of the models (especially the sharlin cruiser) from the look of it have a polycount of > 20000. This is suitable for Space Sims or First person shooters, but for Strategy on galactic scale, it's too much. I can and probably will ask them to borrow some of their models, but the way I see it, we need to redo most of the models, and for me it's easier to use a program I'm familiar with (ie. Cinema4D).

But as soon as I start work on some models (well, I never said I'd do the stuff all alone, neither has Lord Tareq) I might reconsider.

Thanks for the support though!

if ur looking for low poly models check out the ones from the star trek armada 2 b5 mod and the homeworld 1 b5 mod, also there is a troop working on a b5 mod for homeworld 2, they may switch and help with this one or help part time if u can convince them, all these mods can be found on moddb i belive.