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[v0.54.2]Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races Remastered {Rebellion 1.95+} *UPDATE 16.05.2023*

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TobiWahn_Kenobi
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Reply #4426 March 2, 2014 4:23:23 PM
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Quoting Delnar_Ersike,
reply 4424
I've been messing around in vanilla Sins to try to get the AI to use their Flagships aggressively, but to no avail. This includes changing their frigateRoleType to "Heavy", even adding a second frigateRoleType of "Lrm". statCountType shouldn't make a difference: the AI ignores it and the game only uses it for the post-game score screens. As far as I know, the way the AI handles any units marked as flagships (set by entityBoolModifier "IsFlagship") is hardcoded into the game.
The reason AIs concentrate on capital ships is that they overvalue capital ship strength. When auto-attacking, they will (usually) attack the most vulnerable ship with the highest perceived strength value, hence why they focus fire on capital ships before Lrm's. The AI's odd way of retreating from a winning battle due to the appearance of a capital ship happens for a similar reason.

I suspect passive uses of Flag ships is a survival mechanism due to the victory condition. The AI does not completely ignore statCountType as is uses that as part of the calculus for what to add to the build cue, but since the flag ship is a singular ship, in this instance it is likely ignored.

We have noticed the rather annoying prioritization of capital ships and have had to use a variety of abilities to reduce this. A short term taunt like ability on a frigate is effective at prolonging capital ship life.

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Reply #4427 March 9, 2014 7:59:12 PM
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Hi guys 'n gals,

UV of the raider carrier is completed. Next up is texturing, then uv and texture for Thoumsins Zephyr fighter.

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Reply #4428 March 10, 2014 3:34:11 PM
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Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi,
reply 4427

Hi guys 'n gals,

UV of the raider carrier is completed. Next up is texturing, then uv and texture for Thoumsins Zephyr fighter.

Good. When can the next internal build be posted? As eager as I am to see a revamped raider force I'm more eager to ensure there are no unintended bugs or AI behavior issues with all the new abilities, resolved research linkages and such. I've tested but...the bigger the test pool the better.

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Reply #4429 March 10, 2014 6:27:54 PM
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All,

If the next internal build is stable (lots and lots of changes) we will, (after 5 years) declare beta once the following are met:

- All victory conditions are supported (as of Rebellion 1.5)

- All titan and capital ship abilities are functional

- All major entity scripting are functional (ships, planet orbitals, planet modifiers, etc)

- No minidumps

There are still over 80 models to add, the star bases and planets require overhaul, the tech trees of several races still need to be upgraded or reviewed, UI 2D art, and most of the visual and audio effects are still missing...

If there is talent out there looking to help, please contact TobiWahn.

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Reply #4430 March 12, 2014 8:39:45 AM
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Thanks again Darvroth for keeping our fellow followers updated!

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Reply #4431 March 12, 2014 9:05:00 PM
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Reply #4432 March 14, 2014 8:37:34 PM
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I'd like to contribute. Just started modelling but it's lots of fun. I've send some ingame images on my work on the Vorlon ships in a private message. If anything, you can use them as placeholders instead

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Reply #4433 March 15, 2014 6:38:42 AM
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Hael-sose,

TobiWahn will have to get with you on the polygon counts for the various model sizes and some other helpful tricks for successful imports into the SoaSE engine.

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Reply #4434 March 16, 2014 5:32:30 AM
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Okay any advice is surely welcome.

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Reply #4435 March 16, 2014 10:49:42 AM
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As written in the PM:

WOW.

First, thanks. Second, I love the models.

Just saw the screenshots, they are really awesome. Looking forward to inspecting the models/textures. Thanks!

 

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Reply #4436 March 16, 2014 3:48:05 PM
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Look forward to what has been proposed once it is past the UV optimization stage.

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Reply #4437 March 17, 2014 6:16:07 PM
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Now some pictures

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Reply #4438 March 18, 2014 6:51:10 AM
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Nice one!

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Reply #4439 March 18, 2014 6:55:55 AM
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As promised, some Vorlon ships. As you can see, still need some work on textures/UV but we'll get there. More models on the make.

 

Some Vorlon ships (pretextured)

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Reply #4440 March 18, 2014 2:29:47 PM
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Raiders beware and Vorlon, it's what's for breakfast!

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Reply #4441 March 19, 2014 9:24:38 AM
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Quoting Hael-sose,
reply 4439
As promised, some Vorlon ships.
Nice models. I quite like the cruiser in front of the planet killer.

Raider carrier looks good too.

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Reply #4442 March 19, 2014 10:30:45 AM
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Thanks

That particular cruiser is meant to be the Vorlon Envoy ship. Envoy ships are always a bit flamboyant haha.

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Reply #4443 March 20, 2014 3:01:43 AM
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Hi, I once ask a modding.
Is it possible by Ability or buff a weapons bench (front, back, etc.) or weapon (Weapon-0, -1) to disable?

JB

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Reply #4444 March 20, 2014 3:23:29 PM
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JB,

It is possible to disable weapons on a target ship or group of ships. There are also several functions within the buffs that impact weapons that can be tweaked in such a way a type of weapon can be rendered useless. I've not seen where a single bank or facing can be disabled unless there is only one weapon type on that facing. Does that help?

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Reply #4445 March 20, 2014 4:37:06 PM
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PhysicalDamageAsDamageTarget needs to be added as a Buff option in the DB.

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Reply #4446 March 20, 2014 8:57:54 PM
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Quoting Darvroth,
reply 4445
PhysicalDamageAsDamageTarget needs to be added as a Buff option in the DB.

Thanks, added the following missing BoolEntityModifierTypes:

PhysicalDamageAsDamageTarget
AntimatterRestoration
CultureSpreadModifier
HullPointRestoration
PlanetTaxRate
ShieldPointRestoration

Will be in the next DB version

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Reply #4447 March 21, 2014 12:19:56 AM
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Getting excited with all of these new Vorlon ship models!

 

Will we see the Abassador's ship?

 

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Reply #4448 March 21, 2014 5:05:39 AM
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I sure hope so! It should be the Vorlon transport

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Reply #4449 March 21, 2014 5:39:41 AM
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New version of the Vorlon Lifegiver (colony type) on the left in image below:
(and @boshimi336, transport is in lower right corner)

Vorlon Lifegiver

 

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Reply #4450 March 21, 2014 6:38:26 PM
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Hael-sose,

Awesome looking models.

 

TobiWahn,

Sent you another commit. Will stand by till latest DB version is posted then will resume finishing the capital ship abilities. Believe it or not I'm down to less than a dozen. Vorlon, Shadow, Minbari, Centauri are complete, EA has two remaining, the remainder are missing Narn abilities. Woot!

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