This is the story of the last of the Babylon 5 mod-efforts. It's goal, to prevent another failure, by creating a place to solve our problems collaboratively. Its a port of call, home away from home, for modelers, texturers, programmers and sound engineers.
Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races
Disclaimer:The authors are not responsible for any damage that may arise from using this mod. This mod may not be sold under any circumstances. It may be downloaded, as long as it does not violate the laws of the state/country you live in. This disclaimer must always be distributed with the mod. For other used please contact me personally.
Thanks to the TEAM:2D Artist: Tobias Liebhart (TobiWahn_Kenobi), SteinerXBughunters: Rob Cummings, cybertx, Darvroth, Peter1x9, ZombiesRus5Coders: Ronie Albesa (zRazor), Rob Cummings (NewHorizons), Davroth, EvilTesla-RG, Rodney Jenkings (HotRod), Tobias Liebhart, ZvezdochetsModel Templates: Amras-Arfeiniel, James Newman (Firehawk)Modelers: Ronie Albesa, Amras-Arfeiniel, Fileosoft, Johan Klaver, Koobalt, Tobias Liebhart, Stefan May, Timmaigh, Pauli Valkeejärvi (Hawkwall), ZvezdochetsMusician: Pauli ValkeejärviResearch: Rob Cummings, Darvroth, Rodney JenkinsPR: Darvroth, SteinerXSounds: Rob Cummings, Pauli Valkeejärvi, ZvezdochetsTexturers: Tobias Liebhart, SteinerX, TFL_BigBangTheory, Timmaigh, Pauli Valkeejärvi, ZombiesRus5Moderation: Blake00
Additional support: boshimi336, Lavo_2, myfist0, Gürol Salk (Geopard)And toMysticAngel for the Automated Fighter docking abilityThe Babylon 5 X3TC team
And thanks to all those modelers whose work is a inspiration and a template for creating ingame assetsIf I forgot anyone, please contact me so I can give proper credit. (There seem to be so many decent people involved at the moment)
Release 0.54.1 Full Download for Rebellion 1.95+& Patch 0.54.2
NEW - Balvarin Carrier and Minor Factions fix!
Installation Guide:
Sometimes the in-game mod loader can be a bit funky so if you can't see the mods you've installed or something isn't working then enabling the mods via the 'EnabledMods.txt' file in your 'Mods-Rebellion v1.85' folder where you installed the mods to is the other alternative. It should look like this to work:
TXT2SinsArchiveVersion 194Version 0enabledModNameCount 2enabledModName "SotyrRemastered"enabledModName "SinsRemastered-v0.95b"
DISCORD:
https://discord.gg/9AwgByEEKn
Old Blog with screenshots and infos maintained by SteinerX can be found here (*OUT OF DATE*)http://babylon5ins.blogspot.com/
Yours TobiWahn_Kenobi
Danmans Site Domain seems down... Anyone knows why?
Yes we had an email about it: 19/12/09
Hello dear friends. A dark time is upon us. On the 20th of december, a temporal downtime is to be expected. This could possibly last for a few days, as the entire website is going to be revamped. We will get the new forums, new wiki, probably proper video gallery and FAQ, as well as a chat. All of this will take time to impement. At the same time, the wbe server will be changed. Nothing drastic to be expected there, this change is minor, but necessary and somewhat time consuming. This doe mean that it will be somewhat messy for about a week. Thank you for understanding, and sorry for inconvenience. Your webmaster, Maxsim Goratiev.
Thanks fot the Info SteinerX!
Your welcome!
Just making some last minute icons ...
Yes... because they have mess up like the last time...
When you move to a new place, you first setup the new place, syncronize it with the old one, ad finally shutdown the old one...
They was knowing that it will come but have wait the last moment... more bad, they have not keep the domain name... so, the long and slow process to promote the site will need to be start again... this only for spare something like 50$ on a 10 year term...
So, except around one week for the new site , maybe one month for a good working site and a year for retrieve our actual traffic... hope that like last time, we will not loose all our PM, that some post will not dissappear, etc...
Yes, i am really pissed, these one or two day notice was really too short... no time for make any backup in case of mess up...
Welcome to the 7DS world... where we are informed from top decision at the last moment... in fact, same Danman have seem surprised about it !!!
The numerous mod hosted there was what keep the place alive... but guy like Tobi ( dev of the B5 mod ) is surprised about it...
Now, from what i have read, we will have flah, java, new wiki and other fancy thing... hope, not something like these forum who is not really practical for modder... and if all move to the danman server with a max of 10kb/s, i am done with it... i have not the patience to wait 10-15 seconde for having a page show up...
One more time, the base of people who keep the forum alive was ignored...
Yes, i am pissed off... i have read the post about the change one or two days ago... have ay that it was a very bad time because several mod hosted was planned to make a christmas release ( B5, BSG, 7DS )... in your case, recently, SteinerX have create a bug page there... if you release now, nobody can reach it...
Really crazy to make a move in the holiday periode... why not before, something like begin november... so, all will have good today...
So, in my personal name ( i don't speak anymore in the name of 7DS ), i am really sorry about the inconvenience... i was not able to inform anybody sonner because we was keep in the dark ourself... be sure that you will always have my support like a individual... i am tired now of speak about a 7DS team who don't really exist... people like your B5 mod team are a real team... same think for the BSG mod, the Tesla mod, Halo mod and a few other... but not so good like your mod ...
So if you agree, i will finish some work promise to some other mod hosted on the now dead sri-corp and apply to become a exclusive modeler for your team... for UV optimisation, you are the perfect example when the "student" once show the way, he become better that the "teacher"... and for texturing, i cannot compare to someone like SteinerX who is really talended... the fact is that i simply feel home with peoples like yours... tired to feel alone in the dark like in my previous place... being a ex military navy guy, i workship team work ( survival ) and like a clear chain of command ( priority )... and i can find these value in your team...
Of course, if it lead to too much problem with the 7DS world for you, i can back off and simply be a individual who assist you when he can... Danman will certainly feel it like a betrayal and will not be happy... Danman is not a bad guy but he have not idea about leadership... the problem is more these "dark" top that nobody control... that nobody know...
I for one welcome you wholeheartly in our team! I always thought of you as such. Thanks for your continued support.
Agreed! Always believed you were part of our team ... just a few of us ... but each vital, unique and talented ... and your one of them ... your knowledge/expertise/patience has been of great value ...
You'd ALWAYS be welcome here ... and with ALL the others whom hold you in the same high regard that you help/support/teach ... as we do!
Your gifts are precious ... we all have much to learn and be inspired by/from YOU!
We have always been grateful for your support!
Hi guys,
I have to apologize for the site being down, and the total lack of notice on this. File, once again I need to apologize to you too my friend. I feel like someone just pulled the carpet from under our feet, and just when we are all getting ready to release mods, this happens.
I am telling you the truth, in that I HAD NO IDEA that this was going to happen. MAXSIM was supposed to give us plenty of notice when renewal time came up for the site, but he never did that obviously. I can let you all know that I am feverishly working to get the forum back up, being at sri-corp or on the proper location.
You say File that I have no leadership, this is only partially true. The problem is that I have lost most of my power due to the fact that I relied to heavily on others instead of doing things myself. This was the case with the site. However, this may also be a blessing in wolf's clothing, as this will now give us the shove we need to host the forum on our own server. This server is PAID for by me for the whole year, with professional hosting services and SSL certification. The speeds should be MUCH faster now as well. I am also implementing a new way to share files as well, which should make modding easier for everyone.
Also, I made a backup of the entire forum yesterday, so we should be good as far as not losing everything. We just need to get it all back up and running, of which I cannot do myself since I don't know how the system works. I am trying to have it all back on today if everything goes right.
If you guys can bear with me, everything should be fixed soon. I hate these technical bumps just as much as you guys do, especially when I did not know about them, or prepare for them.
You guys have a great team, and a well welcome addition to the DMG team. Hopefully you guys still think so as well. We are all moving in the right direction, lets continue to do so.
Thoumsin / Fileosoft, I bear you no ill will my friend. If you want to jump to this awesome team, you have my blessing. Hopefully all of you guys can still be part of what we have going on over at DMG, just bear with me as I/we try to make things better. We just need to get through these growing pains.
Thanks for understanding,
DANMAN
Thanks for the info Danamn and I bear no grudge against you! I maintain this thread and the forums over at sri-corps are maintained by SteinerX, whom I believe to continue to support them.
Yes.
On a lighter note:
Got a post from:http://forums.firstones.com/showthread.php?t=12047
Some B5 music that may be of some inspiration ... for producing our own scores/tracks
http://archive.firstones.com/musicofb5/
HUD Icon update - files dropped in
Revised the Omega ... and that's it ... from me for 0.35:)
All EA Capitals finished for the HUD pics ...
@ Tobiwahn - How goes the countdown for 0.35?
Looking forward to seeing the Hermes!
Looking forward to listening to the new music!
Looking forward to seeing the new icons!
What else should we be looking forward to in 0.35?
Dan, i have follow the link on the e-mail that you have send :
Please do what you can to keep the ball rolling in the absence of the forum until it is back up and running. Most likely, it will be at the new address: www.forums.danmangames.com
It is slow like hell... more that one minute for load the main page... and the backup seem to end at the 18 june 2009... so, something have go very very wrong in the transfer... in fact, people like Tobi, Koobalt, SteinerX don't exist on the new place... the section B5 mod don't exist too... and the the wiki don't exist anymore...
The more bad thing is the previous domain name is now hosting a pop up hell... the right move was to cancel the hosting service but keep the domain name who have become good know and was begin to work good... these month, we have just pass the 1 milliion page view... these month, we have break several time the record of most people online... all this is gone... being the single member on the new place show the success of it !!!
You guys have a great team, and a well welcome addition to the DMG team.
They are a good team... in fact, recently, Koobalt have begin to work and help the BSG mod and the Halo mod too... in some way, it was/is your dream too... a place where several mod team help each other... 7DS mod being only a sample of the best work of each team...Thoumsin / Fileosoft, I bear you no ill will my friend. If you want to jump to this awesome team, you have my blessing. Hopefully all of you guys can still be part of what we have going on over at DMG, just bear with me as I/we try to make things better. We just need to get through these growing pains.
Dan, i have not problem with you and i know that you was keep in the dark like a lot of us... these move have can be smooth and without pain if it was begin one or two month ago... time to setup the new forum, synchronize it with the old one before shutdown the old one...
But you need to understand that it piss me off to have the last 6 month of work who have dissappear on the new place !!!! In some way, you are lucky... real life job is enough hard now, with two work shift by day, i have not so much time to complain... and usually, my complain is more a shoot in the balls of the beast for see if the beast is always alive...
About join these team, it is a personal choice... i really like how they work together and how Tobi lead his people... but like i have wrote before, i will finish some other work promise to the other mod hosted... and it is not excluded if the forum retrieve his last 6 month post, that i continue help other mod too... like Koobalt helping the Halo and BSG mod, or SteinerX helping the Tesla pirate mod... simply, i will put my priority here... shooting in every direction is not really good for me due to my limited free time...
Sorry for the delay, but it took a long time to hack my way back into my old account (aka - remember that you are supposed to use your email for login instead of nic). For those that do not remember me, I am part of DMG, but I left 7 Sins over a year ago to work on other projects.
We had 48 hours notice due to a miscommunication so we have been working on this as a top priority. We were expecting the server group to contact us for confirmation that we would no longer be using their services. As you can see with the "pop-up hell", they do not seems to be as professional as we expected.
We been planning a move for the last month due to all the complaints (including our own) about how slow the service was. There were times when the fourms would be completely unaccessible for hours. That is not acceptable, so we began talking about it and making plans. Due to the recent flooding of our webmaster's house, this was closer to being done, but it is our higest priority.
Now the site you currently see up at www.forums.danmangames.com is what we are using as our template on which to load the backup onto. This is a fourm copy from June (I believe), so it is not current. Also the server that DMG is hosted on is having some issues right now. Even our mail server is experiencing slowdowns and even total dropouts. We are looking into that, since we are directly paying for them (Maxim was paying for the Forum Server with Siri). We would preferred to redirect any hit on the old forum to our new one, and are also looking into it. The rental of the domain should not be that much.
Unfortunately it will take a few days to get the backup loaded, but you will not be losing more than the last 48 hours (at most). Hopefully the host server will also have their issue sorted by then.
Cheers!
First, welcome FourAces...
It was a very very long time ago but i rent my domain name ( www.love-from-russia.be ) for 50 euro by ten year... renew each 10 year for the same amount... it is really nothing when compare to server cost... only problem will be for link the old domain name to the new IP... DNS server are not very fast for update and it can take 2 or 3 days...
By the way, next week, i will be in London and buy "Dragon Age Origine", so i will be able to test your great work... hope that you will continue the work and that you are not too much pissed about how EA have treat you... they are simply jealous that your guys make a better work that them and that you have discover how they have cheat their own customer with low textures...
Thanks!
Let me know how HiRes Pack 1 runs for you. It should be fairly stable for most of the game. Of course, you will have to play a while with Vanilla before you install it, so that you can really see what it does. If we had a 1'st person camera view (which you only get during converstations) it looks pretty good, if you can ignore all the clipping.
I will still be doing some work but based on their actions of late, I will not commit to more than another month or two. I will be actually replacing some of their LoRes textures, but do not know how much I can get done. There is also the problem that it has a memory leak, and they pretend that they have never heard about it (though posts on their own forum date back to the release date two months ago). I now think their engine is defective, and we are very limited in what we can do. Heck, they will not even give us the tools to extract the meshes.
Hopefully we can get that domain and redirect. We want to make the best of this situation.
Thanks for all the notices, but one thing
Please don't use this forum as a means of talking about other things, this thread is dedicated to the Babylon5 mod so please use pm to talk about not even remotely related topics (like dragon age origins)
Thanks alot!
@SteinerXDropbox updated, music and Hermes are in. If you want to add any additional icons (hermes?), please do so in the next 12-18 hours. After that I will feature freeze for release 0.35 (I still need to make the credits video, that would be it for me for now)
Sure I'll see what I can do!
@ Tobiwahn!
WOW! ... The Hermes is amazing! I'd love to put a picture of it in the thread ... but no picture could capture it's beauty!
Love the way you've used the .da to get the mirror effects and the details ... mmmm .... well worth the wait!
Zvezdochets will be very pleased! I'm certain!
You've got a great talent for texturing!
If this is the standard that we are looking at ... then "EPIC" is the word of the day and for the Mod!
Hermes HUD done + entity + brush + .dds file - all dropped in ... ready for you to put in the Pre-Alpha 0.35 mod folder
Hi guys love the mod.
I have been looking for a good B5 mod since finding the Great Wars site for HW and now I find a mod for Sins and find out that The Great Wars team is back makeing a B5 mod for HW2.
I read, your in need of texturers and most likely any other qualified help. I haven't done textures in about 8 years and only text file editing since then. If you need the help I can submit something in the next week or so, (with Chrismas and other family obligations may not be tell after New Years) then you can see if my skills are up to pare with this mod. None of my previous work was ever distribted and I got intrested in moding about the time that the original HW comunity self destructed.
Well just let me know if your intrested.
Thanks for your message! We are always interested in help! We've got about 17+ EA ships modeled but just a couple of us texturing! An extra pair of hand is always welcome ... we have a great team able to help and mentor if need be ...
PM Tobi if you like ... I'm sure he'd be pleased to have you join us as I am ...
@TheReal908742Just send me a sample of what you've got and I will take a look at it. Thanks for the offer! Have you any experience in texturing for SINS (i.e. have you looked at the forums for how to make textures)? If not, and SteinerX accepts, I think it would now be his time to take an apprentice
@SteinerXThanks for the kind words, it took so long because almost all the textures are created as 3D Assets and rendered for CL, NM and DA info seperately.
@ Tobiwahn - Whens the deadline for adding more to 0.35?
At about 19:00 GMT (But that is just an estimate). I will notify you about 1 hour before I make the freeze.
Not kind words ... true words! And remember you were and are still my teacher:) When I do the Explorer I'll do the .cl, .da and have a go at the .nm (still not to sure about this you may need to assist with .nm - but want to try and get it right)
Apprentice ... am sure he'd have more to teach me:)
Am in process of updating B5 unit picture want to improve the Avenger/Artemis ... HUD pics
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