Thanks harpo! I would use the GUI, but it's just too complicated for me. I've downloaded and tried it before, but I could not for the life of me figure the sucker out. Frustrating...

harpo, I hereby dub you a modding GOD. Thanks again!

in entrenchment, where eles did you expect?

harpo

well, they are for vanilla 1.15 & entrenchment 1.00 AND NO LATER and therefore very stale, and mine are made fresh with each update and are the actual files you receive in the update run through my text bin gui.

harpo

solar destroyer, could you please give a bit more detail about which text converter was used on which files, and what the path to the files was?.

harpo

did the file path have the expansion and version number in it? eg entrenchment v1.051, diplomacy 1.2, sins 1.191, it then uses the correct convertdata for the expansion AND version

or even just the expansion name? eg entrenchment, diplomacy, sins, it then uses the latest convertdata for the expansion(but there have been differences in the codes that the convertdatas use in a given expansion so the latest convertdata MIGHT fail when attempting to convert older mods.

the reason I ask is that my text bin gui looks at the path to the files to determine WHICH of the converters to use, and if it does not find out it assumes VANILLA sins is to be converted, BUT the vanilla sins converter DOES NOT KNOW eiter the entrenchment OR diplomacy conversion codes, and my textbin gui can work with the standard mods-ExPaNsIoN v#.### folders as well as another path in the sinsref.txt(in the same folder as the textbin gui and my other utils

and here is MY current sinsref.txt contents

F:\sins\reference
F:\sins\reference\Sins of a Solar Empire 1.191
F:\sins\reference\entrenchment 1.051
F:\sins\reference\diplomacy 1.20
F:\sins\reference\

as you can see the first is a full file path to the folders that I place my differentversion reference files into, the second, thirdfourth and fifth lines point to the current expansion reference files(I copy the entire program files sins folder to the reference location, THEN run my gui on the reference button the will show WHEN the program sees a sinsref.txt in the folder it is resident in.

hope this helps

harpo

I am just testing things at the moment.

the steps that I have taken are

1 create a new folder next to me current and reference archives in the sinsref.txt first path, (f:\sins\testing)

2 copy the complete current game folder from c:\program files\stardock games\(sins of a solar empire) to the testing folder

3 run the current textbin gui.

4 click on the ref button to go to the reference files area, then click on the all button to convert ALL convertable files, then navigate to the testing folder then click on the convert this folder, then click on the convert now button

will edit this post when testing completes and report what happened.

harpo

edit completed in 28.6 minutes, no files failed to convert, 2914 files converted to text, 1667 files were already text, there was some files that took a couple of minutes to convert on my core2 duo e4500 2.4gx dual core 4gb 1066 ddr2 ram development comp.

harpo

i got it can you just copy the entityies and convert them without the rest like C:\sins\test\sins of a solar empire\diplomacy\gameinfo only

could you by any chance upload the particle files that would be found in the "sins trinity" folder (i presume they're from original sins), i ruined one of them with particle forge not knowing that it would auto-save, and i don't want to reinstall just to replace one bad file

thanks very much

Thanks.

hey harpo, you know what file deals with the frequency of planetary rings appearing on planets? I'm working on an "Embellishments" mod, makes a few things more realistic looking/have some fun with things you want to see more of.

Trying to reel in the dust clouds around planets and stuff from being practically half way to the next planet over.

But the main thing I want control over rings, maybe make their spawn frequency double and their axis tilt differently/randomly from X to Y since not all planetary rings form around the equator =3  maybe even find a way to double spawn them on one planet at different axis ^^

Anyway, if ya know, I would appreciate the help ^^

badtune, each of the planet entity files mentions the asteroids(rings) and dustclouds that are FOR the planet, but the actual locations are elsewhere, on searching for one of the dist clouds I found 'DustCloudsDef.renderingDef' from vanilla sins to be the source for the clouds, and for rings it would appear to be 'AsteroidDef.asteroidDef'.

hope this helps

harpo