Questions about Ship Explosion sound files :    so the ( capital ship, cannon shell, and support ship explosion sounds) are used for the appropriate ship destruction. 

{1} what about the (explosion SUB and SUB ALTs)? do those assign to ships or are they randomly assigned to each explosion event?

{2} are they assigned to you AND the other races in a single game? Or, some go to you and some go to the other players/races?

{3} the (Frigate death explosion and ALT 1 ) are those for all of "your" frigates? or are they used for just one or two ships? Are Frigate explosion sound shared with you and other players or you get one and they get the other?

just wondering if anyone has some experience with these files and could explain the limitation be for i go hacking apart these sound files.

 I've been working on a sound mod or sound reorganization. (I'll submit it for review to you guys soon) I've been wanting to add vocal sound samples to explosions sound to help audibly identify speed of fleet degradation and better identity individual ship loss in the fog of war.  IE : "such and such ship has been lost" over top the explosion. im also working on adding voice samples to the weapons with cool downs.

{part 2 of sound mod} all and all im trying to add more radio chatter during the battle events.  the voice samples of the Hyercorp race from "Sins of the Fallen" works really well for adding drama and intensity in the battle events. im in the middle of incorporating them into all race battle sounds. ill have to ask for permission to share and arrange Acknowledgements, of course . and much respect for the quality and amount of time and work to create those sound files. it had to been A LOT of work. 

{part 1 of sound mod} for the most part im finished here, just lots of play testing and corrections. i have had trouble differentiating the vocal announcements and identification from the almost single voice actor for each race. so i took to the incredible redundant task of combing all the different voices of all three races into each single race. the universe is just a big melting pot after all so each ship type has a vastly different sounding voice. also, i combined the best of the three announcer voices and a few voices from the "Maelstrom mod" for logistical announcements. again, wow that's allot of sound editing, much respect. it now sounds like you have several officers talking to you, all from there respective responsibilities. having one or a few voices that sounded too similar made it easy to tune out and miss a pirate raid or the like.

Something I've been thinking about..  I know that you can apply a buff from carrier->linked squads, but is there any way to apply a buff from the squad to it's linked carrier?  I mean, sure, you can make it apply a buff to targets in radius and hit the host that way if the squad is either launched or dies and is rebuilt, but is there any way to directly apply a buff to the host?  Some sort of ApplyBuffToProducer?  I know that doesn't exist, but you get the point...

Just out of curiosity, what's the most complicated buff chain you guys have made?

Just starting out modding

how do i update a mod from original sins to diplomacy

Truth be told, it's far better to not even bother trying to update a vanilla sins mod to diplomacy.  Every single file has changes made to them and unless you have a good file compare utility that let's you see every file side by side and line by line, you're going to kill yourself trying to make the update happen.  It's easier to just update an old vanilla mod to work on the current version of Vanilla Sins.

However, if you do have a good file compare utility that let's you open up files and see them side by side and line by line, first, you'll want to go through and delete every file that made no changes between the vanilla mod and the core vanilla game.  Diplomacy doesn't need all of the files like vanilla does to run a mod.  Then, once you have the fat cut out of the mod, get yourself a diplomacy version of every file that is remaining in the vanilla mod and change the copied diplomacy files to have the information from the vanilla mod, or in the case of files that don't have a diplomacy counterpart, find one that is similar and use it as a template.  This way you'll have every line that diplomacy requires and the changes made by the original mod.  Finally, you have to create manifests for your mod which Harpo has a tool that can do that for you.

Duration: Depending on the size of the mod and time to dedicate to learning how to mod, weeks to months.
Difficulty: Hard

Fortunately, you have a lot of very knowledgeable people here to help if you get stuck at some point along the way.

entity files being what?

i got a lot of reading up to do

good news is i think i found my summer hobby

so everything in gameinfo folder

the string file should be easiest to update

how do i update entity files to fit into diplomacy?

ABTLSNFNR has become a good friend while making the buff computer mentioned elsewhere.  Are you saying that this applies to creation as well or just have the carrier gives buffs to it's SC which in turn give the buff back to the Dunov via lastSpawner?

And if you don't mind my asking, could you PM me a diagram of it and was it for Rebellion or earlier?

how do i update entity files to fit into diplomacy?

sorry, i'll rephrase question

how do i update original sins entity files to fit into diplomacy?

ok

thanks

I've thought about using SC as torpedoes before but never bothered to actually do it.

And a diagram of Isolytic Burst, yes, if it's not too much trouble.