If layers are confusing you, you need to watch some basic gimp tutorials. People are going to assume you have a degree of familiarity with the features of an advanced image editor. And you'll be glad you took the time to do it later on. I doubt there is anything specifically for Sins that basic.

Going to poke again about some error the dev exe likes to throw. Was wondering if anyone has any insight as to it's possible sources, as when I get this error, the game minidumps immediately afterward, which is extremely disturbing.

Assert @ C:\Projects\P4\SinsRebellion\Release\CodeSource\Engine/DataStructures/DynamicVector.h(172)

i >= 0

or have a mis-typeing of a file name (ye olde typo-graphic-al err-or)

harpo

I managed to figure it all out eventually, using the information you provided and one very basic tutorial, it was ALOT easier than I thought it was and I now have successfully created two types of Ocean Planet in my private mod, with thicker cloud layers and correct icons to boot. I am trying to add a second type of dwarf planet/moon (<- use to be called moon), but the texture doesn't seem to want to wrap around the entire globe, I have dark patches and when I almost get it around the globe, the top and bottom seem semi transparent, any advice on this problem?

Entity Ref not found:  =  Not in entity.manifest

and its spelled right

Solved, the Planet Entity had Asteroid True, I set it to False and ta da, no more lines/see through glazed looks yay managed to get our Moon and several other Planets in my mod ha ha! :')

ok I have another question what does this mean

Assert @ C:\Projects\P4\SinsRebellion\Release\CodeSource\GS/Player/PlayerOrbitBodyInfo.cpp(187)

squad != 0

i tried doing a search for it and got nothing.

A question about Multiple titans

I know its possible to add multiple titans (at the same time) using Returning armada ability to spawn one.

Eg. goafan77's:

buffInstantActionType "SpawnShipsAtPlanet"
instantActionTriggerType "AlwaysPerform"
spawnShipsLevelCount 1
spawnShips
    minFleetPoints 150.000000
    maxFleetPoints 151.000000
    requiredShipCount 1
    requiredShip
        type "TITAN_TECHREBEL"
        minCount 1
        maxCount 1
    randomShipCount 0
spawnShipsArrivalDelayTime 5.000000
spawnShipsHyperspaceSpawnType "FleetBeacon"

But does this prevent you from then building a stock titan the "normal way" because you already have a titan active, or if you build the "normal titan" and it dies does this prevent you rebuilding it.

And is it possible to Limit the Returning armada titan to just 1 active at a time? Perhaps making an ability that can't be used while a ship is alive

Is returning armada the only way to get more than 1 titan...  there really should be a 'NumActiveTitansConstant = 1'

On the same note, is there any way to make 'maxNumberOfCannonsPerPlayer 4' work on another structure, or to somhow limit a structure to only 1 per well?

GoaFan77 posted

"That said, I've come up with a separate technique that could all you to limit them to an arbitrary number, but I want to use them it in my mods first before I give all of my secrets away."

GIVE UP YOUR SECRETS!!

this is the link for anyone looking

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/421212/page/1/#replies

Sort of a piece of cake.  You can do it multiple ways, not sure what GoaFan77 is doing specifically.

To limit it, the first thing you need is for the spawning entity to be unique.  It can't be off the Titan factory for instance, you can build as many of those as you have room for.  The easiest way is to spawn a unique building for each faction at their homeworld on game start, something invincible, incapturable, and otherwise irrelevant.

From here, you have multiple options for making it unique, the most foolproof one I can think of off the top of my head is doing the buff file in two stages.  The first applies to the spawner, and disables abilities, this prevents casting further titan summons.  Of course, the buff also summons the Titan, and applies a post spawn buff, it should finish on OwnerChanged.  The buff on the titan needs to send another buff back to last spawner using OnBuffFinish for the trigger, and finish on OwnerChanged.  The buff you send back should be a simple RemoveBuffOfType, negating the original application and freeing the building to construct again.

Without multiple abilities or spawners, specific counts get more difficult.  I'm too lazy to try and figure out a solution for this right now, so you'll either have to wait for him or someone less lazy and or smarter than me.

Your other two questions are Yes and No, in that order.  I agree with the wish for a constant.

Edit: I type too slow...

Notepad and any image editor that can edit both .tga and .dds files is all thats required for UI work in Sins. I use paint.net, lots of others like gimp as the main highly functional image editors (you may need a plugin for .dds with gimp).

Notepad will be needed to edit .window files in the Window folder, as these files tell the game where to place the textures you'll be downsizing in the image editor.

Okay i did as you told and i see these, everywhere:

"area [506, 144, 199 , 56]"

what are those 4 coordinates? in a normal screen it should use only two

does those 2 extra values "199, 56" mean the space the button uses on screen?

Congratz on your 1000th post.

because this thread has been a light in the dark, and has assisted modders everywhere