I can't even tell you exactly what all those culture research modifiers really mean, let alone if there is any bugs on them. But in theory it should.

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, if not I apologize.  Do the Forge tools work for Rebellion?  On the Downloads page, it says it was updated for Entrenchment, but I do not know if it works for Rebellion.

All the resize tool links seem to be 404. Harpos link works but has had to  much traffic and has been disabled can someone rehost a resize tool plz,k, thx

Another question....

On multi-star maps, you have those colored galaxy spiral textures that engulf each star when you zoom out...seems there are 2 or 3 sizes, and the biggest ones are always used by the stars with the fewest (or no) planets...

How can I reverse that so that the stars with the most planets are the ones with the biggest galaxy spirals?

I noticed that in galaxy forge INCREASING the galaxy radius REDUCED the size of the spiral. I'm guessing this variable is either poorly named or is on an inverted scale for some reason. I assume it would work backwards.

Yeah, it might be. For my map I just give the galaxies the same radius. You can put planets outside the radius so it doesn't really seem to matter from a gameplay perspective. Or if its a single galaxy you can just put the planets closer but change the scale so it still takes about the same time to phase jump between them.

Can someone point me to the ah hell what do we call it... um Character selection screen? Adding Fourth race seems to be a bit harder since we have this pretty selection screen. 

PS-- Do I break something if I give the Rebel Faction a different battleship than the loyalist? Doesnt seem hard to change but Im wondering what underlying engine code wont like me if i do this? 

You know, you can just disable that faction selection screen instead, right?

No, it doesn't as the rebel "faction" is in truth another race coding wise.

Alright, got an update. I've tracked down the problem to the skybox04environmentcube. It was unchanged and thus causing reflective hulls to show the green from this file. However, on copying a 256x256 section of the skybox I replaced it with and replacing the default cube, I get the following warning form the dev.

DirectXAssert: [!FAILED(dxVerifyHR)]
Context: D3DXCreateCubeTextureFromFile( g_Core.d3d9->GetDevice(), fullFileName, &d3dCubeTexture)
HR: (E_FAIL)-An undetermined error occurred

Does anyone know any of the other parameters that must accompany this file, such as it needing to be tilling texture or something? It seems the game just ignores the environment cube with this error, so that does solve my problem, but I'd like to do it correctly someday.

Thanks, I bet he would know. I might check out how he did those skyboxes in SoGE as well, but some sort of explanation would be greatly appreciated.

That's  really good question.

How are Rebellion normals created? They look like grayscale normals but 3 of the channels are identical. Is it enough to grayscale a regular normal?

Does XSI 2011 or 2012 co-operate with ConvertXSI? Is max smoothing data still converting properly? Do max normals have an impact? Does the game even use tangents anymore?

If I turn a planet into a very large hollow object that occupies the vicinity outside of the gravity well, does it get culled if the camera is not seeing the origin (e.g. viewing inner to outter of that gravity well)? I want to create a high-detail space cavern.

Did Rebellion add any AI-mandatory ship types besides Corvettes?

Is there any way to bypass the texture animation limit? Or is there more specifics on how it works? Animated textures have an entry limit of 16-20 or so it seems. Any higher and they usually flip their shit.

Did Rebellion add any functionality to particles? So far it seems not but I haven't looked much.

Is there still a way to make particle meshes emit light? How performance intensive is this? Where does it derive light data from?

Why do ships chase scouts down phase lanes without jumping?

Is there a way to give ships the ability to jump within a gravity well with an ability that the AI will use? Does this use existing jump data (e.g. gameplay.constants) or can you define new attributes (graphic/sound/speed)?

Does the fleet formation entity file actually do anything yet and does it have an impact on the AI?

Yes it uses tangents. Had Psy test some SoA models I converted to Rebellion.

I convert the Softimage scene to .XSI and import that to XSI mod tool. Have to delete the all the tangent data and re add a tangent map to the 2nd UV that still there. Delete the extra camera and light, drag the mesh and rootpoint to the Scene_root and you're good to go.

I have 2010 which opened SoA models and Psy got the trial of 2012, he could open my saves but I could not open his. He modified the meshpoints and exported to FBX and I imported the FBX. I am saving them all to XSI mod tool scenes (.exp) so any of our team can edit.

You cannot fly inside a model, you are limited to the bounding box size. You can manually change the bounding box size in the text .mesh if you want to experiment. I added binary planet, 1 orbiting main, if the camera gets close and you're inside you are looking at the back of the poly which shows as see through, every poly would need to be double sided. Imagine a 1 way mirror, the mirror side shows the texture and the other side shows through.

Any of the limits that can be increased will be in the Settings/user.settings. open in notepad

These should be just like a regular ship which gets its light from the -da texture attached to the .mesh