It is just a null, you can create those from the menu on the left. Just look for some general XSI tutorials since no one has made any specific too Sins outside the PDF included in the forge tools in the download section.

You need to give the model multiple materials, which is also explained in the PDF I think (I've never done it myself though). Or you can combine all the textures into one sheet and then move the UV map sections to the proper places.

Made a tutorial for exporting Sins models, from 3ds Max to Softimage to a ConvertXSI-ready XSI, should be helpful for people here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VYVC0RznBA

And a different question: does anyone know the exact angles for the weapon bank firing arcs? Are they moddable? The horizontal ones seem to be 120 degrees total (60 degrees on both sides of the weapon's axis), but I've seen ships fire at more extreme angles when the target is in motion; in particular, guns seem to fire at an even wider angle (close to 90 degrees off axis) when the target is moving toward the firing cone. It's also not clear where the tips of the cones are located. For instance, on the Orky the side banks seem to originate further to the sides while the front and back ones are almost centered; this is most obvious when vertical angles are considered because the side banks have a bigger blind spot on top of the Orky compared to the front and back banks.

hopefully Sins 2 will go for object based weapons and fix this problem while also allowing weapons to miss

Made an interesting discovery right now. It appears that particle effects have "priority" over shield meshes. To illustrate, say you have a ship that is made invisible. It's actual "mesh" is created through a particle effect of size 1x, while the shield mesh of the ship is the "mesh" at a size of 1.03x. When the ship is attacked, you will not see the full shield mesh flare up, even though it is bigger, you will only see the outer edge of the shield mesh light up.

Unfortunately I cannot; when I had written that post I had already removed the buffs and meshes used in that experiment.

They AI makes checks, I'm not attentive enough to know the details, assuming anyone has the foundation solid without an actual dev saying "it does X" but the basic idea is that the higher the number, the more often the ai goes "should I build this" or "can I build this".

Really high numbers can potentially result in a more proactive, useful AI, but the higher the numbers are, the more the AI lags the shit out of the game.

Correct, but there is one caveat though: the AI still only gives out orders during AI ticks, which happen once every 10 seconds. Even if the AI is checking whether or not it should build ships once every second, it will still only queue up ships to be built every 10 seconds, so increasing the values to very high values becomes pointless after a while.

I'm guessing you're talking about the Artificial Unintelligence thread. Eh, sorry about the formatting, I initially wanted to group stuff by entityType, but things soon started to overlap and I started uncovering stuff that isn't tied to any entityType, so that's why details might be in weird places. I've been intermittently making minor formatting tweaks, but the more I fiddle with it, the more I realize I'll eventually need to move it over to a separate webpage, since there's only so much you can do in a forum post. Also, I think I found an easy way to trigger the generic faction AI, so I might just be able to hone in your odd capital ship grouping thing.

As far as I've seen, it isn't: all game speed settings do is multiply various income, speed, acceleration, etc. values as dictated by gameplay.constants, they don't actually increase the speed of the game itself (eg. Slow Income Speed decreases your resource income by a certain amount instead of increasing the amount of time between income ticks). However, speeding the game itself up by 2x, 4x, 6x, and 8x via the plus and minus buttons next to the salvage button does increase AI tick frequency.

BTW, the easiest way to get a generic faction AI is to alter the planetModuleRoleType of a faction-specific tactical structure to that of a faction-generic one. For example, if TEC's shield generator's planetModuleRoleType is changed to REPAIRPLATFORM, TEC AIs will operate using the generic faction AI; ditto for Advent with their antimatter rechargers and Vasari with their weapons jammers. The best part about this trick is that no actual stats are changed, so factions still play like they would in the unmodded game.

The big 5v5s maps popular on ICO (Huge Single-System Random Map Fair.galaxy) use basically just WeightedRandomFair and RandomFair for most of the map (except for the moon/roid/volcanic Fair near the homeworlds). There are approximately four times more WeightedRandomFairs than RandomFair on those maps. Does anyone know how the WeightedRandom[s] work, i.e. how are they weighted? 

Ah, the answer is rather simple in GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef: the "Weighted" lists contain repetitions for the same planet type (so as to make the [probability] distribution non-uniform). There's probably no other kind of weighting going on.

I was afraid that this ability is not so much been tinkered with.
For some reason the entityBoolModifier "DetectIncomingHyperspacingEntities" seams to show up on the orbital module but the effect does not .

Though i know that Abilities can only reference one buff that two other buff seams not to be referenced from any ability. 

Anyhow i believe i can go around the problem though it wont be so nit

Thx guys!

Hey man, I can give you a quick run through on what is needed. It is rather easy once you work it out. One thing I recommend though is using XSI tool for setting up the models for Sins. I wouldn't be able to help you with exporting from 3DS max as I don't have it or know how to set up tangents in it. (which are pretty important for Rebellion)

Wouldn't surprise me if someone else has tried this; however you can put civilian structures in the tactical tab and vice versa. Additionally, the titan factory works as a 100% civilian structure without issue.

What will happen if you say, have a civilian structure in the tactical tab, when you hover over the tactical tab, said civilian structure will show up as having 0 slots, as it costs no tactical slots, but it will take up logistical slots even though it does not show up when you hover over the civilian tab.