My experience is that if a file will not convert, it has missing lines added for the new versions. Like its missing a new rebellion sound link or something.

I would use notepad++ compare and compare it to a player from the reference files.

 EDIT: Converting entities does not help with performance much at all, binning the meshes is the biggest benefit. Binning really only helps load time.

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I've been playing a game with this mod for 4 and half hours on the largest map there is, the name is Star Wars Galaxy Map I guess, in a 2 vs 2; it lagged like hell but I was still having fun and for me it was worth finishing it. Now, when I try to load the game, after waiting about 10 minutes for it to load, the loading bar becomes almost fully loaded, in-game music starts and it crashes, creating the usual MiniDump.

I've uploaded the MiniDump file, will you have a look at it and see if you can help me in any possible way, please?

http://www.speedyshare.com/sbnAS/Sins-Rebellion-v1.80-2014-04-23-19-32-08-3996-3440.dmp

If there's nothing I can do about it, do I have to just give up on that map?

Hey Lavo,

Is the buff (imperial-anti clumsy) intended to stack 5 times? On level 1 this amounts to a 50% bonus for chance to hit and turn speed (although I am not sure about the chance to hit mechanic, so 50 may not be high). Just a thought, is if is intended to be so high why not have a stackable limit of 1 and make the bonus itself 50, just because the result would be the same (a bit quicker-5 sec X5 to currently get to 50) but easier for player to understand (I had to dig through the entity files to workout where the 50% was coming from). Thoughts?

Edit: Also, some of the experience rewarded seems a bit off. For instance a liberator class is worth 21 xp, while a mc30c is worth 7. Is there a reason for such a large difference here?

Edit 2: Noticed that pirate raid seem buggy. As in, when the pirates arrive they just sit there, then move a bit, the stop again, without really attacking.

BTW none of these comments are complaints (as I am sure you are aware , just looking back they looked a bit wingey)

Cheers

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It is my pleasure to announce the release of SoGE 946392c! This release brings with it a number of changes, both in terms of gameplay and visuals.

Gameplay

• The AI has been reworked and buffed. Do not be afraid to try out Easy difficulty now, you might be surprised by the capabilities of the Normal AI!
• The range of all ships and abilities, plus the size of gravity wells, has been reduced by 25% for an enhanced cinematic experience and more enjoyable play.
• The cost of ships, structures, and research have been halved, and income rates have been adjusted. Further, the number of resource asteroids per planet has been reduced, income per resource asteroid increased accordingly. These changes have the two fold effect of giving SoGE a much more vanilla Sins feel, and facilitating planet management, while maintaining the previously established balance.
• The Alliance now has the Quasar Fire in their lineup
• For the CIS, the Droid Tri-fighter is now their advanced starfighter, replacing the Nantex, while the Advanced Droid Bomber now takes on the advanced starbomber role.

• The CIS, Republic, and Yuuzhan Vong have all received new civilian tech trees, a demonstration of what SoGE's next focus is in terms of gameplay changes.
• The Yuuzhan Vong faction has been completely reworked, thanks to their ships' health system being entirely redone, plus the new tech changes, the Vong are a force to be feared.
• The descriptions for all ships in the game have been updated, to make the mod more accessible to those unfamiliar with Star Wars. Included in each description is the number of squadrons the ship is noted, if applicable, and for combat ships the targets per bank count of the primary weapon(s) has been included as well.

Visual

• Brand new UI, created by Ludo Kreesh. 
• New capital ship explosions
• Virtually all weapon particles have either been rehauled or replaced

• Several fighter models have been replaced, new bump maps have been created for all ships/structures, and many ships have been given proper hard edges+tangents.
• The skyboxes in the mod have been replaced with new ones. Make sure you turn on colored skyboxes to see them!

• New bloom shaders have been included to make bloom much nicer.
• Shields are now visible when ships are hit by enemy fire. Small amounts of hits will make shields flare up briefly, while large volumes of fire will make ships light up like a Christmas tree.
• New ISD models by Max of STA3.

Download

NexusMods

MC-30's seem to have a texture problem. They "glow in the dark" all white. Double check the -da textures. The bloom maps may be all white, or there is a missing flag in the mesh file. Also some planets/moons seem to be missing textures.

Missing moon textures

MC-30 Ghost Ship

Other than this the mod is looking really good

I knew it would be an easy fix. I have done the same thing, and overlooked a material, or forgot to add the alpha channel in the -da texture. Then when i test it i am like WTF?!! Sometimes photoshop makes an all white alpha channel if you forget to add one yourself.

You are asking a sins modding pioneer if he installed a mod correctly? LOL! The answer would be Yes. I did use LAA (though i dread using it). I installed it in accordance to the readme's instructions. However, I will re-install the mod, and test it again just to be sure i didnt miss anything (hey its possible).

If you need LAA to run the mod then the mod shouldnt finish loading at all correct? It "should" dump before it finishes loading, because sins loads almost all of its assets at game startup. With a few exceptions like sounds, but pretty much all of the textures are loaded. I am not so sure about particles, because there is a slight lag when a ship fires weapons, or uses an ability for the first time.

Does LAA even work in 64 bit windows 8.1?

EDIT:

I re-installed the mod, and followed the instructions TO THE LETTER. No Joy.

It seems the problem may be just one of the moon meshes may have its texture borked. many moons show their texture while some others do not. If the moons are randomly generated i can see how this is happening if its just one moon texture is missing, or miss-flagged.

More screens... No these are not shots of the same planet. Just many planets that look the same. The map is Chiss Ascendancy.

I unzipped all contents into the mod directory, I checked the LAA flag, Then enabled the mod using the enabled mod text just as stated in the readme. How do i know if LAA is working or not?

I didn't see any issues with the ship textures with the exception of the glowing MC-40 which you already fixed in house. I built everything, and ran a pretty long game. No dumps. All ship textures seem to be loading fine. Nor were there any particle issues that i noticed. Just the random missing moon textures. The only thing i didn't do yet was test it in dev.exe, cheat everything, and see if there are any texture issues in the texture checker.

 Here ya go. SotGE test  The "black holes" seem to happen mostly around terran planets.

Map is Chiss Ascendency, but the random black holes happen on any map i chose. I'll test the game later on dev.exe, and see what i can find. If anything at all. For all i know it could be my laptops intel gpu causing the problem. However it runs Vanilla Trinity, and Rebellion flawlessly on max settings. Plus SoA 2 (hell i made some SoA 2 stuff on this laptop).

Glad i can help

If you go into the Game Options before you start a game, make sure you have Supercaps Enabled, otherwise you get no Supercap factory.

Lavo,

Out of curiosity, why are anti-strikecraft vessels set to do 999 damage to strikecraft (both an active ability and a passive)?

Yeah, I'd say it'd effectively stop an Alpha strike... the ability will insta-kill any strikecraft unlucky enough to be in range, up to 36 targets.   I'm assuming the passive is (essentially) "add 999 damage to normal weapons fire if target is strikecraft"... which means the weapons are effectively one-hit-kills.

Sorry, I don't mean for that to come across critically... I'm not trying to be, honest!  I've just never been a fan of the "insta-kill" abilities and stuff simply because it was "an easy balance solution".  Although, I guess it is the better approach with the limitations of this game's engine in how much it can process before it starts slowing down.  Otherwise I'd think it'd be good balancing them to where the anti-strikecraft units merely had much higher rates of fire (to allow quick retargeting and take down of weak units), set the damage <-> HP numbers bit closer to each other*, and increase the number of targets per bank.

*TIE Fighters (depending on your source) were 2-3 hits from normal laser fire, TIE Interceptors were 4, and TIE Bombers 6, for examples.  Course, being fired on by laser turrets with more than 1 barrel kind of increases the chances of being hit by more than 1 bolt.   Rebel craft were a lot tougher, but they were also unable to field anywhere near the numbers with pilot training (again, depending on your source) being 3-to-1 odds.  But obviously, they weren't able to field to those odds.

Sorry... rambling... stopping now.