Thank you that helped a lot. I was able to reduce the whitestar and bluestar down to their proper sizes. 

Have a question, when you first start the game and you click the button to choose which race you want to play, Rebellion changed it so that it was a split screen for each race between rebel and loyal. How do you get rid of that so that the button goes back to the way you have it (pre Rebellion)?

Not sure, perhaps Darvroth can enlighten you. Might be in the player config and/or need some adjustment of the UI pictures and positions.

Hi, glad you like the mod. As for ships - we are currently a little understaffed in the modelling and texturing department. And in al other departments, so no, no ISA in the foreseeable future.

As for the second paragraph - not sure what you mean. The AI has always been rather foolish and unable to really cope with mods. That is one of the gripes about this engine.

If you mean the split screen like in Vanilla Rebellion, our mod doesn't have that feature. I spent literally years mucking around the code trying to make fully fleshed out rebellion factions for EA and Minbari with different tech trees etc but the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. Not saying it can't be done but with a mod team of 2-3 people doing this part time there is no way. Especially not when so much other more basic work needs to still be done. 

Another poster was asking about additional models. We are still what..77 ship models short just to fill out the 6 existing races and that doesn't count planet orbiting structures, star bases and various other visuals like weapon effects. Then there is all the 2D work still to be done on the tech trees.

The game allows a lot of flexibility but in so many places there isn't a graceful way to accomplish the desired end result. 

I know, you have much ships in your plans, but some of these ships is not canon and was never seen in the series or films. Balance is a good thing, but there is no balance in the series. Minbari can have less ships, but these ships will be stronger and can cost more, so other races too. And whitestar is one of the most interesting ships in the series and should be part of minbari fleet if your team have no resources for creating ISA. Whitestar can be part of Religious cast in tech tree and it would be not bad decision. 

But no means no and it your rights.

Anyway, your work is very cool and very hard and i'll spend some time playing it. And i'll try to add ship that i want for my self  

Actually with you and me it equates to 1 person working part time  

I know many ships are not canon. When I started the mod I used the mongoose miniature handbook as reference because they did some of the basic balancing work for the tabletop. Also they had lots of mostly sanctioned ship designs.

So true, I'm a bitch. But truth be told there are very good creative people out there who can make models that "look" good. Problem is that the quality is often lacking. Also it is very hard to do a good optimized UV mesh and it is best done in an coordinated effort between texturer and modeler because they are intertwined. Most people just throw UV geometry stacking over each other somewhere on a generic texture map. Might look OK but you cannot bake lightning an texturing effects into the texture that way. And these effects really make models shine.

I'm certainly not the best texturer (far from it) but I'm the only one left and I can bake these effects into the textures to at least make them look acceptable.

There will be a small update in the coming weeks/1-2 month. Hope rather sooner than later. But just an additional model.

I've stopped coding long ago. Most of the hard work was done by Darvroth - thanks a lot for making it playable - and we both have little time at the moment for this project in our spare time.

Thanks for the kind words and glad you like what is there so far.

Tobias

Thanks for the write up. Not meant to be rude, but I don't particular care tbh. If I wanted to make a science out of it I would be into all you posted in seconds. Truth is, it is a hobby project for me that was put on a backburner because I cannot invest the time needed to make it priority number 1 for me. And since Darvroth and me are the only ones left here and do this in our spare time for nil I cannot even think about going totally in depth to care about whether somebody considers something canon or not. That would just be too much effort required. We want this mod to be B5 and fun to play, not scientifically correct.

If you ever get into modding (making models code, textures, UV, effects, animations, interface,...) you are welcome to help us out and help us make it more "official". But  right now I'm glad if I even am able to get a new model into the mod. And XSI gives me a hard time with this right now.

See:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/489347/page/1/#3716364

Quoting GrosseAdmiralFox,

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I'm just being a nice fan of the series... but my modding skills is crap.

I do understand you. And if it were my working job to do this and I would get paid for it I would try to do it as true to everything as possible, including trying to get into contact with MJS himself. But my modding skills are also limited and tbh. I would call them far from professional in that regard. So I think we will just do whatever we can afford to do and try to make it nice to play for as many people as are still interested.

Looking back I realise that this project has been going on for 9 years now. And only in the first 4-5 years have I been able to motivate enough modelers and texturers to get a few models done in a quality that seems sufficient. But there are so many games out there and sins is not that famous (and very limited concerning modding) I think most modders (and B5 fans) look at other games/engines.

But we are still here so not all hope is lost.  

Stellaris seems to have the lion share of 4X gamers at the moment. SOA2 still seems to be going strong so Sins isn't dead but it's definitely fading as the engine ages.

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We've had issues with the tech tree menus sometimes overlapping...which menus are having issues and what exactly is displaying?

I will check in the coming days. Should be easy to fix I suppose