[MOD] Celestial Bodies (update 06/29/09) 0.9 for Entrenchment 1.03

for Entrenchment 1.03

Published on February 1, 2009 By TohKlidan In Sins Modding

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Mod - Celestial Bodies
by TohKlidan - version 0.9

Inspired and based on Solar Mod by Cybdevil

Requirements:

or Entrenchment 1.03

Mod Features:

This mods main focus is about adding more celestial body types and extending the existing ones. Which means more size and effect variety, new bonuses and abilities. Also some new researches are included but only things that had to do with colonization or avoiding effects from planet/star abilities. Also this mod contains special scenarios some of them taking place in our own solar system.

Current Celestial Body Count: 104

Overiew of Celestial Body Types:

- Desert 4 sizes (Moon, Dwarf, Normal and Huge)
- Ice 4 sizes (Moon, Dwarf, Normal and Huge)
- Terran 4 sizes (Moon, Dwarf, Normal and Huge)
- Volcanic 4 sizes (Moon, Dwarf, Normal and Huge)
- No Atmosphere 4 sizes (Moon, Dwarf, Normal and Huge)
- GasGiant 2 Sizes (Small, Big) and 2 variants (stable gas and unstable gas)
also colonizable via new researches
- Homeplanets (Terran, Desert, Ice, Volcanic, PirateBase)
- Blackhole (from 7 Sins Mod with new fx)
- Deep Space Sector
- Nebula
- all existing asteriods, stars etc. have now adjusted sizes and gravity wells.
- White Pulsar (star with new ability)
- Blue Magnetar (star with new ability)
- 6 different Companion Stars (for multi systems)
- 44 different Celestial Bodies of our Solar System.
(14 with a unique texture, thanks to Cybdevil)
- special scenario planets, like Consciousness of the Unity

Addtional Changes:

- new HUD icons, pictures and Galaxy Forge icons
- new player portraits
- new Milita and Starting Templates
- new planetary bonuses, abilities and researches

For further informations and detailed change list, read Sins_Celestial_Body_Overview.xls

Scenario Maps:

- CB Birth of the Trade Order [ making of blog ]
- CB Mars Wars [ making of blog ]
- CB Purple Saturn Day [ making of blog ]
- CB Sirrius Odyssey [ making of blog ]

- CB Black Hole Pirates
- CB Alpha Centauri

further informations about the maps: post 1 , post 2

And 2 Demo Maps (not balanced for gameplay) to see the
new features in the ForgeTools and ingame.

New Galaxy Forge setups:
- for all new Planets
- Random for Sizes
- Random Moons
- Random Companion Star
- Random Anomaly
- Updated orignal setups with new planets

Here are some ideas and things that will be included with future releases:

- new bonuses and abilities for planets and stars
- new planets and stars
- New Maps and Updating my maps with events/story
(if ever possible)
...

Known issues:
- sometimes the corona effect of the companion stars are shown before you zoomed in or explored the star,
The problem exists with all effects that attached to meshes via mesh points.
(see the TEC starbase you will see the glow on the top before the body shows up, too)

vanilla Version issues:

- only the custom scenarios appear in the map menu, to fix this:
Sins treats the mod's Galaxy folder as the Galaxy folder,
meaning it ignores the standard one if a mod has one.
So the solution is to copy/paste every map you have in the Galaxy folder
in your Sins install folder into the mod's Galaxy folder. (Thanks to SpardaSon21)

Credits:
- Cybdevil for the solar system textures.
- 7 Sins Mod Team (DANMAN) for the Black Hole, the White Star
- RS-fx for the french version
- sinsofasolarempire.de team for translating the unmodded entrenchement version to german
- Annatar11 for his Q&A help

CBMod v0.7 for Sins Vanilla 1.15/1.16 download:

http://www.mediafire.com/?f5gqynz1myj

CBMod v0.9 for Sins Entrenchment 1.03 download:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2yjmwezyn2h/SoaSE_CBMod_Entr_v09.7z

Some Screens:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2e5457e5e6f97f655a3d773badf214305e748e3298e784fbb8eada0a1ae8665a

So i hope you enjoy it...

stay tuned for future updates, and feel free to post some comments.

Changelog (only latest changes):

v0.9:
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- compatible for entrenchment 1.03
- french translation by RS-fx
- finished german translation, and updated german str file.
- new stars: Magnetar and Magnetar Companion with special ability
- new planets: Consciousness of the Unity
- new maps: CB Black Hole Pirates, Alpha Centauri, preview of "Now and then, Here and there"

v0.8b:
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- added new Templates for TEC, Vasari and Advent Militia
- added new templates: Rebel Outpost and Pirate Outpost
- added new auto players for TEC, vasari and Advent Militas
- fix in the blackhole attraction field buffs
- small adjustments for the militias on all CB maps

v0.8a:
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- Unstable Gas Ability targets now also planet modules
- Pulsar Radiation now works on stars (thanks IC!)

v0.8:
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- decreased max mines for asteriods, moons, anomalies and the white pulsar
- increased the hyperspaceradius for moons (from 15000 to 17000)
- added pulsar radiation ability to companion pulsar
- added german version (most of the new strings are translated)
- new anomaly: nebula and its ability
- updated demo2 map
- added, reworked and tweaked blackhole abilities
- fixed starting setups for map: "CB Purple Saturn Day"
- added new templates (vasari-milita, advent-milita, special scenario milita)
- small milita changes on all maps
- new map: CB Sirrius Odyssey

Comments (Page 13)

181

JasonFJ

on Jun 11, 2009

JustJim did the mod enabler on my link not work? I thought you resolved the issue but if anyone is having trouble enabling Requiem and Celestial using the mod enabler (linked above) please let me know (you can post without registering on my site for instant feedback and attention!)

182

just_jim

on Jun 13, 2009

JasonFJ

reply 6

Oh sorry, I should have said something. It worked fine, I just had Mods in the wrong order.

I was just seeing if I could actually merge the 2 mods and get it to run without minidumping all over the place. It's just sort of a running experiment. In between recording stuff yesterday I added in all the other Distant Stars planets, and later I'm going to add in all the extra DS planatary bonuses. More than anything I'm just teaching myself everything that needs to be done to build a really big mod.

Like I said, this is just an experiment, I wouldn't post it for download unless I get everyones permission first. And even then I don't have a site to upload it to...

183

JasonFJ

on Jun 18, 2009

Hey Tohklidan, I'm sure you know this but v0.8b needs an update to run with Entrenchment v1.03. Basically you need to add renderShield that is missing. My recent testing also shows that blackholes, gas giants and no atmasphere planets aren't appearing.

184

TohKlidan

on Jun 29, 2009

yeah thank for the tip with the renderShield parameter.

Blackholes and gas giants work fine as I tested them.

The no athmosphere planet (normal size) had a wrong entry in the galaxyscenariodef. I fixed it in the version 0.9

And by the way version 0.9 which is compatible with entrenchment 1.03 is out you will find the link and infos in the first post above.

185

RestlessMind

on Jul 23, 2009

Is there any way I can get a version of this mod with just the barren worlds?

186

just_jim

on Aug 06, 2009

TohKlidan,

Consciousness of the Unity ??? Oh I can't wait to try this... THANK YOU!!!!!!

187

JasonFJ

on Aug 10, 2009

Hi Toh,

Your manifest changes file doesn't list

entityName "STAR_MAGNETAR.entity"
entityName "STAR_COMPANION_MAGNETAR.entity"

I had to glean this from the main mod file as I was getting errors when adapting Requiem.

188

doberman211

on Aug 16, 2009

ive been missing out a lot since this mod went entrenchment. did you ever get arround to making red giants and dwarfs yet? i also have more stars like brown dwarfs and orange ones. and pretty much all stars that exist that aren't in any mods yet...i dont think. i havnt got them working in game but i know they should. ive seen the brown dwarf and orange ones in game but the light yellow and the other ones i havnt. i made them off the real Sins stars and the texture update. but some i did myself. the brown dwarf i got off a program known as celestia (its an astronomy program). you could include them in your mod if you want. just make sure you credit the texture update guys(forget who they are), SoaSE and me.

189

Whiskey144

on Aug 18, 2009

I think that they did;

Also, TohKlidan; permission to use all/part of Celestial Bodies w/ mods that I make (creds of course)?

190

RestlessMind

on Oct 06, 2009

Will there be an update for this mod for Entrenchment 1.04? Please?!

191

harpo99999

on Oct 06, 2009

restlessmind you could run the mod through my mod updater 1.18a which is in reply #93, BUT FOLLOW the instructionsor it will minidump due to differences in the manifests from new reference entity files

harpo

192

RestlessMind

on Oct 06, 2009

But will it convert a Entrenchment 1.03 mod to an Entrenchment 1.04 mod?

193

harpo99999

on Oct 06, 2009

restless that is WHAT i did most of my testing on and as most of the changes between other versions and 1.18/1.04 are the same as before plus the 1.17/103 to 1.18/1.04 changes it should have little difficulty updating mods from 1.15/1.01 and later

harpo

194

RestlessMind

on Oct 06, 2009

Okay, cool.

195

RestlessMind

on Feb 10, 2010

Is there gonna be any way to use this mod with Diplomacy?

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