doberman, it has been over five months since the last update and we have no idea how long until the next update, might be only one month, might be six, but in another thread blair fraser indirectly indicates that there is another patch in the pipeline.

impulse will only update the games to the latest version, not to a particular version.

<edit> there is a copy of the mod in rjhughes thread(site) that is up to date

harpo

Oh ya baby. I forgot about this mod when I was importing Sins Plus into my mod. Lets see how the game runs with 40+ extra planets and stuff.

Is TohKlidan still around to give permission? If not, are we allowed to release this work (with credit of coarse)?

Some beautiful planets and some good ideas in this mod but I'm not to agreeable with the top row for the planet icons. The second row is more what I like and a lot less unobtrusive.

I will be doing a big "Stress Test" and see how many of these planets will make a difference in game lag. Everything is checked for errors and optimized.

So here is my Celestial Bodies combined with Sins Plus DDS texture sheet so far  .

That a big universe.

myfist, what specs are the computer(s) you are testing for lag on?

harpo

2x2.6 dual core, 5 gig ram and 1 gig ATI 

Vista 32 bit

Ya I would like better.

I dont have to add them all but in makes no difference to have them in the sheet or brush pages.

wouldn't the lag show up better on a slower computer?

harpo

Thats a five year old POS. I got the oldest one out of anyone I know. I would probably have to look in the trash bins for something older.

nope, ironically Sins runs better on my 32-bit 2 gig system then my 64-bit 4 gig system

and never crashes

and I even have a celeron 1.8 with 3gb ddr2 800 and an ati m200, and sins is happy but not fast on it (btw it is a laptop that is atleast  6 years old, but I also have an i7 beast and a fair range in between.

and IF i wanted to really stress a cpu I can fire up an old athlon xp 2400 with 1.5gb ram and a nvidia 5200 (at least 8 years old),

or even older like

a ibm 686 150 with 16MB ram and a 2mb cirrus logic pci vga card(about 13 years old and STILL working my first cd burning comp).

harpo

im using a 2.27GHz i5 Acer Aspire, brand new and it runs sins perfectly with the effects all on highest. it has 4GB or RAM and an ATI Radeon 512MB.  yes its a laptop. never crashed and is perfectly smooth. love the thing for 850$.

and i know when the game last updated. i was just pissed because i thought Distant Stars had this mod in it but it didnt. for the original Sins. i torrented the v1.18 patch. damn shame they dont come with uninstallers. im not sure if i can patch over it with an earlier version so i just end up reinstalling the game. and is someone ever just going to make a Solar Sins and CB mod fusion? ONLY those two mods? plus some cool ideas i had, EX: Orange Star, Brown Dwarf Star and just get rid of the Green Star because well im an astronomer and i wont go into details but white stars would be green its just there's an equal amount of something and it just negates it making it white.

something else since i love the planet size mod, have Red Giants and Red Dwarfs. and more gas giant textures. i find the two are just boring.

and ever hear of the term Water Giant planet? its the crossover between a Terrestrial and a gas Giant. its a ball of liquid and the mantle is pressurized ice over a molten core. some say that our two outer ones are ice giants and would be considered this type would they be closer in our solar system.

just some thoughts. i REALLy love this mod. i was there when it all began. hell i was even PMing Cybdevil to get cracking. oh well. i just want to play it again so i'll look for a v1.15 patch or something. BTW i was thinking on getting my galaxy forge back up and running. you interested? i could make one for this mod if you want? call it CBForge or something.

Peace.

Ok--looks intriguing and I really want to try it out in Diplomacy but I get a minidump when the game calls  to install the mod.  I am not sure but I think the Dev version I ran is the beta.  The minidump occurs in the beta and non-beta versions for me. 

Here is the dev build error text:

Failed to find data file 'AbilityPirateFlakBurst.entity'. (SubPath = GameInfo)

Failed to find data file 'AbilityPirateIncendiarySlug.entity'. (SubPath = GameInfo)

Failed to find data file 'AbilitySprintPirate.entity'. (SubPath = GameInfo)

Failed to find data file 'BuffPirateIncendiarySlugTarget.entity'. (SubPath = GameInfo)

Failed to find data file 'RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_ABILITYACCESS_INCENDIARY_SLUG.entity'. (SubPath = GameInfo)

Failed to find data file 'RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_ABILITYACCESS_SPRINT.entity'. (SubPath = GameInfo)

Failed to find data file 'RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_REGEN1.entity'. (SubPath = GameInfo)

Failed to find data file 'RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_WEAPONSCOOLDOWNS1.entity'. (SubPath = GameInfo)

Entity Ref not found: RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_REGEN1

Any suggestions?  I haven't viewed the entity files and all of the beta or Celestial so I don't know which is missing what.  No luck updating, etc.

Imperium, did you download it from this post?

Yep--that's where I got it.

Looking at the error items I'm wondering if its new pirate abilities from the beta that are failing to show?  Were they added in the beta and Celestial is overwriting not knowing about the additions?

whenever I try to load mod, it gives me this error reading:

Saved MiniDump:

C:\Users...\Sins-Diplomacyv1.011-2001-03-01-22-45-21-8760-5164.dmp

What do?

You should revert to version 1.011, I don't know what the beta changes but there is a good chance it is game breaking.

Edit: Weren't all of those in prior to the beta though?