[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 3)

Killy_Blame

on Feb 28, 2009

Will you update your Mod to the current Version of the Entrechment!

TohKlidan

on Feb 28, 2009

Yes, iam still working on it.

Most changes are done right now and i am now testing and bugfixing.

I hope i finish the new version today or tomorrow.

TohKlidan

on Feb 28, 2009

The new version (0.7) is up and ready for download have fun!

See first post for infos and downloadlink

rmkiefer07

on Feb 28, 2009

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

This looks incredible!

You are my hero!!

SpardaSon21

on Feb 28, 2009

Okay, like I asked earlier, any chance of a version for vanilla Sins? The whole inability-to-play-and-mod-vanilla thing has gone away with Entrenchment being installed to its own folder now.

Valkajin

on Mar 01, 2009

Hello,

I downloaded this mod and it looks awesom. I love the new scenarios and th elook and feel of it. I have a problem though, soon as I downloaded it and enabled it , it was only a few minutes before the game began to "minimize itself to the task bar. I thought that sounds weird.....sorta sounded like one of those pop up ads klik klik sound an then poof down to task bar. Ok that is strange. So I exited the game after it did that a couple times and started it back up.....np ran ok for bout 15 minutes and then started again. So I disabled the mod and started a game in Entrenchment, ok this part blows,,,,game minimized again to task bar.

Any ideas? Bad instal,,,somehow picked up a virus,,, something I am not thinkging of?... any ideas? Because everything worked before I installed the mod.

Valkajin

UberBeav

on Mar 01, 2009

sounds like a virus/adware, might be a spy blocker, firewall, or virusscanner trying to get your attention...also might be the OS trying to get you to run an update

if you got steam running and are part of any groups that have an event or got invited to a new group that could do it too

probably alot of other possibilities

(for some reason if i exit the game normally i end up having a "process overload" type effect (closed process are unable to properly close and take up 50% of my cpu each...not just the game processes...but any process i close after i exit the game, i force a game crash to avoid this problem))

Valkajin

on Mar 01, 2009

Spyware I believe..evidently one of my cousins kids has been allowed to "play" on my computer while I was not around to guard it from the lil crumb snatcher...never needed to pw protect it til now that it is too late :/

I think I have it removed, time will tell.

Valkajin

TohKlidan

on Mar 01, 2009

SpardaSon21

reply 10

Okay, like I asked earlier, any chance of a version for vanilla Sins? The whole inability-to-play-and-mod-vanilla thing has gone away with Entrenchment being installed to its own folder now.

I haven't forgot you SpardaSon!

Now that i works again with the current entrenchment version i will downgrade it for vanilla.

I can't say when it's ready for release cause i got a lot of errors with the vanillaDev.exe right now.

Valkajin

reply 11

Any ideas? Bad instal,,,somehow picked up a virus,,, something I am not thinkging of?... any ideas? Because everything worked before I installed the mod.
Valkajin

I rechecked my release files with my anti vir program it found nothing.

Valkajin

reply 13

Its never to late to pw protect your computer, and good to know you killed the virus!

timethatswasted

on Mar 01, 2009

For some reason I am getting a purple tint to all the planets and asteroids, instead of being red marz is purple and foggy looking. I have bloom disabled and the rest of the graphics settings maxed. Anyonelse have this problem?

TohKlidan

on Mar 02, 2009

timethatswasted

reply 15

can you post a screenshoot?

I am not shure what you mean exactly. But I never noticed a purple fog on all planets.

TohKlidan

on Mar 03, 2009

Now you can download the mod also for Sins 1.15.

Link is in the first post.

Here are two known issues that happen in the vanilla version:

- the main hud menu background is messed up since i used the same texture as for the entrenchment version

- only the custom scenarios appear in the map menu, but i haven't found out what the problem is.

I hope all non-entrenchment players enjoy this mod also.

SpardaSon21

on Mar 03, 2009

I have a solution about the maps. 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.

MT4K

on Mar 04, 2009

but then wont you have 2 copies of all the maps on your harddrive? easier and more efficient to just delete the one in the mods folder :-/, unless i'm misunderstanding something

TohKlidan

on Mar 04, 2009

If both ways work, than everyone can choose which way is the best for himself.

I wrote down a note for the next vanilla release.

So its time to get the pulsar and the black hole to work in entrenchment.

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