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[quote who="Sinperium" reply="933" id="2974814"]In this case, I would save the major model body as one mesh and the portions I wished to render effects with as separate meshes that could be used with particle effects?[/quote] Yes... if several portions used a identical particle effect, you can combine these portions in one single mesh... Don't forget to add a hardpoint on the major body mesh who will be used for "call" the particle effect... finding the right location for

Reply to Show off your Sins model (pick a page) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Do you have forget the segmenting stage just before the UV projection stage?

Reply to Show off your Sins model (pick a page) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Weapons hardpoints, like any other type of hardpoints need to be attached to the primary mesh... By example, if you wish to make a ship who is half transparent like these in the "earth final conflict" series... You create first the "shape of the ship"... in XSI, you add all the weapons/abilities/fla

Reply to When is Rebellion Due? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Yarlen" reply="13" id="2973877"]Right now I'll simply say, "When it's done." I know that's a crappy answer, but we feel it's important that we do a good job with this rather than rush it out.[/quote] Well, it is not a crappy answer... in fact, i like it... soase was never rushed and it was, is and remain a good game... some of your other game who was with a good potential was somehow rushed and result was not so good... Take your t

Reply to [MOD] 7 DEADLY SINS : by DANMAN GAMES (DANMAN3712) ver 2.5 FINAL AVAILABLE to the PUBLIC! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I think that a port to diplomacy will be good mainly due to the engine optimization in Diplomacy ( more memory and CPU resource for the game )... but if they add everything planned for Rebellion, it will remain less room for mod... since 7DS is already near the (in)famous 2GB limit... Dan is already using plenty of his time to optimize mesh and texture but there is some limit to optimization...

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[quote who="Sinperium" reply="915" id="2967616"]Particle effects (which I got no skills at) that would be awesome for this would be: The main drill rotating constantly The lower coil spring expanding and contracting slightly in a steady rhythm The tentacles waving slightly The tail gently flapping up and down An engine glow coming from the inner faces of the segment joints of the tail A man can dream...of course, then his wife will wake him up.[

Reply to Orgovs are severely Overpowered in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Have read the 6 pages from these topic... yes, Orgov can be a pain but with my own experience, mines make a good work to disable them... Vasari can use Gravity mines for slow them down ( -30% max speed, -60% acceleration and disable phase jump )... allowing fighter/bomber to destroy them... of course, explosive mine can be mixed with the gravity mines... and the ruiner can lay mine everywhere ( can mine a wormhole if you wish ) In case of Advent, homing mines make all th

Reply to Banksters and Political Gangsters in The Media Sins Forums

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="16" id="2965114"]It is not money that is the root of all evil, ...[/quote] Money is the evil... simply look how money is created in the video below... without debt, you don't have money... due to how the money is created, from time to time, the debt bubbble who never stop growing explode... [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiwSqFdIBf0 [/video] Full original versio

Reply to Brilliant sci-fi shows i missed somehow in Movies & TV & Books Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"]Are there more like these, i am not aware of, you know? Tell me about it [/quote] There is plenty of sci-fi show... several was already named in previous post but not series like "Andromeda", like "Starhunter" or like "earth final conflict" listed in these topic... well, i have more that 10 Tb of sci-fi... some very old like "space 1999" from 1975... "The outer limits" from 1995 is somehow good too ( 1 or 2 episodes by story, 7 seasons )... wish

Reply to Shogun 2 is Freaking Awesome!!!!! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Kamamura_CZ" reply="83" id="2917669"]3) Fantasy units like heavily armored women with naginata appear in the game (Onna Bushi)...[/quote] Just for info, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onna_bugeisha :p

Reply to [v0.54.2]Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races Remastered {Rebellion 1.95+} *UPDATE 16.05.2023* in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="TobiWahn_Kenobi" reply="2468" id="2946944"]@Fileosoft Hi, If you are still watching this thread, I've had another look at your non-canon additions to the Vorlons (Heavy Cruiser, Vorlon Carrier), and to be honest, though they are nice models, they just look to little unique for me (please don't bear a grudge). If you like I would be very excited to have you create a unique Vorlon carrier model for your Vorlon fighter drones. Also if you could finish that Planetdestroye

Reply to Shogun 2 is Freaking Awesome!!!!! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="114" id="2946462"]Have you studied poetry or something? It's really good![/quote] Nope, only play Shogun 2... not yet 300 hours like some people here... but the game quote is good for inspiration... by the way, only one is from me... other are from various other people... come from a Linux site forum where a topic make fun of Microsoft Windows...

Reply to LulzSec Hacks SonyPictures–1,000,000 Customer Accounts Compromised in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="47" id="2946476"]The reason they're being hacked/cracked (wtf-ever) is the same reason MS and it's products get it, and now it's starting for Apple as well: FOLLOW THE MONEY: In other words "shoot at where the most targets congregate". That way the most is gotten for the least effort (the principle guiding hackers/crackers lives). These are nothing but criminals whom vulnerable people misidentify as heroes. They (the hackers/crackers) are in f

Reply to Shogun 2 is Freaking Awesome!!!!! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="111" id="2946177"]Learn from the Shogun, my apprentice. Learn from Haiku:[/quote] Well, since i have install Shogun II, the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages on my computer have been replaced with their own Japanese haiku poetry : Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A file that big? It might be very useful.

Reply to LulzSec Hacks SonyPictures–1,000,000 Customer Accounts Compromised in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="37" id="2946264"].....so there was no encryption......you think encryption would have changed anything in this TARGETED ATTACK other than making the whole thing take longer? Seriously, encrypted things always need to be able to be decrypted......[/quote] Well, a 40 bit key will need 0.015 millisecond ( using a cracking computer with 1800 custom processor )... a 56 bit key will take 1 second... a 64 bit key will take 4 min 16 sec... a 128 bit key will

Reply to LulzSec Hacks SonyPictures–1,000,000 Customer Accounts Compromised in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="16" id="2945982"]As for the hackers? I don't care what reason they give publicly for their illegal behavior. They are GUILTY of computer crime. END OF STORY. [/quote] Well, hackers are useful... without them, you will not have the "Internet"... by the way, these guys are not Hackers but Crackers who is something very different... Please, read the section "What is a hacker" at http://ca

Reply to [MOD] 7 DEADLY SINS : by DANMAN GAMES (DANMAN3712) ver 2.5 FINAL AVAILABLE to the PUBLIC! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="YourzZzZ" reply="4226" id="2945391"]I have a question: If I make my system into a dual boot (i.e. install windows vista or xp as well), will this fix the crashes for this mod?[/quote] Well, it is always a Beta, so it is possible that some crash happen due to bug no yet found and/or corrected... But a dual boot ( best with XP ) can only help... it will remove the specific problem with Win7 x64 and since XP is on the lower end related to resource use ( proc

Reply to Sick of HDD's Dying So I Bit The Bullet in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="19" id="2942184"].....they're way too big. {there isn't a SSD made that'd hold all my FSX stuff let alone the other games].[/quote] Well, if you have a little more that 240000$ and a PCI express 16x slot free, you can always try the io-drive octal ( http://www.fusionio.com/products/iodriveoctal/?tab=photos )... 5.12TB of capacity, read at 6.0 GB/s, write at 4.4 GB/s... be

Reply to Sometimes I have to put with this when I play Sins (warning--lolcat photo!) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"]Sometimes I have to put up with having my cat on the keyboard or mouse when I play Sins...[/quote] Your cat simply wish to participate... simply give them a SOASE spacesuit... Your keyboard/mouse will enjoy their new freedom... and a working ceiling fan in your room will make the cat

Reply to [MOD] 7 DEADLY SINS : by DANMAN GAMES (DANMAN3712) ver 2.5 FINAL AVAILABLE to the PUBLIC! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Peter1x9" reply="4217" id="2943229"] I've done that twice just now in my map. The first time I used a city planet and ended up with a 49k debug file (minidumped). The second time I changed the city planet to an ocean planet and ended up with a 100kb debug file (didn't minidump). [/quote] Well, i am pretty sure that your log will be useful for Danman... included the log who have not end by a mini dump... For the log with minidump

Reply to Turrets and animations in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="IskatuMesk" reply="3" id="2942452"]There are no arcs in SoaSE, only directions (left,right,forward,behind).[/quote] Well, there are arcs in Soase... -+90 degrees from the directions... and direction is not related to the visual but to the invisible hardpoint assign to the weapons... [quote who="Sinperium" reply="2" id="2942355"]Thoumsin made a post (somewhere) explaining how it could be done--but he doesn't detail everry step of actually doing it. [/quote]

Reply to [MOD] 7 DEADLY SINS : by DANMAN GAMES (DANMAN3712) ver 2.5 FINAL AVAILABLE to the PUBLIC! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="DANMAN3712" reply="4211" id="2942755"]Anyways, thanks to Fileosoft ... helping out here guys.[/quote] Well, in the case of NHD-151, i have setup a account, certify it and give the playtester right... but the guy have never log on the forum... [quote who="Peter1x9" reply="4214" id="2943013"]The Sins dump file mostly contains a bunch of jibberish. Is there any certain part of the dump file that will tell me what the actual error is? I also set showerrors

Reply to Why no anti-piracy? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Greg30007" reply="7" id="2941815"]I know some people who pirated this game at first but with all patches and the fact they loved game they decided to purchase the game. Some purchased more than 1 copy even. [/quote] Well, i was one of these "people"... when the game was released, i have read about it in some computer magazine but it was not yet released in Europe... so, i have download it via torrent... 2 first download was filled with crap ( virus, trojan, etc )... t

Reply to Won't recognise disc in Technical Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"] A friend of mind played it first on his laptop and it worked fine. ... I then tried to play it on my main desktop computer... it is not recognising the disc at all... [/quote] Well, since the disk have worked fine the first time, it mean that the disc was good... try again on your friend laptop and if it work, it mean that something is wrong with your drive... if it don't work, it mean that something bad have happen to the disk ( U

Reply to How can one modify ambient lighting? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Well, you have several way easy ways... A general one is to edit your user.setting and modify the value of "Gamma"... it will modify the luminance of all you see on screen... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/GammaCorrection_demo.jpg A other way, is to simply disable bloom in your setting, it greatly reduce the light emit by luminous object Finally, for more