Well my patch job went ok and I fixed my load order and I just want to say thanks guys sorry if I was just being a bit nerdy about it.

So my next task on my to do list is eliminating the bright galaxy look around stars when you zoom out far away from the stars themselves. What I want is just to be able to see the stars color preferably any ideas?

Thanks Myfist I'll get on it right away. Will someone tell me why the search engine on this forum sucks Ha Ha I ought to have been able to find that myself.

Also before I boldly go where I probably shouldn't What is the status of this mod, I just spent the last three hours just reading this thread and its made more questions than answers. How is the Diplomacy port over doing? Should I be considering modding for diplomacy or entrenchment?  Thanks

Will do I have been looking it over and I do agree I think it will be loads of help Bookmarked it you know. I do have Gimp somewhere on this machine I'll go find it. I Read the directions and it seems easy enough looking forward to the changes I hate the bright galaxy look just for one star. Wouldn't be bad in the background maybe 1 here and there far.

Worked Awesome Myfist thanks a lot. Had a little problem at first scaled the wrong planet I did the grey one to no effect the checked closely the coordinates on you directions and zeroed in on the correct one almost impossible at 800% I might add without the coordinates. Ha Ha

Hey Guys,

First, I want to say thanks for making this mod.  It's amazing. 

Second, I downloaded the latest version, and the klingon bird of prey mesh seems to not be loading.  It looks like the game only creates the lowest level of the mesh.  I'm not a modder, so I'm sorry if that description makes no sense.

I have been having a spot of trouble and I was hoping someone will be able to point me in the right direction.

I have been getting a minidump error when I try to enable the mod (more specifically when I click the apply changes button).

I have SoaSE Entrenchment and it is patched to 1.051.

I downloaded the 0.4.2e version from moddb and then got the 0.4.5e patch from the link in this post to make it compatible with Soase 1.051. I did exactly as directed (unpack the patches in to the correct folder using 7-zip). This led to the first minidump error. I undid what i had done and tried a few more time each with the same result. This leads me to my first question. Is 0.4.5e cumulative? Do I need 0.4.3e ( I assume this one exists since I have not found it) and 0.4.4e in addition to 0.4.5e?

Reading through this very long thread I found a dude named koshe who had the same problem and posted about it on page 53 https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/371686/page/53/#replies

Mystic Angel directed him to try the Entrenchment Dev tool and inform him what the last error was. I will post what my last error was but there were so many that seems a bit useless.

In red is the very last thing to pop up and in yellow is the second to last thing. I included the yellow text because the text in red looked less like an error.

Assert @ c:\gs\entrenchment\CodeSource\GS/Entity/Types/Frigate.cpp(226)

m_pMesh != NULL

Could not find Mesh: Borg_Antimodule

Since my first few efforts I have re-downloaded the mod and am encountering the same problem. The only other thing I can think of is a re-install of SoaSE. I am encountering no difficulties at all with my normal installation though so I am hesitant to do this as my internet connection is rather slow and it would take me a while to download Entrenchment again.

Thanks Larani64. I can't seem to find 0.4.3e anywhere. Moddb only has 0.4.2e and I have been unable to find anything via Google. Unless I am totally blind there is not a link for it int the header of this thread either. I would be much obliged if you could provide me with a link to where you downloaded the 0.4.3e from.

Thanks a lot dude. May you have many children with Jessica Alba. 

A Happy Thanksgiving to all the SOA2 Team members current and those hat have contributed in the past a many many Thanks on this Thanksgiving for making SOA2 such a enjoyable and pleasant mod to play on Sins of the Solar Empire.

Larani64

Hello All ,

Just wanted to drop by and give everyone a update.

We now have a much leaner and meaner mod, in terms of errors and coding. We are going to be compling a update to SOA2 and releasing it to the public in the next few days.

Thanks jay and team

Assume it is for Entrenchment unless specifically stated otherwise. There is much work to be done with the Diplomacy build. I do not feel it is release worthy yet. That is just my opinion. Jay is the project lead.

I may get back into this, but from an "artist" point of view. TBH i am not interested in the mechanics of SoA2 at all. Just the artwork, and modeling aspect. Jay, and the rest of the SoA 2 team are in charge of the game play aspect, and what makes SoA 2 tick. I am a Model, and Texture artist. Not a programmer. Not a game designer. Not a code monkey. I have NO say in the gameplay design. That is how i want it to be. I just want to build models.

So i have taken it upon myself to re-mesh each, and every model in SoA 2. There have been major issues coming up with the current SoA 2 meshes. VERY frustrating issues. To the point of Game Breaking issues. If you followed The Optimization Project topic. It gets into much more detail on what these issues are.

I now understand why these issues are happening, and i am now taking steps to correct these issues. It is the way my own models, and how ALL of the 3rd party models were meshed. We meshed the models the way we meshed them, because it worked very well for other games, and saved a ton of poly's along with it. However the methods we used DO NOT work for Sins. Sins is very unforgiving of the flaws that are in these meshes. No blame is to be put, because we honestly did not know that the way we meshed would cause issues like this. Not to worry, because we CAN fix this now that i know what not to do. I will be doing a one for one replacement of every model in SoA 2 with a new one of my own making. Mindful now of what causes the errors we are currently having. The only challenge is to match, or better the poly counts of the current meshes.

Why should i do it? because no one else will. It was our goal from day one to replace all of the 3rd party work with our own original models anyway. I think some more UI work is in order as well

No promises on "when" this will be done with my busy schedule. Just know it is in work.

Quick questions - will you be swapping out the pirate ships in the next version?

                       - will you be adjusting the AI so that they build capital ships correctly?

Have a peek preview of what might be in the next update. 

I will work on the backdrop to fit the theme soon unless someone else wants to jump on it.

Its a good thing I made a tutorial because there is no way in hell I would have remembered how to do that.