Star Wars: Sins of a Galactic Empire 1.0E (entrenchment)

Published on December 1, 2008 By EvilleJedi In Sins Modding

12/12/2009

Sins of a Galactic Empire (SOGE) 1.0e release for Sins of a Solar Empire Entrenchment
A Star Wars total conversion mod for Sins of a Solar Empire
12-12-2009

TEAM
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Models, textures, ship stats: Evillejedi
Abilities and tons of debugging: Psychoak (It would have taken another year without this help)
Swrebellion.com Web support and general debugging: Evaders
Interface icons: Ozwolf
SW Music: Pedro
Many many beta testers, many who didn't do a damn thing thanks to those that gave us valuable feedback!
Probably some other people I am missing, thanks

CONTACT
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Development website http://warlords.swrebellion.com
Development forum http://warlords.swrebellion.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=593&sid=d9baa3b5114c49929088ca5b1506e866
bug tracker http://warlords.swrebellion.com/mantis/view_all_bug_page.php
sins forum https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/331584

INSTALLATION
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The zip file should be around 225mb

Extract the contents of the zip file to your sins mod directory
Example for windows XP C:\Documents\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Entrenchment v1.041\
Example for Vista/win 7 C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Entrenchment v1.041\
open the game and go into options and select the mod from the list of available mods and then activate it.

THIS MOD HAS NOT BEEN TESTED WITH ANY OTHER MOD AND PROBABLY WILL NOT WORK WITH ANY OTHER MOD BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF FILES IT ELIMINATED TO BE STABLE.

The mod should be working fine if the only races you can select are the star wars races. If this is not the case you have not properly installed the mod in your mods folder.

NOTES
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This release is a compiled version of 1.0e, there are newer builds on the SVN, however these may be unstable or perform poorly, so download at your own risk

If you are in the beta test you will not need to download this file, simply update your SVN repository to get the latest version

This release contains fully playable factions for the Rebel Alliance, Imperial Navy, Confederacy of Independent systems and Galactic Republic

There are currently no star bases in the mod and the Civilian research has not been modified, it will be modified in the future

Since it is a total conversion this mod does not contain the stock races (advent, vasari, tech), this
decision is driven by the hardcode limits imposed by ironclad and by eliminating them makes the mod
much more stable. If you want the star wars races with the standard sins races check out
Star Wars Requiem at http://sins.imperial.cc/

If you would like to participate in the development of the mod we can definitely use your help!
However we are looking for skilled individuals to do development of many detailed aspects of research/ability coding and 2d artwork
and do not need general help. Please post on the development forum if you feel that you can help us.

Please check the development website for updates on news, new content or official patches

If you would like to participate in beta testing the mod you can post in the beta testing forum to get access, we are looking for testers
that will provide detailed feedback of items they find in the game into our bug tracker.

SOME STRATAGIES
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Planetary defenses are great starting elements to protect your planets, especially when upgraded, build lots of turrets!

There are a few planet hardening upgrades in the defense research, these are crucial if you want your colonies to survive.

Capital ships need to be protected before they gain a few levels, once they have a few levels they will become very potent.

The ranges for weapons have been greatly extended. If you want more epic battles move your ships into closer range and many
abilities and other weapons will be used by the vessels.
Remember even Admiral Ackbar thought that it was suicide to move so close to the imperial star fleet!

The Imperials focus on Heavy firepower, Ion weaponry and command and control. It is best to lead groups of star destroyers
with a flag ship. The Empire does not have a low cost colonizer, but the gladiator and ISDs are very capable. The Executor
really has no equal.

The Alliance is focused on survivability, the mon calimari vessels may not have a lot of firepower, but they will be able to
last the engagement. Mix the mon cal vessels with their other vessels for a mixed fleet and protect the Diplomatic vessels,
they have excellent high level abilities

The CIS starts off weak, but has some extremely powerful abilities after a bit of research, build lots of trafed II's at the
beginning and then progress to Lucrehulks with buzz droids.

The republic is based off of mass production of its vessels, use support vessels to supplement homogenous fleets and Lead the
fleets with a Jedi cruiser.

KNOWN BUGS
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Some abilities may not work exactly as described, may have conditional issues or may be over/underpowered. This is being worked
on and some of it requires Ironclad to release a new patch

Research costs have not been finalized, they will change in the future

Some ships may be unbalanced this will be addressed as we get specific bug reports

some descriptions are too long and cause the text to spill out of the description box, this is especially true on lower resolution
screens like laptop screens. We are working to fix this

On some ships it may be possible to zoom in to the point that the models mesh disappears slightly this is being addressed.

some vessels such as the subjugator and some fighters may have no texture or may have incomplete textures, this is being addressed
in future versions

Ywings are currently being displayed as bwings, this will be fixed soon

Some abilities or effects may require work, this is especially true of abilities like Sprint

Some icons are being reworked and will require some adjustments

Fighters fly through ships and bounce around, this is something that needs to be fixed by ironclad, it is an engine issue.

The AI likes to spam some ships, right now there is no fix for this.

Compatibility
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Entrenchment 1.041+ (until ironclad breaks it again)

model files and textures are compatible with older versions of Sins, however Ironclad made
many changes to the SINS code that require 1.041, if you want to backport the mod to a previous
version feel free, but it is a tremendous amount of work

Download Links
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http://www.filefront.com/15122655/SOGE1.0e.zip

Comments (Page 81)

1201

Norsehound

on Apr 12, 2010

There are some problems that are coming with these 'edits'. First, the sizes which I extracted the images appears to be twice the scale of what they...ah... 'should' be. This means like the width of the X-wing is two pixels instead of one. Personally I like the pixelated image, if nothing else as a homage to those old briefings.

Second I asked about the limits of those icons because in some cases I can't tell where the boundaries are and where they aren't. The TIE Bomber icon for example might be too wide- tried using it now and it cut-off one of the wings. One of the Star destroyers has a pixelated line going across the front that you can see occasionally because I don't know where the transparencies end. There could be a problem with the Escort Carrier and Interdictor since they're almost right on top of each other.

Which brings me to another problem- I can't tell which ship is which, and which ships use the same icon. I tried to figure out the Corellian Corvette icon and replaced it with the standard 'Corvette' Icon from TIE fighter. I presume they're the same, but I could be mistaken in that another ship uses the same icon. Also the only Mon Calamari image I've extracted is for the MC40a, while there are many variants of Mon Calamari cruiser that are usually represented with the same icon. In the case of the Star Destroyers I made subtle edits to the icon (really, you should use the info-card to get a detailed glance at what it is other than a 'star destroyer), but I can imagine this won't satisfy some people.

So while I have the interest and the mindset I'll tweak with this, but it isn't as easy as it sounds because of these problems. Is there any way to edit the .brushes document?

1202

Evaders99

on Apr 12, 2010

I believe all the icons are a standard square. I'll get the specs when I get back, but it's all in the brushes file. You shouldn't need to edit it.

1203

Evaders99

on Apr 12, 2010

dup

1204

Norsehound

on Apr 12, 2010

If I know even how big the 'standard square' is, I can make the icons fit that size and paste them in without a problem.

And what about adding new icons for existing classes? I thought about using one of the XQ icons to stand in for some structures.

1205

Evaders99

on Apr 12, 2010

Hey, if you want make some new icons... be my guest. I think the YV and NR might need them

1206

Evaders99

on Apr 12, 2010

So the icons you want are in textures\Unit_Infocard2.tga and the .brushes file is in window\InfoCardIcon-Ship.brushes

The size of the icon is 22x22 px

1207

Norsehound

on Apr 12, 2010

Infocard 2 modifies the sprites that fly around in the game. Infocard 3 modifies the sprites that are on the unit tree to the left. That I figured out, as well as their locations. What I want to know is how I can edit the .brushes file.

The icon size helps. How did Eville make these in the firstplace?

Also, I'm surprised to see the hangar defense being an XQ platform, something I didn't know.

1208

Evaders99

on Apr 13, 2010

It's all text - edit with notepad

1209

Blackvenom01

on Apr 13, 2010

Well they will like it, they must, it is the 'real' star wars ships icons ^^

1210

Norsehound

on Apr 14, 2010

Well, the computer that I had Sins on with the mod has encountered a strange error and bluescreens on anything other than safe mode. I can still grab the files I was working on and still have the 'extracted' images, but I can't work on anything for now. I intended to get some screencaps of my progress so far but it looks like it won't happen now...

I managed to replace the icons for the TIE fighters, assault gunboat, both Star Destroyers, the Interdictor cruiser, the Modified and Regular Nebulon-B frigates, the Modified Corellian Corvette, the Corellian gunship (with a slight modification to the Corellian corvette icon), the Rebel fighters, the Dreadnought, and I replaced the hangar defense with a platform icon. The Strike cruiser icon was replaced on the left menu but not ingame.

Also, the OP is wrong: B-wings are being displayed as Y-wings, not the other way around (incase nobody pointed this out already...).

I do have icons for mines, and I thought about trying to replace them, but for the ships already existing in SINS I wouldn't know how to begin modifying them. Before my computer borked I did look at the text file Evaders mentioned but couldn't make any sense out of it.

At the moment the only thing I can do in terms of icons is make up new ones, but I won't be able to test them. I could post them here and maybe Eville or someone can introduce them. Then again, Eville hasn't commented at all on my efforts, so I may or may not have any 'official' support for his mod.

1211

Evaders99

on Apr 14, 2010

If you don't change the coordinate mapping, you don't need to touch .brushes. You can just test them by replacing the .tga file

We'll certainly take whatever work you have, but it probably has to be in something that isn't a lot of extra work. The .tga route is the easiest to implement

1212

Norsehound

on Apr 14, 2010

The reason I'd edit the .brushes file is to make it clear where the divisions between the recognized ships are. As it is, the corellian corvettes have something like two little pixels floating in front of the icons when they are in game. I had the same issue with the dreadnought as well- little white pixels that probably came from the back end of the ship in front of them. I can't tell- the lines aren't clearly drawn in the .tga file.

Touching the .brushes file would (presumably) also let me define new ship classes and such. So if I made for example icons for the research bases and put them in, I'd add them into the 'card' files and define them in 'brushes'.

1213

Evaders99

on Apr 14, 2010

The .brushes give you all the coordinate points

I believe the format is (could be wrong on the last two, since its a square...)

Left, Top, Width, Height

If you want to modify the .brushes, you'll probably need to provide the .brushes file too.

1214

Hawk707

on Apr 15, 2010

Will this mod work without the entrenchment expansion?

If not are there any Star Wars mods that will?

1215

Evaders99

on Apr 15, 2010

No - requires Entrenchment. So does Requiem mod

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