No, no Homeworld music.  Had to add Addagio for Strings myself from the Tri-Pirate mod.  (How the hell can you forget to include that song in a freakin Homeworld mod?)  Don't have the rest or I would have added that stuff in too.

And ships really need some work.  As in balance work.  Capitals suck.  Badly.  They don't FEEL like a capital ship.  Add in EVERY model is the same bland white and it gets boring real fast.  You could have at least textured the Kushan ships to have their distincitve powder-blue paint job.  Same with the Taiidani and their color scheme.

And no place for the Pride of Hiigara.  Really.  You know you could have used it as the colony capital.

But really.  This mod isn't that good.  No offense wraith2209, bu this really needs some work.  Finish up the Kushan and Taiidani, then do the Turanic Raiders.

Weapons need fixing, for example Kushan phase missiles (WTF?) and some custom effects would be nice.  HW ships don't fire in bursts, they fire one powerful shot at a time, although at a faster recycle rate than Sins ships.  I want my capitals spamming autocannons and ion beams.  Right now they are just the standard Sins capitals (for the most part) with new models and downgraded weaponry.

And wraith, I am offering to help you with your mod.  While I can't do custom effects, I can at least modify your entities and get them closer to Homeworld for you.

Yeah, I know.  I'm giving something called "feedback".

PICS... We must have PICS!

hmm......

anyone know how to turn off the sins beta so I can play this?

LOL @ you using my Tri-Pirate mod for the music...well that is what I desinged it for......

Wraith, Are you going to add HW music? Cous' that would be awsome.

Note: if your going to add HW music, I sugest that you DON"T rely soley on my Tri-Pirate mod. becouse it contains only The best HW music, I cut quite a bit out.

The problem with eviljedi's normal maps is that they didnt have proper alpha channels. I already explained this to him, but he said he was having trouble exporting his ships with the normals maps.

Look at your normal map in Photoshop. Specifically the color channels. Make sure it has an alpha channel. If not then duplicate the RED channel, and rename it to alpha (this is straight from the dev's). Save it as dxt5 argb. NOT dxt5 nm! blammo! Your normal problem "should" be fixed.

And post some screens dammit

Edit: I looked over the textures, and there are several problems. One is the normal map alpha issue i said above. It is best to make your normal using the nvidia plugins, and duplicating the red channel as i posted.

The second problem is the DA textures. You have "ghost" ships because you have all white in most of the alpha channels in the DA textures. Only the areas that are lit should be copied to the alpha. Basicaly copy the GREEN channel into your DA's alpha.

This is how the DA works for 1.05 (it is changed for 1.1)

Red channel is team color. self explanatory. Make all black if you dont use team colors.

Green channel is your light map. Areas like engine glows, lit windows, etc. etc.

Blue channel is your reflection, or shiny mirror surface. If you dont want shiny surfaces make this channel all black

Alpha channel is bloom. If you dont want bloom make this channel all black

The third problem is the models themselves are extremely bright in game despite all of the texture fix's. How did you export them? Did you use XSI? I have ship mesh highlight filter disabled, and they are still way too bright. It seems like the ambient is set extremely high on the materials. In XSI it is best just to delete any, and all of the imported materials, and create just ONE new scene material. Delete any extra phong materials it creates, and just use the one scene material.

Then assign your cl, nm, and da textures to that one material. Set your glossines in phong to 32 which is the default sins setting. You have some models with multiple materials assigned without any textures assigned to them. You are using one single texture sheet which is good. However the multiple unused materials could create some problems.

Dont forget to duplicate your UV's and set your tangents to the duplicate set in accordance with the mod documentation

Hey man this is a good mod but its a shame about the textures if they were better this mod would be great.

Also I like how you used the Scafolding as a repair sation and the krimera station as a hanger defence.

The derilect is a cool idea for the capital ship i like it very much i can remember seeing it in the origanal homeworld I was interested in it.

Also maby you should try making the Homeworld 2 races as well.

They told me that it could never happen! Now, how's laughing now! (Note: I know some people said that this could work, But I really want to gloat )

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/314553

Thanks for all the comments. I will work on the textures, but I am having a hard time understanding the mechanics of the texture channels. I hope I can it better with Major Stress' suggestions. For right now I have stripped the normal maps from the .mesh files (open them in notepad and look for the .nm file reference and delete them, leave the quote marks. It makes the ships look better. I will try to get some screen shots in the next few days.

HMMMMMmmmmmm.....

DANMAN

I haven't downloaded your mod yet but that ship picture you posted looks amazing from that distance.  I guess the low resolution would be more obvious zoomed in or with a higher quality picture.  Your poly lining looks great. 

What are all the programs you need to do this that you used?

Great mod,how is texture repairs going?

You should have seen the early betas version of the Kol. It had a very striking resemblence to the kushan destroyer.