thanx guys ..I really need any ship that is not in the final Soase version...for a project of mine...if it's not too much trouble, please upload them..

this is the mod i downloaded after I found out that the beta kol and beta marza are in it..(it only took 10 minutes for me to download)...http://www.filefront.com/13863696/7_deadly_sins_2.1.7z/     (I only downloaded it for the beta ships..I don't know if the mod itself works or not, I only play mods for Entrenchment and Diplomacy)

This is probably the biggest problem

 ability:0 "AbilityKOLBETAGaussBlast"
 ability:1 "AbilityKOLBETAHeavyFighters"
 ability:2 "AbilityKOLBETAIncendiaryShells"
 ability:3 "AbilityKOLBETARadiationBomb"

If I do fix this up and share should we put the new KOLs abilities in there? I want for my graveyard to revive so I might make it weaker in a few points but maybe different abilities.

Good point. The KOL is in my diplomacy game now but the textures are messed up. They changed the way the textures are accessed a while ago.

Run the game using the DEV.exe in the root dir, what errors does it give you? The only thing I can see not working is the spaces in the file name. First thing I did was rename TCA KOL BETA.mesh to CapitalShip_TechBattleship_Beta.mesh and change the entity, but I'm not sure. Its in game now though.

 Thanks so much. 

I figured they were the abilities that came with the beta. I will contact before using any though to be sure whats what.

Here is the KOL I got sent ingame now. 

kol_beta.rar

The reflective channel is empty and the team colour channel could use some work.

EDIT: The meshes call for nonexistent textures. Since this is what Danman probably added I am just going to remove the materials.

Material
DiffuseTextureFileName "EffectTechMissileturret-cl.dds"
SelfIlluminationTextureFileName "EffectTechMissileturret-da.dds"
NormalTextureFileName "EffectTechMissileturret-nm.dds"

Material
DiffuseTextureFileName "EffectTechLaserturret-cl.dds"
SelfIlluminationTextureFileName "EffectTechLaserturret-da.dds"
NormalTextureFileName "EffectTechLaserturret-nm.dds"

Material
DiffuseTextureFileName "EffectTechActurret-cl.dds"
SelfIlluminationTextureFileName "EffectTechActurret-da.dds"
NormalTextureFileName "EffectTechActurret-nm.dds"

EDIT 2: Here is the Marza Beta

Both ships need new shield meshes as these ships are larger. I will look whats already available in stock.

SupportShip_PhaseGunship Bloom on and Bloom off

I had the KOL and Marza done from the old files radu emailed me when rj posted the new link. I will compare the textures soon. Meanwhile I just finished the SupportShip_PhaseGunship and those textures from the zip did need to be fixed.

The -cl alpha channel represents the "Team Colors" channel. This is what surfaces should display team colors of your fleet. 

Note: Previous to patch 1.12 the Alpha channel was the "Specular Map".

The -da Red Channel now represents the "Specular Map" of the model. It is how the ship gets that shiny metallic look to it. This is a greyscale image. The lighter areas are more shiny with white being the shiniest while dark is dull areas with black as being no shine at all.

Note: Previous to patch 1.12, and Entrenchment the Red channel was the "Team Colors" map of the model.

SupportShip_PhaseGunship Here is the XSI scene, new mesh and textures.

Also fixed the above, center and aura points. They were way off the model throwing off the bounding box and zooming in was not good in-game. Also redid the tangents. 

SupportShip_PsiGunship  Here is the XSI scene, new mesh and textures.

Fixed everything same as above. 

something is wrong with the weapons of the beta kol that rj uploaded..all weapons fire from one single point in the middle front of the ship ..is there a way to correct this?  ..and I see in the picture that myfist0 uploaded of the kol, the fighter bay is blue  ...the one that rj uploaded has grey fighter bays..

I was searching for screen shots when I came across this Beta Kortul Devastator. What do you think?

Bison...

Hey guys,

On a whim, I've attempted to add the old Kol (from the kol_beta link listed above) to my existing game of Distant Stars.... added the entity files, gameinfo, mesh and texture files to their respective directories, and it's not appearing in my game. Thoughts? I've also edited the entity.manifest file, for what it's worth...

The textures on the guns were not finished on that 1. Use these

Here is my PlayerTech.entity Cap Ship section

capitalShipInfo
 Page:0
 count 7
 entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP"
 entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHSIEGE"
 entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHCARRIER"
 entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHCOLONY"
 entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHSUPPORT"
 entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP_BETA"
 entityDefName "CAPITALSHIP_TECHSIEGE_BETA"

It will give error report on most things using the DEV.exes in the root directory. I changed a few things in the new DL. Make sure the entity manifest has proper names for new entities. Make sure the beta ships entity point to the proper mesh. Players capital ship count is updated.

Spelling and capitalization are very important. I use copy and paste a lot.

If you ever try to change a mod, ALWAYS BACKUP. Save a copy of the mod and give a new name then edit and enable the copied mod. 

Did you use the Dev.exe to test?

The only thing I can see that would give error is the Strings in the ships entity but this would only give string not found error and the game would run fine.

NameStringID "IDS_CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP_BETA_NAME"

DescriptionStringID "IDS_CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP_BETA_DESCRIPTION"

You would need to add these 2 strings to String\english.str and update the count +2

StringInfo
     ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP_BETA_NAME"
     Value "KOL Battleship - Beta Class"
 StringInfo
     ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP_BETA_DESCRIPTION"
     Value "The original design for the TECs first galactic battleship"