Hello everyone.
Since most people have decided to halt production on their mods in regards to stars and planets, I have decided to undertake this mission myself. Here is a little about myself, and what I would like to accomplish with this project.
First of all, I love "Sins of the Solar Empire". I even consider it to be the best RTS style game to ever be produced, even above the C&C / Red Alert series and the Warcraft / Starcraft series RTS's. That being said, I play this game a lot, and when I say I am going to devote time to a project like this, you can believe me when saying that I will not dis-continue the work put in.
When playing Sins, the gameplay I consider fine and balanced, that isn't what bothers me with the game in the least. What does bother me is the limited choices we have as far as stars and planets go when it comes to map building.
So here is what I want to accomplish in each area of the project.
STARS
14 Stars of Various sizes and colors. Using realistic color textures.This would include extended gravity wells for larger stars and smaller wells for the small stars.
PLANETS
40 Planets of various sizes and textures. Planets like stars are nothing more than spherical models with a texture wrap.
What I am looking for, I would like to recruit some players who are serious about trying to build stars and planets. I need people who know how to edit and convert the .ENTITY files.
Also need people who can texture, using the cross pattern textures in both normal and UV mapping. Also need to be able to manipulate and work on the .MESH files if needed.
I know there are some out there who want more planets and star types to build with. Many people found interest in Diresaint and Cybdevil's SOL mod. Uzii's Sins Plus and Solar Sins.
Since we no longer have these people working on planets and stars, we need to work on this issue ourselves. So I want to put together a team who will mod stars and planets for sins.
The 14 Stars and 40 Planets is just the beginning, it is a starting point for what I would like to create. If I can get enough interest in this project, I will produce a website for us to work from and a voice chat server to help us work more efficiently.We will store all work on the website for players to test and give feedback. Hopefully producing Star Packs and Planet Packs for the players of sins to download and use. Always updating and adding more as time goes on.
So If anyone would be interested in doing this, please send me a private message here. Leave some feedback here. OR send me an email at dj_tech_9@yahoo.com or and IM at that address.
This is something I would like to get off the ground as soon as possible, hopefully enough people share my interest in building stars and planets and want to see more in the game.
Thanks,
NeoNaka
