I think the volumetric explosions mod is currently in use in the requiem mod, you might want to ask them.  On a different subject, anyone interested in playing some compstomps online with this mod?  Of the few people I play with online, 0 so far use any mods except maybe DS.  Anyone?

How do you mean? The shield meshes are TNG style bubble shields. You cant get much more trekkie than that. Hull hugger shields are out of the question. They would make total poly counts on the map way too high for the mod to be playable (except for maybe on gods own computer). Beyond that there isnt much else we can do with the shields themselves.

Think Psychoak came up with hit effect similar to the shield hit you posted. Its in the particle hit effects. We already got a slight blue tone on the shields when they get hit (for next update). We dont want to go too overboard with the effect, because when multiple weapons hit the shields they could turn into an ugly bright fluorescent blue orb. That is just the nature of Sins shields. Non of us are programmers so we have to make due with what we got.

TBH I don't think Voyager is a good source of info. It may be canon, and many of the younger generation think Voyager is the coolest thing since sliced bread, but Voyagers "style" just doesn't appeal to us on the mod team at all. We try to keep as much of the Voyager absurdity out of the mod as we can. We look at TNG, DS9, and the Prime Universe trek movies for reference. As far as the Borg go, Yes we do use Voyager Borg, but they are not useless, and "neutered" like they were in Voyager.

We need to find a different particle effect for Klingon ships calling in BoP re-enforcements. The mini shield orb messes me up into thinking the ships shields are broken lol. Ill see what i can conjur up. Perhaps a klingon symbol underneath the ships like the akkans target ability.

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I can run DS at all max as well, but with this mod I need to set it to Medium/Low/Low to avoid minidumps.

I took some time to fix the borg sounds (weapons and effects to mono and amped down) and came up with an alternative dominion poleron beam and cardie phaser sound.  I also made a cool sound for borg warp charge up, and an alternative for the hyperspace travel sound that's more trek like (i'm not sure it's all that much better that what was there though).

Are those something you guys could use?  If so, where do I send them or post them? 

My last DL was also corrupted  .

As for the template you were asking about is exactly what I was doing with the UIPlayer texture files. Every brush on those sheets is player specific and the brush files I created for each race house all the links to the UIplayer texture. If you just changed all the player entities without copying my new brush links you lost all the changes I made.

I got real pissed when I lost my HD and all my project files for SOA and Battlefiled (Had a sweet mech model going) and I stopped modding everything for a while

I will try to reDL again soon to see whats what.

PM sent.

I agree the existing sound is really good, I just wanted the trek warp sound; specifically the sound you'd hear when they'd show the Enterprise moving by at warp on the screen in an establishing shot.  It'd be nice and loopable, but I couldn't find a decent sample anywhere and don't have the setup to grab one off a video or something.  It's a small thing, but I just wanted to try it out.  What I came up with is a modified flyby sound mixed with an engine hum, but it isn't the same.

Hello!

as it's quite illusionary trying to read through all the 110 pages: is there a post hidden somewhere in this thread which gives some overview about the different ships and their abilities?

Beside that: a really wonderful mod indeed you created here!

Even though I thought after my first few hours  - where I picked of course (!/?) Borg as my race for the coolness factor - that it must be extremly unbalanced as they were so extremly powerful.

But then I found a message here saying that they weren't really designed to be a "playable race"...which explains that of course

Anyway, if there were some nice little roundup about the different ships and maybe also an overview about the races and their strengths/weaknesses - I'd be very grateful!

Hey um I've been playing your mod (I think it's pretty amazing btw) for a while and I just had some questions...I'm really sorry  if I repeat something that has already been said.

Some of the Klingon Birds of Prey, especially the ones being called in for reinforcements, don't appear properly. The top part of the ship is just missing and you can only see the bottom. I didn't know if this was some screw up on my comp or if the work just hasn't been done yet. I don't mean to pressure you guys to finish I just want to know if my comp is screwing up the game.

I was also wondering if you guys planned on making the capital ships gain hit points and shields as they level up in addition to increasing their damage.

No, your computer is not busted. The Inside out BoP's are a known issue. It is actually a new model that hasn't been properly textured yet. Will be fixed in next update.

MyFist TY for the offer Go ahead and make the templates once we get the guides written we will post them to you.

That is the one thing about Elite Units that differ from the vanilla cap ships. They do not gain hit points, weapon, or shield buffs for each level they gain. This is by design. The only thing they gain is the use of new ability's.