Absolutely amazing mod. I played this at a friends house and it was just amazing. So amazing in fact that I bought SOASE during the steam christmas sale. Problem is I didn't really understand all the versions so I just bought the new one (Rebellion). Problem is, from reading these forums it seems this mod is not for Rebellion. Is this something that will eventually be done?

ronux, you could track down a copy of trinity(which is vanilla,entrenchment AND diplomacy all in ONE bundle) which is 19.99 from stardock(https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/store?results=true)(who are the publisher and part of the development team for sins) near the bottom of the page,

THEN you could play the current release

harpo

The problems are the UI, which you stated you have no clue how I did it, 

psy is still scratching his head as well. 

You know Major, you can download pieces at a time with SVN? logon the account thru a web browser and start selecting files.

If you're having connection drop outs during the download of a large file try Cygwin's wget utility, which is a command-line HTTP client. It supports range-requests (-c option) where it uses the size of a partial file as the start offset for subsequent downloads.

The '='s indicate what's been downloaded in the current transfer, the '+'s indicate start offset.

Awesome!

Wonderful! I hadn't played Sins in years, but this mod has rekindled my interest.  You have kept the gameplay very similar to the original, but with enough "trek" changes to make it nearly perfect.

I am quite sure you already have your plans for the Rebellion transfer, but I always find input helpful!  I have some ideas about the Titan vessels for the different factions, perhaps you will allow me to share?

Titan ship ideas:

1. Borg--what's another big cube amongst friends?

2. Klingon--perhaps Worf's large command ship (Neg'var-ish) from the mirror universe.  The new emperor would perhaps like the mega maniacal bend of such a ship.

3. Dominion--The ship scales were so varied is DS9 for the Dominion, you can make one of their battleships even bigger and still have canon.

4. Romulan--probably the Reman Warbird, but this is very un-trekish. Perhaps some FASA inspired design...

5.  The Federation is hardest.  They certainly wouldn't build an uber ship.  I would suggest the actual NCC-1701-E as the Titan, with some improved stats, but perhaps with a permanent ability called "Federation Flagship".  This ability would grant large offensive, defense, and cooldown bonuses to all nearby units.  One could recreate the Battle of Sector 001 in which as soon as the Enterprise shows up, things go very well for the Federation.

Thanks for letting me share.  I am so impressed by this mod it bodes well for your future work.  Thus, feel free to ignore any of this!

It's a secret!

Yes, we added a few surprises people should like but we are asking the team and testers to be hush hush, even after release we are asking not to give them away, I want to keep the WTF   factor  for 1st timers.

As per the UI work, there should not be too much todo, they mostly added a new overlay , a few new window textures " the new rebel loyalist selection window" other than that just changes within the window files themselves. Should not be too much work , just very time consuming . 

thanks jay

I really don't get your obsession with TGA files. I put probably way more than a 1000 hours of work into this mod and you just want to make a lot of what I did look like crap. Keep the large images DDS, like I did, and all the buttons and icons stay TGA. After all the optimizing I did we were just running over 1.2 and now I have added a few things before the Diplomacy release and will be testing.

The models were really bad, why not optimize them.   I totally rebuilt the borg models, optimized and did proper tangents on, Bren, Card, Dom, and some fed. Rebuilt a pile of fed models that causes errors on exploding. All the ROM and KLI still need to be done.

EDIT: Told you a few times now, I already did go thru all the Reb brushes. Just need the .window files done, I would need to see the screen as I work or they would have been done long ago.

Sure J, I was just not interested in paying more that 10 bucks on renting a game that can be taken from me at any time for any reason. Shouldn't take me long at all to do the UI.

The error is caused by lines in the model that were not polys, the explosion attaches to one of the lines it spits the error. And when a lot of models have it, trying to run test games is a real nightmare.

Have to raycast select all the polys and hide them, get a section done like above and delete the lines, unhide and weld everything where the lines were to get proper tangent lighting.

The Models/Master XSIs still has your original models if out want to test one. The Galaxy is this one, spawn 3 or 4 and scuttle, watch the errors pop up. Its not every time, just enough times to make finding what was causing the errors another nightmare. I have to spawn 4-5 of every model and scuttle, see if it errors, but a least I found what was causing it.

I have not seen that error in a while now so I may have gotten all of them, but I doubt it. Still need most fed, all kli and rom to be optimized and tangents, I check them as I go by hiding a section of polys and checking for these cursed lines.

BTW, I just finished all the shields. And some other secret goodies.