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[v0.54.2]Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races Remastered {Rebellion 1.95+} *UPDATE 16.05.2023*

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[v0.54.2]Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races Remastered {Rebellion 1.95+} *UPDATE 16.05.2023*

Babylon 5 mod effort for Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion

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This is the story of the last of the Babylon 5 mod-efforts. It's goal, to prevent another failure, by creating a place to solve our problems collaboratively. Its a port of call, home away from home, for modelers, texturers, programmers and sound engineers. 

 

Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races

 
Disclaimer:
The authors are not responsible for any damage that may arise from using this mod. This mod may not be sold under any circumstances. It may be downloaded, as long as it does not violate the laws of the state/country you live in. This disclaimer must always be distributed with the mod. For other used please contact me personally.

Thanks to the TEAM:
2D Artist: Tobias Liebhart (TobiWahn_Kenobi), SteinerX
Bughunters: Rob Cummings, cybertx, Darvroth, Peter1x9, ZombiesRus5
Coders: Ronie Albesa (zRazor), Rob Cummings (NewHorizons), Davroth, EvilTesla-RG, Rodney Jenkings (HotRod), Tobias Liebhart, Zvezdochets
Model Templates: Amras-Arfeiniel, James Newman (Firehawk)
Modelers: Ronie Albesa, Amras-Arfeiniel, Fileosoft, Johan Klaver, Koobalt, Tobias Liebhart, Stefan May, Timmaigh, Pauli Valkeejärvi (Hawkwall), Zvezdochets
Musician: Pauli Valkeejärvi
Research: Rob Cummings, Darvroth, Rodney Jenkins
PR: Darvroth, SteinerX
Sounds: Rob Cummings, Pauli Valkeejärvi, Zvezdochets
Texturers:  Tobias Liebhart, SteinerX, TFL_BigBangTheory, Timmaigh, Pauli Valkeejärvi, ZombiesRus5
Moderation: Blake00


Additional support: boshimi336, Lavo_2, myfist0, Gürol Salk (Geopard)

And to
MysticAngel for the Automated Fighter docking ability
The Babylon 5 X3TC team


And thanks to all those modelers whose work is a inspiration and a template for creating ingame assets

If I forgot anyone, please contact me so I can give proper credit. (There seem to be so many decent people involved at the moment)

 

Release 0.54.1 Full Download for Rebellion 1.95+
& Patch 0.54.2

Sins Of The Younger Races Remastered

NEW - Balvarin Carrier and Minor Factions fix!

 

 

Installation Guide:

  1. Download the latest Sins Remastered mod from here:
    https://www.moddb.com/mods/sinsre
  2. Extract the archive into a 'SinsRemastered' folder in your 'C:\Users\%username%\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.85' folder.
  3. Download the latest Babylon 5 Sins of the Younger Races mod from here:
    https://www.moddb.com/mods/sins-of-the-younger-races
  4. Extract the archive into your root 'Mods-Rebellion v1.85' folder instead of a new mod folder as the archive ALREADY contains a premade 'SotyrRemastered' folder inside of it (so if you're not careful you'll end up with a mod folder inside of a mod folder and it won't work lol).
  5. Start Sins and go to 'Options', then 'Mods', and you should see the mods you've installed.
  6. Enable 'SotyrRemastered' and then enable 'SinsRemastered' too. Make sure that the load order is SotyrRemastered first/top and then SinsRemastered second/bottom.
  7. Restart Sins and you should be good to go!

Sometimes the in-game mod loader can be a bit funky so if you can't see the mods you've installed or something isn't working then enabling the mods via the 'EnabledMods.txt' file in your 'Mods-Rebellion v1.85' folder where you installed the mods to is the other alternative. It should look like this to work:

TXT2
SinsArchiveVersion 194
Version 0
enabledModNameCount 2
enabledModName "SotyrRemastered"
enabledModName "SinsRemastered-v0.95b"

 

DISCORD:

https://discord.gg/9AwgByEEKn

 

Old Blog with screenshots and infos maintained by SteinerX can be found here (*OUT OF DATE*)
http://babylon5ins.blogspot.com/

 

Yours TobiWahn_Kenobi

 

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Reply #3976 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Darvroth, reply 3971
I've dabbled since last year but couldn't seem to import the complete database which limited the utility. Give me a few weeks and I'll be able to devote more attention to the task. That way you'll have time to wrap up the latest round of DB improvements before I attempt to set up, learn and then commence file swapping.

Import of entity files is not possible. I've had it for a few filetypes at first (fighters, frigates and Capitalships) but it was never really feasible. So entries have to be added by hand.

Quoting NewHorizons, reply 3972
comment also applies to the Minbari ships - there's several scenes in the series where they fire a salvo of 2, 3 or 4 short duration shots, mainly against fighters but also against EA frigates & cruisers (eg the Drala Fi ambushing Sheridan's fleet from In The Beginning)

Maybe leave the primary weapons firing the long duration beam (scary anti-Shadow beam), but change the lighter weapons to fire salvos.

Agree. And glad to have you back.

Quoting NewHorizons, reply 3975


Quoting Darvroth, reply 3973Glad to have you back!Cheers!


Quoting Darvroth, reply 3974...if you mean multiple short duration beam pulses per firing cycle per target or if you mean multiple targets per cycle.

The former - each individual firing cycle should still only affect one target, basically just break up the continuous beam into a series of pulses. I agree that we don't want to increase the weapon's effectiveness.


Quoting Darvroth, reply 3974Using 2-4 pulses would also help to distinguish the ships by era. Thoughts?Maybe, problem is that we never saw any of the older ships (eg Tinashi) open fire, but I suppose you could argue that later techs improved efficiency, cooling & heat tolerance to increase the duty cycle to a point where a weapon could fire continuously.

not sure this is really possible.

Quoting NewHorizons, reply 3975
Maybe, problem is that we never saw any of the older ships (eg Tinashi) open fire, but I suppose you could argue that later techs improved efficiency, cooling & heat tolerance to increase the duty cycle to a point where a weapon could fire continuously.

That would be an explanation I'd be happy using IF we can get beam pulses to work.

Reply #3977 from Sins Forums Top

Multiple hardpoints per gun + pointstaggerdelay or burst settings should do the trick unless I am misunderstanding the suggestion.

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Reply #3978 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi, reply 3976
And glad to have you back.

Thanks TobiWahn, good to see you recovered from your illness.

While watching the series again it was interesting to see the 1993 copyright date on B5 - yes it'll be 20 years old this year, crikey!

Unfortunately, CygWin's curl & git don't yet work on Windows 8 (looks like the OpenSSL libs fail to load). What git utils do you use?

Edit: Fixed by creating a short-cut to C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -o vi

Reply #3979 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting NewHorizons, reply 3978
Edit: Fixed by creating a short-cut to C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -o vi

Perfect! Yes, the illness. I've been to the Cebit from 7.3 to 8.3 and while the plane was landing my head suddenly felt like being penetrated by a knife. Seems like my sinusitis is still there. Well, I'm having a CT soon so I will see what this is all about. Damn.

Other than that I have to say Cebit was fantastic. I saw Ultimaker in action and I'm now eager to save up enough to buy myself a 3d printer this year. Still not sure if resin or PLA/ABS printer. I've even met the co-founder of 1-2-3-people.com, nice guy it seems. Gave some good advise concerning my sinusitis after we landed.

So hope you all enjoyed your weekend. Coming week I will be in Portugal so now work next weekend either, but after that I should get it going again (I've already got a concept for an extended version of my DB to allow editing and submitting of changes by others - notably Darvroth)

All the best

Tobias

Reply #3980 from Sins Forums Top

Hope you feel better and can't wait.

Reply #3981 from Sins Forums Top

Just tried to play a multi player Rebellion game with my son and ran into "Sync Error detected between _____:0 and ______:1 at tick 300" where _____ were our log in names. This error was seen on LAN and internet play. Both games continued independently after the sync error which occured shortly after launch and before a minute had elapsed.

Anyone seen before?

Reply #3982 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Darvroth, reply 3981
Sync Error detected between _____:0 and ______:1 at tick 300

Damn, I really had hoped sync errors were a thing of the past. I'm having the CT today, so hopefully this is all behind me soon.

Reply #3983 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi, reply 3982
I'm having the CT today, so hopefully this is all behind me soon.

Good luck, I hope they find nothing as finding something is usually bad.

Reply #3984 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Darvroth, reply 3983
Good luck, I hope they find nothing as finding something is usually bad.

I'll get the diagnosis tomorrow, so then I will know.

Reply #3985 from Sins Forums Top

Is the rebellion release out already?

 

(Since Davroth tried a multi game...)

Reply #3986 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting SG23, reply 3985

Is the rebellion release out already?

 

(Since Davroth tried a multi game...)

 

If it's not listed in the OP then it isn't available to the public just yet. It's still in closed testing with a lot of work to do is my understanding.

Reply #3987 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting SG23, reply 3985
Is the rebellion release out already?

(Since Davroth tried a multi game...)

If TobiWahn remains in good health maybe as early as 2 months. Really depends on the extent of the tech tree rewrites. Every race requires some level of update, Minbari and EA require a complete rewrite.  Also there are several new or improved elements Rebellion offers that must be incorporated and tested. The MP test didn't actually go well so there are still issues with the upgrade to Rebellion to overcome.

We are however always soliciting willing talent... See TobiWahn for the application :)

Edit: the edit button is back! That didn't take long...

Reply #3988 from Sins Forums Top

CT brought no real news, sinusitis it is, and I have to take medication for 4 weeks and hope it helps. Bugger.

Reply #3989 from Sins Forums Top

When dealing with illnesses though, no news means good news.  I'm glad it isn't something more serious.

 

Reply #3990 from Sins Forums Top

Indeed, I'm glad the scan was clear. I hope the meds help out.

Reply #3991 from Sins Forums Top

Ditto! Illness is no fun. Hope the recovery is swift and sure.

Was my guesstimate off the mark? With a deadline it might push us closer to greatness, or at least the next release...

Reply #3992 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks! No, the guesstimate is not off the mark. I'm going to Lisbon today and will start on the cooperation side of the DB next weekend. As soon as this is finished it will be a lot easier for us to update stuff (since you can easily submit changes and I just need to review the submit description and click on accept).

Have a nice week(end) to all of you.

Tobias

Reply #3993 from Sins Forums Top

NewHorizon's,

Since we have the place to ourselves for a week (nod to the lurkers) what is your next focus? I'm still tweaking additions/revisions for the tech factions but have been thinking... The weapon effects in Rebellion are a bit splashy for my taste have you had any luck revising colors or scaling up or down an on screen effects? I've dabbled but to no real effect. Punt.

Reply #3994 from Sins Forums Top

I've not looked those yet - weapon effects, weapon effects, hhmmm. If I were a weapon effect which entity would I be?  :S

Quoting Darvroth, reply 3993
... are a bit splashy for my taste
There's one that is used for a Narn flak weapon that looks a bit OTT (green Vasari plasma/pulse gun).

Currently I'm finishing off the 'Flank Speed' ability for the Omega which I managed to salvage from my old machine.

Regarding the EA's tech tree, I don't really see the purpose of stand-alone tech 'Trade Tariffs'. It has several negative bonuses but with a +5% tax increase (probably negated by the other effects) but isn't a per-requisite for any other tech.

** goes back to lurking around 'down below' ;P **

Reply #3995 from Sins Forums Top

Hi All, firstly let me say how much I love this mod, great work on it! I have a quick question though, I believe I have installed the MOD incorrectly as several of the ships still appear as boxes even when I've seen the artwork on here, and the research tree is nearly all just white boxes, not wholely though. Any thoughs on something I may have done wrong?

Thanks in adavance, Bloodhound

Reply #3996 from Sins Forums Top

Hi Tobias, I saw you were after a 3D printer, might a suggest a cheaper alternative, that is free. it was designed by a lecturer at Bath University in England, and all the parts, Data and upgrades are online. Have a look at this link if you're interested.

http://www.reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

Bloodhound

Reply #3998 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Bloodhound2008, reply 3995
Any thoughts on something I may have done wrong?

The mod team hasn't done most of the 2D art work for the SOTYR techs tiles yet so those are white/greyed out...

The ships that haven't had B5 model work yet are either SoaSE placeholders or black cubes. The Rebellion compliant release will change the black cubes to faction color cubes which will help but will still be place holders till the model work is completed.

You may also notice on close observation that some visual/audio effects are incomplete but it is still a work in progress. Thanks for the support and interest.

Reply #3999 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting NewHorizons, reply 3994
Regarding the EA's tech tree, I don't really see the purpose of stand-alone tech 'Trade Tariffs'. It has several negative bonuses but with a +5% tax increase (probably negated by the other effects) but isn't a per-requisite for any other tech.

In my review I focused on canon and Rebellion necessary techs. The initial SOTYR tech conception had the techs on a mix from good to bad with most having a mix of positive and negative benefits. It is likely I did not fully re-purpose this in the suggested rewrite. Bad techs were supposed to always be precursors to some other good tech otherwise there would be no incentive. Many bad effects are timed with the periods of the B5 story arc. If I missed Trade Tariffs, with the above in mind please make a suggested fix on the edit/notes of the ticket.

Reply #4000 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting NewHorizons, reply 3994
I've not looked those yet - weapon effects, weapon effects, hhmmm. If I were a weapon effect which entity would I be?

That data is embedded in the entity files but point elsewhere, I suspect the constant files but I haven't look closely into it. Here is an example from an ability:

effectInfo

   effectAttachInfo   attachType "Center"  

   smallEffectName "CapitalAbility_FlakBurstActivate"

   largeEffectName "CapitalAbility_FlakBurstActivate"  

   soundID "EFFECT_FLAKBURST"

Here is a ship weapon example:

      WeaponEffects   

      weaponType "Beam"   

      burstCount 1   

      burstDelay 0.000000  

      muzzleEffectName "Weapon_TechCapitalBeamHeavy_Muzzle"  

      muzzleSoundMinRespawnTime 0.100000  

      muzzleSounds    

             soundCount 1   

             sound ""   

      hitEffectName "Weapon_TechCapitalBeamHeavy_Hit"   

      hitHullEffectSounds    

            soundCount 1    

            sound ""  

      hitShieldsEffectSounds    

            soundCount 1    

            sound ""   

     beamEffectSounds    

            soundCount 1    

            sound "WEAPON_TECHCAPITALBEAMHEAVY_TRAVEL"   

     beamGlowTextureName "EACapitalBeam_Glow"   

     beamCoreTextureName "EACapitalBeam_Core"   

     beamWidth 40   

     beamGlowColor ffffffff   

     beamCoreColor ffffffff   

     beamTilingRate 3

Some names in "" refer to preset effects stored elseware in the build others like beamWidth are variables and have easily adjustable and obvious effects. Some like ffffffff have me at a loss but I suspect refer to some mapping, I suspect color but I haven't found the key yet. With your search algorithms and table making skills I figure that and some assistance from the lurkers might allow us to make some coordinated headway and get the B5 look and feel right. Thoughts?