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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 #3001 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Darvroth, reply 2997
Gave the Minbari a good vetting yesterday .... Once the Minbari have 5-6 Sharlin class or batter capital ships in one fleet they sweep the other younger races before them. It is a blast, but not while on the receiving end. It is cannon but from a game perspective will need close review for balance ...
Darvroth

Agreed.

A Sharlin is a very powerful ship to start off with, especially considering the first one is free.

The only real threat at the start of a game are two or more neutral Drestes (if they get in range) or another Sharlin.

How about making the Tinashi the Minbari's first capital ship, may be increase some of its statistics to elevate it from a cruiser.

The Sharlin could then require some research, having say "Grey Council" and 2 or 3 military labs as pre-requisites.

This (hopefully) conforms to the series storyline: the record of the first Shadow war (that Delenn shows to Sheridan) has several Tinashi warships (but no Sharlins) patrolling the space around the Minbari starbase - just as the Shadows slice & dice it.

 

 

Reply #3002 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting NewHorizons, reply 3001
Agreed.

A Sharlin is a very powerful ship to start off with, especially considering the first one is free.

The only real threat at the start of a game are two or more neutral Drestes (if they get in range) or another Sharlin.

How about making the Tinashi the Minbari's first capital ship, may be increase some of it statistics to elevate it from a cruiser.

The Sharlin could then require some research, having say "Grey Council" and 2 or 3 military labs as pre-requisites.

This (hopefully) conforms to the series storyline: the record of the first Shadow war (that Delenn shows to Sheridan) has several Tinashi warships patrolling the space around the Minbari starbase - just as the Shadows slice & dice it.

This might be one solution, but I propose another: Disable the "first capship free" setting. I absolutely advise against it in this mod. You cannot balance for that with Shadows and Vorlons.

And the sharlin was built before humans went into space at all (1957)

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Reply #3003 from Sins Forums Top

I got the impression that the Sharlin came after the first Shadow war, may have been designed in reaction to it though.

BTW: Congrats on an excellent mod, as Darvroth stated "It is a blast" ! :thumbsup:

Reply #3004 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting NewHorizons, reply 3003
BTW: Congrats on an excellent mod, as Darvroth stated "It is a blast" !

Thanks! We do our best!

Reply #3005 from Sins Forums Top

Using the latest down load would help. Doh! Shame on me. So caught up in the weeds couldn't see the forest.

Darvroth

Reply #3006 from Sins Forums Top

Anyone can tell the proper checksum for latest version 0.4202?

Reply #3007 from Sins Forums Top

V0.422 is the latest though it also requires 0.4202 (checksum 96560292) to be enabled.

Darvroth

Reply #3008 from Sins Forums Top

hmm, 0.422 and I am getting 52971287...

Reply #3009 from Sins Forums Top

are you enabling V0.422 over V0.4202?

Reply #3010 from Sins Forums Top

yes that checksun is 0.422

Reply #3011 from Sins Forums Top

tbh, I always copy the contents of 0.422 over the files in the sotyr folder from 0.4202

I can look at home what the checksum is for me.

Reply #3012 from Sins Forums Top

TobiWahn,

I'm wondering if the latest Windows 7 patch broke the mod. After it installed Thursday I couldn't get the mod to work. I've even gone so far as to uninstall and reinstall SoaSE and redownload and reistall the 0.4202 and the 0.422 patches. When enabled there is no checksum for either. SoaSE seems to work normally but nada for the mod.

Darvroth

Reply #3013 from Sins Forums Top

Any chance it could be the new .061 beta patch for Rebellion that somehow broke it? (probably not but I figured it should be asked).

Reply #3014 from Sins Forums Top

boshimi336,

Good thought but I have not downloaded that beta due to concerns it would make testing abilities for SotYR that much more difficult.

Darvroth

Reply #3015 from Sins Forums Top

Have you tried playing with the UAC, Run as Administrator, or 'Read Only' settings on all of the files? When you reinstalled Sins, did you make sure the mod folder was removed (moved to a different directory) prior to the reinstall of the game?

Reply #3016 from Sins Forums Top

I will be sure the mod is removed and try again as I'm not sure it was removed during the deinstall. Gamestop formerly Impulse already is set to run as administrator as several games from that service have issues if not.

Reply #3017 from Sins Forums Top

Back in business. Many thanks.

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Reply #3018 from Sins Forums Top

:grin:

Reply #3019 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting boshimi336, reply 3018
Back in business. Many thanks.

Did the "Run as administrator" help? If so, I think you need to adjust the security settings of your sins folder (as this often happens when the sins folder rights do not include your account)

Sorry, was mostly absent this weekend. Thanks for the Abilities, I wil have a look at them soon (though not today - work... damn).

I've redone the Battlecrab UV and Texture (and corrected a few model problems). The Battlecrab now has a high res seamless texture (2k x 2k) with a fitting UV. I will also redo the Shadow fighter texture (seamless) and then all ship models for shadows are in!

Reply #3020 from Sins Forums Top

TobiWahn,

Not sure what the actual problem was but removing the mod folder and reinstalling SoaSE then replacing the mod folder did the trick.

I have success with granting fighters (squad entity) abilities but am still trying variations to get the ability to function when I want it to. Testing is slow and painful and so far seems stable though changing the ability.entity between tests will cause minidumps if I don't miticioulsy self destruct all the new construction ships under test. Altering buff files does not seem to cause this, though it may in some instances.  

Darvroth

Reply #3021 from Sins Forums Top

Nice. But the risc I see with fighter abilities is thatwe have very very many of them. And granting them abilities means putting even more strain on the CPU regarding fighters. The key will be how playable long games are.

Reply #3022 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi, reply 3021
Nice. But the risc I see with fighter abilities is thatwe have very very many of them. And granting them abilities means putting even more strain on the CPU regarding fighters. The key will be how playable long games are.

 

You could always tie the abilities to the carriers / hangars the fighters are based from (range based area of effect) for passive buffs / debuffs.

Reply #3023 from Sins Forums Top

Specifically I was looking at granting the EA Thunderbolt a bombing ability as it is an atmospheric capable fighter. I looked at tying it to the launch platform but since each race has at least 3 choices of strike craft and the EA has 6 and very few strike craft have the B5 cannon capability it was not a good fit. Once I get it working I'll propose a similar ability for the Minbari Flyer as it is also atmospheric capable. Not sure any other strike craft need an ability so I'm not that concerned about CPU lag though there turns out to be an issue it can be sacrificed. I'm tinkering with a passive ability or an ability with a time elapse. In either case it is not yet working as desired so I have more testing to do before I can pass it on to TobiWahn.

In any event I recommend any ability be tested by at least two other poeple on different machines to reduce the chance of bugs making it into the mod.

Darvroth

Reply #3025 from Sins Forums Top

Nice! What is the fighter count spread from level 1 to level 10? I presume it counts as a capital ship...

Darvroth