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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 #1301 from Sins Forums Top

We're working hard in our spare time, but sometimes there is not much spare time in live. So please be patient, we want to release stuff as much as you want us to release, we just have to do all the work, you don't :grin:  

Reply #1302 from Sins Forums Top

Feel free to include the B5 sins map I made months agao, it was made for a mod like this.

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=212&libid=70

 

If needed, I can tweak the mapfile for extra ideas or fixing spelling mistakes.

 

Included most -if not all- planets from B5, Crusade and some EU novels.

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #1303 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for the offer, if it is the map that was posted on these forums long ago then I'm already using it for meself (and tweaked it to fit my desires - removed the wormholes and other stuff) - Just checked, that map was from Asharil - is he a relative of yours?

I really like to include a tweaked version if thats alright with you (and harpo9999 - the original is from him isn't it?) or have three different versions of the map, from a small one to a gigantic one. The only gripe I have is that one cannot choose his starting psition in sins.

 

Has anyone found out how to make a race start on a specific planet (i.e. not the player number decides which planet is the homeworld, but the race?)

Reply #1304 from Sins Forums Top

tobiwahn, i have NOT made any maps for b5, so can not give or withhold permission for work that i have not done

regarding the race starting at a particular planet, the best that i have seen is for the player to have a specific race and randomize starts off and the planet as their home planet, unless you specify the starting ships/structures as spawne for the planet that a player has as the home planet, but I have not tried playing one race and spawning a different race, so do not know how sins would handle it

harpo

Reply #1305 from Sins Forums Top

Hehe, Asharil is my other nick. Both nicks both on characters I once had in World of Warcraft. For uploading it I had to use a nick and thought I had used Asharil with this forum as well. I was wrong. X|

 

Anywho... Harpo helped me out getting the map to work with Entrenchement, because I had major problems with editting it back into a working condition, I'm such a n00b.

So ehm... yeah, I kinda did both versions, and as far as I can tell from Galaxy Forge itself is that you can not really choose where your race starts (oh, the amount of re-starts I had to force myself through so I could just start out at the Vorlon Homeworld or Earth...).

Feel free to edit the map any way you see fit, just try and mention lil' ol' me when you publish your mod. :grin:

Reply #1306 from Sins Forums Top

Well, I thought to make a Program one time in c++ that will let you change a map so that the starting positions can be freely chosen (it should create a new map with the starting positions arranged the way the user decided) but that must wait till another day. It's been a long time since I last wrote a parser for a game..

Reply #1307 from Sins Forums Top

For the next release, maybe you could up the cost of some of the humans ships. Right now they are very cheap, like artemis heavy frigare for 100/40. If your playing minbari versus earth alliance your toast. :D

Anyway, great mod, keep up the great work.

Reply #1308 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Malanthor, reply 1307
For the next release, maybe you could up the cost of some of the humans ships. Right now they are very cheap, like artemis heavy frigare for 100/40. If your playing minbari versus earth alliance your toast.

Anyway, great mod, keep up the great work.

 

Thanks for the input, but balancing will be done in the later stages (we have little time for developing the mod atm, so it is geared towards finishing the models)

Anyways, welcome to the forums.

 

As a sidenote - the next release will be for diplomacy, so you better get prepared for upgrading, if you don't already have.

Reply #1309 from Sins Forums Top

Short message to you all:

The next version, 0.40, will require Diplomacy. Just to let you know!

 

Reply #1311 from Sins Forums Top

No need to rush, we still need time for the next release (though diplomacy, while falling short in some aspects, is still a very fine micro expansion)

Reply #1312 from Sins Forums Top

Sharlin Early Tex. WIP update: ingame shots

A lot more details to add to .cl  (a very nice AO layer from Tobiwahn)

Teaser 0.40 News  - Shadow friendly AI:

 

Reply #1313 from Sins Forums Top

Why you use my beloved Explorer for shooting practice ?? :grin:

Reply #1314 from Sins Forums Top

Why you use my beloved Explorer for shooting practice ??

I was playing EA ... exploring the galaxy ... and met something I didn't want to ... an AI controlled Shadow race (New in 0.40 yet to be released)...

EA Explorer, normally my first ship by choice ...but no match for the battlecrab ...

Reply #1315 from Sins Forums Top

Cool Screenshots! Especially the shadow one :dur:  

Reply #1316 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting koobalt, reply 1313
Why you use my beloved Explorer for shooting practice ??

Later, we use nuke bomb against shadow - as in series with battle Narn fleet vs. shadow for Gorash 7.

I try finish this ability soon as possible.#:( For Bin'Tak i try make ability "false target" - when ship heavily damaged and need time for escape - ship deploy 10-15 "false target" and when enemy destroy them, battleship take chance for escape [every target - not more then 30-50 tri]

Reply #1317 from Sins Forums Top

@Zvezdochets

Ahh, decoys.. now thats a nice idea!

Reply #1318 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Zvezdochets, reply 1316

Quoting koobalt, reply 1313Why you use my beloved Explorer for shooting practice ??

Later, we use nuke bomb against shadow - as in series with battle Narn fleet vs. shadow for Gorash 7.

I try finish this ability soon as possible. For Bin'Tak i try make ability "false target" - when ship heavily damaged and need time for escape - ship deploy 10-15 "false target" and when enemy destroy them, battleship take chance for escape [every target - not more then 30-50 tri]

Great stuff!

 

Sharlin update:

Render

Ingame screenshot

Still a WIP, some window adjustments and gun port alignments to do ...

Reply #1319 from Sins Forums Top

Looks stunning!

 

Edit:

Just a thought, perhaps you should make the Holes on the Ribs a bit smaller and use the normalmap to sink the holes in a little

Reply #1320 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi, reply 1319
Looks stunning!

 

Edit:

Just a thought, perhaps you should make the Holes on the Ribs a bit smaller and use the normalmap to sink the holes in a little

Yes, holes already, sunk in .nm ... yes will make holes smaller once I've got them all aligned + all the other adjustments I need to make on it:) Thanks for the input.

 

Reply #1321 from Sins Forums Top

I really hope you get this all working fella as you've inspired me to watch the show all over again. I've just watched the film the begining and the pilot show the gathering.

If only i could mod as i'd deffinatly chip in and help you out (if you needed help that is) as i've been desperate to play a good B5 game for i think nearly a decade now lol.

Reply #1323 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting SteinerX, reply 1322
EA Warlock model finished:





by Zvezdochets - Excellent work!

 

Are you going to be doing any of the hybrid EA/shadows ships that are shown towards the end of the tv show ?.

Reply #1324 from Sins Forums Top

If only i could mod as i'd deffinatly chip in and help you out (if you needed help that is) as i've been desperate to play a good B5 game for i think nearly a decade now lol.

Thanks for your interest ... help is always welcome ...

 

Quoting 18Zulukiller, reply 1323

Quoting SteinerX, reply 1322EA Warlock model finished:





by Zvezdochets - Excellent work!

 

Are you going to be doing any of the hybrid EA/shadows ships that are shown towards the end of the tv show ?.

All options are on the table ... just time and resources are our limiting factors

 

Reply #1325 from Sins Forums Top

[quote="SteinerX"]All options are on the table ... just time and resources are our limiting factors[/quote]

Cool, i'm well looking forward to this now. Just the screen shots of the ships are giving me goose bumps they just look so brilliant.