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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 #1601 from Sins Forums Top

@koobalt
Nice!!

 

@lovad
just upload it on mediafire (for example) and post the link or send it to me via PM

Thanks, will have a look at it. Alternatively, you can register at Danman games and post the files there. 

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Reply #1603 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi, reply 1602
Version 0.40 Progress Update

Can you give a possible ETA for the 0.40 ? ( 2 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, etc... )... if it is 1 or two week, i will suspend my work for the other two mod and try to finish very fast the Vorlon Planet Killer, so you will have the 5 Vorlons capital ship in your hand...

Was surprised to not see the Vorlon light cruiser, the Vorlon heavy cruiser and the Vorlon Carrier since all these model are already modeled, segmented, UV and textured ( not difficult since these 3 ship share the same texture that the Vorlon Cruiser )...

Not sure that it is a good idea to include Vorlon in 0.40 ... isn't the lack of colony frigate and scout ( in fact, lack of all frigates and destroyer class ) lead to problem for any Vorlon AI player ?

For other people, if you wish see beautifull ingame screenshot, go to http://b5-sotyr.origo.ethz.ch/wiki/screenshots ... or for high quality ( sometime WIP ) screenshot, visit the SteinerX blog at http://babylon5ins.blogspot.com/ ...

Reply #1604 from Sins Forums Top

@Thoumsin
Well, release date is to be decided. I didn't include them ( the other Vorlon ships ) in the stats, because I was not sure if I would include all of them in 0.40 as I still have to make the tangents, meshes, entity files and particleeffects for those ships. Same goes for the G'Quan ( cause I don't know if SteinerX texture will be finished in time)

0.40 will not be the final release, so it is not that big of a problem to release a 0.41 or so with additional models. My main priority for 0.40 is to include the stats for all the ships of all races ( but since we added a few Vorlon ships to my plans, that might not happen in 0.40 ) which will be the date I declare the release date internally so everyone can tell me if they like to hold out for another piece to add.

 

Edit:
as for Vorlon and Shadow ships and gameplay - this will still need to be decided. It might be that they gain other means of establishing an empire. I have to think it up

Reply #1605 from Sins Forums Top

Just wanted to say keep up the amazing work!!! whatever you guys plan to release its allready 'gold' in my books :)

Reply #1606 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks! Work goes on.

@SteinerX
Still here? Hows work going? I put some new files in the repository ( New Jumpgate, Smoothed Aurora Mesh, Aurora AO texture )
How long do you think will it take you to complete the GQuan texture? ( So I can have the AO ready by then )

Thanks and hope you all had a nice weekend!

Reply #1607 from Sins Forums Top

I tried your 0.35 version and was amazed, yet I felt the pressing need to mod the stats of the various factions. (playing against the vanilla factions proved a daunting task untill some adjustements were made to these factions and the EA/Minbari.) 

 

Still the 0.35 version was very playable and this just makes me even more eager to get my hands on the 0.40 version. While I still lack any moddeling skills, texturing skills or any of the other essential skills actually needed to help out with the mod in a satisfactory way, I could help out with "alpha-testing" and balancing. This is pretty much all that I do in regards to moding Sins and that is unfortunatly all that I can help out with. I really wish that I could do more to help you guys out since its amazing to see all the hard work and effort you put into this mod.

 

Keep up the excellent work mod-team!

Reply #1608 from Sins Forums Top

@Tacitus_Germanicus
Thanks alot. Well, the vanilla factions have things like hull repair rate and (for now) more abilities and such ( though not nearly as much fighters, deadly they are ). coming with 0.40 or 0.4x, the vanilla factions will vanish, but you will have the centauri and narn, vorlons and shadows to testrun in 0.40

Balancing will taka place one the basic game mechanics are made (resupply lines, shadows, vorlons,...)

I'm happy to have you as a tester, as I'm happy about all the others coming here from time to time!

PS.: Version 0.35 was downloaded 1477 times all in all from Filefront and mediafire combined. Yiiha

Reply #1609 from Sins Forums Top

TobiWahn_Kenobi:

What I did was mostly changing the stats (speed, etc) for the fighters so as to make them more usefull, the firepower/range/reload-time of the Minbari weapons and other minor things as to change the gameplay in regards to the various factions and their ships. After playtesting the game for eight hours (restarting after changes where made about 20-30 times ;) )  In the end it made the game more fun to play (for me as I only play against the AI). Im also a sucker for huge battles, so changes were made to increas ship-cap about tenfold. Now I get to play with or against the Minbari in a "Battle of the line" type of feel with the Minbari ships destroying tens of EA ships before going "boom" in huge battles with hundreds of ships. Its amazing and something I would never have tought possible before your mod came along.

 

I'll gladly test, comment and come with suggestions for the 0.40 version. In fact you can count on it since Sins is my  favorite RTS and I have the highest hopes for this mod. Might even try to learn a thing or two about texturing in the future to be of more help to the mod.

 

Good luck to you all, checking in on a daily basis to see your great progress on the mod.

 

 

Reply #1610 from Sins Forums Top

@SteinerX
Still here? Hows work going? I put some new files in the repository ( New Jumpgate, Smoothed Aurora Mesh, Aurora AO texture )
How long do you think will it take you to complete the GQuan texture? ( So I can have the AO ready by then )

RL work busy now ... give me a deadline on G'Quan ...

 

Reply #1611 from Sins Forums Top

Ahhh... was really worried about you being absent so long, I guess I grew a little dependent on you over the last year  :grin:
Hope you are well and your real life is giving you enough time to chill out time and again.

As for the deadline, if you want it to be included in 0.40, lets say Calendarweek 22.

Really glad you are still around  ^_^'

Reply #1612 from Sins Forums Top

cant wait for the release!  :D

Admiral Rain

 

Reply #1613 from Sins Forums Top

Ahhh... was really worried about you being absent so long, I guess I grew a little dependent on you over the last year
Hope you are well and your real life is giving you enough time to chill out time and again.

As for the deadline, if you want it to be included in 0.40, lets say Calendarweek 22.

Really glad you are still around

 

No problem ... week 22 - end of May -beginning of June week deadline?

Always around just sometimes free time is a bit more limited ... this weekend, I should have some time to work on G'Quan :)

 

Reply #1614 from Sins Forums Top

I understand completely. I haveen't had that much time lately myself. I hope I can finish the ship entity files this weekend so that I can get to work on the game mechanics and AO for some other ships. I also thought about making myself a simple tool for Researchtree development.

 

Reply #1615 from Sins Forums Top

just posting to let u know i havent forgotten you guys, great to see the progress so far. keep it up :-)

Reply #1616 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for the support. I hope I can deliver to you soon. Just so many things to do...

 

PS.: As already noted I update the progress regularly at

http://b5-sotyr.origo.ethz.ch/blog

Reply #1617 from Sins Forums Top

An ominous pall seems to have settled over this thread. :\

 

Hopefully this means you're all hard at work over the mod. :banhammer:

Reply #1618 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Archangel1980, reply 1617
Hopefully this means you're all hard at work over the mod.

Not really... some are very busy with school, some are swinning ( heavy rain in Poland )...

Other like me envoy the good weather with barbecue, cold beer and hot woman...

By experience, i can say that end May and begin Juni are calm at the modding level... 

Reply #1619 from Sins Forums Top

Thoumsin is right. we are working, but not that heavy. Lots of work and fun in real life! And good weather too. Still, I'm trying to finish 0.40 for you so you can enjoy the work of the last 6 month!

Reply #1620 from Sins Forums Top

I'm glad to hear you're all well.  I'm definitely looking forward to .40.  At any rate you've all earned some fun!!  I do hope the flooding in Poland subsides.

Reply #1621 from Sins Forums Top

As he asked me to pass this along to my fellow teammates, here it is!

 

From : SchmittyMgee
Sent: 5/29/2010 10:16:18 PM

I just wanted to say thanks for continuing to make a B5 mod, Ive recently been rewatching the series and its nice to be able to pop into sins and build order around my own B5 universe ships.

Thank you for making this old nerd happy.

 

Thanks Schmitty! We very much appreciate it!

Reply #1623 from Sins Forums Top

Ahh, Summer takes a while for me. I'll be on holidy from July the 3rd to july the 31st, in Great Britain and probably France. Without internet access, so don't expect me to answer any questions in that timeframe. 0.40 will be out before my holiday, so don't worry.

Glad to hear from you again HawkWall. Hope you enjoy your summer!!