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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 #2401 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting lupusray, reply 2399
Thanks, but why cant I play it on Sins Original or Entrenchment? I've copied 0.41 to the folder and its still doing it on all 3 versions.

As the headline says, the version 0.41 of this mod is for Diplomacy 1.011

Version 4.2 will be for Diplomacy 1.2

Entrenchment and vanilla sins are not supported.

 

In the future I expect this mod to migrate to rebellion.

Reply #2402 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting ZombiesRus5, reply 2395
Hey guys, I've been playing around with this as many of my models are overly dark. While I don't fully understand why some textures come across exceptionally dark while others do not I have some observations/theories and ways to make it show up better.

The flatter the model, the darker the looks ('cause less polygons of the model are illuminated). This can be offset by minshadow and/or the green light channel, or as you said by using more lights on the objects texture.

Alternatively you could make/use a bright colored skybox.

 

Quoting boshimi336, reply 2397
That is by far one of the cooler things about Vanilla Sins is how each ship has certain aspects that reflect your team's color. We have taken into account team colors for our models correct? Please tell me I'm right?

Sorry to disappoint, team colors are on very few of the models (as they don't really fit into the ship design of B5). Jumpgates have them on the heat-dissipation panels, the vorlon ships I believe on their enblem.

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #2403 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi, reply 2402
The flatter the model, the darker the looks ('cause less polygons of the model are illuminated). This can be offset by minshadow and/or the green light channel, or as you said by using more lights on the objects texture.

Alternatively you could make/use a bright colored skybox.

You got it already then :P I assumed you were, but the dark pictures for the models prompted my post. I don't really care for that as a personal preference.

Reply #2404 from Sins Forums Top

I see.  What do you suggest I do?  I'm not to bothered about keeping all the sins versions on my computer, just want to play the mod.

Reply #2406 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi, reply 2393
Centurion with toned down Lights and restored headlight

Now that is very sweet! It amazes me how much a few simple adjustments can do..

And if i'm correct, i had forgotten the ambient for the top lights?

I like the picture of it next to the liati!

Well done!!!

Reply #2408 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting lupusray, reply 2405
Thanks, makes sense. So, how do I go back to 1.011, now I have 1.2 installed?

I'm not sure this is possible. Anybody an idea?

Reply #2409 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting HawkWall, reply 2406
Well done!!!

Thanks, but I can only return the compliment! I only extended your magnificent work slightly.

Reply #2410 from Sins Forums Top

I suppose team colors are not so much of a deal breaker I suppose. I don't know if it's really worth troubling over for past models or models that just don't seem to have a place for that all. Possible ideas could be emblems, edges of designs such as the feathers or the fins, possibly a few other things but I wouldn't worry about it so much now.

 

Just thinking out loud. I'll live. :P

Reply #2411 from Sins Forums Top

Alright, it has been 10 days and someone needs to break the silence. Progress is being made by individuals and small groups, though only TobiWahn can authoritively speak to that.

There are things in the void that bring dread with their passing and are better not mentioned or even thought of...

Darvroth

Reply #2412 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for the silence breaker Darvroth! Been checking the site everyday.. All of you are doing amazing work, and I really admire the dedication. Thanks to all of you for all the work you have put into this, so that we may enjoy the fruits of your labor. Look forward to next update!

Reply #2413 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks Darvroth,

Work and private life kept me very busy the last week. I've started to learn to program iOS for my company as of late, so that took many additional hours of my workdays to learn the basics of Objective-C (I haven't thought that there were so many differences to C++) and there were some events I had to attend, but I'm still here, and many of my colleagues are doing a fantastic job main - credit here goes to Rodney Jenkins and Darvroth as they are working hard on the research trees - while koobalt is waiting for me to optimise the next UV on one of his ships (I'm so sorry, I know I'm late to that too) and Thoumsins additional Vorlon ships are still not implemented by me.

I'm trying to get the player-entity support in my editor database finished so that we can start putting the research trees to action for testing, and parallel to that will try to finish the Vorchan UV (AO Version) and then the Vorlon ships of Thoumsin. Then I will asses what goes into the next Version (depending on the state of the research trees and the abilities), create a new credits and intro video, adapt the readme files and ready everything for the 0.42 release (so you can all start playing again with Dipl. 1.2)

Stay with us, we have not abandoned you! Never start a mod, but always finish it :grin:

Reply #2414 from Sins Forums Top

TobiWahn,

Would like to make a proposal. I've never liked the abstract "crystal", how 'bout a name change to "organics". There are lots of volitile chemicals and organic elements in space to harvest that are not metal. To me at least it makes much more sense and hopefully wouldn't be that hard a change to implement.

Darvroth

Reply #2415 from Sins Forums Top

Don't know what changes would have to be made, but I myself was never fond of the term. Organics seems a good idea (though crystal would fit the Minbari perfectly)

Energy would be my preferred resource besides metal, but it is not logical to be mined, so that wont fit.

I'll look into it sometime (or you can do it as well and tell me where we would need to change files)

Reply #2416 from Sins Forums Top

Crystal is fine for me tbh, in B5 even simple data storage is done with crystals so it makes sense that they are an important comodity, As I guess they are integral in all computer systems

Reply #2417 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi, reply 2415
Energy would be my preferred resource besides metal, but it is not logical to be mined, so that wont fit.

Here on earth, people mine uranite... inside it, Uranium dioxide, a black crystaline powder, is used for create NOX... who is the "fuel" for our nuclear reactor...

Reply #2418 from Sins Forums Top

As trekky_rudd stated I am fine with Crystal. It is something that is recognizable as one of the larger portions of the story both for data storage as well as the Minbari civilization as a whole. It can be argued that the Shadows / Vorlon have 'mutated' versions of crystal resources for their civilizations.

 

Minbari seem to be crystal heavy while the humans and other 'lesser' races tend to be more metal based. The Ancients / Vorlon tend to be a mix of crystal / organic (crystal derived) technologies.

 

 

Reply #2419 from Sins Forums Top

Hi guys,

Have just started playing again and am keen to start playing this mod.

Unfortunately it seems Diplomacy have moved to 1.2 and the mod doesn't seem to work. I've tried placing the files in the 1.011 folder but Diplomacy won't recognize them.

Any ideas?

Reply #2420 from Sins Forums Top
@DaWilko If you have not archived the old Version there is only waiting for 0.42, sorry. Hopefully 0.42 won't take too long to arrive
Reply #2421 from Sins Forums Top

TobiWahn,

I'm being spammed by feiyang6b on origo, is there a way to seek relief?

Darvroth

Reply #2422 from Sins Forums Top
I've already reported feiyang6b as spammer and deleted his posts. Origo is working on it. Sorry for the inconvenience
Reply #2423 from Sins Forums Top

TobiWahn,

NP but I had 10 quick succession posts in the early AM and my phone trilled to each one, very annoying. Thanks. Rod is doing good work.

Darvroth

Reply #2424 from Sins Forums Top

@Davroth

Sorry about that. Origo is working on a solution to ease the deletion of spam, but I'm not sure they work on captchas. So it could happen again. Every spammer should be shot on sight
:borg:

Damn bstrds