Hah, you've got a point there!

"shame it never really took off..." is the tagline for this whole game :( For whatever flaws it has, it's the best 4X since SOTS imo. Maybe there will be a renaissance some time :)

Mmm, it's a shame it never really took off... but then, we haven't had a lot of shipsets aside from dolynick's, and he prefers the alternative solution of padding the hull out with low-cost armors (to the point of specifically adding several of them to DOF).

OH! In the common library. LOL, sorry, for some reason my brain was not clicking. Thanks for the explanation :)

It's an applied subsystem that tweaks the default hex limit (as in, before special hulls or tech upgrades) so that you can just about fill out the ship's silhouette in the ship designer with a full complement of internal hexes and about one layer of armor encompassing the whole ship.

What's the hex-limiter thingamajiggy?

Version 2.0 has been released, adding a number of missing ships including both Titans, and allowing Satellites to be used on the shipset's station hulls.

I'd include a quote from the Rebellion intro, like with the other updates today, but the one I'm trying to pick up is proving elusive. (Can't hear half of the words, or even fill in from context.)

I'll start a thread here and add items as I notice them.

It just might be. MyFist had lots of stuff, but it wasn't too thorough. (Vasari are missing Titans, everybody's missing Corvettes and Rebellion capships, and there's probably a few stations here and there that could be useful, like the Phase Stabilizer.)

Well, that's I suggested you give me a list of what you're missing. So long as it's isn't dozens of models, I can probably help you out with this.

Unfortunately, I can't pick it up any more than I can Max. :/

I just checked and apparently it does. Not sure how well it does it though. It's probably fine. I'm almost positive that all the .mesh conversions you have from MyFist came from the Max script. I was modding Sins back then and it's what the community usually referenced for use. It's also what I used to convert all the SGI models over for the Stargate shipsets. 3D Object Converter is a great, useful and relatively inexpensive tool though. If you are looking at picking it up, I think it's worthwhile for anyone who plans to do shipset conversions.

I've been told that it works fine.

I have that too, but that does nothing for .mesh files. I could be wrong, but the .mesh SoaSE used was sort of a unique format they tweaked for their game. It's very handy for a number of other more common formats though. The DOF Star Wars shipset wouldn't have any of the nicer models it currently includes were it not for Converter.

Ahh, I thought you had the 3D object converter or whatever it was called. My mistake. :o

First you have to convert the .mesh to txt format (they're in binary by default). Then you need a way to import the .mesh... There are only two .mesh importers that I know of, and both of them are for Max. The good news is that the import script I have does seem to work fairly well. From there I can export a .obj for you to use in Blender for the final tweaking (which is usually just a Z rotation and scaling down to the 1 unit space).

Well, I can do most of the converting in Blender - it's just the .mesh format that's giving me a hard time.

@Dalo: If you let me know what you're missing I can probably convert the .mesh for you. It's a slight pain but I believe all the tools necessary to do so are still on my system. I should have all the official ship models from the game.

sweet :)

@vaaish: Yep. TEC and Advent got the StarCraft treatment - bunch of new ships and massively improved texturing. :P

Ahhh, it is good to see this. I love playing the Vasari Empire! Thanks great deal!

It is? Are they just updated versions of the older mods?

Awesome! Glad to see you got this done - kind've makes my week, gaming wise :)

@dolynick: I'm not actually sure if I asked you. I do know I asked Swizzler, but he wasn't too eager to do the conversion.

@vaaish: If you mean the TEC and Advent stuff, it's already up.

cool. :) thanks for putting this up. I'm quite looking forward to the rest of the ones you've been teasing too!

Which ones? Was I supposed to convert some for you? I've been so pre-occupied lately with my own projects and other stuff going on I may have forgotten...

It's missing a lot of models, though. :(

It's been a long time coming. Congratulations on the release Dalo.