WELL AS FAR AS MOONS GO IM DONE.

and not with the results I was looking for, the best I was able to do is us upscaled stock asteroids in various sizes.

and as far as how they look? well... like huge asteroids posing as moons.

this was NOT the look I wanted but I gues its as good as it gets unless someone out there feels my pain and can come up with a solution.

things I have tried.

make a moon from a planetary moduale with a planet mesh.    did not work well

make a moon out of a resource asteroid with a planet mesh.   also did not work well

make a moon out of a frigate with a planet mesh.                  another failure

what do all the failures have in common?

the textures for some reaone will not render correctly!

anyways sorry folks I htought it would be easy but I guess not.

ds

you think his original mod was awsome wait till I finish the rework Im building.

assuming I get their permissions of course to release it.

sins plus , cybdevils mod , parts of hammersuns mod , sections od danmans solar mod , and lots of size and code tweeks from me.

Its gonna be huge! literally!

the suns have already been resided the blue one is 10x its original size which is 6x bigger than the jupiter in cybdevils mod and it dwarves the punny planets of original vanilla sins, next to cybdevils jupiter the terran home planet we are all familiar with looks like a resourse asteroid!

so yea its huge!

I think I had an Idea to fix my moon problem but it will be a few days then I can release so serious planets and moons and suns on the sins universe.

ds

  This is Seriously Seriously Awesome!!!!   I would love to get it to play in Entrenchment. 

I was at 1.12 earlier tonight, because of a re-install, but then put Entrenchment back in, it is a wonderful expansion, lots of new additions. But this mod with realistic planet sizes is something i would love to play 

Thank You DireSaint for updating Cybdevil's work, it is wonderful to have this. Perhaps i can go back to 1.12 and give it a try. 

Take care and thank you again for all the hard work, we really really appreciate it!! 

-Teal

OUCH

so this map i've made... it has a lot of stars, and now with the increased size, if I use the ALT button it brings it down to .5 fps

way too many grids to create i guess.

hang the asteroids the moons are much more important! thanks for the tip zagfel you rock buddy! It worked I copied the planet.fx file into the asteroid.fx file and it worked!!!!!!

your a god!

ok the side effect seems to be that the resourse ateroids look ugly but who cares? retexture them to look decent will be on my list but not a priority, making the moons look good is!

that means after I get oks from different folks to use parts of thier mods you guys are in for some awsome planetary goodness!

and Im glad you guys like the update, your gonna drool when you see what Ive been working on.

ds

sometime today I plan to make a new post with a new combination of merged mods I plan to name it  - Planetary Mod v0.1 -

Its a big file but with all the new textures and meshes its going to be so I plan to use 7zip like uzii did for his sins plus.

mods included in this new merge so far are:

Sins Plus - created by Uzii    [ w/o the graphical mod as updated to 1.11 by annatar11 ]

Solar Mod - created by cybdevil    [ updated by myself to 1.11 ]

HammerRS - created by hammerson   [ the only portion I used was his moon modification and I greatly improved it. ]

and lots of tiny tweeks by me.

coming soon to the new merged mod I hope with danman's ok will be portions of his solar sins plus.

ds

Hello guys,

long time is it, but now I am there again.

The last year I had a heavy accident and was nearly 3 months in the hospital. Then I had to think first of myself to come again on the legs.

Thanks to a tip I became attentive today again on SoaSE and think I soon resumes in my projects to work.

Wishes to you a nice week and see you soon.

Cyb

Nice to see you back Cybdevil, and nice to see work being done on this again by the modding community. Definitely one of the higher-quality mod projects out there.

I'm also glad that you are ok Cybdevil. I personally think that this mod has a quality that really livens up any sins mod. It's just amazing watching your little ships fly around a gas giant in cinematic mode. Epic stuff. It will be great to see what else you will add to this wonderful mod. All the best!

Looking forward to this

Oh and i saw a link a couple of pages back but it only brings me to the filefront homepage. can someone plz post a link? Thanks.

an you make one versions with colonizable gas giants and one without? I like the colonizable idea.

Also, Ive seen pictures of saturn and the colors a little off. I dont know it might be the picture. but it looks a little purpleish. One more saturn thing. I bet if the rings where a golden brown color it would look way beter.

I love the different sises of planets idea but wouldnt it make more sence to make the terran planets a little smaller than that HUGE jupiter? Just the fact that it wold take hours to cross the grav well.

Theres already a moon mod. I dont know who made it but its in solar sins v2.0.

They dont orbit though. They just kinda wonder inside the grav well