your correct on the AI controlling one of the custom races, it's just me being the Nephilim and the AI being the Plague. I'll set up another game with the auto-save function on.

Ok Eternal... I've promoted up the latest changes which includes 190 GameInfo file changes! I'm not sure if I resolved the mini-dump or not, but I did manage to play a game with a Nephilim and Plague as AI without a mini-dump so it's looking promising. More testing will tell, but I'm ready to get back to the models. I also have an idea for the plague starbase I want to start working on.

haha, ya... it kept breaking on me too anywhere between 30 minutes to 1:30 depending. I kinda went on a rampage fixing all the research costs/tier and the plague race still had quite a few references to stock game icons and descriptions I hadn't fixed yet as well as shoring up anything that might cause a mini-dump. I had to start rebuilding the mod from scratch to identify several of the dev.exe warnings like the minV/maxV ones. All in all this is a fairly stable build which should hopefully help us identify issues as they popup.

I hopefully will be able to get the last few remaining models in the game this weekend: (turret, utility, fighter/bomber) and the mainview/infocard/pictures in for the remaining ships and structures.

All in all I'm hopefull we can have a playable mod for the Nephilim race very soon that we can release to others to try out.

Also, we're not to far off for the Plague race either with a full set of capital ship models I need to get in the game and then start modeling the remaining frigates and structures.

No doubt...

Just an FYI, I pushed a bunch of new icons to you. I should have the majority of stock icons removed now for Nephilim.

hmmm... I might have a back up fighter, I'm polishing it up a bit, it's one of my custom models. I'll send it your way as soon as I am done, I hope you'll like it. It'll already be triangulated for you

So far from what I've seen good stuff... though might I suggest something with the particles? They are far to light, you can hardly notice them at all on the Nephilim ships so I suggest you increase the glow on them so they are more noticeable... I like my light show after all but not too much to the point where it's going to affect game play

Besides that I see no issues yet, don't forget about changing the siege frigate over to a siege/tactical anti-structure hybrid cruiser. That will mean you'll need to upscale the ship up, also might I suggest when you do that, elongate it a bit if you want unless you one a stubby short looking cruiser

Now that I got that out of the way, I'll need a list of what else there is for me to make in models for the Nephilim. Left over ships and structures, minus the phase disruptor tactical structure

Spotted something on the anti-strike craft ship, it's missing a polygon

I was only able to take this screen shot because I figured out what was going on with my screenshot thing. My computer was taking the screenshot when I pressed the prt screen key. Sins doesn't seem to save it to the designated folder for screenshots. I can't explain why it is doing that, but I guess it's better then nothing I suppose.

Edit: Er... it seems the weapon platform for the Nephilim, the model for them, the one I made for you reverted back to the vanilla model after I saved the game and then loaded that save.

Edit 2:

This is what I mean with the particles, before you last updated they were fine, all glowy and what not like the vanilla particles, now they aren't you must have changed something by accident on the particles for the Nephilim ships

I'm promoting the new build I've been testing to you that fixes many of the issues we've seen. I have a few changes identified below that will need to be in the next build.

First iteration Alpha Testing done so far

Wrath Tree
Embodiment: 100%
Force: 100%
Revelation: 100%

Divinity Tree: 80%
Genesis abilities need reworked
Soul Hangar abilities missing

Bliss Tree - Would like to add a few more research topics to Gifts or Enlightement
Gifts: 100%
Enlightenment: 100%
Faith: 100%

Subjegation Tree: 80%
Need to do a bit more testing on the Sicariot Envoy's abilities

Fleet Logistics: 100%

Modules Tested: All

Ships Tested: All
Mainly dealing with sizing, shield mesh and exhaust points now. Will need to add ability points to mach ability and buff usage on next pass.

Star Base Tested:
Abilities need reworked as noted above. Need to scale size down and add shield mesh

I got kinda caught up tracking down that mini-dump so I forgot to email you.

I sent out a spreadsheet and corresponding pdf for you to look at. We are very close model wise for Nephilim. I've been trying to zoom on various models taking notes about size, shields, exhaust position, and noticeable polygon issues too. Hope to make some more progress in that regard soon.

Yep, my modeling and texturing skills are only a year old now. I feel pretty good about my progress so far and can make some complicated ships, but I just couldn't pull off the smooth lines I wanted for the Nephilim race. It's much easier to make progress when you have people willing to contribute such as you and alexrose. And ya, I really liked what I did for the extractors, I was looking at that thing when I put in the turret role thinking it looks like an extractor, lol.

I have a prototype ready for the plague's growth ability. Check out the light frigate in your build. It's not research based yet, but it shows the simulation of the frigate maturing overtime If you hover over the ability you'll see the three stages that it will go through currently timed at 150, 300 and 450 seconds per stage.

I need to put a prototype together for the creation process now.

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Thanks for the interest too. We are getting close to releasing a beta version of the Nephilim race. The plague race still has a bit to go in terms of models and I'm re-working some of the game play with this race but I don't want to take too much longer on them. My goal is to have the main part of the mod complete by December moving to the second stage of improving textures, effects, etc.

Ok, the current version of the mod (D) Alpha 0.2 has been uploaded to moddb.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/sins-of-the-fallen/downloads/sins-of-the-fallen-d-alpha-02

This version of the mod introduces the Nephilim race including custom ship and planet modules, custom abilities, custom research, ship and module icons including main view icons when zoomed out or viewing in the empire tree.

A demo version of the Plague race is included but with limited models and abilities. It may be played but is not guaranteed to be issue free.

Thank you,
ZombiesRus5 and Team

Alpha versions of this mod are focusing on delivering complete functionality when possible. However, the quality of some textures, models and sounds are deliberately limited as the goal is to iteratively improve the mods quality overtime along with hopefully the skillset of the modders.

Version Alpha 0.2x will fix any issues found with Nephilim race.
Version Alpha 0.3 will introduce the Plague race similar to Alpha 0.2 for the Nephilim.

Yes, there will be an Entrenchment version. My goal is to fully add the Plague race with 0.3 and have the Entrenchment version ready by 0.4. I might decide to add Entrenchment early but can't make any promises at the moment.

At this time there are no plans for a Vanilla version.