Sins Enhanced - Sky Box Edition v0.5.4 BETA
by Kcissem
Email: Kcissem@gmail.com

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WARNING:  This is a BETA version

Disclaimer:

This Mod is simply a recolor and duplication of Ironclad/Stardock's original textures.

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Introduction

Sins Enhanced is a planned multi part mod of Sins of the Solar Empire. The mod is designed to be as modular as possible so users can pick and choose the parts they want to enable or disable. This first edition deals with Stars and Sky boxes with aims of adding variety in the colors of both stars and their backgrounds. Example Images will be listed below.

I welcome any input from the community as to what they would like to see in color variety.

All changes are list in the version info files included in download.  Full readme w/installation notes also provided.

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Installation

Windows XP and Vista

Step 1.  locate your Sins of the Solar Empire mod directory the location in windows xp is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods  the location in windows vista is  C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mod (This directory may be hidden so make sure you have view hidden files/folders enabled.) After you have found your Mod directory, create a new folder called "Sins Enhanced"

Note:  Your mod directory after step 1 should be
windows xp: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods\Sins Enhanced
windows Vista: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods\Sins Enhanced

Step 2. Next locate your Sins of the Solar Empire installation directory, the default install location is C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar empire\ and copy the folders \GameInfo and \Textures (including all files withint) to the "Sins Enhanced" folder you just created in your mod directory.

Note: IMPORTANT!!!!!  if you do not follow step 1 exactly, the game will crash when you enable this mod after step 3.

Step 3. After you have completed steps 1 and 2, then preceed to extract "Sins Enhanced - Sky Box Edition v0.5.3 BETA" into the mod    folder your created.  If asked to overwrite files, select yes.

Step 4. Next step is to run the game Sins of the Solar Empire, and go to the options menu and under mods enable "Sins Enhanced".  If you want to load the mod from this point on whenever you start your games, select the option "Load Mod on startup"

Step 5. The final and last step is to enjoy!!

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Images

Blue Background Ingame Screenshots






Green Background Ingame Screenshots





Red Background Ingame Screenshots





Yellow Background Ingame Screenshots





NEW Galaxy Spiral Texture Screenshots
The intent of the new galaxy spiral textures is to try and make them not look like a galaxy since galaxies are millions of stars, but the aim of these textures are to just have the star give off a kind of glow effect instead. These made need to be revised.

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Changes

v0.5.4 Beta

- fixes for all background ambient lighting effects
- added Max Teal's Star textures
- Deleted Max Teal's Starfield.dds
- Modified Resolution and sharpness of original Stardock Starfield.dds
- Converted all mesh and entity files to binary

v0.5.3 Beta

- Initial Beta Release