Congratulations!! Thats wonderful. 

Wonderful. I will provide you with a link to all data as soon as I uploaded it. I will include a runtime version of my FileMaker ModDB for SOASE, so you can make final adjustments and go from there. It is no longer useful for further development as it odes not support the latest SINS functions.

Thanks. It isn't bad that I have almost no time for side projects, but I do miss late nights spending time with creating models. My girlfriend isn't very psyched about me spending time in front of my PC so that might be an hinderance   

But the time I have I could then just do some EA model or such an no longer care about the rest. 

Thanks a lot!!

Hey you crazy awesome modders. Getting back into sins after some time away and came to check on my favorite mod (the new screenshots are looking good). Is the rebellion mod link on the OP the latest version? If so, are the warlock or the primus on the mod yet? Cant wait to see what you guys have been up to

Any idea how soon a update will be released?

Blender render (but using the textures for ingame use) for the Vorlon heavy cruiser. Never was a fan of the existing one. Only changes:

1. contours now conform the series (b5tech.com)

2. made it more organic (all extensions now flow more naturally from the body)

3. moved the 2 tentacles from the cockpit to the sides; never made sense to me that tentacles would flow from the windows.

4. Need to add the logo's. I hate painting (everything is procedural now).

We're in contact and are going to share the files soon. Hope you can wait just a bit longer Meanwhile, do you have any suggestions for the Planetkiller abilities (apart from blowing up a planet) ?

I'll give it some thought and play with the scripts...if I come up with anything worth the time I'l ask for a place to upload or send.

Just stumbled upon this mod

https://www.moddb.com/mods/sinsre

and started to adapt the SOTYR textures to this format. It makes quite a difference in graphics and has a few very convenient properties:

• Metalness and roughness are far easier to set up than specular and reflection
• The graphical effects are much nicer (shaders are way better)
• Subsurface scatteriing, while not very good, is way better than nothing an enables completely new effects
• Mirroring UVs no longer creates problems for normal maps (i do use these quite a lot)
• No tangents needed - which makes the XSI workflow so much more bearable
• It is free to use as the base of another mod (mentions have to be given obviously)

Cons:

We have to redo every single texture and some particle effects (for rotating or added meshes - we can finally - and have to - use gs_ship instead of gs_asteroid)

Still, very nice  

Well sometimes I find some time (I also did a small HD textures mod for colony survival)

And it is really interesting. Not sure how far I will progress with it in the next couple of month but I will post it here as soon as most models dont look strange any more (the way they use the textures at the moment makes reusing old textures a bit of a problem, since you now have a separate AO channel, the Subsurface Channel is default white which means max SS on the ship as a whole, and they switched the bloom channel from Alpha to blue for whatever reason)

How are you? Hope everything is fine over there and COVID does not impact you too much.

@hael-sose - did you finally download the files? Or did it not work the second time around as well? I tested it using a vpn and it worked fine for me.

Glad to hear you are well. Yes, it is an annoyance but also changed things for me quite a bit. Working homeoffice now mostly though will be bat at the office come October. But I will continue to work from home one or two days a week which is really nice.

How is it being a grandfather? I'm not even a father so I cannot imagine

Sounds nice!

Yes I got everything. I didn't realize so much was lost with the crash you've had a while ago. And soooo many subfolders

Nice work. Glad to hear you are ok and that you finally got everything. Yes, gigabytes of data So many years. More than 11 to be exact.

As for sinsre - I'm also still playing with the values. And I have started to use the AO channel on some of them but it seems to troduce mixed results as details are lost due to compression when storing AO only in the blue channel of the normal map compared to baking it directly into the texture. On the other hand in the future that might enable selective applying of the AO (no AO should be visible in direct sunlight when the light hits the inner edge of a surface).

Narn and Centauri have a nice effect from sinsre - and you can use a little Subsurface Scattering for Minbari and Vorlons - at least I like it there  

Vorlons also have quite a metallic effect in the original series (I've started to watch it again) so I added it in and also toned the NormalMapping down quite a bit on many models.

After I've adapted all textures in some form to the new format I'll post it here. Perhaps you want to use some of it as reference.