[MiniMod] Galaxy Upgrade - Effects V122 (03/24/08)

[enenra]

[MiniMod] Galaxy Upgrade - Effects

English Thread | German Thread


Preliminaries:
Hello everyone. First of all - sorry, my English isn't the best.
I'm currently working on a bigger project which is, however, divided into small MiniMods and ModKits. Of course there will be a mod which contains all these parts but that one won't be finished in the next time.
These part-mods are constructed with maximal compatibility in mind, e.g. you will either be able to use this with any bigger mod or there will be a compatible version.
This whole project is called Galaxy Upgrade (GU), by the way.

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Welcome, dear customer! I am Bala Gi, head of the Bala Gi Research Inc.
I'm very pleased to announce this new modification, built by the argon Kalus Dsema, whose products we publish.
Bala Gi Research Inc wishes you a good tazura and a good time in the depths of the known universe.

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Feautures:

• The old X2 engine trails are back! All ships of the M5, M4 and M3 (of course the M3+ too * ) class get their old trails back which have diffrent colors from race to race. This means that split for example get red trails and teladi green ones.
• This mod is compatible with all other mods!

* If you use this mod with the XTended Mod, you will notice that the Argon Eclipse does not have the new engine trails. This is because this ship has a diffrent model in the XTM.
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Screenshots:
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Download:

• GU_Effects_V122 - English
• GU_Effekte_V122 - German

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Warning:
Altough it is written in the ReadMe! I am going to write it again: Do not install this mod as a fake-patch! If you are using another mod, make that one to a fake-patch and run this mod in the startmenue as a mod.
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Changelog:
03/24/08 - Release version 122. YAFB - Yet Another Fix for the Borons.
03/10/08 - Release version 121. Yet another fix for the boron ships.
03/02/08 - Release version 120. Contains a new loadscreen and new loading bars as well as a fix of the M3+ ships.
02/24/08 - Release version 113. Perseus Vanguardhas now its model back.
02/19/08 - Release version 112. Minor bugfixes.
02/18/08 - Release version 111. Boron trails fixed.
02/18/08 - Release version 110. Boron trail problem fixed.
02/18/08 - Release version 100. All trails are included.
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Additional informations for modder and scripter:
It is allowed - even encouraged - to use this mod as a part of your mod/script. But if you do that, mention it in the ReadMe! or somewhere else, please.

Changed files:

• All M3, M4 and M5 scenes. (the goner ship too)
• The file fx_engine_boron_M3.

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Feedback appreciated.

[enenra]

I just noticed that the boron trails still aren't right... I'll fix that as fast as possible with version 110.

PS: I've uploaded additional screens.

[enenra]

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Update:
02/18/08 - Release version 111. Boron trails fixed.
02/18/08 - Release version 110. Boron trail problem fixed.
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[enenra]

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Update:
02/19/08 - Release version 112. Minor bugfixes.
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[Tenlar Scarflame]

Good looking, I miss the old trails.

I remember too, though, that the old X2 ships had an engine glow that would create a lens flare sort of thing on the screen... and each race's flare was distinctive... what's the chance of that showing up? I miss those

Awesome stuff though.

[enenra]

Good looking, I miss the old trails.

I remember too, though, that the old X2 ships had an engine glow that would create a lens flare sort of thing on the screen... and each race's flare was distinctive... what's the chance of that showing up? I miss those

Awesome stuff though.

Thanks.

About that: The long particle trail of the X2 ships got a little harder to add. The problem is that I do indeed know how but I'd have to do lots of testing to get the right one. (Actually I think there are around 150 diffrent trails. I'd have to test each one by editing the mod each time I want to see another trail...
And then there is the compatibility issue. I'd have to make diffrent versions for each mod which also changes the TShips.

[enenra]

I uploaded another screen - this time the boron Barracuda.

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[enenra]

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Update:
02/24/08 - Release version 113. Perseus Vanguardhas now its model back.
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grml. I hope I killed all bugs by now. If you find any, please post them here!

[enenra]

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Update:
03/02/08 - Release version 120. Contains a new loadscreen and new loading bars as well as a fix of the M3+ ships.
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I hope this will be the final version.
Sorry for the quadruple-post.

[enenra]

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Update:
10/03/08 - Release version 121. Yet another fix for the boron ships.
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Hopefully the final version.

EDIT: All who downloaded the mod before today 23:30 GMT+1 - before I edited this into this post - should download the mod again due to hotfixes.

[Commander Zane]

I wonder if the engine trails not being present on some ship variants have anything to do with installing it as a fake patch...
Sorry, I had to try and see it for myself.

[enenra]

I wonder if the engine trails not being present on some ship variants have anything to do with installing it as a fake patch...
Sorry, I had to try and see it for myself.

In the previous versions, that wasn't the cause. If someone has none of the new/old engine trails now, with the newest version, that might very well be.

[Tenlar Scarflame]

Looks good... do the Kha'ak have trails too?

Definitely giving this a look

[enenra]

Looks good... do the Kha'ak have trails too?

Definitely giving this a look

Nope. As the khaak are in X3 the same as in X2, I didn't change them.

However, if you want a change of the khaak, Jakesnake5 is working on a mod to improve them.

[enenra]

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Update:
03/24/08 - Release version 122. YAFB - Yet Another Fix for the Borons.
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