hello, i got this enabled but this ship set is not appearing? even when i try to make a custom race

"Rebellion has even started to fracture the Unity of the Advent. Sure, they still want to destroy us - and one another."

Version 2.1 has been released, introducing a couple of extra ship hulls and allowing Satellites to be used with the shipset's station hulls.

Woohoo! Thanks for bringing SoaSE shipsets to Star Rule, I've enjoyed them very much.

I disabled BSG shipsets and it now works fine. Guess it was just heavy on my system despite me having 64bit and plenty of RAM. Thanks for the help.

Also, try disabling some of the other shipsets and then running the crashing ones. If this is a memory issue (which it could be on some machines, especially ones with 32-bit OSes), then reducing the pressure like that should help.

Try causing the crash again, then check the log. The game deletes the logs each time it starts up and writes a new file, so it absolutely must be checked before you restart.

Also, make sure you have the DOF shipset library installed (doesn't have to be enabled). I know you probably do already, seeing as the Vasari shipsets and DOF stuff all work, but it's still worth repeating. :P

Not sure if it is the memory but the log doesn't mention anything about either mod but a seperate one that not even active.

Uh, after a crash, what's in the log.txt file in Documents/My Games/Star Ruler 2?

Also, is it possible that you're running out of memory? It was a big patch, I wouldn't be surprised if the shipsets' sizes were quadrupled.

I am not sure whats happening but either this or TEC shipset ever since they were updated now keep crashing my game. The Vasari work, I also have the Star Wars shipset and BSG shipset.

(On another note, the Vasari have arrived too.)

"Long-banished deviants, now calling themselves the Advent, came back more powerful and twisted than we could have imagined. Many undefended worlds fell to their corruption before we could redirect forces from the alien front."

Version 2.0 of the 'Unity of the Advent' shipset has been released! Remember, everybody, you'll need to download dolynick's DOF shipset support library in order to continue using the shipset.

Fair enough! Thanks for the reply :)

Well, the Vasari have since been canceled, restarted, and... something. I'm not sure what's the situation anymore, though I have done at least one conversion.

Hi there! I was just curious as to whether the Vasari were still on the table for the future? They were always my favorite of the SoASE races, and the Heralds' traits just seem to be a great fit for them.

*walks in with megaphone, again* Can I have everyone's attention, please?

I have just received a substantial amount of SOASE models converted to .xsi (should be just about every model for each of the major races, based on my quick glance) and a tool with which to correctly extract .dds textures. The results are these:

1. This shipset and the TEC one will be overhauled with better textures and models, as well as a bunch of models that weren't in Prometeu's shipset. (Yay, Coronata! :D)

2. There's a Vasari shipset on the way with all the bells and whistles these two are getting! :D

No timeline currently exists for any of these updates, as I still have a substantial amount of converting to do before model and texture alike become usable in SR2, but it is coming nonetheless. I'll announce these updates again as they near release.

Eh, I'm not quite good at explaining it.

However, what you say you're doing is wrong. You have to write new materials with their own shaders and texture references, not replace existing shipsets' files and pray it doesn't go wrong.

Can you explain your process because when i use my ripped eve models it just turns the ship invisible its invisible even if i just replace one of another mods ships with them

Thanks for the reply.

Gwyvern: Not entirely, no. There was something about a second set of UV maps, but I don't really know a lot about the thing.

Slashimus: Yes. I just answered your question in the reverter's comments.

Hey I asked this before in the Hex Limit Reverter mod section but figured I'd ask here too.

Does the Hex limit Reverter essentially re-enable default vanilla behaviour for hulls in your shipsets? Or am I misunderstanding its function?

Huh, so they do...My computer was for some reason giving the ogex files notepad icons, so I didnt really think to look at them. I don't suppose you know the advantage/disadvantage to ogex vs obj do you?

The 'other 3' use .ogex models and the PBR shader, while Gevron and Remnant use .obj with the SupportShip shader.

Are you kidding? Only the Gevron and remnant shipsets even has models I can find in the first place, the other 3 appear to be totally assetless somehow.

Heh, it'd be a better idea to reverse-engineer the vanilla shipsets.

how do you link them though? Actually, I might just end up reverse-engineerring your port or something when the time comes

Use .png textures, and either .obj or .ogex models, and you're fine. More or less. :o

Well, when i get around to making my own shipset (which I will) It wont be that simple, I still dont know how files and formats are set up for this game :P

You could always use Blender to do most of the work, then go back to Wings to do the finishing touches.

Rotating the mesh in wings 3d and exporting it there worked just fine, thank you. (Its a shame though, wings isnt that good of a program if you ask me, though it is where I started off many years ago.

I had some trouble using Blender, as it wouldn't export any normals - in other words, it killed all the texture mapping.

I personally use MilkShape, though I know Exa's had quite a bit of success working with Wings3D to make the 'Exa's Wars' and 'Remnant Warlord' shipsets.

Hey there, this is a nice import, though for my own personal preferences I am trying to flip the rapture class upside down, problem is, once I export my slightly altered model to OBJ and replace the model that is currently there (I give it the same name as the original and remove the original afterward) the model does not appear in game, that hull shows up in the list but does not have a model associated with it. So how exactly are you supposed to be exporting your models to OBJ? (I use blender btw)

i have the ships hiig and vaygr in my soft 3d , i do modif and save them in (obj)
but after where can i put them in star ruler2 ?? dont see anything for put my model in mod star ruler 2 ??
can yu give me the directory for that pls ^^

Uhhhh... I think the Hiigaran and Vagyr ships are on the GA repository on GitHub. I'll look into it, maybe I can do something about it.

thank yu but my english is limited ^^
i want model ship than galactic armory (the mod of star ruler 1) hiigaran and veygr ships(homeworld2)
i can import model with wing 3d but i dont now how to put in star ruler2 mod .....hall is in english and dont find where is moding ships in the making mod...

Any 3D modelling tool should suffice, so long as it can import/export .obj files. Apparently, .ogex files are also supported by SR2 now, though the significance of that is lost on me.

good job realy !! which software to realize the look of chips?
I would want to realize chips mod to ^^

Don't get me wrong, I'd love it if it were something as simple as what you posted - I've got at least a dozen SE5 shipsets I think people would want to use that are being blocked by this same issue, ranging from more Star Trek to Mass Effect (or at least I think it's ME - I don't have the games to check) to Stargate (Ancients, anyone? :D) to Eve (I think) and stuff I've never even heard of - but it doesn't sound likely.

I'm sure that works in the context it was posted in.

However, my own investigation suggests that this may only be the case if dealing with one texture file. The final result needs to be one .obj file and one .png file. (Well, actually you'd ideally want 5 .png files, but SE5 shipsets only have a diffuse map, so let's stick with one .png)

The first link I posted says, when using Blender, all you need to do is:

To combine the UVs you just need to combine the objects.

"In order to combine the objects, select both objects and press CTRL+J. Which ever object is active will be used as the final object, merging the first one into it.

Upon combining the objects the UVs will also be combined, allowing you to organize as you wish without needing to re-unwrap the UVs."

Eh, working on UV maps is no easy thing. Without prior experience or a lot of practice, I doubt it'll end well - I once tried remapping a BC-304's textures from scratch, and it took me 30 minutes before I gave up, not even managing to match a single face to the texture. :(

Still, if you manage to get it to work correctly, I'd be more than happy to write up the shipset code. (Not that it's a terribly hard piece of work.)

Ah, OK thanks. Just to let you know, I found this [blender.stackexchange.com] and am going to try using Blender [www.blender.org] to Merge the UV maps.

Though I am going to work first so if you want to try first your welcome to it. ;)

If I remember correctly, this set is the same one used in Warp 10. I checked if I could port Warp 10's Federation to SR2, and the set uses multiple textures for a single ship. Unless someone merges the UV maps for, say, the Nova (it's not just the Nova - all or almost all of the ships there had multiple texture sets, if memory serves), and gives me the updated models/textures, I can't port it.

Awesome,Could you port this [spaceempires.net.] Star Trek SE5 ship set to Star Ruler 2?

Good joooooob !!

The Hex Limit Reverter has been updated!

I'll push some default designs for this thing to the Workshop as soon as I'm done with my current work for ABEM.

Mind you, I haven't done custom hex limits for the TEC yet. I am not looking forward to dealing with the StarCraft 2 sets in this fashion, though...

I already did, long before this one. It's even called 'Trader Emergency Coalition', which is what 'TEC' stands for. :P

Excellent !! Thanks for this shipset !! could you do the terran shipset from sins of solar too ? :D