Where are the downloads?

[mrscrogg]

Kwok , any thought of including any of these new shipsets for Balance Mod ?

[Fyron]

That would not be a good idea. It would distort the purpose of the mod, which is not to add things to the game, but simply to balance the data. It would increase the download size of the mod. It would increase the amount of maintenance work Kwok has to perform, keeping more races up to date. And last but not least, its trivial to adapt shipsets to work as AI empires in the mod, making it not a very compelling thing to do.

[MrToxin]

Part of the problem is that making new things for SEV is much more difficult. The 3D nature is what does that. With SEIV you didn't need to worry about that so long as you had a presentable 2D image. 3D stuff is a different thing entirely.

[Fyron]

The better SE4 shipsets were made from 3D models, though.

[Xrati]

Generally through DoGA, which is pretty easy to use.

[Ironmanbc]

I would like to know when the next patch is coming out and what it fixed (i think i saw a post somewhere about 1.77)

and to all the modders out there let us know what you are doing about the new stuff that your putting into the mod (the months is WWWAAAYYYYY too long)

[MrToxin]

Fyron said:
The better SE4 shipsets were made from 3D models, though.

I'm well aware of that, but in that case, it was mostly DoGA. Plus, you didn't need to worry about how the other side of the ship looked, or if all of the polygons would become a "slideshow mode: on" button. 3D complicates matters.

'course, we all do know that 3D is better anyway. :V

[Fyron]

I don't think it was mostly Doga. Sure AT was obsessed with it, but there were a lot of other authors besides him. I know of people that used Maya, 3dsmax, etc. Hell, even one or two crazy people used AutoCAD! Then of course there were the screen capture shipsets that certainly can't translate to SE5.