Scaling

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Hello community. I'm sure this question has been answered before, and if it has, could you please point me at it? If not, I need a bit of help.
I want to scale my ships and structures down to look a little more realistic in relation to the planets and suns, but I have no idea how to go about that. Could someone walk me through it step-by-step? Thanks much in advance.

Rebellion 1.5 with Forbidden Worlds

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Your ships as in:

  • Ships you've modeled yourself. This is easy to do, simply scale down your model, or
  • Default Sins of a Solar Empire ships. This is more of a pain that involves extracting the meshes into a 3d modelling program and then scaling them down before putting them back in game, unless there is a faster way a smart person (ie someone who's not me) knows of

I feel like your intended question is the latter in which case I hope someone can help you out.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yes, it's the default ships and structures. I was hoping it would be easier, but it's still a skill worth learning. It'd be something to keep me busy, anyway.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Just remembered there was a mesh resize tool for Sins (Trinity version I believe), not sure if there is such a tool for Rebellion or not but certainly worth looking for as it would likely speed up what you're doing immensely.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

I'd love to (in fact, that's what got me wanting to do it), but it's not compatible with 1.5, or with Forbidden Planets (as far as I know). It's a minidump every time I try to activate it.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

It would be far less work to make that mod 1.51 DLC compatible than go through the effort of resizing everything though.

Edit - I'm going to download it and see what files he's modded that might cause conflicts

 

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

http://downloads.soase.x90x.net/SoaSE_ResizeTool.7z

I never used so you're on you're own.

If it doesn't do Rebellion, get the reference files and remove the 3rd line in the .mesh

maxDiffuseMipLevel 0

resize and add the line back.

 

To convert the meshes from BIN to TXT to BIN, I keep this !ConvertMesh folder in all my mods Mesh folder. Move the mesh into the folder and click the .bat you want, it will do multiple files.

http://reference-files.soase.x90x.net/Reference_Files_Reb_v1.51/Mesh/!ConvertMesh.7z

http://reference-files.soase.x90x.net/Reference_Files_Dip_v1.37/Mesh/!ConvertMesh.7z

 

 

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Zom, if you can get it working (Or tell me how, I wouldn't mind learning), I'd really appreciate it.

-Edit: Fist, I'll give that a try if I have to do it from scratch. But what does that maxdiffusemiplevel line do? It'll be much easier for me to change it if I know what it does (peace of mind, and such.)

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

maxDiffuseMipLevel 0

It's for the Rebellion's shadow system. It is the only difference between Trinity and Rebellion meshes.