First Shipset, The NGrath race

Very nice looking! Even a cool race portrait.
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Very cool, nice and pointy!

I aspire to make my own ship set someday.

Kerry-

"...I say we must move forward, not backward, upward, but forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!"
-Kodos for President

please pursuade torture or cadjole Kwayne to do some more

I really like the cruiser, battleship and and space base. Better set than any of those in game am gonna use it in my game for sure. Love the texturing 2, would you be interested in texturing my shipset? i have some pics at the bottom of lordhavocs thread "shipset progress 2"

They match the stock races for quality.Good stuff.

Could anyone let me know where the files go.
Thanks

Could anyone let me know where the files go.
Thanks

Very nice. The files need to be in a seperate sub-folder. Stored in the Empires folder with all the other races. Warning if you are using Kwoks mod you also need to put a copy in the Empires folder inside his mod folder.

Ok I copied the "Ngrath" folder to the "Empires" folder in kwoks mod and still nothing is showing up.
Help!
thanks

I am still working on how to actually play with the race from the quick start menu. If you start a quick start game. They dont show in the list of playable races but if you start a game and look at the races involved they do turn up within the game so you could always switch to them. Also using new game you can design your own race and the ship set, flag and race picture are available for use.

You have to edit them into the settings.txt file.

Yes I can now pick them as a standard race from quick start. Just modify your settings text in the main data folder and also the one in the balance data folder to show the following.
Note the change in Number of quick start files from 14 to 15

Number of Quick Start Styles := 15
Quick Start Style 1 := Abbidon
Quick Start Style 2 := Amonkrie
Quick Start Style 3 := CueCappa
Quick Start Style 4 := Drushocka
Quick Start Style 5 := Eee
Quick Start Style 6 := Jraenar
Quick Start Style 7 := Norak
Quick Start Style 8 := Phong
Quick Start Style 9 := Sergetti
Quick Start Style 10 := Sithrak
Quick Start Style 11 := Terran
Quick Start Style 12 := UkraTal
Quick Start Style 13 := Xiati
Quick Start Style 14 := XiChung
Quick Start Style 15 := NGrath

Thanks everyone! everything ok now.

Thanks for the effort and work on this shipset.

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Tarsus Race and new AI for Download! v0.6
Consult the great SEV Wiki

This was the first shipset I remade for SEV from my original ones in SEIV. I hope I will have the energy to do the remaining 20-30 (I don't know exactly) in the same quality. Right now I plan to make some neutrals to make some logical balance in numbers.

For 20 or 30 sets of that quality you should charge £$.

Maybe, but it's not necessary. Creating a race is a relatively small project, quality depends on practice and experiments.

Eh ? How do I download it Doc ?
I just get a dozen of damn pop up windows with girls in bikini ?

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Feel lucky earthling ?

Grab it from here instead:
http://www.spaceempires.net/home/downloads-file-579.html

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Heyyas Kwayne,

Very nice shipset. Any chance of adding a small empire flags alternative to it?
I have already done them for my own use, but I feel that it being your shipset, it is not my place to post them.

Thanks!
DM

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It's not who you know...
It's what you know about who you know.

I am getting a "Stream Read Error" when I go into ground comabat with your race. Any idea how to fix it.

I noticed that the .X file for the carrier seems to be missing from the zip file.

Thanks for the link Captain Kwok

JimboTex is right we're missing the Carrier...

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Feel lucky earthling ?

col. kurtz,
Geez some guys get all the luck and then complain.
Omnius

I'm wondering if anyone has encountered any problems with the new ship set? In SE4 I unzipped the atrocities races and discovered they screwed up scoring. After deleting those extra SE4 races my scoring went back to normal. Just wondering if anyone has noticed any problems with the new ship set skewing scoring.
Omnius

Like Bugbear, I too am getting a Stream Read Error whenever I enter into ground combat while using the NGrath set.

Why the game not include a map editor like in SE4?

Is it possible to add one in future patch?

The map editor in SE:IV wasn't added in until v1.35 - so perhaps in the New Year for SE:V.

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Try re-saving all the .bmp files in the Ngrath empire folder with another graphic program other than MS Paint (ie Ifran, Photoshop etc). There is an error that comes up from time to time with incorrect headers on the .bmp files.

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Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

I was just wondering if a new updated version was uploaded somewhere that contained the missing Carrier file?

That resolved the error.

Sorry for the missing carrier .x, I'll post the fixed version of the set as soon as I can (tomorrow). All bitmaps should be 24-bit OS/2 format BMP-s, otherwise it can cause Stream Read Errors. Perhaps I forgot converting the troop texture after texturing was finished (3DSMax does't recognize OS/2). Last week was the deadline, so I was in a hurry.

That would be nice if you could update the .bmp files together with the missing Carrier file.

Btw your shipset is really nice (great meshes and awesome textures)

Do you plan to release other shipsets in the near future ?

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Feel lucky earthling ?

I do. N'Grath took three months with developing the creation method, two rounds of re-texturing, solving the problem of the quickly sizing the meshes and writing a slot modder program, so the next race will be out in 1.5 months if I don't exhaust and fall unconscious from my new job, but I can't guarantee anything. I got a sketch of an insectoid looking race, a concept of chitinous turtle-ships, and a name in mind (Shoronn or Xoronn) but all these can change in the meantime.

I tried to design a shipet myself (see this link http://www.spaceempires5.com/fr/node/1520 for details). An insectoid shipset btw.

This is really tiiiiime consuming. Designing meshes (with Wings 3D) is a lot of fun. But finding the right coordinates to place the firing points / engine exhaust points are a real pain in the …neck. Not to mention texturing : For some unknown reason my textures does not show up in the game. So I gave up (I don’t have enough free time). So I can easily understand you’ll take your time to relax after all this hard work.

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Feel lucky earthling ?

In 3DSmax I used an OmniLight object as a reference to define the FP/EP coordinates, and I wrote notes with the XYZ data. I think every 3D programs have a conventional coordinate system, so it shouldn't be a real problem. A mesh with all the additional work can take 3-6 hours, it requires a fixed amount of worktime, however the result is worth the effort.

And as promised, I got the missing .x file so the (hopefully ultimate) fixed version can appear on SENet anytime...

Well, actually the problem comes from the fact that most of the time we have to change the scale of the object in order it fits into the game, furthermore the meshes do not always face the right direction.

Therefore once the needed changes are made the original coordinates are often completely scrambled. So taking notes is definitely a good advice.

Another solution is to open the .X file (with the notepad) and take a look at the various coordinates displayed in the text and try to guess which are the good ones, which is no fun at all.

A functional/user friendly shipset viewer would really help in this matter.

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I solved the scaling problem by batch converting the entire Terran shipset's .x files into .3ds, which is basically importable in 3DSMax. After importing, I scaled my object to fit to the imported one in size (and flipped it upside down), then exported it with Panda, made the FP/EP notes, and used the original Terran scaling values. You see, cheating makes things easier...

To Fyron: No, I didn't release my SEIV shipsets, but will post some (the better ones) to you if you need standard ones.

Eager to download, but wondering if the version at spaceempires.net is fixed yet?

Looks like great work!

It was fixed as soon as Kwayne sent the fixed files.

Kwayne:
The more the merrier.

The fixed N'Grath should be bug free by now, though I didn't fully tested it yet.

BTW I got a finished race portrait of the Xoronn at SENet, in the "Artwork!" topic. I'll launch a thread for this new race as soon as the project reaches at least 50% completion.

Another great looking portrait,how about a ship preview? You seems to like the colour green I noticed

Don't fear, my next race will be one of my two orange races from my SEIV age...

Discovered some unacceptable sizing & positioning bugs, so I'll fix them as soon as I can.
Rest assured Xoronn and all my upcoming works will come out after an overall testing.

'Kay, fixed. I sent the fixfile to Fyron in SENet.

Nice design work.

Great job