Good decision. About ship in WIP stage - how ship in texture work now: i know only about Explorer, Sharlin and ... ?

Apollo is worked on by me. Texture is about 50% finished. I seem to take the longest possible time for textureing, not good 

As for build times, we will see. I meant for balancing to take place in the later stages of the mod, but we ( I ) might consider some changes before that.
As for the station upgrades, I meant that to be that way. You have a lot more possible upgrades for the stations now, but to fully upgrade one does take an enormous amount of time and resources, so it is wise to make upgrades were needed first. I mean, a military outpost is not easy to build and upgrade it would take a lot of time. I should however make some upgrades take less time, but that will be balanced out once we have all types of stations (military, trade, diplomatic, colony)

As a side note, since I have started the mod, I haven't played one single game of sins (be it vanilla or mod), just a few testruns to see the ships ingame and test some abilities ( all spare time in front of the computer goes into the mod). Therefore I have not that big of an idea what the game playes like on longer sessions. Just give us some time.

Linking mesh and particle effect is pretty easy. Install yourself particleforge and start it.

If you install particleforge in an own folder, be sure to have the subfolders

Mesh
Particle
PipelineEffect
TextureAnimations
Textures

in it and in them any file you reference.

In particleforge, when you create and select a new emitter, you can assign it a mesh under ParticleMesh/Filename

For editing purposes, best open the files from your local folders.

To make it usefull you will have to assign it the shader "GsShip" if you want to use the same texturemodel as on ships (cl, nm, da) or any other if you think it fits better.

last, when your particle is ready for use ingame, you need to change the path of the mesh from something like

C:\games\ParticleForge\mesh\mymesh.mesh

to

C:\gs\main\DataSource\Mesh\mymesh.mesh

This path seems to be replaced by the game for the real path sins looks for the mesh (in our case the mod folder)

then place the mesh and the particle file into the respective folders in your mod folder and start to test (after assigning the particlefile to the respective entity of course)

If you got any further questions, just pm me or ask in this thread.

No problem, and thanks for the Karma. If you need an example you can always look at the file OmegaRotate.particle.

My Game crashes when i activate the mod.

Can someone help me with this ?

I'm playing the german Game Version, i hope thats not the problem.

German version likely doesnt read the English.str from the String folder. so u need to copy paste the modifications done to that file to the german version of the file.

For Entrenchment, and Diplomacy, only English... Vanilla version will become English too once you upgrade over the 1.05... text will be English but sound/voice will remain mainly German...

I have the Kalypso version too...

For these mod, no change needed... in my case, it is only strange to hear French voice with fit badly with the B5 mod...

Narn update: by Koobalt

Wow that models are looking very great...wana play this!

When we make miscellaneouses special abilities  ship be more interested.

About Narn - Koobalt our Narn Admiral [he make all model narn ships_G'quan, Bin'tak, Th'norr, T'loth and fighter-bomber Gorith]. G'quan and Bin'tak probably equipped energy mine [but last word for TobiWahn_Kenobi]

About Centaui: we have only one ship - "Vorchan" frigate.

These songs are still sold, please remove the link from your post. We want to use fan created music (Hawkwall did a fantastic job with his first two pieces!)

I don't want to run into issues with copyright as I cannot and will not afford any problems arising from a copyright violation!

Well, codeing and research trees are always welcome.

What did you have in mind?