Perhaps the lack of "tactics" described in SW space warfare is due to the fact that tactics are exceedingly simple; formation is fairly irrelevant in SW, as Star Destroyer's mirror a combination battleship/carrier analogue (they carry small fightercraft, but are fully capable of going toe-to-toe with an equal tonnage warship).

It does handle six races fine, without major performance issues. Does on SoGE at least. :v

You need to use notepad++ find in files function and find the brushes. The entities brush link links to a brush file in the window folder and the brush links to the icon sheet in the textures folder.

 Here is part of the add planets tutorial which shows brush links with Gimp image editor free.

Rectangle Tool is selected. All Channels are on.

Shows the mouse current position. Sitting at 0, 0 which is the very top left of the image.

Let's link a brush from the planet.entity to the brush file and finally to the texture file.

The planet.entity had 6 links to brushes with the first

hudIcon "HUDICON_PLANET_TERRAN0"

Using Notepad++ "Find in Files" feature to search the Entrenchments reference files for "HUDICON_PLANET_TERRAN0" you will get a hit HUDIcon-Planet.brushes file that is inside the Window folder and locate the brush.

HUDIcon-Planet.brushes

brush
    name "HUDICON_PLANET_TERRAN0"
    content "Simple"
    fileName "Icons_planets"
    pixelBox [ 714 , 770 , 50 , 50 ]

Icons_planets.tga opened in Gimp

1st find the general location and zoom in to 800%. Set your mouse to the location of the brush. Hold left mouse and drag the box to the brush size. pixelBox [ 714 , 770 , 50 , 50 ]

hudIcon "HUDICON_PLANET_TERRAN0"
smallHudIcon "HUDICONSMALL_PLANET_TERRAN0"
infoCardIcon "INFOCARDICON_PLANET_TERRAN0"
mainViewIcon "MAINVIEWICON_PLANET_TERRAN0"
undetectedMainViewIcon "MAINVIEWUNDETECTEDICON_PLANET_TERRAN0"
picture "PICTURE_PLANET_TERRAN0"

So you will want to map back the ships brush link to the brush file and find the icons from the mods textures folder and copy those icons to your mods texture sheet.

If thats a little much to understand, install Teamspeak 3 and Teamviewer and we can talk while I show you my screen as I work.

I am pretty sure ZombiesRus term "Map Back" is just what I described above. Finding the brush links in the entity and using Find in Files and locate the brush and then the texture sheet they're on.

Ships entities are layed out differently but all the link are basically the same, just in different spots.

CAPITALSHIP_PHASEBATTLESHIP.entity

Line 47
mainViewIcon "MAINVIEWICON_CAPITALSHIP_PHASEBATTLESHIP"

Line 83
picture "CAPITALSHIPPICTURE_PHASEBATTLESHIP"  <--big one bottom middle

Lines 93, 94, 95
 hudIcon "HUDICON_CAPITALSHIP_PHASEBATTLESHIP"
 smallHudIcon "HUDICONSMALL_CAPITALSHIP_PHASEBATTLESHIP"
 infoCardIcon "INFOCARDICON_CAPITALSHIP_PHASEBATTLESHIP"

Different ships will have them on different lines but just search the sheet for
mainViewIcon, picture, hudIcon, smallHudIcon and infoCardIcon

Take a look at Window\LoadScreen.brushes

Notice at the top it has the line
onlyLoadOnDemand TRUE

This means only the picture used is loaded into the ram so you can actually use lots of full screen wallpaper images and create a new brush or change an existing brush to point at a new image and place the image in the textures folder. 

If you do use full screen loading images you will need to learn how to start editing the .window files which are not that complicated once you start experimenting. 

Gimp: with the DDS plug-in. Use any image editor that can edit the .dds format. This will require to download a DDS plug-in for most image editors.

I can't believe this thread is still going. Well, since it won't die, might as well add fuel to the fire.

All would bow before the Ori!

they were boring in 1994

The problem is getting permission for all the assets used created by other modders. A daunting task. Everything that I release is automatically allowed to be used by anyone as long as credit is given. 

 @Hausser0815, i never intended to do the mod myself. i thought it impossible for me to do it with my lack of computing skills. However, i've been at it everyday at least 4 hrs a day some days more because ive become addicted. I was bored with the telly over the easter break so i had a go at replacing Meshes and Textures. The first time i got one in game was amazing, it was the Super Star Destroyer from Requiem.(@whiskey, it totally dominates because i increased its shield and hull values and left all the other capital ships at Sin's stock values! Even the AI creates it when im against the Empire.). 

Since my post 3rd May, ive added the third race which is Stargate. If i had to get permission for other peoples assets, that as Myfisto says would be daunting. Ive only used other peoples stuff and if everyone said yes, it would need alot more work to do it all justice. The problem ive got is the amount of work i've still got left before i would ever release it for public consumption. Its getting the right abilities over, tweaking the code, the correct weapon effects & audio,etc. Thats the skill part which i havent got.

@Myfisto-Ive edited the player pictures with gimp. Just basiclly replaced the pictures with new ones. In game when i go to select the stock races on the Buttons, they are black. Any idea why? The Race orders are as follows: Race 1-Empire, Race 2-Starfleet, Race 3-SGC, Race 4-TEC, Race 5-Advent, Race 6-Vasari. So all the stock race buttons are black with no pictures.

Regards,

Theo

PrtScr key. This save a bitmap (huge file size) in the same dir as the mods are.

C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\ScreenShot\

PrtScr key is also the same as copy, so once your image editor is open you can use Edit --> Paste. Save as a Gif (bad quality), JPEG (medium quality) or PNG (better quality). I also usually scale the image to 480 width which fits the forum well and pages don't take to long to load.

Upload to a free hosting service, I use ImageShack and copy the direct link. In this forum, open the Insert/Edit Image button (looks like a tree) and past the direct link.

Second request for the other unit pic tutorials in a couple days so I guess I could put something together seeing as I already made the empty page.

OK OK, here is some karma for your coffee.

Oh my god!

I have a Karma point

Thanks guys i will have a go at posting some screen shots this weekend.