Let me make sure I'm reading this right. It WILL NOT work without DA? Not without installing the textures piece by piece?

That is correct Gavote

UPDATE:

A patch will be released within the next 2 days to update the game to be compatible with Dark Avatar v1.5X.

Oof, that sucks. Thanks kyro for replying, I guess this isn't for me then. Glad I didn't try it.

Maybe I will someday, was really looking forward to it now. Wish it said somewhere more clearly that it was DA only before I got all my hopes up, I'm such a noob...

Peter

Do the purple stars cast purple-ish light? It didn't seem so.

Logic I'm not sure how you feel about this, but I wanted to offer this in case you're interested.

I love your mod. It is a true okeasure being able to jump around a galaxy that's so alive and vibrant, detailed and spectacular. But for myself, I pretty much only play Metaverse games and on Huge maps at that.

Having so many textures at the dimensions you use means people with machines not as fast as ours, will have a difficult time in larger maps. So just for myself, I created an alternate set of your textures that I could use for Metaverse games, and then I started to look at what I could live with (the best visuals vs. performance). The results look significantly better than the originals, yet still runs well... and of course this will work in Metaverse games.

If you'd be interested I'd be happy to send you what I've done so you can submit it. I have no interest in having any credit (not submitting it nor being mentioned)since all I did was re-size, swap around several images, and performed visual & performance testing. You did the real work and it's truly remarkable. I would have just e-mailed... but I already did that so that's why I'm posting here.

I fully understand if you're not interested - if it doesn't fit the grand vision you came up with. It'd just make me kind of sad that so many people would not be using such brilliant work in their every day games.

Best Wishes.

-Jeff

From the screens I've seen of the mod, it looks amazing, Logic. However, the mod is so large I'm having a hard time downloading it. It gets up between 96-99% and then the download times out. Yeesh.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jpinard i think thats a great addition

Logic i do miss not being able to use your mod at all in MV games.

Looking forward to the outcome of this!

Logic please email me ASAP as i have had to delete all ftp access to the core as we have suffered an attack! Email me and i will set up a new one for you.

OMG. Why would someone do that?!

BTW - Is that why I didn't get an e-mail validation yet after registering at the forum yesterday?

jpinard i have activated your account for you Sorry for the delay

An oddity has occurred only since putting in the (gorgeous) HRG mod.

It seems that, in seven games now, I have yet to see a single bonus tile on a planet other than my homeworld. Not a single one. No +100%s, no +300%s...nothing, on over 60 worlds. They're all just plain-jane squares. Unloading the mod seems to correct the issue.

But it can't be that the HRG mod has anything to do with this, right? I mean, it doesn't do anything with game mechanics itself. Am I missing something? Where am I being the fool? Or am I just really really really unlucky in a very strange way? Is there a file I can tweak that will fix this? (Yes, I'm on 1.02.)

Sigh...back to basic graphics for a while.

Scratch that--switching back to regular DA doesn't seem to fix it. Argh.

Bingo.

Hehe. Want to konw something funny Albion? I didn't have too many bonus tiles either (for a few games). Then I loaded up a cheat game so I could do some testing... and whoa! 5 big bonus tiles on my home planet. I thought - well that just figures! hehehe. After more games it evens out. Really!