Enhanced 4X Development Beta Thread Thread - Enhanced 4X Mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

Ever want to play a bigger part in the development of the Enhanced 4X mod? Now you can! I've started to backup my work on the mod using Git, which will allow anyone to download the latest playable versions of the mod I'm working on that might not be ready for release.

What is Git/Github?

Git is an Open Source version control system. Basically it keeps track of and back up every change in a project, allowing programmers to better recover from bad code, accidental deletion, and working together with multiple developers.

Github is a website that stores git projects, called repositories on the web. It is the site you'll be going to download the betas.

How can I download the development betas?

First, go to the github repository site.

If you know how to use git already, it will be a bit easier if you simply use git to download the repository directly to the mod folder. If you don't just hit the "Zip" button near the top of the page. This will download a .zip file of the beta, which can be extracted to your mod folder like normal (just watch out for that extra folder when you unzip it). Enable the mod in game and you should be ready to play.

What sort of issues should I report?

To be clear, these builds are definitely betas. There will be placeholder art assets, probably some unnoticed bugs and badly balanced initial values. In addition these file are still in text format, which will reduce game performance somewhat. Anything else though is fair game.

To report a bug or issue from the beta.

• Please Post in this thread (I may expand to a new subforum if there is a lot of activity). I want all beta feedback in one place.
• Please always post your checksum.
• Please list any minimods as they appear in your mod order.
• As always, give as many details as possible.

How often will the betas be updated?

:p

I will post in this thread whenever a new beta is available, so just keep an eye on it if you want to always be up to date. This is one place where knowing how to use git will come in handy though. Just downloading the zip file will force you to download a few hundred MB even for some minor changes. With Git, you can just pull from the repository and it will only download files that were changed. See the parts on installing and pulling from a repository here, and if I can find a better tutorial I'll put it up.

*Disclaimer*

These releases are strictly beta versions, and as such I can not promise that they will behave smoothly, nor can I guarantee support in using the said betas, git or github. Use at your own risk, I will not be liable to any time you may waste in trying to get them running if you encounter difficulties.

*You may of course still ask for help here, I just can't promise I can fix your issue since these are not standard versions.

Tracking, GoaFan.

Great Sparda,

Also for this transition into Rebellion 1.5/Forbidden Worlds DLC, please post if you have the DLC or not when reporting bugs.

Following.
Would you mind if I cloned your repo and merged in my own changes Goa? I've been playing with my own custom version for a while and it'd be nice to just pull your changes when you make them.

Edited by: emowomble

emowomble wrote: Following.
Would you mind if I cloned your repo and merged in my own changes Goa? I've been playing with my own custom version for a while and it'd be nice to just pull your changes when you make them.

You can do whatever you want on your local branch. I don't think it's possible for anyone else to push to the repository but don't try.

The game seemed to have a "runtime" error not sure what caused it as I have never had Sins do that before, the game just kinda froze for no reason, also have the directional shields mod installed with it. I was also running at that exact second at 8x play. I can send you the save if you want it.

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Drian wrote: The game seemed to have a "runtime" error not sure what caused it as I have never had Sins do that before, the game just kinda froze for no reason, also have the directional shields mod installed with it. I was also running at that exact second at 8x play. I can send you the save if you want it.

Checksum 101487197

Yeah, if the same thing happens at the same point when you reload the save, please send it to me.

Does the shield mod do anything but modify the shield shader?

No, shield mod does not, I will see if it does it again.

Well the game didn't crash at the same point but the game did eventually crash, no reason this time it just shut down, also on a side note when autocannons fire there is a white rectangle from their firing point. How do you want me to send you the save?

Drian wrote: No, shield mod does not, I will see if it does it again.

Well the game didn't crash at the same point but the game did eventually crash, no reason this time it just shut down, also on a side note when autocannons fire there is a white rectangle from their firing point. How do you want me to send you the save?

Just upload it to dropbox or sendspace or something, and post it here or PM the link to me.

What unit's autocannons? Sometimes the white rectangles appear when the particle effects failed to load, usually because your GPU is too busy.

Well, it was sods law that I downloaded the E4X mod 3 days after I picked up the DLC. Was exited to run it, but that's not gonna happen, so I'll do some beta testing instead.

ASW122 wrote: Well, it was sods law that I downloaded the E4X mod 3 days after I picked up the DLC. Was exited to run it, but that's not gonna happen, so I'll do some beta testing instead.

Cool! And I think I'll have the new update done soon.

Well the 1.6 official update was pushed to the Repository a few hours ago, though I've also submitted it to Moddb as well, just waiting for it to be Authorized. The Moddb one will probably run a little better since it is in the smaller binary format, so I'd wait on that.

Version 1.601 has been uploaded to Github.

A minor update with some new pirate stuff and bugfixes has been put up on github.

Damn, do I want to feel bad for necroing a 2 year topic?

z741 wrote:

Damn, do I want to feel bad for necroing a 2 year topic?

Not at all. This topic is still valid. The github is still there and you are free to use it if you like. However most of my modding time these days goes to the Star Wars: Interregnum add on to E4X, so there haven't been a lot of updates. However, there are some bug fixes and AI updates that will be released soon in E4X v1.75 that will be released along with Interregnum Alpha 3.

After that, E4X might get some new map and skybox/visual updates, so those will likely hit the github well before the official version is released.