Cosmos Ad Infinitum mod for Sins of a Solar Empire

Project Goal
Provide the potential for an infinite
number of new systems to Sins of a Solar Empire without dramatically
changing core game play elements.

To accomplish this, the mod will make use
of script generation developed by me to automate the redundant time
consuming tasks of creating entity files, wiring the GalaxyScenerioDef,
planetary bonuses and planet abilities.

Features of the mod:

• New Planet Sizes: Dwarf, Normal, Giant
• Custom icons and pictures for all new planets
• Matching mainview icon sizes for planets
• New planetary bonuses, potentially based on planet type (WIP)
• New planetary abilities (WIP)
• TBD (new stars, moons, non-traditional planets, etc)

Comments:
Planet Types/Sizes
New planet types must be mapped to one of
the existing: Terran, Volcanic, Ice, Desert, Asteroid, or GasGiant
equivalent. The new planet type may get some tweaking but will mainly be
used to drive the planetary type specific bonus/minus applied to the
planet.

Planet sizes may be used to determine
bonuses, abilities, upgrades and resource asteroids available. Still
researching what I like best.

I'm still in the process of improving a
few elements for this mod. One being a script to generate the brush
entries for the mainview, hudicons infocards, pictures and undetected
icon sets. I've also improved the process for icon and pictures which
results in a better quality image (not in the test systems yet).

Current Iteration 1 test Systems (Not released):

Fictional Sol
(Textures from Celestial Bodies, and various other public sources)

Rigel
(Textures from Rigel system in Celestial Bodies)

Tenorias
(Textures from Tenorias system in Celestial Bodies)