<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.0"><channel><title>Sins of a Solar Empire Forums » RSS Feed » Graphics Design Posts</title><link>https://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/SinsOfASolarEmpire/forum/407</link><copyright>© 2006 - 2026 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><description>Recent Posts In Graphics Design</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:00:53 AM -0400</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:00:53 AM -0400</lastBuildDate><docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs><generator>Stardock Rss Generator v1.0</generator><managingEditor>info@stardock.com</managingEditor><webMaster>kwilas@stardock.com</webMaster><item><author>TemakiXai</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/471169</comments><description><![CDATA[I know this has been brought up before but I looked aroundand read through other posts and I couldn&#39;t find an answer that worked.  So, it would be really awesome if I could add custom faction icons and maybe even custom portraits to my game. Anyone know how I would be able to do it?  I don&#39;t play online multiplayer at all, just by myself, so don&#39;t worry about that. I have loads of image editing programs and I can make .ico files and such if that&#39;s needed.  any help would ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/471169</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/471169</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2015 6:02:24 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2015-12-01T06:02:24-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Custom faction icons?</title></item><item><author>bleep196</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/414373</comments><description><![CDATA[Is there anywhere that I can find a copy of the Scores to the Music&nbsp;in-game, I am doing a Musical Investigation for IB Music and would like to Utilize Mr.&nbsp; Schuegraf&#39;s music from the game in it, but in order to do this I need a copy of the Score/Sheet Music for the&nbsp;pieces.   ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/414373</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/414373</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 8:50:22 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-09-28T08:50:22-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Sheet Music for the Music ingame</title></item><item><author>Baltazzor</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/429268</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi everyone!  &nbsp;  I have started a clan in Sins of a Solar Empire, we are going to have a cool clan page. And i want it to look like it was in the game with the menus and everything. I want to make some cool Images and a intro Video to the clan and i wonder if it is possible to import the ship meshes to the 3D program Blender. And if it would be OK to do it if it is possible?  &nbsp;  Thanks everyone!!  your worst enemy 777-Balthazzor&nbsp;  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/429268</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/429268</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 9:05:16 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-08-12T21:05:16-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Is it posible to import ships to Blender?</title></item><item><author>rodridu94</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/411290</comments><description><![CDATA[ This has gone on   the first   updates to   Sins   Of   Solar Empire   j   I   buy the   boxed version   of the game   is in   french   and   I do   the updates   text and   voice   are put   in English,   you it   would be   possible to set   this problem   in the next   patch?   ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/411290</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/411290</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 1:57:10 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-08-18T13:57:10-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>issues updates text and sound languages ​​french</title></item><item><author>cal808</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/401356</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi, does anyone know where I can get English sound files for sins of a solar empire, as I bought the game in France and it is in French, I tried deleting the French string file, and the menus and text became English, but the voices are still in French. I want the english sound files so that I can copy and replace them into the sound folder.  Thanks  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/401356</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/401356</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 1:34:23 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-12-04T13:34:23-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Sound files</title></item><item><author>StarDruid</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/387608</comments><description><![CDATA[Is it possible to Move where the Money/Metal/Crystal summary dropdown/info windows show up? I thought they originally dropped down below their respective Value at the top of the screen but now when I mouse over each it shows in the lower right corner instead.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/387608</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/387608</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 4:48:30 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-07-14T04:48:30-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Money Metal Crystal Summary dropdown Location?</title></item><item><author>ZombieTexter</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/386800</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi there i recently just got back to playing the game on my second computer and when i started the game there where no ships or planets just the identifiers of where they were  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/386800</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/386800</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 7:49:50 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-07-07T07:49:50-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>No Graphics</title></item><item><author>AdmiralRevan</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/382773</comments><description><![CDATA[my sound sounds choppy when i play sins, i have recently installed it on vista. my audio card is a&nbsp;sound-blaster-so its not the audio card- 3.5 gigs of ram and a 2.7 dual core processor  anyway to stop this?  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/382773</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/382773</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 8:47:01 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-05-23T08:47:01-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>why does the sound lag?</title></item><item><author>AdmiralRevan</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/382743</comments><description><![CDATA[i just "upgraded" to vista, ive just installed sins and entrenchment. when i ran entrenchment... it went loopy. graphics were jumping all over the place, no sound.&nbsp;  is this normal?  should i reinstall?  should i chuck my computer out the window?&nbsp;    any advice would helpful,&nbsp;    &nbsp;  The Great Admiral Rain who-is-anti-vista  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/382743</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/382743</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 7:58:43 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-05-23T19:58:43-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>is this normal?</title></item><item><author>instinctepyon</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/321199</comments><description><![CDATA[Hello,  This is my first post and this may sound like a rather newbie question but how do I listen to the soundtrack outside of the game?  I know that you can only get the collector's edition of SoaSE (which includes all of the extras of which the soundtrack is one of them), so I clicked on the "Buy Now" part of the site and then clicked the Buy button underneath the "Digital Download only" so I am assuming that I would get the soundtrack option available as a different download.  Could so...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/321199</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/321199</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:28:15 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-04-02T09:28:15</pubDateParsed><title>How do I download/listen to the SoaSE music?</title></item><item><author>Commodore Thyr</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/175358</comments><description><![CDATA[I did some searching and found very little on the topic! I did read in a developer chat that Ironclad wished to have put more character portraits into the game. That's fine. I am glad that they are aware of that.    What I would like, however, is the option to put my own portraits in there, and my own faction symbols. If the fear is that people would create profanities and inappropriate symbols, I'm not sure if that's an actual problem. Games such as Dawn of War does this and I found it to wor...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/175358</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/175358</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 4:00:57 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-01-27T04:00:57-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Custom portraits and Custom symbols on ICO</title></item><item><author>Exterminator451</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/317291</comments><description><![CDATA[Anyone know who composed the soundtrack for Sins?&nbsp; It's one of the best I've heard, on par with Total Annihilation, I'd say.&nbsp; Very fitting.  Just curious. ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/317291</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/317291</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 2:14:58 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-12-31T02:14:58-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Soundtrack?</title></item><item><author>kozer</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/371870</comments><description><![CDATA[Is there any way to turn off icons for mines? I like to play longer games and like to build mines... but the more I build the slower the game seems to get. Is there any way to stop that from happening? Or should I just stop using them? I do like them though.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/371870</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/371870</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 1:55:22 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-12-17T13:55:22-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Mines</title></item><item><author>The_Plague</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/302864</comments><description><![CDATA[I just got the 1.02v update. It Messed up my sound in the game, for example in the opening cinematic i cant here his voice, also there's&nbsp;no sound when i click on icons. Is there any way to fix this?]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/302864</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/302864</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:01:10 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-12-17T12:01:10</pubDateParsed><title>Fix Sound?</title></item><item><author>Skullmosher</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/357980</comments><description><![CDATA[I don't know how to fix this.&nbsp; Suddenly I can't hear the UI, which is very inconvenient.&nbsp; I've tried toggling the "stop sound when game loses focus" button, railed the UI volume to max, and started new games as each of the races, but nothing changes it.  &nbsp;  Anybody else have this problem?&nbsp; How do I fix it?  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/357980</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/357980</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 1:22:18 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-12-10T13:22:18-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>No UI Sound</title></item><item><author>ScottyP526</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/301998</comments><description><![CDATA[The portraits (avatars?) provided in the game to represent you and the AI players are pretty rough.&nbsp; They look like they were drawn by the same guy that did them for Galactic Civilizations II, in which the portraits were also pretty weak and surprisingly amateurish.&nbsp; Better than I could do of course, but not a whole lot better.  I hope the artist is not the chief designer's&nbsp;middle-schooler son&nbsp;or something.&nbsp; I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but these portraits a...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/301998</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/301998</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 1:52:17 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-10-01T13:52:17-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>This game deserves better player portraits/avatars whatever</title></item><item><author>Captain_Stuart</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/357660</comments><description><![CDATA[I have the Collector's Edition, but I prefer to keep it packed as it is obviously a collector's item. I am totally in love with the majesty of the soundtrack though, but the game folders do not provide titles for the songs, only functional designations (e.g "Quiet 1" or "Battle 7")  &nbsp;  I was wondering if the pieces had actual titles, and what they are?  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/357660</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/357660</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 9:56:56 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-07-25T09:56:56-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Names of Songs</title></item><item><author>shk_1</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/353715</comments><description><![CDATA[I have run sins on 256mb dedicated graphics before and I managed to max all the settings and still get 60 fps. The funny thing is my new laptop has a Ati radeon express 1250 card, which is basically integrated and I still manage to get 60 fps on the same settings. I have noticed that whenever I scroll over a planet I get a serious hit on my fps for no reason. I have tried to set the settings for planets lower and there is no change. Can anyone explain why I am getting such high fps on a rubbish ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/353715</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/353715</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 9:00:28 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-05-26T21:00:28-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Ati radeon x1250</title></item><item><author>senrat</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/315009</comments><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp; Ive had a great time playing sins everything is running smoothly ive maxed the settings and everything. But one thing. The planets are there but you can see straight through them! The planets dont look solid for me. I know this is not normal since ive seen many videos of the planets being perfectly solid. If i cant fix this it wouldnt be the end of the world but its annoying.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/315009</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/315009</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 12:37:53 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-05-01T09:37:53</pubDateParsed><title>The planets in my game are "see through" how can i fix?</title></item><item><author>NoTrace</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/346443</comments><description><![CDATA[Let me first state that Sins is my favotire game, not only the game itself but its developers at Ironclad as well. That being said there is one thing that from the day i started playing has bugged me: the lack of any sort of beam from the shield emmiter to the planet. Maybe it's just ment to be that way, but I think it would be cool too see a beam shooting from the emmiter and spreading out to envelop the planet. Needless to say, i still love the game... but it  would be cool.    &nbsp;   ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/346443</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/346443</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 5:04:51 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-04-14T17:04:51-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>A Suggestion for Planetary Shields</title></item><item><author>Diamondwind</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/342581</comments><description><![CDATA[okay so i cant see any kind of image. my ships,planets,etc. all look like my flag. also asteroids and planets have no image they're just circles. my hardware is above whats reccomended and ive got the detail settings at their highest. what should i do?  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/342581</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/342581</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 3:17:13 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-03-15T03:17:13-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>No images</title></item><item><author>ZimatDeltaHalo</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/343110</comments><description><![CDATA[While I was playing a long game of Sins the other day, I was waiting for some research to finish and just staring at my flagship&nbsp;sitting in front of my homeworld.&nbsp; Then&nbsp;it occurred&nbsp;to me:&nbsp; Aside from all of the ships flying around the atmosphere of the planet, I really don't get the sense that a vast population of people are supposed to exist on these worlds.&nbsp; I sort of regard planets in this game like I did with the globe in my high school history class long ago.&n...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/343110</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/343110</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 8:33:08 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-03-12T08:33:08-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Planetary (and other) Audio</title></item><item><author>ScaldingHotSoup</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/337954</comments><description><![CDATA[Hey, for some reason the sound always crackles when I'm playing the game. You can hear the background music and everything (which is gorgeous, congrats to those who put it together), but it's just a constant presence. Any ideas on how to fix this? This happens any time after the intro sequence, so on the main menu and during gameplay.  I'll add details as necessary, but I don't know what you guys need.  edit:  I tried toggling the no sound while game is out of focus (not sure about wording...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/337954</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/337954</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 3:07:42 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-01-29T15:07:42-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>[Fixed]Crackling noise while game is running</title></item><item><author>CraigHB</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/304664</comments><description><![CDATA[In single player, I find it a bit anti-climactic the way the game&nbsp;abruptly&nbsp;flashes a simple victory panel.&nbsp; It would be&nbsp;better if the game could fade to a victory cut-scene.&nbsp; After you've spent several hours&nbsp;scrambling against the AI, it would be nice to&nbsp;get&nbsp;a "fade to cut-scene" out of it.  Thanks.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/304664</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/304664</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 7:20:42 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-01-26T19:20:42-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Feature Request, Better Ending</title></item><item><author>trigorin</author><comments>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/336406</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi,  I'm playing Sins of a Solar Empire on a machine with 9800 GTX card. I turned the AA&nbsp;with 4 samples on. It works fine, but the edges of the objects not so close to the camera become "flickering" white lines. So, in a big distance every small objects get "white fur", and it's not so beauty.  Can you help me?  Regards,  trigorin  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/336406</guid><link>https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/336406</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 5:55:30 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-01-14T17:55:30-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Flickering edges on objects</title></item></channel></rss>