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Offline ssmit132

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Very nice guide, Richdog. I'll link this to my friends if they're interested in FreeSpace. ;)

However, maybe also mention the separate Media VP files? In case some people can't run it well with MV_Advanced (or whatever it is called) or for a similar reason have to choose between MV_Effects and MV_Assets. :nod:

 

Offline Charismatic

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
So calling the newbies who enter this toipc idiots makes them wana listen to what you have to say? Man i gotta try this sometime!
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Offline Richdog

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
So calling the newbies who enter this toipc idiots makes them wana listen to what you have to say? Man i gotta try this sometime!

Poor attempt at trolling, must try harder. ;)

 

Offline Charismatic

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Most people call it spam. But hey, its a valid point. Why would you want to lower youself to idiot?
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Wonderful work here, Richdog.

 

Offline Richdog

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Most people call it spam. But hey, its a valid point. Why would you want to lower youself to idiot?

Because you obviously don't get the point of the thread or the language used, offence to anyones intelligence is the last thing intended and I think that's pretty obvious. :)

Wonderful work here, Richdog.

Cheers mate.  ANother revision is due soon, i'm going to remove the bit about "Downloading everything" in the installer as a lot of people on the forum I originally created the thread on (I got LOTS of people interested who'd never seen the game before :D) are having difficulty with the download either failing or taking 6 hours to complete.  Removing the VP's (considering you download more further on in the guide) makes everything a LOT quicker. :)

 

Offline LeighJW

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
I have installed 3.6.10 and launcher 5.5d and MV_COMPLETE.vp and I don't have normal mapping as a choice in the checkboxes for Graphics.  What's wrong?

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
I have installed 3.6.10 and launcher 5.5d and MV_COMPLETE.vp and I don't have normal mapping as a choice in the checkboxes for Graphics.  What's wrong?

Make sure you're using one of the LATEST 3.6.10 builds from the Knightly Builds forum.

Make sure you have that build selected in the launcher (hit the little 'Browse' button and select it.)

Let us know if it's still not there -- always happy to help.

 

Offline LeighJW

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Downloading the latest build from knightly builds solved it.  Thanks!!  I assume that the build with a "d" after it was the debug build and the one with an "r" was the regular build.

Thanks again!

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Awesome. Enjoy!

 

Offline MikeDelfino

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
i have a "mediavps" directory and not a "mediamvp" directory... so what do I do? Do i have to keep the first one?

And i can't download the Readme, the mod.ini and the Launcher Graphic files that you linked!


Shed some light on me :)


edit: i got the 3 files to work (the url was wrong), but i'm still confused about the directory thingie...

 

Offline Richdog

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
That was a typo on my part and has now been corrected, sorry. :)


 

Offline MikeDelfino

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
thanks for clarifying, man!

 

Offline K515

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Hello. I'm trying to print out your guide, Richdog, but part of the printout is cut off in Print Preview. Could you please help me so I can get the whole printout to show up in Print Preview? Thanks!

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Hello. I'm trying to print out your guide, Richdog, but part of the printout is cut off in Print Preview. Could you please help me so I can get the whole printout to show up in Print Preview? Thanks!

Maybe it's the images that aren't showing up? Those aren't gonna come across if you get the print-friendly version.

 

Offline K515

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Come to think of it, you're right; the images aren't showing up in my Print Preview, and like I said, part of the words are cut off on the right side of the pages in Print Preview. How am I supposed to print out this guide if I want the whole printout (i.e. I want all the sentences to show up on my printout and not have them cut off on the extreme right side of the page) and yes, I want the images to show up in my printout. So how do I go about printing this guide out?

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Cut and paste to Word?

 

Offline Richdog

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Cut and paste to Word?

Yup, I would try this.

I still nee dot make a final revision guys but work has been so crazy that I haven't had time to sit down and do it, and im on holiday for 10 days tomoro.  Watch this space...

 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Once I get a long enough period of time to fiddle with this thing, I'll copy your instructions over to the Support board and, while at it, fix all the errors and downright inaccuracies in it (there are still some).
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14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

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Offline Richdog

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Re: The Idiots Guide to Installing Freespace 2 Open Source *NOOB FRIENDLY* *WIP*
Once I get a long enough period of time to fiddle with this thing, I'll copy your instructions over to the Support board and, while at it, fix all the errors and downright inaccuracies in it (there are still some).

Yup there are indeed, so feel free to make a post detailing an changes and i'll amend it.