[Admiral Nelson]

It would be helpful if you could post/PM the FS1 ship nameplates; I'd need these for version 3.1 of the port.  3.0 has the older style ones I made before.

[Wobble73]

When the 3.6.10 becomes an official release, it may be helpful if you include a readme telling people to flush their cache folder in their data folder. A few people have reported problems that this process has fixed.

Wobble 

[chief1983]

Maybe we should have a -flushibx command line option under troubleshooting.  Then it could just be in the launcher.

[blowfish]

One small thing that I think hasn't been mentioned before - the Ares cockpit isn't shiny.  It should use the same glass texture as the Erinyes.

[taylor]

Maybe we should have a -flushibx command line option under troubleshooting.  Then it could just be in the launcher.

No.

[blowfish]

Is it really that hard to just go and delete the IBX files yourself?

[Herra Tohtori]

Doesn't the -pofspew kinda do that already?

I mean, creates new IBX files in all activated mod folders and overwrites the old ones?

[Jeff Vader]

Is it really that hard to just go and delete the IBX files yourself?

For the average dumdum user, yes. At least if they have to figure it out without instructions. A mentioning in a readme could do wonders. Stressing the word "could".

[Wobble73]

Mind you, how many people read the read-mes?

[Jeff Vader]

Stressing the word "could". I know. Most will think "Hell, I have already had a set of vps. Trust me. I know what I'm doing", followed by yet another thread about the subject. To which the people with wise will reply most angrily.

[taylor]

The entire point of IBX files was for them to be included in VPs.  There was never supposed to be this crap of having to clean out the cache folder.  You just generate a good set of IBX files, put them in a VP, and that's the end of the story.  Having an IBX file existing outside of a VP simply means that you are doing something wrong.  This responsibility is almost entire on the mod makers of course, but individuals could fix things for themselves if they simply bothered to do it.  Remember it stands for Index Buffer eXchange: you generate it once, then distribute it to everyone else.

I added this feature as a courtesy, but years later people still refuse to use it the way it was intended.  So I simply refuse to make it easier for people to do stupid things, which is why I will never allow code to be added which makes it easier to use IBX files other than how they were intended.  And IBX files were never even supposed to exist at this point anyway, instead being included in the POF itself by something like PCS. 

[chief1983]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Vretsu]

Few problems I noticed:

• Many ships are missing thrusterglows.
• Charge up effect missing for all beams

Probably already mentioned, but I can't be bothered to read all 28 pages.

Just thought I'd let you know, just in case. I did my part in the crusades, you know.

[GTSVA]

Only BFRed beam charge up is missing for mine...

[blowfish]

What beamglows will be missing depends on what build you are using.  I know for a fact that the shivan and aaaf beamglows from Bobboau's beam set are missing from MV_Adveffects (the eff file is in there, but the actual effect files are not).  For some builds, such as 3.6.9 final, it will just use the standard mvp ones (probably because of the order that things are loaded), but for recent SVN builds, the beamglow will be missing entirely.  Haven't checked with the XT builds...

[Colonol Dekker]

So are the files the .eff available from somewhere? The missing warm-ups i mean, my big red is missing too.

[blowfish]

Bobboau's beams are available on FSMods.  I'm not exactly sure which files it was (I don't remember the filenames), but you should be able to figure it out pretty easily.  Also, don't do this if you aren't using AdvEffects.  If you aren't, then this isn't the problem.

[Colonol Dekker]

I'll grab em.
I always use adveffects.

[nubbles526]

I've got a problem:

!   C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low\Content.IE5\NNF1IW2B\MV_3_6_10_Effects[1].rar: CRC failed in MV_Effects.vp. The file is corrupt
!   C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low\Content.IE5\NNF1IW2B\MV_3_6_10_Effects[1].rar: Unexpected end of archive

Corrupt file Mv_effects.

[Jeff Vader]

C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low\Content.IE5\NNF1IW2B\MV_3_6_10_Effects[1].rar: CRC failed in MV_Effects.vp. The file is corrupt

It is undoubtedly caused by Internal Exploder. Try another browser. Firefox 3, for example, was released roughly 3 hours ago.

Srsly, at what point does this occur? During download? After download? When trying to run the game?