[lefkos]

here's the log

this is my directory C:\Games\FreeSpace2\fs2_open_3_6_10.exe
i downloaded al the latest files
putted them in the MediaVPS folder

argh i hate this confusion

[attachment stolen by Slimey Goober]

[Jeff Vader]

Sigh... don't take this personally. It's just that this pattern repeats far too often.

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Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mp-710_adveffects.vp' with a checksum of 0x55caf318
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mp-710_effects.vp' with a checksum of 0xe22bdcc2
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mp-710_models.vp' with a checksum of 0x20b9069a
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mv_adveffects.vp' with a checksum of 0xfeb54970
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mv_models.vp' with a checksum of 0xdf3d48e5
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mv_textures.vp' with a checksum of 0x2c43a80eRemove. Those are 3.6.8 MediaVPs.

Could someone include a "Step pi: Delete every goddamn piece of information in your \freespace2\mediavps\ directory before continuing" sort of thing to the first post?

[lefkos]

ok i removed them.
but i still dont see a  normal maps option at the graphics
did i do something wrong again?

[Jeff Vader]

1. Download the latest nightly build from here.
2. Extract the contents to your \freespace2\ folder.
3. Follow this rough manual.

If still no normal maps, your graphics card is inadequate.

[lefkos]

1. Download the latest nightly build from here.
2. Extract the contents to your \freespace2\ folder.
3. Follow this rough manual.

If still no normal maps, your graphics card is inadequate.

thanks lob:)
that worked for me

[dwlnetnl]

Those starfield maps doesn't work. With normal maps on or off. I've put them (both one after another and together) in [fso_root]\data\maps directory. Can glowmaps or envmaps make the difference?

[Vasudan Admiral]

Sigh... don't take this personally. It's just that this pattern repeats far too often.

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Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mp-710_adveffects.vp' with a checksum of 0x55caf318
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mp-710_effects.vp' with a checksum of 0xe22bdcc2
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mp-710_models.vp' with a checksum of 0x20b9069a
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mv_adveffects.vp' with a checksum of 0xfeb54970
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mv_models.vp' with a checksum of 0xdf3d48e5
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mv_textures.vp' with a checksum of 0x2c43a80eRemove. Those are 3.6.8 MediaVPs.

Could someone include a "Step pi: Delete every goddamn piece of information in your \freespace2\mediavps\ directory before continuing" sort of thing to the first post?

Done. While I was writing the instructions, I had a section written up about deleting the old MVPs if they were there, but for some reason that bit vanished, leaving a bit of a hole in the process that plenty of people seem to have fallen through. :\

Those starfield maps doesn't work. With normal maps on or off. I've put them (both one after another and together) in [fso_root]\data\maps directory. Can glowmaps or envmaps make the difference?

Put them in [fso_root]\mediavps\data\maps, creating any folders that don't already exist.

Also, it might help if you could post a screenshot of what you see in-game.

[Charismatic]

Finally got everything downloaded. Ill give it a try!

[Tiponey]

Well..... this is an awesome work !!!! thank to all the community for this release.... think it's christmas before christmas i didn't expect for this before 2009.... so just one stupid question : what is a .tsb file?

[sfried]

1. Download the latest nightly build from here.
2. Extract the contents to your \freespace2\ folder.
3. Follow this rough manual.

If still no normal maps, your graphics card is inadequate.

Does the latest build fix the cutscenes, though?

[Zacam]

No.  No they don't.  They work for people who are logged into Demonoid, and registrations are closed, so those of us who aren't already members are SOL. 

The Direct to torrent file links do work if you have a torrent app. If all else fails, right click and choose save as. You do NOT need a registered membership to use them because it has mine embeded into it. Or, use the mirrors.

[Jeff Vader]

Sigh... don't take this personally. It's just that this pattern repeats far too often.

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Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mp-710_adveffects.vp' with a checksum of 0x55caf318
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mp-710_effects.vp' with a checksum of 0xe22bdcc2
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mp-710_models.vp' with a checksum of 0x20b9069a
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mv_adveffects.vp' with a checksum of 0xfeb54970
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mv_models.vp' with a checksum of 0xdf3d48e5
Found root pack 'C:\games\freespace2\mediavps\mv_textures.vp' with a checksum of 0x2c43a80eRemove. Those are 3.6.8 MediaVPs.

Could someone include a "Step pi: Delete every goddamn piece of information in your \freespace2\mediavps\ directory before continuing" sort of thing to the first post?

Done. While I was writing the instructions, I had a section written up about deleting the old MVPs if they were there, but for some reason that bit vanished, leaving a bit of a hole in the process that plenty of people seem to have fallen through. :\

Thank you most kindly.

1. Download the latest nightly build from here.
2. Extract the contents to your \freespace2\ folder.
3. Follow this rough manual.

If still no normal maps, your graphics card is inadequate.

Does the latest build fix the cutscenes, though?

We The coding people are working on it. You could also help, by going through at least some nightly builds trying to find out if one of them happened to play the cutscenes correctly. If you can find the latest build that scaled the videos properly, provide that information to the SCP people so that they can possibly try to find out if there is some new piece of code that is responsible and if it could be possible to fix it (again).

[-Norbert-]

When I try to start the game with the 3.6.10 MediaVPs I get the following message:

Error: mv_strings-lcl.tbm is corrupt
File: localize.cpp
Line: 608


Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20081210_r4989.exe 009885b1()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20081210_r4989.exe 0098d2bb()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20081210_r4989.exe 00730e79()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20081210_r4989.exe 0073dd99()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20081210_r4989.exe 0073e10e()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20081210_r4989.exe 00c914a6()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20081210_r4989.exe 00c9132f()
    kernel32.dll 7c817067()
------------------------------------------------------------------

For me it looks like a corrupted file. The thing is, I got exactly the same error (and filesizes) after downloading the mv_complete twice (once form FSMods and the other time form Sectorgames), so I'm pretty sure that whatever the problem is, didn't happend during the download.
I'll try downloading the smallers VPs now and see if that'll help.

[Jeff Vader]

Waitwaitwait!

Wait.

Don't waste precious bandwidth. There's a temporary fix. Please wait while I find it.

Edit: Here.

[-Norbert-]

Thanks very much

But this leads me to another question. Can I make a date\table folder in my mediaVP folder, or can I only put that table into the root\data\table folder.
I ask because I also kept the 3.6.8 MediaVPs in another folder in case a mod doesn't like the 3.6.10s and I think this table file could interfere with them.

[Jeff Vader]

Can I make a date\table folder in my mediaVP folder,

You can. And actually, you must. And that probably was a typo but just to be sure: the directory would be \freespace2\mediavps\data\tables

[-Norbert-]

Yep, was just a typo. The 2nd time I got it right.

Thanks.

[TrashMan]

FYI guys, in my COTS campaign files I have the HTL Perseus and Ares with fixed insignias. Jsut though you might want to import the insiagnias from my files to have a complete fighter.

Oh...expect the HTL Demon...soon

[Commander Zane]

Oh...expect the HTL Demon...soon

Freaking woot, wonder when the Cain / Lilith will be done after that.

[General Battuta]

I noticed that the Hecate and Deimos had a newer effect from 3.6.8 that when the engines are destroyed, you can actually see the engine physically destroyed into a heap of junk and some chunks of debris float off maybe. That is similar to the radar dish of the terran AWACs vessel. Are there more warships currently in the SCP that have that effect when the engine is destroyed? It would be neat that if someday, all warships from cruiser size and above have that effect when their engines are destroyed. Maybe even every subsystem on the warships having that effect when the subsystems are destroyed (a hole and chunks floating off).

They considered this, I believe, but as I recall there were a couple problems with it. The biggest one was this: if the ship's engine system was repaired via SEXP at any point in the mission, the damaged model would remain, and the thruster glows would just float in space in front of this hulk of slag. It looked pretty silly.