[Galemp]

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.

Super. Mind giving us a direct link, so we can put them in the patch?

And where's my Athena?

[TrashMan]

Conversion problems.. patience

My FS2 modding is in it's downtime, so I'm not working much, ergo it's going slowly. I could have had the Demon done by now, but I'm...doing other stuff.

[ssmit132]

And where's my Athena?

Isn't the HTL Athena in the FSPort 3.1 MediaVPs? Unless it's not YOUR Athena. 

[eliex]

And that too. 

[CaptJosh]

Isn't there code for submodel replacement via SEXP?

[Molybdenum]

Quick question: are there any builds that run the 3.6.10 mvps and support text-to-speech? I've been looking for one to play Warzone but can't find any.

[chief1983]

Yeah I don't have the speech SDK installed anyway so I can't really make a build with it without investing quite a bit of time, so I'll just let whoever normally makes release builds start the RC line with speech and whatnot.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I thought text-to-speech was a Windows-only feature.

[Droid803]

Yes, there is a difference.
On each version's thread, it'll list the error it fixes.

[Mehrpack]

hi,
great work guys, its woooohhhhooooo 
and the bugs, naa, if i compare this work with some commercial project, guys you easy wins!
so dont blame you to much self .

Mehrpack

[Commander Zane]

And where's my Athena?

Isn't the HTL Athena in the FSPort 3.1 MediaVPs? Unless it's not YOUR Athena. 

There is one but it doesn't have a canopy.

[Jim West]

How do I get the nightly build file to show up anywhere in the  launchers browser?I can see it the freespace2 file but I cant find it in the launchers browser?And yes I am a computer tard.Any help would be appreciated.

[Grimper]

How do I get the nightly build file to show up anywhere in the  launchers browser?I can see it the freespace2 file but I cant find it in the launchers browser?And yes I am a computer tard.Any help would be appreciated.

You mean folder?

When you click the browse button in the launcher there should be a dropdown list saying what type of file to look for. By default it is Freesapce 2 Open.exe exe, but you can change it to "any exe".

However the nightly build IS a Freespace 2 Open exe, so if you cant see it, either you have the build in the wrong directory or you changed the file extension. The nightly build should be in your main Games/Freespace 2 directory.

If you do have the latest nightly build, you should be looking for a file called "fs2_open_3_6_10r-20081217_r5008.exe".

[sfried]

Hmm...It seems normal mapping does not work for me.   I only have a built-in nVIDIA GeForce GO 5200 32MB graphics card on a Tablet PC. Everything else looks purtty, though, especially with the higher poly modeled ships.

By the way, just what is the absolute minimum requirement for normal maps? I have the latest DirectX.

Edit 2: What are the default files on "Games\FreeSpace2\" suppose to be again? I have a list of .vp files lying dormant here, but I'm not sure again which ones are essential or left overs from previous SPC updates (it's been quite a long time):

root_fs2.vp
smarty_fs2.vp
sparky_fs2.vp
sparky_hi_fs2.vp
stu_fs2.vp
tango1_fs2.vp
tango2_fs2.vp
tango3_fs2.vp
warble_fs2.vp

[chief1983]

Is there a difference with each updated nightly build? What is being fixed?

Like Droid said, in each post of a nightly is the log that was associated with that build in SVN.  It doesn't build if there were no changes, so any time there's a build, there's been at least one change made.  If you go to the svn browsers itself you can see the code that changed directly, but the logs are usually pretty explanatory.

Normal maps require a Shader Model 3.0 card, but there's still some issues with some of those cards.

sfried, that looks like the entire list right there, the only other vps you could have in your root folder are the multi mission and voice pack, and the ogg cutscenes.

[sfried]

sfried, that looks like the entire list right there, the only other vps you could have in your root folder are the multi mission and voice pack, and the ogg cutscenes.

I have all my ogg cutscens in "Games\Freespace\data\movies\" folder. That's what the previous SPC instructions told me to put it.

Since it seems my graphics card is out of range for Shader Model 3.0, should I just turn normal mapping off to save processing power for performance, or are there some special lighting effects tied to it?

[Jeff Vader]

Hmm...It seems normal mapping does not work for me.   I only have a built-in nVIDIA GeForce GO 5200 32MB graphics card on a Tablet PC.

No wonder.

How do I get the nightly build file to show up anywhere in the  launchers browser?I can see it the freespace2 file but I cant find it in the launchers browser?And yes I am a computer tard.Any help would be appreciated.

Did you extract the .7z file you downloaded? The .exe files are inside.

By the way, just what is the absolute minimum requirement for normal maps? I have the latest DirectX.

DirectX is unrelated to FSO (, in terms of graphics, that is).

sfried, that looks like the entire list right there, the only other vps you could have in your root folder are the multi mission and voice pack, and the ogg cutscenes.

I have all my ogg cutscens in "Games\Freespace\data\movies\" folder. That's what the previous SPC instructions told me to put it.

You could also have them in a .vp. I think the Installer downloads them in a .vp that is placed to \freespace2\. But individual ogg files in \freespace2\data\movies indeed work well, so don't worry about it.

[Herra Tohtori]

DirectX is unrelated to FSO.

Not exactly true. Direct3D isn't used (except with older builds you can select that if OpenGL simply doesn't work, but chances are D3D will still not work correctly), but for example game controller interface uses that part of DirectX (on windows builds), as far as I know anyway. Graphics is just a part of DirectX.

[Jeff Vader]

Ah. Forgive my ignorance. The previous post shall be modified accordingly.

[chief1983]

sfried, the OGG Cutscenes .vp file goes in the root folder, if you have the individual .ogg or .mve cutscenes they go in data/movies.