[Petrarch of the VBB]

Guys, will you be relesing the demo as one big lump, or as a number of smaller files?  I hope it's the latter as I have but a lowly 56k modem, and would hate having to spend hours, and tons of money, downloading your work.

[Thorn]

Definitely smaller files...
One set with just the core files..
Ships, textures, missions, and sounds...
Another probably with the hi-res artwork, music (if we get that far), voices (again, if we get that far), and effects (the fancy new explosion for instance)

[Pera]

Originally posted by Petrarch of th VBB
Guys, will you be relesing the demo as one big lump, or as a number of smaller files?  I hope it's the latter as I have but a lowly 56k modem, and would hate having to spend hours, and tons of money, downloading your work.

If you think about it, downloading one big file is actually cheaper than downloading many smaller ones. As far as I know, we will be releasing somewhat like this:

1. Demo:
- Some of the ships
- All of the effects and art
- _Maybe_ interface
- A few missions

2. Homeworld campaign
- Original homeworlds campaign
- Rest of the original HW ships
- Rest of the art and interface

3. Cataclysm
- Cataclysm campaign
- Remaining cataclysm ships

This is what I think, of course, USS Alexander will probably know better.

[Thorn]

I'm pretty sure, but we could have a few different files.. one big one for broaband users, and another set of smaller ones, all the necessary files in one, and the extra stuff in smaller ones, so they could download that stuff if they want to, or not...

[USS Alexander]

Well i think releasing it like the TBP guys wil be good, 1 big all in one d/l and a few seperate ones like sounds, music enz enz.

The demo won't feature all like new interface a few weapons enz the main thing will feature all, basicly everything wil be different besides the engine.

[USS Alexander]

Ok full list i think

Originally posted by Pera


If you think about it, downloading one big file is actually cheaper than downloading many smaller ones. As far as I know, we will be releasing somewhat like this:

1. Demo:
- Some of the ships
- Some of the effects and art
- _Maybe_ interface
- A few missions
-a bit of sound and music files

2. Homeworld campaign
- Original homeworld campaign
- Rest of the original HW ships
- TAP's new interface
- All effects (HW ones) and art
- All HW music and souds
(Basicly all stuff for homeworld)

3. Cataclysm
- Cataclysm campaign
- Remaining cataclysm ships
- All remaining effects and art since there are a few newer ones.
- All CAT music and souds
- Mayby another new interface
(Basicly all stuff for cataclysm)

And there will be a suprise


It can change offcourse

[ARC_Shrike]

how about that goat trowing viking ship ?

[StyffyDawgIX]

o_O

it would be a leet suprise if somehow the two universes (HW and FS2) accidently ran into each other..heh

[Thorn]

[15thRampage]

it will be a cataclism good images, now is on my desktop

[Kazashi]

To answer the original question, I'd prefer to have the mod accessible as a few smaller packages rather than one big one. When you're stuck with dialup that only works so well, it's not really feasible to grab a big package all in the one go.

What's that? I hear some people muttering *resume*? That would be all well and good except that many of the sites which host files for download (Fileplanet, 3DDownloads as 2 examples) won't allow resuming after a certain period of time unless you go in and manually change the link you're downloading from. Making the process of downloading big files just that extra bit harder.

That's what I think anyway, it would be nice to see an option to download small packages, even if it is alongside a dirty great big file

[vadar_1]

Great work Thorn, its still obvious whos going to win thou

Fleet Command: Send out the Ambassador
Ambassador: We are being pulled in command, theres... of lights...
*Sound of Beam-Cannon powering up*
Ambassador: o god!!

[Grug]

hehe thats what u think anyways.

what if the BEAST mothership were too jump in and swallow the sathanus ?!

they're may be some interesting... incursions...

[untouchable]

Originally posted by GoDoFeViL

what if the BEAST mothership were too jump in and swallow the sathanus ?!

That would be a thing to see
We will not be bound! I will kick the @#$% out of you with my BFReds....... It would be a close battle

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Thorn
[pic]

I like that background.

http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/art/?gallery=20

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Talking of ships swallowing other ships...
When I first saw the Bentusi ship I thought it was going to clamp onto my Kushan mother ship and run off with it!

[elorran]

Originally posted by Thorn
Definitely smaller files...
One set with just the core files..
Ships, textures, missions, and sounds...
Another probably with the hi-res artwork, music (if we get that far), voices (again, if we get that far), and effects (the fancy new explosion for instance)

Small files definately.  Music WILL NOT be a problem, I will see to it even if I have to strangle someone.  But in the end it's not up to me if they are in the finally mod pack.

As a 56k user I can sympathise with those people still on dial ups so for our sake attempts lets pray the larger files are given some thought and compressed down to a reasonable d-load size.

The one thing I am in a muddle about though is the variance between homeworld and freespace music.  Do we keep with the Homeworld one shot track for a mission regardless of 'ambience and battle tracks' or should an attempt be made at possibly altering at least some of homeworld/cataclysm's music into some form of event driven battle music similar to FS2's?

-elorran

PS nice pic there

[WMCoolmon]

I'd say to make an attempt for enemy and friendly arrival music...other than that, if the music works for both, that's fine

[Kamikaze]

For music - just write up instructions for people to extract music from their HW CDs... doesn't that work?

Unless you're making new music files which would be awesome

[Thorn]

The HW music isnt dynamic like the FS music, we're going to modify the current HW music to work with FS...