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Mission & Campaign Releases / Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm (re-release)

« Last post by qweqwe321 on June 20, 2025, 08:37:04 am »

Trashman - I'm also giving you admin rights to Flames of War 1, since it's your mod.

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Mission & Campaign Releases / Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm (re-release)

« Last post by qweqwe321 on June 20, 2025, 08:11:14 am »

I'm taking down my upload of FOW2, now that Trashman has uploaded his official version.

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Highlights / Flames of War Re-release

« Last post by Nyctaeus on June 20, 2025, 06:37:43 am »

TrashMan re-releases his Flames of War campaign series!

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Asset Releases / Re: Dump of my various stuff

« Last post by TrashMan on June 20, 2025, 06:34:00 am »

I was planning of having tiny low-poly human models or carboard cutouts move around, but animating that would be a nightmare.

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Mission & Campaign Releases / Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm (re-release)

« Last post by Nyctaeus on June 20, 2025, 05:23:31 am »

Thank you. I'm gonna dive in when I find a moment. I feel like it's gonna be quite nostalgic journey :]

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Mission & Campaign Releases / Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm (re-release)

« Last post by TrashMan on June 20, 2025, 04:20:53 am »

For some reason it didn't go trough. Uploaded again, you should see it now.


EDIT:
Also, for some reason, despite me deleting command line parameters on my end, I have reports of there being carried over somehow on upload????
Delte command line parameters in your setting if you get an error.

EDIT2: I am having a few errors I cannot figure out, so I want to know if they are on my end only. So for you who will play, I ask two things:
1) in the first mission, at the end, scan the comm system of the liner and tell me if a song starts to play
2. In Mission Simulator, start Weapon Test, and try the Vindicator, Avenger II or Vulcan and tell me if you hear weapon sounds

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FreeSpace Discussion / Was "Capture my Target" ever useful for anything?

« Last post by Kie99 on June 20, 2025, 03:27:20 am »

I used to be fascinates by this option in the command menu.  I spent ages trying to put this to use, mainly to capture Shivan vessels because they'd always stressed the importance of it in FreeSpace 1. I always massively struggled to get it to work.  Most of the time the ship in question would be destroyed, maybe it would have 3 engines instead of 1, maybe the docking ship jumps out etc. 

There was one time, I think it would have been the Sixth Wonder where there's an NTF cruiser.  I managed to disarm it, get one of the freighters or transports to go and pick it up, it went to it's warp point and jumped out with it.  I was expecting a commendation from Command for retrieving a cruiser and bringing the crew to justice.

You can imagine my disappointment when neither command nor the debriefing even mentioned it. 

I tried it with the Sathanas a few times, but it doesn't have an approachable dock point so it just crashes the game.  I can't remember if that was something in a retail mission or something I set up myself.

It got me wondering what the point of that option was in the command menu was.  Any captures of a ship would have to be scripted events, and the game doesn't really handle it that well anyway (if you're not sure what I mean, dock an Elysium to a Colossus and ram into the Elysium).  I can't remember ever using it, all the capture missions in both games happened without your input. 

Was it just a remnant from some older plans to have the player press the button?

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Nightly Builds / Nightly: 20 June 2025 - Revision 54c00ce20

« Last post by SirKnightly on June 20, 2025, 02:00:23 am »

Here is the nightly for 20 June 2025 - Revision 54c00ce20



Group: Linux-arm64
nightly_20250620_54c00ce20-builds-Linux-arm64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: Linux-x86_64
nightly_20250620_54c00ce20-builds-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: MacOSX-arm64
nightly_20250620_54c00ce20-builds-Mac-arm64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: MacOSX-x86_64
nightly_20250620_54c00ce20-builds-Mac-x86_64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: Win32-SSE2
nightly_20250620_54c00ce20-builds-Win32-SSE2.zip (Mirror)


Group: Win64-SSE2
nightly_20250620_54c00ce20-builds-x64-SSE2.zip (Mirror)

Code: [Select]

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commit 54c00ce20
Author: wookieejedi
Commit: GitHub

    Two Sound Updates (#6781)
 code/mod_table/mod_table.cpp | 6 ++++++
 code/mod_table/mod_table.h   | 1 +
 code/object/objectsnd.cpp    | 5 +++--
 code/ship/ship.cpp           | 4 ++--
 code/ship/ship_flags.h       | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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commit b5f4942cd
Author: Mike Nelson
Commit: GitHub

    fix hud config sliders (#6784)
 code/hud/hudconfig.cpp | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

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commit 939d6a50c
Author: Goober5000
Commit: Goober5000

    additional fix for STAY_NEAR_TARGET_ITEM
 code/ai/aigoals.cpp      | 14 ++++++++------
 code/ai/aigoals.h        |  4 ++--
 code/hud/hudsquadmsg.cpp |  9 +++++++--
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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commit 3783cb0d1
Author: Goober5000
Commit: Goober5000

    fix STAY_NEAR_TARGET_ITEM
 code/ai/aicode.cpp       | 4 ++--
 code/hud/hudsquadmsg.cpp | 8 ++------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)


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Mission & Campaign Releases / Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm (re-release)

« Last post by Fusion on June 19, 2025, 11:09:21 pm »

Have to ask here as well. I don't see any Knossos updates other than No Tea's two.

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Asset Releases / Re: Dump of my various stuff

« Last post by JCDNWarrior on June 19, 2025, 06:39:10 pm »

I've been wanting to see windows/glass be usable for stuff like cutscenes. Getting to see how people live on space stations has always interested me too.
If I have the time I might play around with this, like making little scenes.
Keep up the good work, Trashman.