[CaptJosh]

Am I the only one who has parts of the Herc missing using these VPs? (See my above post for a screenshot)

[Backslash]

If by 'parts' you mean 'cockpit', yes I have that problem but only in Direct3D, which I don't tend to use any more anyway.  I don't notice any other missing parts in your screenshot, unless they've been missing on my install for so long that I don't know what to look for

[Zacam]

CaptJosh: Try using img2dds in the launcher, see if that helps.

[CaptJosh]

Did you happen to notice the paneling missing from the engine pod that was in view? And the cockpit is there. It's the GLASS that's missing, Backslash. And this is OpenGL, I don't use Direct3D for this. Hell, I even have Unreal Tournament set to openGL even though it says that's an experimental thing.

Zacam, that made no difference at all.

[ARSPR]

I think "the problem" is that there is no lighting nor spec brights. Hercules has a fully transparent glass so in a viewer with no lighting effects you just don't see anything. Check it with F3 viewer.

(Please notice how you don't also get brights or any other effect on the ship hull in that viewer).

[Backslash]

Yeah I meant cockpit glass, sorry.

ARSPR may be right about the lighting... the in-briefing ship viewer is not nearly as sophisticated.

Missing paneling?  Yeah, but I thought it was supposed to look that way. If not, I have the 'problem' too.

[CaptJosh]

Look at the Herc in retail or in FS1. It doesn't look like that. As for the argument of fully transparent glass, do you want me to take a shot from the front? It's NOT THERE.

[Turey]

my asteroids keep dissapearing when i use these VPs. anyone know why?

[StratComm]

Look at the Herc in retail or in FS1. It doesn't look like that. As for the argument of fully transparent glass, do you want me to take a shot from the front? It's NOT THERE.

We could argue about this one for a while, but fortunately the glass is there in that shot you posted earlier.  It's very faint, but it's there.

[Backslash]

Look at the Herc in retail or in FS1. It doesn't look like that.

Well yeah.  This is the hi-poly version in the MediaVPs.  It's SUPPOSED to look different (and, IMHO, I like the odd 'missing paneling' look... makes it look like it's NOT the newest fighter right off the assembly line).

Take a screenshot of it in the techroom, or better yet the F3 lab.  Is the cockpit glass gone there too?

my asteroids keep dissapearing when i use these VPs. anyone know why?

Hmm, my asteroids disappeared when I started messing with their textures, but if you're just using the proper MediaVPs it shouldn't do that.  Oh, make sure you have jpgtga ('Enable jpg,tga textures) turned on.  If that's what the problem is, don't worry about it too much... DaBrain is making new fixed asteroid textures for the next MediaVP release.

[DaBrain]

They've been tested by the WCS and SoL team, so they should fix the problem.

BTW I didn't forget about the VPs...

[ARSPR]

About the Herc:

• The used model is fighter6.pof
• With a "normal" installation you take it from mv_models.vp
• The cockpit glass is textured with fighter06-03a. (Modelview is your friend).
• There's a fighter06-03a.tga and a fighter06-03a-shine.tga in mv_models.vp. So please use -jpgtga launcher flag
• I don't know how it is UV mapped but, within in-game F3 viewer, the glass is nearly invisible. Tick "No Lighting" and, voilà, you have what you get in the briefing ship renderer.

[CaptJosh]

I already have -jpgtga on. I ALWAYS have it on. I've never NOT used it since I first started playing with FS2 Open. In fact, if you had bothered to read the whole thread, you would have read my earlier post with all the switches I used and you'd have known that I was using -jpgtga.

[Knarfe1000]

I have 3.6.7 installed. Do I only have to install the 710.rar files to update it to 3.6.9 or must I install all the listed files?

[Knarfe1000]

Does the recent build 20060517 work with the 3.6.7 build?

[karajorma]

I have 3.6.7 installed. Do I only have to install the 710.rar files to update it to 3.6.9 or must I install all the listed files?

You have to install everything. You'll also need to get 3.6.9 RC 7 from the recent builds forum. 3.6.7 will NOT work with these VPs.

[Knarfe1000]

That´s what I expected...means much download-time. Hope it´s worth it...

[Knarfe1000]

I installed everything as suggested but I got a windows error-prompt. It looks like it has to do with a ati-driver-problem (I have the newest one installed). Is this a known bug?

[taylor]

I installed everything as suggested but I got a windows error-prompt. It looks like it has to do with a ati-driver-problem (I have the newest one installed). Is this a known bug?

We'll let you know... as soon as you tell us what the error message was. 

[Knarfe1000]

Something about "atioglxx.dll"