[Darius]

[zpoiler]Will there be Vasudanz in the next chapter?[/zpoiler]

The Vasudans have a part to play in the story 

[Snail]

The Vasudans have a part to play in the story 

Nice.

Possibly... 

Ooh sausage!

[Hellstryker]

OH NO, SAUSAGES!! I drempt they were causing global warming last night. (THIS IS NOT A JOKE LOL)

[Dark Hunter]

I just got around to playing Blue Planet and WOW! Incredible! Loved the music, and the story.

Just a couple of minor problems with it (nothing gameplay-crippling):

On some missions (notably "Gatekeepers of Hell") there is no charge-up ball thing for the beams: they just come out of nowhere.

Also: when flying a

Spoiler:

Vishnan fighter

the "look left/right/up/backwards" function is broken: I can only look straight ahead.
And the game crashes if I go to the loadout or ship selection screen.

Apologies if these have been already answered.

[Darius]

The looking up/down/left/right thing is probably due to the pof not having any eyepoints. As far as I can remember, that only happens with the default fighter you're given for that mission.

Not sure about the charge-up ball. Which races (ie beam colours) does the charge-up not happen? Included in the blueplanet VP are the Blue and Cyan warmup animations.

Not sure if the loadout/ship selection screen has been fixed, it might be due to invalid player loadout options for the bomber that's made available. Have you tried downloading the fix that got posted?

[Dark Hunter]

It was the Shivans that didn't have the warm-up ani, which confuses me, because that should be in the Medias. Also: it only happens on certain missions, on certain ships, like the Ravanas in "Keepers of Hell".

Didn't notice the fix for that mission. Downloaded.

EDIT: Maybe I downloaded the wrong fix... "Keepers of Hell" is still broken.

EDITMKII: Found a slight continuity error: in the first mission where you're following Vishnan fighters, you're in a Pegasus... the next mission, which is a red-alert, I think, you're in a Perseus. How'd Sam Bei switch ships mid-jump?

[Darius]

Ah. sounds like the HRed table entry is still buggered. I'll have another look at it but I suspect the warmup points to a non-standard file in mediavp effects.

You should still be in a Pegasus for the second mission. It's not until the scramble mission after that (which takes place after you get back to the ship) where you're outfitted with a Perseus.

[Dark Hunter]

I open it in the techroom and I'm in a Pegasus. I swear when I played through in the main campaign I was in a Perseus, though.


Does the Lucy use those same "HReds"? Cause it's main beams also were... strange.

[Koth]

You mean they looked like flat red textures? Yeah I noticed that too. I would have just used the BFred for ships with Big-Ass-Beams(TM).

[Darius]

The HRed textures should be fixed in the updated weapons.tbl earlier in the thread.

[Koth]

I must have missed that.

[Cobra]

They're fixed, but they're also missing the emitter glow thing.

[Jeff Vader]

All the patches for Blue Planet so far (unless I've missed something) are now available also from my Useful stuff section (see link in sig).

[Darius]

Thanks As always, the patch vp should have the latest updates too.

The HRed table entry has the same warmup glow as the other Shivan beams in the table. Size values don't seem strange either. Strange...

[Dark Hunter]

I'll take a look at that blasted table myself, cause the fixes don't seem to cover it.

EDIT: Ah ha! The line causing the problem is the +MuzzleGlow in both the LRed and Hred entries. It points to a file called "RedBeamGlow", which, after an exhaustive search of all effect VP's (medias, retails, and Blue Planet), doesn't seem to exist. You have that file somewhere, Darius?

Also: bizarre thing happened when playing the penultimate mission just a few minutes ago... I lost the Orestes, but not due to any negligence on my part. The Dante took a potshot at it!

I didn't its beams had that kind of range! It was still over 18 klicks distant. And of course a shot from a beam that powerful vaped the Orestes in an instant...

Well, all these very minor problems aside, I love this campaign. The music is just fantastic. Did you make the "joshua2" track yourself, and where did you get it if you didn't? 

I'm eagerly looking forward to future releases of this series.

Oh and one more thing: the Vishnan ships are obviously Ancient ships (I'm not speaking in the context of the campaign). But I didn't think those ships had that kind of pretty textures, or are the ones in INFR1 just that much outdated? Did you retexture them?

[Cobra]

Those are retextured ships. The original textures are blue and purple-ish.

[Duidalus]

I rarely post on these forums but this time I just gotta say: NICE FSCKING CAMPAIGN, caps intended. To be honest I spent at least a hour figuring out how to make the campaign work and my interest in the campaign started to fade but when I started the first mission I was like "OMFG WTF SWEET". Anyway, good luck with the second part! :-)

edit: cough, first post actually

[Darius]

RedBeamGlow is the warmup file for all Shivan beams (Sred and BFRed as well). It's an 11mB ani file in my mv_effects file. I'll upload it in a bit for those who don't have it...it's quite a pretty animation.

Incidently there are two more beam glows for the other two species in there: GreenBeamGlow and OrangeBeamGlow.

I'm starting to think that my mvps are in need of updating, as I suspect these were the beam anis that were causing so many slowdowns when they first came out.

EDIT: RedBeamGlow (RAR, 5.5 MB)

EDIT 2: Sorry, where are my manners!

Did you make the "joshua2" track yourself, and where did you get it if you didn't? 

Yep, made it myself. Been itching to do a FS2 song remix for years now and only just got around to it.

[Hades]

I rarely post on these forums but this time I just gotta say: NICE FSCKING CAMPAIGN, caps intended. To be honest I spent at least a hour figuring out how to make the campaign work and my interest in the campaign started to fade but when I started the first mission I was like "OMFG WTF SWEET". Anyway, good luck with the second part! :-)

edit: cough, first post actually

Yea that happened to about every one here.
But it is a good campaign.

[Cobra]

RedBeamGlow is the warmup file for all Shivan beams (Sred and BFRed as well). It's an 11mB ani file in my mv_effects file. I'll upload it in a bit for those who don't have it...it's quite a pretty animation.

Incidently there are two more beam glows for the other two species in there: GreenBeamGlow and OrangeBeamGlow.

I'm starting to think that my mvps are in need of updating, as I suspect these were the beam anis that were causing so many slowdowns when they first came out.

RedBeamGlow

11 MB for an ani file is insane, dude.