[Cobra]

Duh, it's right there on the Sneak Peek.

[Darius]

He means the other one.

Updated the wiki page with some more info, added the Nightwolves squadron, and will be adding some new BP2 information there over the next few weeks. So far I've added one Earth squadron.

[Dagna]

Hi!
I have downloaded BP and the patches+nebula mod+made the ini file, despite everything, after the mission where the Duke jumpes away, the next mission loads and when i click on accept, it just crashes.

Any ideas?

Also smoke is replaced by little black squares, but I dont mind it I just want to play the campaign.

[Mustang19]

That sounds odd, but it might be a red-alert bug. Unfortunately, Blue Planet still uses the dreaded and defunct red-alert SEXP. Alternatively, you may just have the wrong version of FSOpen. The campaign was made for 3.6.9.

If the word "red-alert" makes no sense to you, don't worry. You can open the mission in FRED, remove the red alert flag, and then place it in your Blue Planet data/missions folder. However, this may not help anyway, so just create a new pilot and start the campaign over again.

If that still doesn't work:

- Make sure that your video drivers are the latest version
- Make sure that no unecessary programs are running in the background, eg, antivirus programs

In any case, I hope you get to finish the campaign. You did everything right but it crashed anyway. However, Blue Planet is well worth the work.

[ShadowGorrath]

Or open the mission in Notepad and remove the red-alert line, as not to spoil the mission.

And yea, get the 3.6.9 exe files. Also make sure you have the mv_core.vp in your mediavps.

[Dagna]

This may sound odd but where the hell are the mission files?

BTW i have 3.6.9, and all other mods are working fine. (fsport, derelict, homesick)

[Mustang19]

Google "VPView". This will let you open VPs. The BP data is in the VP archive files which reside in your mod folder.

[Jeff Vader]

Also smoke is replaced by little black squares

Black squares? Are you sure yuo're playing in OpenGL, with jpg/tga textures enabled? You should be.

[Cobra]

he's using the 3.6.8 Zetas and not the 3.6.10 Betas. He doesn't have the mv-710 patches.

[Jeff Vader]

Ah, didn't think about that. I think I'll try with 3.6.8 Zetas without the patches myself, just to see what kind of trouble I can cause.

[blowfish]

If anyone who has the 3.6.10 beta mediavps would like some higher quality beam effects, I made a TBM based on the AAA beam textures

Its not perfect, but I think it looks pretty good.  Also, I changed the particles from green to blue — I just didn't like the way a blue beam looked with green particles.  You may have to change the extension back to TBM as well.

EDIT: Requires ADVEffects.  If you don't know where to put it, put it in BluePlanet/data/tables (create it if it doesn't exist).

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[Darius]

That sounds odd, but it might be a red-alert bug. Unfortunately, Blue Planet still uses the dreaded and defunct red-alert SEXP.

Defunct? So it's not supported anymore? If this is the case, how does one normally go into a red alert?

This weekend I'll have a play around with the missions to see if there's another way to progress them without using red-alert...although short of making the first mission a scramble (ie forcing the player to use a certain ship and loadout) and using variables to carry over hull integrity I'm not sure how else it could be done.

[Commander Zane]

I'm having a lot of trouble getting this to work, can someone give me instructions on exactly what to do, I think most of my problem is in the mod.ini but I'm not exactly sure, I just can't get past the loading screen before the mission briefing...

And Razorback is badass beyond measure, any way I can get that track in the full version in .OGG format?

[Jeff Vader]

Try this mod.ini. And I hope that you don't have anything extra either in the blueplanet folder or the freespace folder.

You can extract the music tracks from the vp and use Audacity or some other sound editor to cut-copy-paste them into a single track.

[Darius]

What happens after you get to the loading screen? Does it crash, come up with an error? etc. What does it say?

You can get the soundtrack songs in mp3 format here.

[Commander Zane]

My mistake, what happens exactly is the cutscene loads, plays, goes to the prebriefing, then crashes when I try to go to the actual briefing.
And I don't have anything in the foldier I shouldn't have...

Error: Can't open model file <none>
File:J:\src\cvs\fs2_open_3_6_9.final\code\Model\ModelRead.cpp
Line: 1902
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------

[Darius]

Sounds like an error I got with the TVWP demo. I got it before each briefing, so I think it had something to do with the briefing icons or the model that displays when you click on them. The computer I was using was using D3D, which seemed to be part of the problem. Are you using D3D or OpenGL? I think you can continue the campaign anyway by clicking OK or something to continue, just may be a pain whenever each mission loads.

[Dagna]

Darius this Campaign is awsome!!!
In the first few missions I thought well nice, few new ships and some strait shivan pounding, then came the Sactuary, amd things got upside down.
Superb mission design, excelent story. In the misssion when two destroyers attacked the Tremere, than 3 others came , I was like **** how can we survive this one! In other campaigns the player knows that nice big battle, but gona survive eventually. Nothing like this in yours, and this keeps gameing experience mile high!

Cap ship, battles are far much engaging and thrilling than anything I ever saw.(even better than Derelicts)

Man you made some A+ material here! Cant wait for sequel!

Keep up the good work!

[Aardwolf]

A music major at my school says he recognized the music in Brief09; he said it sounded like Mahler's 9th symphony?

[ShadowGorrath]

You can see that in the readme file

My mistake, what happens exactly is the cutscene loads, plays, goes to the prebriefing, then crashes when I try to go to the actual briefing.
And I don't have anything in the foldier I shouldn't have...

Error: Can't open model file <none>
File:J:\src\cvs\fs2_open_3_6_9.final\code\Model\ModelRead.cpp
Line: 1902
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------

Are you sure you have the mv_core.vp in the mediavps folder ? That was the problem I had, and downloading the mv_core.vp fixed it. At least on the 3.6.7 meadiavps, I haven't checked on the newer ones, but I think it works fine too.

Darius, are you making BP2 on 3.6.7 , or 3.6.10 mediavps ?