[Rick James]

After getting a new build of the launcher and executable, the Shivan beam effects seem to be more or less normal, with the exception that the charge animation appears to have been borked and no longer works. Also there appear to be several missing textures on certain vessels like the Orion:

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My system specs are:

Dell Inspiron 9400 Core Duo @ 1.73 Ghz
2 GBs RAM, unknown model, @ 533 Mhz
Geforce Go 7900 GS Graphics Card

Under the "Video" Tab on the launcher, I currently use the following settings:

Graphics: Direct3D 8
Adapter: NVIDIA Go 7900 GS
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Color Depth: 32-bit
Antialiasing: D3DMULTISAMPLE_4_SAMPLES

No additional options such as large textures, mipmapping, glowmaps, or environmental maps are being used.

[colecampbell666]

There's the problem. Switch to OpenGL graphics.

Also, update your GPU drivers.

The charge animation is missing from the Betas, downoad Bobboau's Hi-Res Beams from the "Make FSO Pretty" link in my sig.

The beams come with .TBM files, open them and remove any lines that say "+ Length".

[Turambar]

thought it should be pointed out, the edges of this tiling texture are in the normal map, and it looks bad.  is this fixed or should i fix it?

[Herra Tohtori]

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thought it should be pointed out, the edges of this tiling texture are in the normal map, and it looks bad.  is this fixed or should i fix it?

I've been working on the Sobek/Hatshepsut tile normal maps; I'm still in the process of fixing the one that the Sobek's midsection uses (it's been in a limbo for a while, haven't just had the drive to finish it to be honest -_-) but the rest are available from here. Use at your discretion, they are a bit different from the older ones, they look like this:

[chief1983]

That's a pretty hot Sobek.

[Mobius]

I missed most part of this topic...I have a quick question: are the new mediavps worth DLing or there are too many things to fix at the moment? I DLed them before my computer tried and I don't know if the game is still somewhat "compromised" with them. There's a graphical issue mentioned above but I don't really care about that kind of problems - I want to know if I risk crashes or un-hittable ships during the game.

[GTSVA]

That's a pretty hot Sobek.

I'll say.....

[Colonol Dekker]

I like 'em the asteroids are pretty enough to warrant downloading all on their own.

[neoterran]

those new maps on the sobek look about a billion times better than the plastic look the old ones had. Now it looks like a real ship again.

[starfox]

Agreed! 

[Jadehawk]

OK, downloaded all 4 VP files, cleaned out all .vp files but the FS2OGGcutscenepack.vp in the main Freespeac2 Directory. Note, I did NOT delete any of the other folders such as Blueplanet, etc. I then Moved all the current files in the mediavps folder into a backup file. Then I extracted all 4 new vp files into this folder. I updated my launcher to the new 5.5d version and selected the mediavps folder as my MOD in the launcher selection.

When I went to launch the game, an error message popped up saying it could not find the web cursor. I selected the debug feature, but then there is all kinds of crap that wont load correctly after that which I think is due to the first one.

[Jeff Vader]

cleaned out all .vp files but the FS2OGGcutscenepack.vp in the main Freespeac2 Directory.

Why?

[Jadehawk]

because that's what the readme file said to do.

Here's what the readme files says:

=====(2) Installation:

First make sure that no older MediaVPs are left in your Freespace 2 directory. The only VP that can be left in your Freespace 2 directory is the FS2cutscenepack.vp.
Do not use the mv_cell.vp. It is currently not suported.

Extract the new MediaVP files to a new folder, named "MediaVP", in your Freespace 2 directory. Use the launcher to select this directory as Mod.

[Jeff Vader]

Unless DaBrain has a taste for utterly stupid and frustrating practical jokes, the readme most definitely does not say such things. Please quote the phrase from the readme that drove you into taking this action.

[Jadehawk]

See above

[chief1983]

That is poorly worded.  Any vps starting with mv_ are mediavp files.  They should not be in your main FS2 folder.   The ogg cutscenes can stay there, but any other VPs that came with FS2 should stay in the main FS2 folder.

[Jeff Vader]

Ah, it was separately there. K.

First make sure that no older MediaVPs are left in your Freespace 2 directory.

It says MediaVPs. Retail files can and must be left alone. They are most crucial if you want to play FS2/FSO.

The only VP that can be left in your Freespace 2 directory is the FS2cutscenepack.vp.

Though I must admit that this part can be misleading.

Edit: Well, I'll be damned. Someone actually beat me to it this time.

[Jadehawk]

ok great! thanks fellas got the 3.6.10 Beta working

[Flaming_Sword]

Sorry if this has already been answered (I didn't feel like slogging through 34 pages of posts), but are the asterod3.dds textures missing?

[Knarfe1000]

Can you say how long we have to wait for the final version?