[Mad Bomber]

A superb campaign all in all! Definitely amongst the best of all time.

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I particularly liked the excellent use of cutscenes, and the kitbashed fighters. And also the surprising inclusion of the old Apocalypse model.

My only criticism is the "turretmaina" bug which appeared. I had to open up the relevant mission files in notepad and change that to turret01 so the mission would load.

I also have two slightly pedantic questions, which I know I'm probably supposed to ignore:

Spoiler:

1) What happened to the Sanctuary's fighters? They didn't appear in the final mission.
2) How did they get part of a Myrmidon to use on the Comanche? The Myrmidon had not been introduced at the time of the Great War.

[MarsNeedsWomen]

May I ask how to install the two fixes you provided?

[Herra Tohtori]

Copy the ships.tbl to ../Freespace2/BluePlanet/data/tables/  and the mission file into ../Freespace2/BluePlanet/data/missions/

That'll make them to override the same named files in blue planet VP file.

[Cobra]

Darius, you goofed up. Some tech entries don't have tech descriptions.

[Jeff Vader]

Extract the pics to any folder in your data folder, perhaps missions or interface would be best.

K, I'll try \missions once I get home. I punched them into \interface yesterday but that didn't do a thing.

[Darius]

Spoiler:

1) What happened to the Sanctuary's fighters? They didn't appear in the final mission.
2) How did they get part of a Myrmidon to use on the Comanche? The Myrmidon had not been introduced at the time of the Great War.

Spoiler:

1) Heh. All fighters had docked with their respective ships once they had entered subspace, with the exception of Alpha wing. Gameplay-wise it was so that the player wing could see the final mission in a fighter's perspective and then depart, but storyline-wise...it's got something to do with Admiral Bei's final transmission to Sam in the Command Briefing of the previous mission. That's a hole I left intentionally in case people playing wanted to fill it in themselves.
2) I know, that's the only discrepancy in the kitbashed fighters I could find, and when I did,  But I finally decided that maybe early Myrmidon blueprints were lying around, and these were incorporated into the Sanctuary's fighter design.

Darius, you goofed up. Some tech entries don't have tech descriptions.

Hrm. Which ones in particular? The Uglies shouldn't be showing up in the tech database, and the 4th race ships shouldn't be there either, so I deliberately left those descriptions blank.

[Cobra]

I used control-shift-s.

But I've found a FRED mistake.

Spoiler:

In the second mission where you're following the unknown ships, during the fade out sequence, it doesn't fade back in.

Other than that... I ****ing BOW to you, dude. This is one amazing campaign, right up there with PI and Blaise Russel's campaigns and Derelict. Nice ****ing work, man.

Spoiler:

The Knossos mission music had me PUMPED.

[EDIT] You are a god if this is your first campaign.

[Gloriano]

Are you planning more on this *Blue planet* or was this it? i just finished it and the ending just screams more more!

[ShadowGorrath]

When I turn on the ship-choice-3d option , it gives me this  :

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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:
------------------------------------------------------------------
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AND , I'm also getting this ( with or without the ship-choice-3d mode - doesn't matter ) :

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Error: Can't open model file <cruiser03x.pof>
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]

Yes I'm outlining the story for the next episode now. I was going to judge the reaction to the first part before thinking about doing a second episode.

I'm sorry to hear you've been having trouble with it ShadowGorrath. I need to know what Freespace 2 version you're running it on, whether it's under OpenGL or D3D or something to pinpoint the source of the problem. Ship-choice-3d is supposed to be enabled, and so far no one else has had invisible weaponry.

Interesting...cruiser03x.pof is the new Cain model with the red spotted Shivan texture over most of its body. I had assumed it was a MediaVP addition, but I can't seem to find it in any of the VPs. Anyone else had any problems with this model?

EDIT: Found it in mv_effects.vp

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[ShadowGorrath]

FreeSpace SCP 3.6.9 . I have the slightly updated version though , but I'm using this one .

And I changed it to OpenGL before trying to run that mission again . I downloaded the fixes too . And damn me , I forgot the name of the mission ...

EDIT : And the problem with the cruiser - I DON'T have the mediavps . Only the background/nebula effects are in the mediavps folder .  I suppose I will have to download them ... But I don't think my computer will like this . And I didn't think that the mediavps had an effect on campaigns without them . I always thought they were only a replacement of the old stuff , not an addon of new stuff .

[karajorma]

Media VPs are an optional add-on for the main campaign. As shown here they may or may not be mandatory for 3rd party campaigns.

[ShadowGorrath]

So I need all the effects and models from the mediavps ? My PC will explode ! And IMG2DDS mixes up all of the textures ( or maybe it only messed them up on direct3d ) . 

EDIT: Ok , I added the models , but not the effects . Gonna try now . But without the weapons it will still look ugly 

EDIT2: Didn't work . I have an outdated version of the models though . Maybe someone can upload that model and the weapon effects somewhere , please ?

[Herra Tohtori]

Oh, one question - Is the big hazy more-or-less monocolour Shivan beam supposed to be... big, hazy and more-or-less monocolour static tube of reddish light?

It doesn't appear very powerful to me...

[ShadowGorrath]

AAAH ! I can't find the download of the model anywhere , nor can I find a download of the mediavps that have them 

And I think it's supposed to be like that .

[Cobra]

Someone seems to have forgotten MY problem.

[ARSPR]

In like three missions, (I have no idea which ones with no brief or debrief, its kind of hard to tell you ) I get a blank screen.It is not my computer, I can change programs and no blank screen on them.It has to be a fred hiccup or something.

Ooops I've just mantised what I think it can be your very same issue.

I'm going to try digging something more about it, but some extra confirmation could be worthy...

[Cobra]

Mod.ini for you guys, by the way.



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[ARSPR]

I used control-shift-s.

But I've found a FRED mistake.

Spoiler:

In the second mission where you're following the unknown ships, during the fade out sequence, it doesn't fade back in.

Darius, Cobra is right. You've got FRED mistakes. The missions work with official 3.6.9. because of a 3.6.9. build bug: set-camera SEXPs seem to cause a fade-in somehow, (SCP confirmation needed please). You have more info in my previously Mantised 1510 bug.

I upload here a fixed mission. I've just added a fade-in SEXP.



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[ARSPR]

Mod.ini for you guys, by the way.

Cobra, do not use the obsolete mod.ini syntax. Use SecondaryList instead of SecondryList and delete the comma before "mediavps". There's no need for them any more if you use a recent version of Launcher. I upload a fixed mod.ini.



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