[Luis Dias]

'Women are from Venus', I heard. And that's the reason to go to Venus.

.... and then sue the false advertisement. But perhaps that's impossible once you've been downgraded to a flat 2D pizza version of yourself under Venus' atmosphere. It almost feels like an artificial selection tes..... Heeeeeeeey!!!

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Most contributions are actually codeside, as Battuta, Darius, Axem and Esarai are notorious for doing stuff that breaks the engine.

Yeah. For a while, we even had to make our own builds because the most recent Nightly Build wasn't advanced enough. After mid-July 2010, however, the Nightly Builds caught up and everything went back to normal.

I know Esarai's Arashi model was too complex for FS2_Open to handle, so it was scaled down. I don't know how Axem, Battuta and Darius managed to break such a relatively stable engine, though.

[General Battuta]

The **** done in a lot of the missions (Ken, for instance) was too much for it to handle in many respects.

[Iss Mneur]

I know Esarai's Arashi model was too complex for FS2_Open to handle, so it was scaled down. I don't know how Axem, Battuta and Darius managed to break such a relatively stable engine, though.

Of the ones that I can think of off the top of my head, they were mostly related to assumptions that a previous coder (sometimes even ) had made. 

Ken for example, the rapid spamming of the training messages that is the brain reader, would crash the game because it would fill the buffers if the HUD was turned off too long (say when you turned your head, or devoured the world in an inky blackness.

[Rodo]

The **** done in a lot of the missions (Ken, for instance) was too much for it to handle in many respects.

And what would that be exactly?.
I don't remember anything out of the ordinary in Ken aside from the indicator and the background/nebula change, yet I think both can be pulled off using already existing sexps.
Did any of those made FS2 crash on the early stage?

[General Battuta]

The **** done in a lot of the missions (Ken, for instance) was too much for it to handle in many respects.

And what would that be exactly?.
I don't remember anything out of the ordinary in Ken aside from the indicator and the background/nebula change, yet I think both can be pulled off using already existing sexps.
Did any of those made FS2 crash on the early stage?

Reading the previous post will be informative to you. And Ken is actually extremely complicated behind the scenes, using a bunch of workarounds involving empty string vars in training messages to play multiple sounds at once (play-sound-from-file can only handle one at a time.)

[Rodo]

using a bunch of workarounds involving empty string vars in training messages to play multiple sounds at once (play-sound-from-file can only handle one at a time.)

That's the answer I was looking for, now I have a that need to open the file and take a peek.... or maybe tomorrow after a good rest.

[General Battuta]

There's a couple of other interesting tricks in there like a 20-string-variable recursive loop with each var passing its value to the next every other second, and a lot of vars printed to training messages. But it's pretty simple compared to most r2 missions.

[Rodo]

and I thought I knew how to make complicated missions...such a mistake

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It never occurred to me that the brain readings were that complicated. I'm genuinely impressed.

[Buckshee Rounds]

Which was more complicated to FRED, the Blade Itself or Delenda Est?

[MatthTheGeek]

Well, I guess the Blade Itself wasn't very complicated to FRED, since most the goodies are done via scripts...

[The E]

We interrupt your discussion for a pretty picture.



This concludes the interruption. Regular discussions will now resume.

[Destiny]

Sweeeee...uhh...umm...well...eeto...ano...were those light blue things/colors/lights there in R1?

No wait, what was the regular discussion again...?

[Buckshee Rounds]

Weyland-Yutani?! I've always been an advocate of Lance Henriksen for the role of Admiral Byrne but...

[The E]

Umm. You did see this:


Right?

[MatthTheGeek]

Sweeeee...uhh...umm...well...eeto...ano...were those light blue things/colors/lights there in R1?

No. This is the new optimized version by Esarai. Not only it only uses a single 4096² map instead of a dozen of 1024², but the whole texture scheme as been re-adapted to fit with the Solaris. The Karuna and the Sanctus are gonna follow the same treatment.

Honestly, the old scheme was crap. Dark tile textures were hiding the most of the details of that beautiful ship.

[Destiny]

Hmm I see, it looks...pretty. Although no matter how I look at it, UEF caps all look like they just...stuck armor/components to a base and voila, a pretty ship.

[Luis Dias]

Beautiful, beautiful ships.

Although no matter how I look at it, UEF caps all look like they just...stuck armor/components to a base and voila, a pretty ship.

WOOOOT

[Commander Zane]

The Narayana looks amazing.