[Spoon]

I think all slashers have the same arc, which is to pick two corners of the target's model box and slash between them.

Arc and the speed it slashes is not the same for ever beam and can be altered by changing values like lifetime etc.

[Leeko]

Erm,  you credited me for the Demons of the Past transport even though you didn't use my lines.

[Grizzly]

So, I get this when using debug:
Assert: image
File: gropenglpostprocessing.cpp
Line: 46

ntdll.dll! ZwWaitForSingleObject + 21 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObjectEx + 67 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF_SSE2.exe! <no symbol>
kernel32.dll! BaseThreadInitThunk + 18 bytes
ntdll.dll! RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 99 bytes
ntdll.dll! RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 54 bytes

Debug Log is attached.

Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
RAM 4,00 GB
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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[Jeff Vader]

Code: [Select]

  -post_process
Do you have the post-processing shaders?

Code: [Select]

  -img2dds
No.

[General Battuta]

Something's wrong with your postprocessing shaders. Have you downloaded them and placed them in the correct locations?

If not, disable -post_process.

This is not a BP-specific error, fortunately.

[The E]

Code: [Select]

 -mipmap
...
  -img2dds

Disable these.

Code: [Select]

Movie Error:  Unable to open 'intro' movie in any supported format.
You are missing the movie pack. You don't need it, but having it would up the awesome.

Code: [Select]

 Compiling special shader ->  post-v.sdr / brightpass-f.sdr ...
Could not open text file 'post-v.sdr'.
Could not open text file 'brightpass-f.sdr'.
Vertex shader failed to compile:
(0) : error C0000: syntax error, unexpected $end at token "<EOF>"
(0) : error C0501: type name expected at token "<null atom>"

Please check if you have installed the post-processing shaders correctly.

[Black Wolf]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Blue Planet series is the closet thing we're ever getting to Freespace 3. That's just my opinion, but there it is.

Disagree, but I see where you're coming from. It's a good campaign, but I don't see [V] changing tack and going character based for a third installment this way.

[General Battuta]

That's a point that lots of people spend lots of time arguing about, and frankly, it's sort of a silly debate.

Blue Planet is not meant to be FS3 as V would have made it. It's meant to be Blue Planet, and to tell a story.

[Black Wolf]

Obviously. But we most likely are going to get a bunch of threads in the not too distant with "Blue Planet is FS3!" being the theme, much like we did when it was "Inferno is FS3!" and "Derelict is FS3!". So I may as well get my response set up right off the bat

[ChronoReverse]

The Balor may be statistically better than the Subach but in the Director's Cut I've gone back to using the Prometheus S (although my wingmen all sport the Balor =)

Olympics still draining my time from FS2 and Blue Planet =/

[swashmebuckle]

Congratulations BP team, that was a really tight campaign!  I'll play it through again in the near future to see if I can give some actually useful feedback, but yeah, really every element was well above average for a fan-made project--I'd say it's probably my favorite FS mod so far.

GB- Regarding the comparative quietness of Bei's and some other lines, did you try messing around with a compressor?  I'm not sure about spoken word stuff, but in music you can usually get a pretty noticeable boost without murdering the dynamics by using gentle ratios (like up to 4:1) and adding gain until the noise floor becomes objectionable (hopefully some of that will be masked by the ship's engine noise).  To me, compression kind of pushes the sound forward when it kicks in (not a very scientific description I know) even at relatively low volume.  Even if you don't compress, slapping a limiter on it will prevent any clipping distortion when you boost a signal, unless it was present in the source material.  Anyway, just some thoughts.

[High Max]

;-)

[Klaustrophobia]

2 events does not constitute a pattern. 

[General Battuta]

Oh, and the Balor was being developed for INF, but maybe that changed and was never used for any of its releases? Is it any good?

I don't think the Balor was ever being developed for INF.

[High Max]

;-)

[The E]

Maybe. However, since most of all that Inferno stuff only exists in the form of screenshots, and not as something actually playable, I'd say that whatever the Balor was before, it is now a BP weapon.

[High Max]

;-)

[Javito1986]

Figured I'd post this here. Loved the DC to no end, so much so that I filmed some footage from IMO one of the campaign's most dramatic 'action highlights' and put it up on youtube in HD. I think it really shows off all the reasons that make this my favorite Freespace campaign.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs8NHCBaxek if anyone's interested  

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Blue Planet is not meant to be FS3 as V would have made it. It's meant to be Blue Planet, and to tell a story.

I agree. Everything about BP, save the fundamental code, is fan-made. It has so many changes and additions from retail code. The VA is fan-made, the skyboxes are fan-made, portions of the code are fan-made, the missions are fan-made, the ships are fan-made, the mainhall interface is fan-made, portions of the database are fan-made, and who knows what else.

I daresay that BP is the embodiment of what happens when an underrated and undersold game gets a huge fan following.

[Locutus of Borg]

Well, I've finished BPDC, and I have to admit I'm a bit saddened by how it all came together.

Most Freespace campaigns, inlcuding the two game main campaigns don't have a main character. This is because that character is you; the way that character thinks is shaped by the opinions of the player. The use of an actual character in BP as the protagonist was a risk.

The campaign really lost me when Bei started with the metaphysical stuff about his entire life culminating in the encounter with the Vishnans. I played the rest of the campaign through, and I must say the FREDDING and voice acting was superb, but the story just dropped off once the Vishnans showed up.

When the fleet arrived in Sol and attacked the United Earth ship, I felt the campaign lost all believability.

IMO, the story just fell apart, but the FREDDING and voice work were simply amazing.