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Title: VP Precidence Rules - Proven
Post by: Kazan on August 02, 2001, 12:59:00 pm
For all you people that have been telling me that table files in my VPs don't work I have news for you.  I just tested the VP Precidence rules and they work.


Numerical Ranked Precidence:

1) Disk Files
2) Disk VPs: Alphabetically sorted
3) CD Files
4) CD VPs: Alphabetically sorted


In otherwords "Babylon5demo.vp" overrides "root_fs2.vp" as it is doing on my hard drive right now

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Title: VP Precidence Rules - Proven
Post by: Sushi on August 02, 2001, 02:06:00 pm
So the thing to remember for custom VPs is to make sure that they are higher in the alphabetical food chain than the standard FS2 ones, right?

Easy enough fix...



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Title: VP Precidence Rules - Proven
Post by: Kazan on August 02, 2001, 03:36:00 pm
yeah... ace had problems because he is hard of hearing
Title: VP Precidence Rules - Proven
Post by: Ace on August 02, 2001, 03:52:00 pm
Kazan I have already discussed this several times with you.

Do not assume that the user is the cause of all issues. As I stated several times, and as you can observe by looking at the names of the .vps they are and have always been correct since the public release of Twilight.

Now I see that you want to take such claims of errors with your tools off of yourself, that's understandable.

Yet it is proven from replies that the packaged edition on some systems has shown errors while the non packaged does not have any of these issues so to speak of.

I have said this several times and each time you either assume I am flaming or slandering you, or you then go on claiming I improperly name the files or some similar mishap.

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[This message has been edited by Ace (edited 08-02-2001).]
Title: VP Precidence Rules - Proven
Post by: Kazan on August 02, 2001, 03:57:00 pm
well I have a ~175 meg Babylon 5 VP sitting on my harddrive right now that would love to argue with you about it being my fault

There is a nice quote about computers that comes to mind - I cannot remember who said it but it is: "99% of all computer errors are user errors."

[This message has been edited by Kazan (edited 08-02-2001).]
Title: VP Precidence Rules - Proven
Post by: Shrike on August 02, 2001, 04:02:00 pm
And 99.47% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Title: VP Precidence Rules - Proven
Post by: Kazan on August 02, 2001, 04:03:00 pm
that was a real quote shrike
Title: VP Precidence Rules - Proven
Post by: Shrike on August 02, 2001, 04:09:00 pm
So was mine, in fact.  I can't remember who it was by, but he was some math guy.

Anyhow, the moral is, things in the real world never work quite as well as they do in the lab.
Title: VP Precidence Rules - Proven
Post by: Kazan on August 02, 2001, 04:13:00 pm
Ace and I have determined it's an athlon problem.. damn AMD and they're inability to properly emulate a 82x86
Title: VP Precidence Rules - Proven
Post by: Kazan on August 03, 2001, 09:54:00 am
hmm
Title: VP Precidence Rules - Proven
Post by: Nico on August 03, 2001, 12:00:00 pm
I guess that's why twilight won't work on my comp then... Crap, the unpacked version has been packed like a *****, Ace, you could have put the folders in it, instead of all the files like that  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/rolleyes.gif)