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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Bri_Dog on January 30, 2003, 10:17:57 pm

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: Bri_Dog on January 30, 2003, 10:17:57 pm

Make several missions that use the new features in FS2_Open as a demo. Include all the new features like ballistic primarys, glow-points, glow-maps, fighter-beams; the works.

Maybe it'll get more people interested.



That would be cool. :)

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: Galemp on January 30, 2003, 10:36:48 pm

With the included tables and effects, all in one zip. I think that's an excellent way to demo the new features and show how to use them.

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: Goober5000 on January 30, 2003, 10:57:36 pm

There are a lot of new features! :lol:

If you're willing to wait for the TVWP demo, it'll have most of the new SCP features included.  We're still waiting on some models before we can start FREDding, though.

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: Galemp on January 30, 2003, 11:38:48 pm

While we're at it... here's something I'd like... why not have a music preview feature in FRED? When you pick the briefing music or ingame music, there should be a little arrow you can click to preview that track. The only problem would be extracting the music from the VP.

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 30, 2003, 11:45:44 pm

Actually, that shouldn't be too hard at all. I believe that's already implemented in FRED.

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: Bri_Dog on January 31, 2003, 12:09:29 am

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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
With the included tables and effects, all in one zip. I think that's an excellent way to demo the new features and show how to use them.

That's my exact thought. Especialy the "how to use them", I can never get anything to work.

Hell, I tried so many times to make a ballistic weapon and it just won't work...either that or FS2_open crashes on me :D

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: Bobboau on January 31, 2003, 12:10:34 am

did you get glow mapping to work? :D

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 31, 2003, 05:36:08 am

A two or three mission campaign includedwith each official build would be good (along with notes to briefly explain how the fancy new stuff was implemented)

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: Dwarf on January 31, 2003, 10:06:47 am

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Originally posted by Bobboau
did you get glow mapping to work? :D

actually i tried that and it didn't
or the fighter beams, shivans don't lnow how to use them and you can't fire them more than about 7 times, oh and you cant set them to pulse either
an example mission would be :yes: :nod: :yes:

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: Bri_Dog on January 31, 2003, 02:25:45 pm

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Originally posted by Bobboau
did you get glow mapping to work? :D

Actualy, the only thing I did get to work was the fighter beams.

I think making a more detailed tutorial about how to use the new features is needed for people like me who try and try to get  things working, but always fail. It would really help.

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: Goober5000 on January 31, 2003, 04:06:52 pm

uh, the first post of the 3.4 thread ought to tell you everything you need to know...

follow those directions carefully, and if it still doesn't work, then :confused:

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: Bri_Dog on January 31, 2003, 04:20:35 pm

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Originally posted by Goober5000
uh, the first post of the 3.4 thread ought to tell you everything you need to know...

follow those directions carefully, and if it still doesn't work, then :confused:

That's what happened. I'm sure I did something wrong somewhere.....

What I'm trying to say is that an official manual would be nice.

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Post by: ZylonBane on February 01, 2003, 02:17:15 am

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Originally posted by Bri_Dog
Hell, I tried so many times to make a ballistic weapon and it just won't work...

All the primaries in FS are already ballistic.

Title: Maybe a usefull idea?
Post by: Bobboau on February 01, 2003, 02:39:30 am

no they arn't, there pixelixic, we want weapons that make the monitor actualy fly off along an unpowered arch

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Post by: ZylonBane on February 01, 2003, 12:33:27 pm

I'd buy that for a dollar!