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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Psychonaut on December 07, 2004, 12:45:33 pm
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as the topic says, i would really like to share this "new" explosion with the community. All i need is a little webspace (860 kb) to upload it. What i´ve done is to use an existing explosion (i think it was exp4-ani) and change the color. I also changed the weapon table a bit, so that the explosion don´t appear that huge. I used the modular table format, so you can use it easily with the most existing mods and campaigns without changing the existing table files. It´s curious, that no one else seems to use modular tables :confused: .
Installation: just put the eff and pcx files to data\effects and the flak-wep.tbm to the data\table or mod\data\table directory.
maybe there is someone to mail the file to????
Edit: did i say, that the effect really looks cool;7
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Go to freewebs.com, create a website, and upload to "My Documents."
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Ok, here you go.......
You have to download both files (sorry for that). extract them in one directory an copy all *.eff and *.pcx files to your data\effects folder. The flak-wep.tbm goes to the tables folder in the freespace root or mod directory.
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Would you mind putting up a screenshot? I'm currently setting up my system, and I'm still far from any FS2 installation. :)
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wtf.. sez my current security settings wont allow me to download it.
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I don´t know. the download works for me. Does anyone else have the same problem? Did you use the right mouse button?
And screenshot, ahh ....yeah, how do i get some??
ok try these links
http://www.freewebs.com/psychonaut/FlakExplosion1_2.zip (http://www.freewebs.com/psychonaut/FlakExplosion1_2.zip)
http://www.freewebs.com/psychonaut/FlakExplosion2_2.zip (http://www.freewebs.com/psychonaut/FlakExplosion2_2.zip)
again use the right mouse button, this might help. I´m not really into this website - upload - download stuff. So gimme time.
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Press the "print" key. The pics can be found in the main FS2 directory.
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But convert them to jpg, we don't want nasty bmps!
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I do as you told me, but the pribt key doesn´t seem to have any effects. The game stops for a part of a second, but there are no images in the freespace folder. I´m sure i`m doing something wrong :confused:
Edit: now i´m sitting here for more than an hour trying to get some f***ing screenies. Is there anyone. who can help me. I´m using the newest build and the game pauses after hitting the print-button. But there are no screenshots anywhere on my harddisk. This really becomes frustrating:mad: :mad: :mad:
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after houres. I have two screenshots but no way to show them. I will try later!
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www.photobucket.com
or
www.imageshack.us
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ok, there they are. Hope you like it. Getting this on the web was much harder than modding the explosion.
(http://img62.exs.cx/img62/3713/exp20300005bs.jpg)
(http://img62.exs.cx/img62/1138/exp20300016wb.jpg)
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Cool, nice to see different effects. :yes:
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Looks pretty cool from what I can see of it. Reminds me of the flak guns from COW.
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Does look quite nice.
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COW means Casualties of war? I can remember that campaign. I never played more than 2 missions, cause it is not SCP compatible and i had lots of CTD. Maybe i should try a second look:-)
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It's SCP compatible. Just not very 3.5.1+ compatable. Try it with 3.5 and it should work fine (You might have to move the media.vp files out of the way though).
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ANI is prefered over EFF ATM. But if the ANI is in the VP the EFF should be prefered, I think...
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Originally posted by karajorma
It's SCP compatible. Just not very 3.5.1+ compatable. Try it with 3.5 and it should work fine (You might have to move the media.vp files out of the way though).
:nod:
Pre-HTL, that's why.
I do wonder if it might work better running 3.5.1+ in non htl mode, though.
Oh, and the blue flak ani in CoW was literally the normal explosion recoloured and slightly brightened. It was the fire rate that I think worked better; set it up to fire a lot of low damage flak bursts.
(one thing to note about CoW is that I did the weapons and planets myself; so they're not as high quality as, for example, those Lighty or Icefire etc could have made - Icefires nebulas were, however, **** hot)
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Originally posted by DaBrain
ANI is prefered over EFF ATM. But if the ANI is in the VP the EFF should be prefered, I think...
It searches for an EFF first and then ANI. It does search everywhere for the EFF first though (unless it's for a model) so if one exists it will get used. I do want to mention that -jpgtga does affect EFFs. If you don't use -jpgtga then it will not use EFFs with TGA or JPG images. The problem there is that it won't go back and try to use the ANI. I haven't decided exactly what to do about that one yet, it is fixable but not in a way that makes me happy.
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Are you sure? The EFF effects didn't work for me unless I deleted the ANI effects.
Well, it was an older version though.
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Originally posted by DaBrain
Are you sure? The EFF effects didn't work for me unless I deleted the ANI effects.
Yeah, I wrote the code. ;) There were a couple of loading issues though which I have fixed (in the beta) so maybe that's what you saw. That was mainly speed improvements and better error handling for EFFs (it can handle missing frames now and will reset the frame count to the last known). I don't remember ever getting an ANI if an EFF was available though. If it is working other than this it is a bug so if the beta build isn't perfect let me know.
It does look in memory first for both though so if an ANI of the same name is already loaded then it won't check the disk for an EFF. That was a rather recent change though, really speeds up loading. I think that new loading stuff was only available in the beta builds.
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@ DaBrain which program do you use to create dds-files. I think in huge battles the flak-explosion appears that often, that there could be problems with the memory.
Also, I´m not sure, but i think dds-files are a bit trickier to handle (for example when converting from pcx to dds), arent they?
BTW: It´s good to hear that COW works now, ´cause i really liked the concept, music new ships and so on. I hope, the flak-explosion is not exactly the same as "mine":nervous:
ah, does the tbm-file work for you?
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Aaaarg, link doesn't work. I d/l 2 files of 100 Ko but when i want to extract they are like corrupted.
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Originally posted by Psychonaut
@ DaBrain which program do you use to create dds-files. I think in huge battles the flak-explosion appears that often, that there could be problems with the memory.
Also, I´m not sure, but i think dds-files are a bit trickier to handle (for example when converting from pcx to dds), arent they?
I'm using the Nidiva DDS plugin for photoshop.
But I think there also is a free conversion tool for developers.
I'll dig it up and edit my post.
Edit: This is the page I got the plugin from:
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html
Edit2: If you do not have PS, this might just be what you're looking for: (DevIL)
http://openil.sourceforge.net/download.php
Edit3: DevIL seems to be very complicated (plus some links won't work).
But I found this:
http://eliteforce2.filefront.com/file/DDS_Converter;29412
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Thanks a lot DaBrain. I will check this out.:yes:
@Metal, your right, the link doesn´t seem to work. I´ll have to fix it later, ´cause i´m too busy, sorry.
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It's ok, your link work with IE.
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I definitively love your EFF blue flak :D with the Dabrain Shockwave, FS 2 looks like a new game.
(http://img144.exs.cx/img144/811/Freespace_2d.gif)
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That's COOL! Ya the effect is cool, but I'm more impressed with this little video thing. What display method is this?
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Um... that's a gif...
and it's a megabyte :wtf:
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It's just a less common way of showing things off, however it's also a very cool way of doing it. ;)
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Originally posted by Raa
Um... that's a gif...
and it's a megabyte :wtf:
Yeah, sorry for the size. If you want, i will replace this by just a link.
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Wow, the presentation is really cool. I like it and if you ask me, you should leave it as it is and not remove it with a link;7
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I'm on cable, and didn't even notice it load... so I'm not complaining. :D
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hehe. Neato.
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Hey psychonaut, that looks very impressive. Would you be able to email some screenshots that were less compressed? setekh @ 3dap.com ... would be greatly appreciated. :)
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Originally posted by Raa
I'm on cable, and didn't even notice it load... so I'm not complaining. :D
2nd-ed...hmmm....
*has a sick idea about a 640x480 GIF for...something*
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Originally posted by Setekh
Hey psychonaut, that looks very impressive. Would you be able to email some screenshots that were less compressed? setekh @ 3dap.com ... would be greatly appreciated. :)
Here the screenies :D
http://img99.exs.cx/img99/9445/fs2_JAD_Home_43.jpg
http://img98.exs.cx/img98/3571/fs2_JAD_Home_42.jpg