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Title: Missions That Came With The Game - help
Post by: Trekker on January 14, 2005, 05:40:45 pm

Hi, is there anyway i coudl edit some of the mission that came with the game.  I have had a look but can't seem to find any, do i actaly have to do the mission in question for it to show up.  

Reason why i want to access the orignal mission are

A) to see how a profestional one is done

B) edit 1 for a mission i am creating


Cobra

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: phatosealpha on January 14, 2005, 05:47:44 pm

I'm pretty sure you'd just need to extract them from root_fs2.vp with the vp tool of your choice, and then open them up in fred.

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Trekker on January 14, 2005, 05:49:20 pm

thanks, i using the one i found on sector game website.  Are there any new ones, most of the file i was looking out where release aroudn the same time fs2 was released now we have fs2 open have they been updated or replaced with different and better programs?

Title: Re: Missions That Came With The Game - help
Post by: Cobra on January 14, 2005, 11:33:57 pm

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Originally posted by Cobra2
Hi, is there anyway i coudl edit some of the mission that came with the game.  I have had a look but can't seem to find any, do i actaly have to do the mission in question for it to show up.  

Reason why i want to access the orignal mission are

A) to see how a profestional one is done

B) edit 1 for a mission i am creating


Cobra

Let me pass along something to you that i learned the hard way: DON'T try to copy a professional mission. Reason: you don't wanna know.

The last line of your post: what was that one for? are you talking to me?

phatosealpha: not that simple. well, you have most of it right, anyway. it takes a lot longer. FRED doesn't open it automatically, unfortunately. you have to open it *gasp* MANUALLY!

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: phatosealpha on January 14, 2005, 11:47:12 pm

Er....doesn't that qualify as opening them up in fred?

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Cobra on January 14, 2005, 11:55:59 pm

oh... yeah.... :nervous: sorry 'bout that.

Title: Re: Re: Missions That Came With The Game - help
Post by: Trekker on January 15, 2005, 03:22:22 am

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Originally posted by Cobra


The last line of your post: what was that one for? are you talking to me?
 

nope Cobra comes frim my gaming name, SF Cobra i also use it as my alais, also they named a squad after me in SF and Dmien Squad did not work as well as Cobra Squad  


keep forgetting that there another cobra here, COuld have Fishboy squad but that was worse than Damien lol (fishboy was a nick name given to me by my freids due to my love of fishing )

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Trekker on January 15, 2005, 03:23:10 am

but if u where in game oing up against person called fishboy welll you know what i mean does not give the right impression that your a force to be recon with

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: karajorma on January 15, 2005, 05:16:02 am

Okay this conversation is getting a little schizoid now. :D

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Originally posted by Cobra2
thanks, i using the one i found on sector game website.  Are there any new ones, most of the file i was looking out where release aroudn the same time fs2 was released now we have fs2 open have they been updated or replaced with different and better programs?

The VP format hasn't changed since FS2 came out so there hasn't been much need to change the tool for looking at them. On the other hand I believe that someone posted a new VP tool only a few days ago.

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 15, 2005, 02:14:34 pm

There's QuickVP, and VPMage, which can also edit VP files as well as view them.

Using VPView is probably best though, so you don't mess up Freespace by accidentally deleting a needed file.

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Night Hammer on January 15, 2005, 05:30:46 pm

Ok ive been away a while, why is there 2 Cobras? :wtf:

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Trekker on January 15, 2005, 05:47:18 pm

split personalities lol


because there are 2 different cobras

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Goober5000 on January 15, 2005, 06:02:16 pm

Actually you got it right on your first guess. :p

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Night Hammer on January 15, 2005, 07:37:40 pm

****......one was enough

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Cobra on January 15, 2005, 08:37:33 pm

shee, where did you learn such language? :D

Actually, this guy told us already. (you guys probably know this already, but what the heck) cobra2 wanted MY name, but, since it was taken, he named himself cobra2.

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Goober5000 on January 15, 2005, 08:55:27 pm

So you're acquainted with Cobra2?  How did you meet?

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Cobra on January 15, 2005, 08:57:29 pm

no, it's just obvious. ;)

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Night Hammer on January 15, 2005, 10:51:27 pm

im confused, but cobra, were not as dumb as you seem to think we are...

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Trekker on January 16, 2005, 07:54:23 pm

it happens on lots of baord, people choose the same alais so the person  that comes second takes 1 or 2 and so on

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Unknown Target on January 16, 2005, 08:47:22 pm

What's their IPs?

EDIT: W00t! Ship class upgrade :D

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on January 16, 2005, 09:01:50 pm

Don't know, but look at the times on the posts.  

why would you want to edit a canon mission?

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Unknown Target on January 16, 2005, 09:35:41 pm

The times are really far apart.
And probably to learn how to make your own missions.

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Trekker on January 17, 2005, 07:32:49 am

about the IP they would be the same as everyones IP is the same on this forums or so i am told, stupid because how do u ban people.

2 reason to look at pro missions

1) to see how they do it and learn from that
2) repoduce/edit 1 to reflect the mission i writing

me and a few other from the Startrek clan i am in are making a mod for fs2,  quite lucky as 1 of them did alot of modding in freespace 1, and few are experts in the feild including 1 pro program before he joined the army

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Hippo on January 17, 2005, 08:26:49 am

[q]it happens on lots of baord, people choose the same alais so the person that comes second takes 1 or 2 and so on[/q]

No, it doesn't. Belonging to/lurking on 8 forums, I can say that this is the ONLY time I have EVER seen this happen :rolleyes: ...

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Trekker on January 17, 2005, 08:47:54 am

go to egosoft x2 forum and check how many people have

name II
name number
name something extra

then some of the st forum i am on and i not talking about ST names

Title: Missions The Came With The Game
Post by: Trekker on January 17, 2005, 08:51:13 am

then there is adslguide.org, both my nick name where being used there