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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: karajorma on January 25, 2005, 03:25:25 pm
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If you're getting crashes because FS2_Open can't open file cruiser03x.po**gt this is because there is a file missing in the current set of VP files.
What you want is this file (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/Downloads/Kara_Temporary_asEffects_Workaround.rar). Download it. Unrar it (using WinRAR or winAce) and shove the .vp file in your main FS2 folder.
This error will be fixed in the next version of mv_textures so when the new media vp's are released you should remember to delete this file.
(For those who care this is the model for the cain with the textures changes so that it and the lilith look different).
The second problem that quite a few people have been experiencing is a missing file called cruiser01x.pof. IF you have this problem you have two solutions.
1) Download the high poly models vp.
2) Download this (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/Downloads/Kara_Low_Poly_Models.rar) file. Extract it and put it in your main folder.
The file contains the original [V] versions of the Fenris/Leviathan model which have been edited to use Lightspeeds new textures (again this makes the Fenris and Leviathan look different from each other)
I've included this file so that people with lower end computers can enjoy the new texture maps with less overhead. These older models have half the number of textures and over 6000 less polys so they should perform much better.
If I'm stepping on anyones toes by releasing these please tell me.
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Thank you Kara. :)
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Known bug #2: Music won't play.
Solution: Put the retail FS2 music.tbl file in the same directory as the mediaVPs
Known bug #3: Fighters are unable to carry the Maxim
Solution: Move mv_aseffects.vp to another directory.
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Groan... I really don't get why its doing this. I've got in my base FS2 dir, mv_core, mv_zpack (music folder and music.tbl deleted) mv_adveffects, mv_aseffects AND Kara's workaround and I'm STILL not seeing a Leviathan model.
I've even changed the mv_core tables to point to the cruiser01x.pof with no difference and then I set the mv_core and mv_aseffects to point to cruiser01.pof, then model used for the Leviathan and still no change. But the Fenris is fine! Its the high poly one and everything.
I don't have a clue whats going on here. Is this a pilot issue or does it require a reset. Could FS somehow be remembering the old settings? Grasping at straws here. Should I just get rid of as_effects completely?
Not getting any music either in Shrouding the Light, and I'm using the MOD option in the launcher. But then I switched to Renegade Ressurgence, again with the MOD option and that has music. (It also crashes out for unexplained reasons in the missions where the hecate attacks the arcadia in the aldebaran system just as the hecate is about to fire).
Haven't tried Karamajora's low poly option again getting too tired.
I'm probably gonna post this in the thread I started yesterday too so you've been warned, I'm a bumper.
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Do you have both workaround files? (How big is the vp file you got from me?)
I edited the first one to remove the high poly leviathan because quite frankly I don't think it has any place being in the work around (It's a work around for people who don't want to download the high poly models vp so putting the worst offender in my vp wasn't the smartest thing I'd ever done).
The workaround should give you the low poly fenris and leviathans. If you want the high poly ones you should really be using the high poly models vp.
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I tried the first one you put up that was about 70kb and then the 2+MB vp, again with no effect. I've never tried both together.
Rargh, I might just start with a clean slate. I'm beaten. Booo!
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What the? Who the hell is hammer?
Weird, thats what it automatically logged me in under. Well it was me. And Im still beat.
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Odd. Which mission exactly causes the problem (i need the name or filename). I have STL on my HD (even though I've still not found the time to play it) so I can test this myself :)
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Don't know the mission name or number at the moment, I can check later but its the one in which you assist the Sirius 9th fleet by blocading the Deneb node while they chase out those scurvy rebels.
When the mission starts theres a wing of apollos in system and a Leviathan but you only see its engine glow.
I dont think its mission specific because its model is missing in the tech room as well.
Plus theres something funky with the leviathan AND fenris in renegade resurgence. They just show up as wireframes.
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That is odd. TopAce is the man to ask but AFAIK he didn't do anything to either model.
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Originally posted by Rand al'Thor
What the? Who the hell is hammer?
Weird, thats what it automatically logged me in under. Well it was me. And Im still beat.
Forum screwiness. Sorry, we're working on it.
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I have the music.tbl file in my main FS2 directory but there is still no music!
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Check that you haven't accidently turned it off in the audio section of the launcher.
If that fails try disabling/removing music.vp
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It's not turned off in the launcher. I can't find a music.vp file anywere, though.
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Maybe that's the problem. :) My music is still out, but I'll try putting the retail table back in and/or disabling the music.vp when I get home. I'll let you know how it turns out.
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I still can't get the music to work.
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What VP files do you have? What build are you using? I know you've probably said elsewhere but I don't know where :)
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FS2_Open 3.6.5, mv_core.vp, root_fs2.vp, sparky_fs2.vp, sparky_hi_fs2.vp, and stu_fs2.vp.
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You don't have warble_fs2.vp? That's your problem right there.
Warble is on the FS2 CDs (You'll need to do a full install to get it onto your hard drive) but is missing from the HotU builds (Which means you'll need to look at the Freespace FTP thread in General Freespace if that's what you're using).
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I have the CDs, I bought the game on an online store, apparently I somehow just don't have the file in my main directory. However, even more mysteriously the music has started working again.
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Maybe cause you stuck the CD in to check and it's now playing them off the CD? :p
Aren't you running with a No CD exe? I seem to remember telling you to use my HotU crack pack at one point (although I could be confusing you with someone else).
If so that would explain things. The retail exe would notice that you hadn't installed warble.vp and ask for CD2 or 3 to rectify this. The hacked exe wouldn't so you'd just simply lose the music (and CBanims most likely).
The solution is to reinstall and do a full install this time so as to have all the vp files on your PC rather than the CD.
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Oh.
Well it seems to work fine if I have the CD in the drive, so I think that would be unnecessary.
Unless I can download a copy of the file somewhere.
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The music vp can simply be copied straight off of the CD (Both CD2 and 3 have a copy).
As long as you remember to put the CD back in the drive and change to CD3 halfway through you should be fine. But if you forget you'll miss all the command briefing animations.
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*Remembers the problem from the title of this thread*
*Shudders*
:p
@DarthWang, you could also do a Full install. ;)
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Cool, a thread about the problems I have been having. :p
Could someone direct me to the high poly model vp?
EDIT: Nevermind, I think I found it.
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Originally posted by karajorma
Aren't you running with a No CD exe? I seem to remember telling you to use my HotU crack pack at one point (although I could be confusing you with someone else).
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That would be me :D
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Um, I have a similar problem as another person before me: when I used the replacement model for the Fenris and the Leviathan all I get is the engine glow.
just a guess here, but I think the replacement model is not using the proper skin.
Alternatively, is there a way to only use the fenris and leviathan high poly model from the model.VP?
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The models use the textures from the mv_textures.vp file. If you don't have it you won't see anything.
My suggestion is to simply get rid of both models and download the 3.6.6 VP files (except for mv_music which won't work if you're using 3.6.5).
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I have the mv_texture already, from the mv_zpack dated 25 of apr 124mb
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If you're using Zpack you don't need either of those models actually. They're there because some people didn't want to use the high poly models but had problems because the tables expected them to be there.
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I have the zpack released in apr, but I'm not using the modelVP or the musicVP.
I'm using texture, core, effects,adveffects and the low poly in 1024X768 in 16 with no graphic features
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Zpack contains all the other VP packs. You shouldn't need any of the others if you have it.
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hopefully this is remedied in thge 3.6.7 release vp's
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Mantis it + assign to me.