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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Grug on March 22, 2005, 01:42:51 am

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 22, 2005, 01:42:51 am

In light of the Starfox mod posting in here, and the fact that our forums are rarely visited I thought I'd point people from here.

TAP is under new management and needs people to fill its ranks.
Check this thread if your interested:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,31413.0.html

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 22, 2005, 07:34:38 pm

*bump* :p

A few people have passed through here, yet no-one dares post in here.

Would a couple of NEW screens be incentive?
*dusts off the screenshot key*
Shall I?

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Taristin on March 22, 2005, 07:36:37 pm

Take screenies, sure. Your thread will fill with 'ooh, ahh that shouldn't be like that' and all that other bullcrap...

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 22, 2005, 08:14:33 pm

lol. Better than nothing though. :p

I need to find another build though, the one I have at the moment shows laser effects in reverse. :ick:

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Taristin on March 22, 2005, 08:14:50 pm

Could be worse. Every build I use refuses to take screenshots.

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 22, 2005, 08:23:43 pm

Owch. Does Print Screen work?
Or would you have to use a third party screen capture program.

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Taristin on March 22, 2005, 08:30:51 pm

I'd probably have to use a third party proggy. I press print screen, and the game will stutter, but there's never any files in the folder afterward, unless they place them elsewhere, now.

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Mongoose on March 22, 2005, 08:35:48 pm

Try Fraps (http://www.fraps.com) for all of your screenshot needs. :)

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 22, 2005, 09:05:45 pm

The screenshot files should be placed under the FS2 directory or the mod directory as tga files, well they do for me anyway.

Speaking of which anyone know of some good (preferablly free) video editing / creation software? Something also to record FS2 ingame movies etc?

Would be handy to have, plus might be able to make some vid scenes for TAP.

BTW, in the latest builds of SCP, is the FS2 intro movie supposed to play, because it doesn't...

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Blitzerland on March 22, 2005, 09:06:14 pm

As Mongoose said, get Fraps. Can take screenies and record movies.

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 22, 2005, 09:08:21 pm

Yes but it cannot help to edit them etc.
What about the movie editor that comes with XP?
Is that of any use?

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Taristin on March 22, 2005, 09:24:52 pm

Virtualdub is good for editting, kinda.

I know that the pics *should* be in the main directory, or a mod directory, but they aren't anywhere. Odd, since it used to work. Some day I'll mantis it.

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 22, 2005, 09:27:55 pm

Linky?

And pfft, who uses Mantis? :p
Just winge and complain on the SCP forums until they take heed and try and fix it. :p

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Taristin on March 22, 2005, 09:38:50 pm

http://www.virtualdub.org/

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 22, 2005, 09:57:07 pm

Hmm looks handy, but doesn't look to be a very powerfull editing tool. Might be able to gain some use out of the built in windows editor if I can use this to compile correct formats though.

Thankee. :)

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: StratComm on March 22, 2005, 11:02:28 pm

Screenshots are a funny lot.  In D3D they save to the main directory as bmp, while in OGL they save to the mod directory as TGA.  At least they did the last time I used D3D.

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 22, 2005, 11:07:25 pm

Hmm, strange indeed.

So anyway, I'm presuming everyone who's posted here is now a member of TAP. :D

*Cracks whip*

Lets go, 50+new models and textures please. ;)

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Taristin on March 22, 2005, 11:14:11 pm

Screw you. :p

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 22, 2005, 11:25:47 pm

:lol:

Damn. Well, can't blame me for trying... :p

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: FireCrack on March 23, 2005, 01:25:25 am

The hungry swarm needs screenshots.

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: StratComm on March 23, 2005, 01:47:20 am

No they don't :p  I'd offer to help if I had any time.

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: karajorma on March 23, 2005, 03:48:22 am

Quote

Originally posted by Raa
Could be worse. Every build I use refuses to take screenshots.

Using OpenGL by any chance? The OGL builds used to (and may still do) save their screeenshots to \moddir rather than \Freespace

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 23, 2005, 05:01:55 am

I'll get some screenshots out showcasing some of the new effects soonish, I'm having trouble with FSO at the moment though... :doubt: as usual :sigh:.

Things are looking good for TAP though, it seems to be getting the new blood it needed. More lively and free-timed blood. :p
I don't want to just dump out a half-assed release though. Which means going over alot of the stuff and reworking it to be updated with the latest SCP technologies.
A small demo is planned first, so that at least something can be enjoyed by the public. :)

Hey StratComm, your free advice is plenty good enough even. You seem to have the know how on a lot of topics. :)
I guess I can still nab you via PM when questions arise. :)

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: aldo_14 on March 23, 2005, 05:12:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by karajorma


Using OpenGL by any chance? The OGL builds used to (and may still do) save their screeenshots to \moddir rather than \Freespace

Or windowed mode, which doesn't save them atall.  Guess windoze captures the keypress first.

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Col. Fishguts on March 23, 2005, 06:29:40 am

Quote

Originally posted by Grug
Speaking of which anyone know of some good (preferablly free) video editing / creation software?

OpenVIP (http://openvip.sourceforge.net/)

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 23, 2005, 06:38:50 am

Hmm that looks like the go.
Thanks for the link! :D

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Col. Fishguts on March 23, 2005, 06:52:51 am

You're welcome. It's quite powerfull for a free tool. But it comes with a few "features" that don't exactly do what i want them to do. i.e. I havent' figured out how to define how long a single PNG is shown.

But the interface is very intuitive.

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Ypoknons on March 23, 2005, 07:39:40 am

We have a Firefox mod? :doubt:

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: FireCrack on March 23, 2005, 12:00:20 pm

^what?

edit: oh i see, hahha

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 24, 2005, 04:45:28 am

Quote

Originally posted by Ypoknons
We have a Firefox mod? :doubt:

:p Fixed.

I always get that mixed up of late.


When I find the time to play around with some vids, hopefully I can figure it out. If I run into any problems I'll just nag at you. ;)

Title: Homeworld Mod is hiring!
Post by: Grug on March 24, 2005, 04:06:36 pm

BTW:

TAP Screenshot thread: Linky. (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,31578.0.html)

Not many at the moment, but more will follow. :)