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Title: fs1, protect the galatea mission (shoot asteroids)?
Post by: jugadorguay on March 31, 2006, 06:52:35 am

okay so i'm playing fs1, and i'm in an asteroid field protecting the big ship from the asteroids.  the problem is, i can't see any asteroids at all.  it gives me the white targeting square and the distance to the asteroid, but the asteroids aren't showing up, so either i hit them by luck, or they run into me or the capital ship.  is there a control that i haven't activated or something?  i feel like last time i played this level (5 years ago or more) that i could see the asteroids?  thanks for the help

Title: Re: fs1, protect the galatea mission (shoot astero
Post by: karajorma on March 31, 2006, 07:10:49 am

This is on FS1 port or on FS1 itself?

Title: Re: fs1, protect the galatea mission (shoot asteroids)?
Post by: jugadorguay on March 31, 2006, 07:13:13 am

ah, the port, i am playing it through fs2open (shivan's big download)

i don't suppose i'm missing the photo of the asteroid :)

Title: Re: fs1, protect the galatea mission (shoot asteroids)?
Post by: jugadorguay on March 31, 2006, 07:21:35 am

i'm playing the level right now, and everyone's shots are just going right thru the area where the asteroids are shown in the white targeting brackets.  every now and then there'll be a big explosion (the asteroid) except nothing is there.  the explosion just appears...but you can see the stars, etc behind where it would be, it's not like it's a black patch or something in the way...weird

Title: Re: fs1, protect the galatea mission (shoot astero
Post by: Shade on March 31, 2006, 07:33:37 am

Could possibly be a mediavp problem. Try playing without them and see if that helps.

Title: Re: fs1, protect the galatea mission (shoot asteroids)?
Post by: jugadorguay on March 31, 2006, 07:43:10 am

how do i do that? thanks for the help

Title: Re: fs1, protect the galatea mission (shoot asteroids)?
Post by: road_dancer on March 31, 2006, 08:18:57 am

IIRC you'll need to edit the mod.cfg (or similar) file in the fs1 mod folder. You'll need to take out the reference to MediaVPs, as this line directs the game to play the fs1 mod AND look in the MediaVPs folder for anyother Mods.

edit after Kara's post - Weeeelllllll... almost right!  :p

Title: Re: fs1, protect the galatea mission (shoot astero
Post by: karajorma on March 31, 2006, 08:20:10 am

Go to the FS1Port folder and open the mod.ini file.

In the file you will find a bit that says something like secondrylist = ,MediaVPs;  Put a semicolon in front of this line and save the file.

Title: Re: fs1, protect the galatea mission (shoot asteroids)?
Post by: nukephile on March 31, 2006, 07:42:24 pm

You need to enable jpg,tga textures in the launcher.
I had the exact same problem in the first loop mission where you have to protect the Iceni, but enabling those textures solved it.

Title: Re: fs1, protect the galatea mission (shoot astero
Post by: karajorma on April 02, 2006, 05:38:24 am

That does sound like a good possibility. Try that first :)

Title: Re: fs1, protect the galatea mission (shoot astero
Post by: StratComm on April 02, 2006, 06:25:47 pm

'h' targets the asteroids that you need to shoot in that mission, if that helps.  Though we do need to see that those maps are replaced with DDS next time around.