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Title: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: foolfromhell on June 15, 2008, 12:22:40 am
Just asking. Will it improve the graphics or not if I use mediavps?

Will it crash the game since the mediavps do indeed have models of regular FS2 ships?
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 15, 2008, 01:58:18 am
Will it improve the graphics or not if I use mediavps?
No.

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Will it crash the game since the mediavps do indeed have models of regular FS2 ships?
Possibly not but it won't do any good either.
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: karajorma on June 15, 2008, 04:14:20 am
I'll be hugely surprised if it doesn't crash the game.
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 15, 2008, 04:18:53 am
Ah. The tables. Almost forgot.
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: foolfromhell on June 15, 2008, 11:06:04 am
What about just the MV_core.vp and the mv_effects/advanced effects?
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 15, 2008, 11:31:31 am
Will it improve the graphics or not if I use mediavps?
No.
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: CaptJosh on June 15, 2008, 01:21:19 pm
The MediaVPs are STRICTLY for FS2 and it's main campaign. The Babylon Project is a Stand-Alone. It requires nothing more than its own files. It won't even work with the others, though I personally use it as a mod from my main launcher so I can keep all my Source Code Project stuff together.
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: CaptJosh on June 15, 2008, 01:26:25 pm
I like to tinker too, so my arrangement makes it easier to test new builds of the exes from the source that I check out from the subversion repository.
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: IPAndrews on June 15, 2008, 02:22:42 pm
Weirdo...

Be careful.
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: CaptJosh on June 15, 2008, 02:28:47 pm
Ian, no worries. There's no such thing as a normal person anyway. I'm weird. He's weird. You're weird. Everybody's weird, because the word normal just cannot apply when dealing with human beings. There are AVERAGES, but no such thing as normal.
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: IPAndrews on June 16, 2008, 03:01:25 am
I'm glad you didn't take offence. I on the other hand wasn't too impressed. I don't expect the people who visit this forum to all behave like best buddies but I do expect a certain level of civility. Lobo's comment just fell the wrong side of the line and he can consider that his first warning. And before he complains he would do well to remember that as moderators go I am far from moderate.
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: Herra Tohtori on June 16, 2008, 03:14:49 am
...I personally use it as a mod from my main launcher so I can keep all my Source Code Project stuff together.

So... do you also have FreeSpace2 retail files in a mod folder instead of root folder?

Or does that even work?
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: CaptJosh on June 16, 2008, 03:27:08 am
I left the retail VPs in the root folder, like I'm supposed to. Because if you don't, when using the mediaVPs to play the main FS2 campaign, you end up with things missing, like voices, music, command briefings, cursors...
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: CaptJosh on June 16, 2008, 03:46:06 am
Yes, it's that simple. I need to make a mod.ini with a graphic though.
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: karajorma on June 16, 2008, 04:45:07 am
That won't work for BtRL however. It crashes if you try to run it as a mod.

So... do you also have FreeSpace2 retail files in a mod folder instead of root folder?

Or does that even work?

There's no reason I can think of why that wouldn't work. Simply make sure all the FS2 mod.ini files reference the folder you put the VP files in and it should work.

Every once in a while I consider doing the same thing myself since it would make debugging much easier for me (Since I have to debug for TBP, BtRL and FS2 quite frequently and will probably end up having to help with WCS and SoL often enough to make it worth it). Then I remember that there are a few issues that make it impractical (having to use the same command line, having to have several versions of the launcher, all pointing at the same launcher.ini) and I realise it's simply a different kind of hassle rather than less. :)
Title: Re: Do I have to/ can I use my mediavps with TBP?
Post by: CaptJosh on June 16, 2008, 12:11:28 pm
One thing I do have to do is remember to toggle the tbp features switch in my launcher though. Almost forgot that.