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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: TrashMan on August 20, 2008, 06:00:37 am

Title: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on August 20, 2008, 06:00:37 am
I'm sorta back working on this...

To give everyone a status update, the current situation is as follows:

- all needed ships and weapons are done
- story is written out for this and the next chapter
- approx 16 missions done, roughly 9-10 missions left to do
- my FREDers vanished, taking 3 almost done missions with him (accounted for above)

I have tweaking and testing to do for the done mission, I could fix up the Orion mk2 (some UV mapping errors on it's behind), maybe do some minor tweaks on some other stuff, but that's mainly it. Doing 10 new missions + testing all the old ones is a lot of work, so I got to ask:

ANY FREDer WILLING TO HELP ME OUT A LITTLE HERE?

Aditionally, I also have to ask if anyone would be interested in me releasing a demo of a sorts with 10-12 missions?
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Titan on August 20, 2008, 04:36:23 pm
very interested, loved the first campaign, and i love your ships. Go trashman!

...  :nervous:
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Droid803 on August 20, 2008, 04:39:28 pm
I'd be interested in a demo :P
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on August 21, 2008, 08:53:26 am
Hm...I'll have to see.

Since I' m starting to work on it again, I got to see just how smooth it will go.

It depends on how many FREDers (even a single mission helps a lot) and testers (bugs, bugs bugs..I hate em) I can get.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: NFSRacer on August 21, 2008, 05:20:38 pm
...and testers (bugs, bugs bugs..I hate em)...

"Testing"?  Did somebody say, "Testing"? :lol:

Yea, I may be able to help with testing, but I have yet to play your first FOW chapter because of a problem.  There's a missing .POF model file in it named, "Typhoon.POF".  I check your FOW Models VP file and it wasn't in there.  I think you may want to fix that.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: rbxplayer on August 22, 2008, 09:52:07 am
I can play test for you
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Macfie on August 22, 2008, 10:50:27 am
I can do some testing for you.  I did some testing for the FOW first chapter.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on August 22, 2008, 11:19:41 am
All of you that want to help register at sectorgame and I'll give you internal access to the forums.

You'll have to wait a bit till I get all the files up.
New host and everything. FTP isn't setup yet.

You can however, read the whole story for the chapter...Just don't  go leaking spoilers.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Rodo on August 22, 2008, 07:28:40 pm

ANY FREDer WILLING TO HELP ME OUT A LITTLE HERE?


I can help you out with small easy missions, I can go for a little more complex ones but it might take some time for me to crack those.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on August 23, 2008, 05:14:59 am
Cool. Every little bit helps :)
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Molybdenum on August 23, 2008, 06:56:16 am

ANY FREDer WILLING TO HELP ME OUT A LITTLE HERE?


I can help you out with small easy missions, I can go for a little more complex ones but it might take some time for me to crack those.


Same here. I have no project involved and I could FRED a small mission as leisure. I don't have much experience though.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on August 25, 2008, 05:49:03 am
:)

You know what to do then - register at sectorgame and send me a PM when you do so, so I can give you access.

B.t.w. - visit the FRED academy if you haven't done so already. Great way to learn good FREDing fast from the masters.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: NFSRacer on August 26, 2008, 11:07:33 am
Also, just to let you know, I'm not that much of a FREDer.  In fact, I've had little experence making any missions for FS2, but again, I am will to help you with testing.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on August 26, 2008, 02:30:24 pm
Sure...I made Flames of War and open group on sectorgame.

People that want to join can now simply request to join (go to usergroups, select Flames of War and send request).
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Molybdenum on August 27, 2008, 05:00:07 am
I seem to be in the usergroup but I can't access the Flames of War forum. It's not on the main page and when I try to open it with search i get the message that the forum does not exist. Anyone else have this problem?
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on August 27, 2008, 07:56:12 am
Apparently you're not the only one..PM Hunter..something's not right.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on August 28, 2008, 01:27:36 pm
K...everything is fixed. Everyone in the group should now have access to the forums, as well as the needed files (I've put them up on Mediafire) ;)
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on September 22, 2008, 12:35:35 pm
A little status update:

- a whole lot of ships made more beautiful (God, I made too many of them.. there's so much more to go)
- new wepnz, new effects added
- new interface stuff added
- several mission tested and tweaked
- 2 more missions done, 2 more on the way




That's 20 missions done so far. Not counting the cutscene missions. Not bad, but there's still a few left to go.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: ShadowGorrath on September 22, 2008, 02:23:13 pm
A little status update:

- a whole lot of ships made more beautiful (God, I made too many of them.. there's so much more to go)
- new wepnz, new effects added
- new interface stuff added
- several mission tested and tweaked
- 2 more missions done, 2 more on the way


That's 20 missions done so far. Not counting the cutscene missions. Not bad, but there's still a few left to go.

This got me interested :)
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on September 22, 2008, 03:39:04 pm
A little something to catch more attention:

[attachment deleted by ninja]
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Mobius on September 22, 2008, 04:01:31 pm
Everything is awesome, nameplate excluded: the text should be a bit darker to make it more plausible. It looks like it has been added via Photoshop by an unexperienced texturer :wtf:
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on September 22, 2008, 04:06:10 pm
I forgot to change the default nameplate when I took the screenie :P
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Mobius on September 22, 2008, 04:09:28 pm
Bad for you :P
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Stormkeeper on September 22, 2008, 10:08:11 pm
I am incensed that i failed to see this thread until today.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on September 22, 2008, 11:13:36 pm
I take it this a post-capella campaign?
Finally a story for everyone to play with Trashman's toys? haha
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of The Storm
Post by: TrashMan on September 23, 2008, 05:44:27 am
Yup..approx 24 years after Capella.

The story was too big to make it just one campaign so I had to cut it into 2 parts. This is the first and it should have around 26 missions or so.
DOTA (Dawn of the Apocalypse) would be the next one that will be a pain in the a** to finish.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Stormkeeper on September 23, 2008, 07:42:32 am
DOTA (Dawn of the Apocalypse) would be the next one that will be a pain in the a** to finish.
:lol: I bet you named it DOTA on purpose. :p
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on September 23, 2008, 07:59:55 am
It's a safe bet ;7

Not only do I like the name, but the story is very similar to what the dead DOTA should have been about....and the name fits.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on September 29, 2008, 07:57:26 am
A little eye candy:

(http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4439/screen0033vn3.th.jpg) (http://img260.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0033vn3.jpg)

(http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/859/screen0035at0.th.jpg) (http://img264.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0035at0.jpg)

(http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6261/screen0036cl9.th.jpg) (http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0036cl9.jpg)

(http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/7915/screen0038ra9.th.jpg) (http://img260.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0038ra9.jpg)

(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9948/screen0041ui7.th.jpg) (http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0041ui7.jpg)

(http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/252/screen0042bc1.th.jpg) (http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0042bc1.jpg)

(http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7765/screen0044hm0.th.jpg) (http://img229.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0044hm0.jpg)
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: ShadowGorrath on September 29, 2008, 08:03:12 am
Now if only they were direct linked

EDIT: Ok, just viewed them. First of all, NO USE OF THE STARFIELD SKYBOX! Why do I see people who don't use it? It makes the backgrounds so much prettier.

Then, doesn't the Dauntless' model have mipmaps?

Other than that, I can't wait.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on September 29, 2008, 09:44:06 am
Backgrounds are the easiest things to fix :P

I'm just finshing up another mission. Now if my FREDers finish the 2 in-progress ones...
moving along, moving along.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Stormkeeper on September 29, 2008, 09:54:07 am
That's one pretty missile salvo coming off the Eternity... that IS the Titan, right?
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Molybdenum on September 29, 2008, 10:00:43 am
Hopefully I'm gonna be finishing the Perseverance mission today. Last touches needed and will be done if I get some time this evening. And I can start working on the second mission. (I'm getting it set up in my head already)
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Aardwolf on September 29, 2008, 10:07:36 am
I like the mefdef or whatever you named it... Textures are great... they manage to look Vasudan, even though there's no canon Vasudan ships with quite that color scheme.

Just wondering... are there any new Vasudan fighters/bombers?
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on September 29, 2008, 11:51:18 am
I like the mefdef or whatever you named it... Textures are great... they manage to look Vasudan, even though there's no canon Vasudan ships with quite that color scheme.

Just wondering... are there any new Vasudan fighters/bombers?

That's because they are vasudan textures, only tindened to more greenish/orange hue. This isn't a strictly vasudan ship, but rather a HOL one. You know, you now got me wondering how it would look if I switched the textures to stock vasudan ones :P
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Droid803 on September 29, 2008, 12:21:34 pm
The Mefdef must stay Green! :P
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: wingzero1 on September 29, 2008, 03:52:07 pm
Hey trashman this mod looks amazing, its nice to see a more sleek look given to the ships, personally i though the capital ships from the original game looked a little too squarish or rectangular. anyways i just wanted to say i'd be willing to help with testing this thing, i did a little beta testing with the game "beyond protocol" by darksky entertainment for a while before my college decided to try to $#ck me over.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Mobius on September 29, 2008, 03:57:45 pm
:welcomesilver:

Welcome to the HLPBB!!! :D

It's rare to see someone volunteering to help a project in his first post! If you need help don't esitate and ask :)
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: wingzero1 on September 30, 2008, 09:36:46 pm
Haha i try to break the rules and standards at every turn possible :D. normally i'd just wait and see what happens with this mod but i just thought wth why not. truth be told the ship designs is what really blew me away, every one of them is amazing and actually looks functional (more so than the original designs imho). actually i do have a question, where would i go to learn about modeling/skinning/texturing and what programs would be the best to use cause i actually have a nice ship design in my head but i have no idea on how to make it a reality

btw i love this little thing -> :hopping:
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 01, 2008, 04:49:07 am
There are some usefullthreards in FS modding forum. B.t.w. - If you can make a sketch of that ship maybe someone will make it ;7
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: wingzero1 on October 01, 2008, 01:48:33 pm
ty on the forum info and maybe i'll put it on paper and let someone else make it just to see someone else's interpretation of it. its supposed to be (in terms of FS ship classes) a destroyer class ship but the way the design is you can use it as a large cruiser or fighter or even a juggernaut class (though idk about the juggernaut it just seems too big), i'll see what i can do about a paper version. trashman i'll put it on here and on sectorgames just in case you like it enough to put it into FOW
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 01, 2008, 03:55:07 pm
Given that both Terrans and Vasudans have their shares of destroyers in FOW that's not very likely.
But you never know, now do ya? ;7
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: wingzero1 on October 01, 2008, 11:31:18 pm
i figured as much but who knows, maybe in a future mod
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 02, 2008, 10:11:04 am
I've been adding insignia to every ship used in the COTS campaign. Dang, some were really whiny b**** to add too.

Perseues, Prseus Adv, Valkyrie Mk2, Falcon, Claymore - they all got working insignia now :)
(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8163/screen0066uc0.th.jpg) (http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0066uc0.jpg)


A look into my mission folder in the Tech Room:
(http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9413/screen0060hk7.th.jpg) (http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0060hk7.jpg)


and a little situation from in-mission to tie you peeps over:
(http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/1377/screen0053tb7.th.jpg) (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0053tb7.jpg)
(http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3939/screen0054vv8.th.jpg) (http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0054vv8.jpg)
(http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3394/screen0055cy8.th.jpg) (http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0055cy8.jpg)

Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Stormkeeper on October 02, 2008, 10:13:43 am
I spy a spelling error on the second screenshot.

--> "Give us som room"
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: wingzero1 on October 02, 2008, 10:50:21 am
on all the mission screens with the eternity in them is it supposed to say "destroy enlightement" or is it supposed to be "enlightenment"? dont know if thats on purpose or not
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 02, 2008, 12:12:26 pm
Actually it's "Enlightened".

I changed the name.

@Stormkeeper - yes, I noticed the typo too. I wouldn't be surprised if there's more where that came from. Damn typos....
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: ShadowGorrath on October 02, 2008, 12:20:43 pm
Copy-paste all the texts into Microsoft Word, wait till it does a grammar check, and then fix them. There- typos gone.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 04, 2008, 02:38:27 pm
Another mission done, another one half-complete.

Dudes. 4 more missions to go. Just 4.

Before a next batch of screenies, here's a little spoiler (or a big one - depends how you look at it). It's a easter egg, so if you look at it you won't be surprised to see it in the camapign. Ye be warned!

Spoiler:
$Name:                                  HMMOA-3
+Title:                                 XSTR("Holy Meson Missile of Antioch III", 3349)
+Description:
XSTR(
"Blessed Ordinance
Divine Intervention
Whoopass Payload", 3350)
$end_multi_text
+Tech Title:               XSTR("Holy Meson Missile of Antioch III", 3351)
+Tech Anim:                  Tech_GTM-55_Trebuchet
+Tech Description:
XSTR("From God with Love. Excerpt from the Book of Armaments: "...And Saint Attila raised the meson missile up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this, Thy meson missile, that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin! Then the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou remove the Holy Safety Locks, then shalt thou arm the missile. Keep thy foe in thy sight and wait for the holy beep of doom. Then launchest thou thy Holy Meson Missile of Antioch II towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it. Amen.." Thanks to advances in technology, no counting to three is required.", 3352)
$end_multi_text
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Snail on October 04, 2008, 05:08:17 pm
I'm sure the countermeasures of blasphemy could counter that. :P



The power of Gordon Brown compels you!
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 05, 2008, 03:13:47 pm
Blast ye! Careful with the replies or people will guess what it is without even looking at the spoiler'd part.

And now for something completely different:
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/4594/screen0079at3.th.jpg) (http://img412.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0079at3.jpg)
(http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8610/screen0059dh4.th.jpg) (http://img260.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0059dh4.jpg)
(http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4093/screen0099kz7.th.jpg) (http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0099kz7.jpg)
(http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/3711/screen0097ti6.th.jpg) (http://img110.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0097ti6.jpg)
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Droid803 on October 05, 2008, 03:27:33 pm
Subspace Nebula O_O
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Snail on October 05, 2008, 03:40:28 pm
That looks super cool. :nod:

Looks to be an A-1 Supar campaign.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on October 05, 2008, 07:21:36 pm
Subspace Nebula O_O

       They've got subspace nebula missons in ITDoH already.
       I just hope this one doesn't have infinitely respawning bad guys either.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Droid803 on October 05, 2008, 07:23:10 pm
How exactly does a subspace nebula work...universe wise? O_o
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Stormkeeper on October 05, 2008, 08:51:19 pm
It ****s with your mind
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 06, 2008, 03:58:37 am
 I just hope this one doesn't have infinitely respawning bad guys either.

Nope.


Quote
How exactly does a subspace nebula work...universe wise? O_o

It's a very rare subspace phenomena that appears in node with a stabilltiy factor of 4-6 (6 being unstable enough to be very dangerous, 4 being a one-way ticket to death) and only in a very specific condition...like there being two nodes leading from the same system into a same system....or some other specific situation.


Quote
It ****s with your mind

Nah. Altogh it does have one unusual effect...well, two.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 07, 2008, 02:53:43 pm
I got another mission finished and tested.
Looks OK, altough the damn asteroid glitch is making it REALLY hard to test. I also included the best easter egg EVAR in it. Every second mission has a unlockable easter egg. This is turning into another JAD ;7
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Snail on October 07, 2008, 03:19:25 pm
This is turning into another JAD ;7
Make sure people don't go triggering them by mistake... :P


(I actually came pretty close to doing so in PI... After reading the solutions, I actually noticed I was about 10 meters off from doing so)
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 07, 2008, 03:24:02 pm
Most easter egs have a very simple trigger.

A cargo container (that everyone will ignore) will warp in near you during a specific part of a mission (when there's not much action). You'll get a EGG ALERT hud message.
you have 30-40 seconds to destroy that container before it warps out. If you do you activate the easter egg.

F'course, not ALL are activated like that. A few are hidden  :drevil:
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Snail on October 07, 2008, 03:26:55 pm
Looks a bit too simple to me. Easter eggs are usually more well concealed... Like, a certain sequence of unusual events must be triggered by the player or something...
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 07, 2008, 03:40:55 pm
I said SOME. Depends on the easter egg.

The best ones are usually hidden in a different way.
Heck, I'm still not done adding most of the easter eggs. So far there are only 4 implemented.

and it can be a bit hard to come up with a creative way to trigger them in some mission..ya know..
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Snail on October 07, 2008, 03:51:37 pm
You could try:

and-in-sequence
key-pressed T
key-pressed R
key-pressed A
key-pressed S
key-pressed H
key-pressed M
key-pressed A
key-pressed N
key-pressed R
key-pressed U
key-pressed L
key-pressed E
key-pressed S

:P
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 07, 2008, 04:05:42 pm
I could...but who would get that?


Hmmm....hm....you're giving me ideas... Oh, good ideas... :D
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 15, 2008, 03:02:07 pm
Arr...Kings bounty: The Legend is sucking up my time. I'm trying to force myself to leave the game for a bit and finish the last 2 missions, but it's a loosing battle :p
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Mobius on October 16, 2008, 03:13:30 pm
You could try:

and-in-sequence
key-pressed T
key-pressed R
key-pressed A
key-pressed S
key-pressed H
key-pressed M
key-pressed A
key-pressed N
key-pressed R
key-pressed U
key-pressed L
key-pressed E
key-pressed S

:P

In order to do that you're going to target a ship, then target the closest enemy, then target its subsystems, then target a random hostile, then match its speed, then target the closest hostile again, then switch the HUD light on/off, then target a ship present in the escort list and finally target its subsystems...

It should work...not a single shot is fired... :nod:
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 16, 2008, 04:22:40 pm
That line will probably be a global on/off toggle (campaign variable) to trigger a few simple easter eggs (those that are hard for the player to trigger otherwise due to the time wheb they are supposed to appear)

All others will have to be found and triggered manually :P
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Mobius on October 17, 2008, 04:42:11 am
Shouldn't the "magic word" be a surprise and not "TRASHMANRULES"?
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 17, 2008, 05:24:46 am
I said probably. :D

Don't worry.. I'll think of something so contrieved no one will ever guess

Hmm..."Marry had a little lamb"  .. hehehe
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Stormkeeper on October 17, 2008, 05:31:39 am
Shouldn't the "magic word" be a surprise and not "TRASHMANRULES"?
No, it should be "DEREKSMARTISTEHWIN"!
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 18, 2008, 11:39:37 am
Alas, Real Life (TM) has taken my new FREDers away. They did manage to finish 3 missions and half-finish one, so it's not such a tragedy.


Two half-complete and 1 to finish missions to go.
Then more easter egg adding and testing.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on October 19, 2008, 01:58:10 pm
FYI - the campaign was supposed to have 2 short branches.. Due to the first staff disapereance I axed one.
Now I'm axing the other. No big loss, it was only 2 missions.

I also had to axe one very special easter egg - Fighting the bad boss - a 3D modeled floating head of Derek Smart (with floating hands holding a p.h.d.) with eye laz0rs.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 25, 2008, 07:33:25 am
Fallout 3, world of Good, AMOC and a few other things have been dragging me away from finishing COTS, but I'm very close to being down now.

I should have a test beta in a few days...assuming the campaign editor stops crashing like crazy! :mad:
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Mobius on November 25, 2008, 01:48:36 pm
Alas, Real Life (TM) has taken my new FREDers away. They did manage to finish 3 missions and half-finish one, so it's not such a tragedy.

Where do you get your volatile FREDders?
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 25, 2008, 02:58:57 pm
Honest Dave's Discount Store, where else?
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Molybdenum on November 25, 2008, 03:33:22 pm
Honest Dave's Discount Store


:(


Consider my mission(s) to be quality over quantity.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Snail on November 25, 2008, 03:40:31 pm
I like quantity. You think after 3 hours of work, eh, a 15 mission campaign in one day, that's pretty good.

Then you play it.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 25, 2008, 04:44:43 pm

Consider my mission(s) to be quality over quantity.


Did I say otherwise? F'course not. I'm very satisfied with your work :D
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 26, 2008, 09:23:52 am
(http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3655/cotscampaigntw6.th.jpg) (http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cotscampaigntw6.jpg) :D
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Titan on November 26, 2008, 12:22:34 pm
can't wait for this to be out!
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 28, 2008, 04:44:53 pm
Patience, patience.

The first version I'll release will be a Beta. It will probably be buggy and unpolished (lack of testers).
Download at your own risk :p
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 28, 2008, 04:58:28 pm
... I am going to kill myself.

I was just about to make the VP's, so I was copying the folder from my Freesapce2/COTS folder to another to arrange them.. I messed up.. I deleted EVERYTHING. (almost everything - the cb nims, hud, effects, interface and a few other folder were copied..but the ships, maps, tables and missions folders weren't..and they are the critical ones)

I need a good data recovery program
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 28, 2008, 05:01:45 pm
You did WHAT?!
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 28, 2008, 05:19:10 pm
I selected my FOW_COTS folder and wanted to copy/paste it .. and I begun copying it but aborted hte copy, since I recalled I wanted to organize it a bit differently. When I checked my FS2/COTS folder it was EMPTY.

I think I managed to get everything back tough.. It's a bit disorganized, but I think everything is there. Phew..I almost got a heart attack.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 28, 2008, 05:29:25 pm
And I was about to hang you...

Ok, forget what I just said.

Good thing all the files are safe now :)
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 28, 2008, 05:33:57 pm
Erm...can't find hte models....aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on November 28, 2008, 05:37:55 pm
Don't you have backups man? (I don't have backups either :)
All or most of the Fredders should ahve the models too I would assume as they'd need them to build the missions.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 28, 2008, 05:44:59 pm
Yeah, I do, but not of everything, and not the most recent ones.

I did some minor tweaks, like adding proper insignias to ALL fighters...

I can salvage this...I'll need time to track down all the models and tweak them again, and to re-make 2-3..fortunately I have the truespace scenes..

Of curses....it's never simple with me, is it?
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on November 28, 2008, 06:01:12 pm
       Don't worry, it's not just you. Murphy's Law shafts many a man on this world.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 28, 2008, 06:16:20 pm
Yeah, but stuff like this happens to me ALL THE TIME. No exceptions. Everything I do, there's always complications at the end.


Anyway, I've been looking around on a few sites, trying to find all the models I've been using. Seems I'm missing some.

EDIT: Found a few more after some intense digging...I think I got almost everything, but I'll have to tweak most of them again (mostly POF data changes)
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Titan on November 28, 2008, 06:46:46 pm
you think you have it tough?

try having half a dozen mental dissabilities sometime, then try to fit in with society without degrading yourself to wearing you pants at the knees, and wearing your hat backwards.  :doubt:

and i still have the original FOWCOTS shippack lying around if you need it.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 28, 2008, 07:16:41 pm
Don't think it will be necesarry (I have that same pack anyway, but it's a bit outdated). I tracked down everything I could (I think)

I already fixed and updated the fighters.

Still have to fix the Blade and Orion Mk2 (optimize texture usage..PCS work only), and re-convert 3 models I never uploaded or gave to anyone..apart from that, I think I'm in the clear. Further testing will be needed.

God willing, the Beta will be ready by Monday, maybe Sunday.
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: eliex on November 29, 2008, 01:55:49 am
Oh good. I feared that your mod pack was deleted . . . forever . . .  :cool:
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 29, 2008, 06:08:00 am
Hardly, given how I scatter things around everywhere.
My policy of putting up things for download immediately instead of keeping them exclusive has saved my ass. :D
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: TrashMan on November 29, 2008, 09:30:33 am
Ti's done. Complied and rared, ready to be uploaded for further testing.  :D
Title: Re: Flames of War - Coming of the Storm
Post by: Mobius on November 30, 2008, 06:23:18 am
So...this thread should be locked?