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Title: Shivans!
Post by: Terminal_Decline on March 14, 2001, 01:04:00 pm
I stayed up until five in the morning last night trying to make sure everything works okay, but I think I'm done.  Needless to say, I am very proud to finally present my Shivan icons mod.

With this mod, every Shivan fighter and bomber can be flown, from the Aeshma to the Dragon to the Taurvi.  Even the Nephilim and Seraphim. Each fighter is complete with icons, tech-room pictures, and loadout screens.

The graphics of the select pilot menu have been changed, to let you know immediately if you are running the mod or not.

All data is enclosed in a single .VP file, which, combined with the included batch files, makes activation and deactivation quick and easy.

Be the first person on your block with a vintage SF Dragon! Get it now!

 (http://www.navgear.com/decline/shivan-loadout.gif)
 (http://www.navgear.com/decline/shivan-loadout2.gif)

I've already submitted it to HLP, but until they verify it, it can be downloaded at
 http://www.navgear.com/decline/Shivan_icons.zip (//"http://www.navgear.com/decline/Shivan_icons.zip") .
Title: Shivans!
Post by: Darkage on March 14, 2001, 01:15:00 pm
cool dude this what i have been waiting for (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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Title: Shivans!
Post by: Nico on March 14, 2001, 01:52:00 pm
that's just great  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Shivans!
Post by: Fineus on March 14, 2001, 02:56:00 pm
Oh god yes! YES!

 (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

This is great dude, your a master  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
I've posted news of this thing up on the main HLP site...

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Title: Shivans!
Post by: Terminal_Decline on March 14, 2001, 04:24:00 pm
I guess it's working on everyone's machines.

Thanks everyone  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Shivans!
Post by: Setekh on March 14, 2001, 04:29:00 pm
Fantastic! Oh, crap. I forgot that there were selection screens for the Shivans. I should do those. I'll do them when I get home!  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Shivans!
Post by: NeoHunter on March 15, 2001, 01:00:00 am
Cool!!! (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

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Title: Shivans!
Post by: Setekh on March 15, 2001, 04:35:00 pm
Yeh, yeh, the interface art is coming...  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Title: Shivans!
Post by: SFC_Chopp on March 15, 2001, 06:51:00 pm
Hey, great job with the Shivan ships! Flying the Dragon is a blast!!! I'm creating a campaign, and would like to be able to add some of your ships to it, but I'm also using some other mods. (UA, and some I've created) I've tried adding the ships from your ships.tbl and all the animations, etc., but I can't get them to work right. When I get into the weapon selection screen, the load screen won't load. Any ideas? I've decompiled the .vp file and loaded everything into their respective folders, but it won't work...

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Title: Shivans!
Post by: Setekh on March 15, 2001, 07:10:00 pm
Probably conflicts between old and new versions of the tbls. Try backing up your entier data directory (you can just rename it to something other than /data/) and make a new folder, /data/, and place the Shivans mod in there. Try that, see if it works, then add the rest to that if it does.
Title: Shivans!
Post by: SFC_Chopp on March 15, 2001, 07:25:00 pm
Ok, I'll try that. Did you edit anything for the weapons.tbl file? And what all did you have to edit for the ships.tbl file? Just the fighter entries themselves, or something else? Oh, I forgot to ask if it'd be ok with you if I use them in my campaign. You'd get credit, of course.
Title: Shivans!
Post by: Terminal_Decline on March 15, 2001, 10:43:00 pm
SFC_Chopp:
The only things I intended to edit (see my recent post about Mjolnir) were the fighters in ships.tbl and the Shivan lasers in weapons.tbl. You should be able to paste those entries into any table file you want.

1. Paste the Shivan fighter data from my ships.tbl, on top of the Shivan fighter data from the other mod's ships.tbl.
2. Paste the "Light Laser" through "Mega Laser" entries in my weapons.tbl over the "Shivan Light Laser" through "Shivan Mega Laser".

I shortened the "Shivan Light Laser" names to "Light Laser" so that they showed up properly on the player's display panel. Unfortunately, this means the mod won't work on standard missions. The good news is, you can easily fix this by running a search on ships.tbl and weapons.tbl, replacing "Light Laser" with "Shivan Light Laser" and so forth.

I hope I've helped you a little bit.

By the way, I made this mod so people could include it in campaigns.
Title: Shivans!
Post by: Shrike on March 15, 2001, 10:52:00 pm
Just have both in the weapons.tbl
Title: Shivans!
Post by: NeoHunter on March 16, 2001, 02:57:00 am
Fly for the Shivans...now that's an interesting thought provided you can make missions in Shivan langauage..hahaha (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/lol.gif)

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Title: Shivans!
Post by: Sushi on March 16, 2001, 02:17:00 pm
Somewhere in subspace...
Lucifer: Bzzzt! Bzzzt Bzzzt Bzzzt!
Rama 2: Bzzzzzzzzt Bzzt! Bzzzzt Bzzzt Bzz?
{Rama 2 explodes)
Lucifer: BZZZT! Bzzzt Bzzt Bzzzzzzzzzzt!?
(Rama 1 explodes)
Rama 3: BZT BZT BZT Bzzzzzzt! Bzzzt.
{short pause)
Rama 3: Bzt Bzzzzt bzzt?
(Rama 3 explodes)
Lucifer: Bzzzzzt Bzzzzzzt BZZT Bzt BZZT? Bzzzzzzzt!
(Rama 4 explodes)
Lucifer: BZZT BZZT BZZT BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!!!!
(Lucifer explodes)


OK, I'm officially done with talking in Shivan. I had to try it once...




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Title: Shivans!
Post by: Nico on March 16, 2001, 02:27:00 pm
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Title: Shivans!
Post by: SFC_Chopp on March 16, 2001, 04:49:00 pm
Do you mean that it won't work with the original campaign missions, or what?

 
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Originally posted by Terminal_Decline:
SFC_Chopp:

I shortened the "Shivan Light Laser" names to "Light Laser" so that they showed up properly on the player's display panel. Unfortunately, this means the mod won't work on standard missions. The good news is, you can easily fix this by running a search on ships.tbl and weapons.tbl, replacing "Light Laser" with "Shivan Light Laser" and so forth.
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Title: Shivans!
Post by: Terminal_Decline on March 16, 2001, 07:38:00 pm
Correct, it won't work with the standard campaign missions. I've fixed this problem, and will probably upload a new version in a few days. (I want to make a mission or two to include with the next release.)

If there was a program that would let someone quickly insert a single file into a VP, I'd zip a copy of it with the fixed TBL and upload that.
Title: Shivans!
Post by: Setekh on March 17, 2001, 04:01:00 am
Unfortunately, you'd have to recompile the entire root_fs2.vp.
Title: Shivans!
Post by: Guardian on March 25, 2001, 10:19:00 am
So is this complete?

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Title: Shivans!
Post by: Terminal_Decline on March 25, 2001, 01:36:00 pm
Yup, it's complete. It should even work with campaigns based on the original table files.