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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: the slammer on April 25, 2002, 10:22:21 pm

Title: Dear God
Post by: the slammer on April 25, 2002, 10:22:21 pm

Uhhhhh...so as not to make anyone angry, i've looked across the boards but I haven't seen a topic on this yet......

So let me be the first to say it.

Look at the first news item on Volitionwatch.
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/

I can't believe I'm the first guy to post this..

EDIT: OK, I realize this is yesterday's news, but for anyone who missed it....

Title: Dear God
Post by: neo_hermes on April 25, 2002, 10:37:00 pm

wow :D
now maybe kazan doesn't have to do all that work. he can just download that.

Title: Dear God
Post by: LtNarol on April 25, 2002, 11:13:36 pm

:D visit the VWatch forums, they've already started

Title: Dear God
Post by: Shrike on April 25, 2002, 11:23:10 pm

The forums have been shut down since before the code was released....

Title: Dear God
Post by: Fineus on April 26, 2002, 12:54:34 am

Slightly before infact - so don't think we're not interested in this event but with no forums to voice our joy over we've been kinda stuck in the mud. Things are different now though :)

Title: Dear God
Post by: CP5670 on April 26, 2002, 01:20:54 am

By now I'm sure we have all downloaded the source code and have spent some time looking at it to see how our favorite game was constructed. ;) The math, physics and ai files are of the most interest to me; I only understand some of the C++ commands, but some of the routines for calculating stuff are pretty neat. ;)

I must say that I was somewhat skeptical of this ever happening and was extremely surprised (and happy :D) to see it become a reality. ;) This will make the FSF project a lot easier, since we only need to add on to the existing code. ;)

Title: Dear God
Post by: Fineus on April 26, 2002, 01:34:11 am

Add on - maybe, but I fear theres a hell of a lot of work in making the engine good. When I say good I mean taking a 5 year old engine and giving it the spit and polish needed to make it stand against the engines of today in tech specs... Still at least we have a good base!

Title: Dear God
Post by: HotSnoJ on April 26, 2002, 02:37:15 am

I know this'll make me sound like a dumba** but what is this FSF?

Title: Dear God
Post by: EdrickV on April 26, 2002, 02:44:34 am

Originally a project of sorts to make a replacement and newer FS2 style game engine. Now it seems it'll be a project to upgrade the now released FS2 engine's source code. :nod:

Title: Dear God
Post by: Unknown Target on April 26, 2002, 06:36:50 am

Did they release FRED 2's code, also?
I would've really liked to get my hands on it :D

Title: Dear God
Post by: Skippy on April 26, 2002, 07:36:47 am

I think the first thing will be to increase the MAX_SHIPS value :D

Title: Dear God
Post by: CP5670 on April 26, 2002, 07:37:21 am

yup, it's all in there. :D

Title: Dear God
Post by: Silver_Scythe on April 26, 2002, 06:05:19 pm

Quote

Originally posted by hotsnoj
I know this'll make me sound like a dumba** but what is this FSF?

:rolleyes: Ya think?

Title: Dear God
Post by: the slammer on April 26, 2002, 07:19:53 pm

That reminds me, anyone know where I can get a decent free C++ compiler/editor?  I've been using Borland 5.5 but I've somehow misplaced my CD.  Thanks.

Title: Dear God
Post by: EdrickV on April 26, 2002, 08:13:40 pm

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Originally posted by the slammer
That reminds me, anyone know where I can get a decent free C++ compiler/editor?  I've been using Borland 5.5 but I've somehow misplaced my CD.  Thanks.

www.borland.com. :) The Borland C++ 5.02 (I think) compiler is free now. It doesn't come with the IDE though. And if you want a compiler to play with the FS2 source, you need something that can compile MFC 6 code, (until someone more knowledgable about it then me ports it to another compiler) and the only programs I know of that can do that are Visual C++ 6.0 and up.

Title: Dear God
Post by: the slammer on April 26, 2002, 10:17:27 pm

Thanks, thanks.

Title: Dear God
Post by: Corsair on April 26, 2002, 10:25:46 pm

(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/the158th/misc/Source-code.jpg)
:D

Title: Dear God
Post by: Fineus on April 27, 2002, 02:39:59 am

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Originally posted by hotsnoj
I know this'll make me sound like a dumba** but what is this FSF?

FreeSpace Forever, there's a hosted forum on it.