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Title: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: Micksanity on May 10, 2016, 06:58:17 am
Hi all!

For the last few days I've been searching for mods that change the way that ships behave in space, and have seen a bunch about -Joshua-'s mod Realflight. The features seem to be exactly what I'm after.

However, the last post in the thread was 2010, and the links to any files are long since dead :( ...

Does anyone know of any alternatives or other ways I can go about having similar features in my game?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: lostllama on May 10, 2016, 12:30:48 pm
Hello and welcome to HLP (I'd give you the proper customary "welcome beam" type welcome, if I knew how. Someone more able might be along later to do that).

Various versions of -Joshua-'s RealFlight mods can be found hosted at FS Mods: http://www.freespacemods.net/e107_plugins/download/download.php?action=list&id=46&from=10&view=10&order=datestamp&sort=desc (http://www.freespacemods.net/e107_plugins/download/download.php?action=list&id=46&from=10&view=10&order=datestamp&sort=desc)

It seems that website has had a significant makeover since I last visited.

EDIT: Correction - you're right, the files are nowhere on that site. I'll see if I can re-upload; failing that I might be able to attach them to a post. Will post back here ASAP.
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: lostllama on May 10, 2016, 12:47:55 pm
Mods should be attached. I'll try to upload to FS Mods if / when I find my login details.

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Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: niffiwan on May 10, 2016, 03:48:42 pm
I've uploaded the zip to FreespaceFiles

http://sectorgame.com/fsfiles/download/dXBsb2Fkcy9Nb2RpZmljYXRpb25zL01pc2NlbGxhbmVvdXMvUmVhbEZsaWdodF9tb2RzLnppcA==/h/c78580802bb4eb5ac9104771508cd0e8
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: Micksanity on May 10, 2016, 09:03:28 pm
Thanks to the both of you for your help! :D
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: deathspeed on May 10, 2016, 09:16:04 pm
:welcomeblue:
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: Micksanity on May 11, 2016, 01:08:55 am
Cheers for the welcome! :)

On the realflight files that lostllama sent ... I have opened the files up and the structure doesn't look similar to any of the other mods that my launcher (wxlauncher). If I were trying to load these files into a vanilla game (or into another mod) where do these files have to go?

Also, when trying to download the zip that niffiwan attached a link to, my browser says Failed - no file. Says the same when I go to fsfiles and find it manually too. In fact, all of the files on fsfiles do that.

Thanks for the help!
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: niffiwan on May 11, 2016, 02:27:34 am
Yeah; those files are not packaged as a mod :(

You need to do something like this:

create a new mod directory; e.g. c:\freespace2\realflight
create new data\tables directories inside that; e.g. c:\freespace2\realflight\data\tables
put the .tbm and .tbl files in that directory
copy the mediavps_2014 mod.ini file to c:\freespace2\realflight\mod.ini
edit the file and rename the "modname" section; the infotext; and probably the images

Having done all that it should work like a normal mod.  But; as a player you shouldn't have to mess with all that; maybe someone else with some experience can do all that for you.


Not sure what's going on with FreespaceFiles, could you try with a different browser?  Maybe your anti-virus program is intercepting the downloads?
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: jr2 on May 11, 2016, 08:50:04 am
Hello and welcome to HLP (I'd give you the proper customary "welcome beam" type welcome, if I knew how.

For the record:  :welcome:

Also for the record: if you wish to show someone BBCode without the BBCode triggering, do it like this: :we[i][/i]lcome:   Also, you can just hit quote on their post to see how they formatted things.


:warp:
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: lostllama on May 11, 2016, 11:28:26 am
Apologies for not providing the correct file structure. Back when I was using these files I simply extracted whichever one I wanted to use to Freespace2/data/tables (like the description on FS Mods says), as I was using them only for the FS2 campaign (with the SCP enhancements) - that seemed to work for me.

I've uploaded the zip to FreespaceFiles

Thanks.


Hello and welcome to HLP (I'd give you the proper customary "welcome beam" type welcome, if I knew how.

For the record:  :welcome:

Also for the record: if you wish to show someone BBCode without the BBCode triggering, do it like this: :we[i][/i]lcome:   Also, you can just hit quote on their post to see how they formatted things.


:warp:

OK, thanks for the info.
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on May 11, 2016, 11:36:05 am
Also for the record: if you wish to show someone BBCode without the BBCode triggering, do it like this: :we[i][/i]lcome:   Also, you can just hit quote on their post to see how they formatted things.


:warp:
Also also for the record: it's a lot easier to just use [nobbc]:welcome:[/nobbc].
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: jr2 on May 11, 2016, 04:05:43 pm
Also for the record: if you wish to show someone BBCode without the BBCode triggering, do it like this: :we[i][/i]lcome:   Also, you can just hit quote on their post to see how they formatted things.


:warp:
Also also for the record: it's a lot easier to just use [nobbc]:welcome:[/nobbc].


Oooh, didn't know about that one.  Was it added a while ago, or was it just not commonly used?
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on May 11, 2016, 07:09:23 pm
Oooh, didn't know about that one.  Was it added a while ago, or was it just not commonly used?
...Yes.

(It's been there for at least a couple years, but I don't know exactly how long; I only noticed it when Goober used it once.)
Title: Re: Searching for Realflight or similar
Post by: chief1983 on May 23, 2016, 07:09:02 pm
Fixed the Realflight on FSMods (http://www.freespacemods.net/e107_plugins/download/download.php?action=view&id=519).