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The Modding Workshop / Re: Ship Interiors Project
« Last post by KamiGaAtaeta on December 08, 2025, 10:09:59 am »
Version 0.0.21 is out now and adds the Loki, Hercules, and SF Mara (Terrans)! Happy Hunting Pilots!
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Nightly Builds / Nightly: 08 December 2025 - Revision 86ef459cf
« Last post by SirKnightly on December 08, 2025, 12:55:18 am »
Here is the nightly for 08 December 2025 - Revision 86ef459cf



Group: Linux-arm64
nightly_20251208_86ef459cf-builds-Linux-arm64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: Linux-x86_64
nightly_20251208_86ef459cf-builds-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: MacOSX-arm64
nightly_20251208_86ef459cf-builds-Mac-arm64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: MacOSX-x86_64
nightly_20251208_86ef459cf-builds-Mac-x86_64.tar.gz (Mirror)


Group: Win32-SSE2
nightly_20251208_86ef459cf-builds-Win32-SSE2.zip (Mirror)


Group: Win64-SSE2
nightly_20251208_86ef459cf-builds-x64-SSE2.zip (Mirror)

Code: [Select]
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commit 86ef459cf
Author: wookieejedi
Commit: GitHub

    Fix shadow shader for Mac (#7138)
 code/def_files/data/effects/shadows.sdr | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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Gaming Discussion / Re: Played Chorus. Would recommend playing.
« Last post by Mikes on December 07, 2025, 04:57:03 pm »
Finished it, really was fun. Wouldn't compare it to FS2, but compared to contemporary games i'd rate it "great for SciFi enthusiasts".
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Mission & Campaign Releases / Re: RELEASE: The Sixth Seal 2 - The Keys of Ruin
« Last post by Dan1 on December 07, 2025, 01:34:03 am »
This was really fun to play.  Loaded from Knossos and got an message about 12 warnings and errors but nothing in the gameplay that I saw was really affected.    Loved the nuggets in the manifest of other projects etc. 
Great job to all involved.
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FreeSpace Discussion / Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
« Last post by Mongoose on December 07, 2025, 12:59:40 am »
"Why does this thread seem familiar...oh sweet Jebus I posted in it 15 years ago."
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FreeSpace Discussion / Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
« Last post by ShivanSlayer on December 06, 2025, 09:25:19 pm »
I first started with a 10 mission demo CD of Freespace 2 that came with my Wingman force joystick I bought back in 2003.   That CD has not been usable in over a decade, but I bought the full game as well as FS1 on GOG back in 2015. I discovered Knossos in 2020 and it became a huge part of how I spent my time during the Covid 19 Pandemic.  I still have the joystick 22 years later and still use it, though its rumble feature has long since ceased to work.   
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FreeSpace Discussion / Re: How did you get [into] FreeSpace?
« Last post by deathspeed on December 06, 2025, 01:22:31 pm »
:necro:

I can't believe I did not post in here 15 years ago (or I am too old now to see it). 

This game is literally why I bought a PC.  I saw the FS2 box at Electronics Boutique, and thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.  I got my PC off a late-night infomercial (PII-350, 128 Mb RAM, 10 GB HDD, Intel i740 graphics card), my OG MS Sidewinder Force Feedback joystick at Walmart, then FS2 was the first game I bought.  I had many late nights playing, followed by miserable mornings at work. 

The force feedback would not work properly with the VIA chipset gameport on my motherboard, so my first PC upgrade was a Creative SoundBlaster so I could finally play the game the way God intended, feeling those missile impacts and afterburner thrust.  Eventually I also quadrupled the RAM and installed a GeForce2 MX GPU.

FS2 implied there was a FS1, so after completing the campaign I started looking for that (I'm not in a big metro area, and didn't use the internet for shopping then).  Eventually I found a jewelcase version with FS and ST.

I still have all the original discs and used them to re-install FS on a new SSD on Windows 10 a few years ago, but the retail FS2 box has been lost, like tears in rain.

I found HLP while looking for info about a possible FS3, and have been hanging out (mostly quietly) ever since.  I kinda took a break for a while, then re-discovered it when I read about Diaspora being released (maybe that's how I missed this thread).
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Gaming Discussion / Re: Played Chorus. Would recommend playing.
« Last post by Scourge of Ages on December 06, 2025, 10:23:19 am »
I also remember playing the demo and having fun! I just haven't gotten around to playing the game itself yet, I might have to bump it up the list.
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Gaming Discussion / Re: Played Chorus. Would recommend playing.
« Last post by deathspeed on December 06, 2025, 09:59:17 am »
There is a demo on Steam and EGS as well! 

I could have sworn i already owned this game but I'm not finding it on GOG Galaxy so maybe I just tried the demo once.  Or maybe I wishlisted it and removed it.

edit: typo
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FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) / Release: 25.0.0-RC6
« Last post by SirKnightly on December 06, 2025, 07:49:06 am »
Change log: (chronologically ordered)
PLACEHOLDER

Deprecations:
PLACEHOLDER

Deprecations are a mechanism in FSO where a certain feature or aspect of the engine has changed or is no longer supported. Since this would normally break existing mods, we have the mod table feature "$Target Version:" with which a mod can specify what version of FSO it was developed with. Any features listed under Deprecations will be removed or changed when the target version of a mod is at least the version released in this post.

Previous 23.2.1 Release Thread

Launchers, if you don't have one already:
All platforms: For every day use, we recommend Knossos.NET, an integrated solution for downloading and launching mods.

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Cross-platform: wxLauncher 0.12.x Test Build (legacy project for a unified launcher)
Important: For best compatibility with FSO 3.8 and later you should use at least wxLauncher 0.12.

Windows:  Launcher 5.5g (Mirror) (Mirror) Not compatible with Windows 8+, use wxLauncher above
OS X:  Soulstorm's OS X Launcher 3.0
Linux:  YAL or by hand or whatever you can figure out.

Windows (32/64-bit)
Compiled using GitHub Actions on Windows Server 2019 (10.0.17763), Visual Studio Enterprise 2019

64-bit: fs2_open_25_0_0-RC6-builds-x64-SSE2.zip

32-bit: fs2_open_25_0_0-RC6-builds-Win32-SSE2.zip
This one is based on the SSE2 Optimizations from the MSVC Compiler.

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64-bit AVX: fs2_open_25_0_0-RC6-builds-x64-AVX.zip
This one is based on the AVX Optimizations from the MSVC Compiler (fastest build if your CPU supports AVX instructions).


32-bit AVX: fs2_open_25_0_0-RC6-builds-Win32-AVX.zip
This one is based on the AVX Optimizations from the MSVC Compiler.

What are those SSE, SSE2 and AVX builds I keep seeing everywhere?
Your answer is in this topic.
Don't want to deal with that? Use Knossos.NET and it will download the best build specifically for your PC!

Linux
Compiled with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, GCC 9
x86_64: fs2_open_25_0_0-RC6-builds-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
arm64: fs2_open_25_0_0-RC6-builds-Linux-arm64.tar.gz

These builds use a mechanism called AppImage which should allow these builds to run on most Linux distributions. However, we recommend that you compile your own builds which will result in less issues.
Alternatively, if there is a package in your software repository then you should use that. If you are the maintainer of such a package for a distribution then let us know and we will include that here.


macOS
macOS 10.9+
Intel (64-bit): fs2_open_25_0_0-RC6-builds-Mac-x86_64.tar.gz
Apple Silicon: fs2_open_25_0_0-RC6-builds-Mac-arm64.tar.gz

These builds are not signed and so by default will fail to launch. To run them simply right-click on the app, click open, then click open again on the security confirmation dialog. You should only have to do this once for each app.
If running the game through Knossos or Knossos.NET this step should not be necessary.

NOTE: macOS builds currently have limited support and may exhibit issues not present on other platforms.


Hidden Text: TrackIR Users • Show
Important!!
An external DLL is required for FSO to use TrackIR functions.  The following DLL is simply unpacked in to your main FreeSpace2 root dir.
TrackIR is only supported on Windows.
TrackIR SCP DLL (Mirror) (Mirror)

Known issues:
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