[peterc10]

Hi there, ive played freespace all my life, from 6 can you believe! But i am now starting up a website for my campaign. Here it is: www.peterc10.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk or www.star-force.tk i would like to know what you think of it and would like to know a few things.

1. Is it possible to make a small freespace 2 squadron for multiplayer

2. How to retuxture, for example, how can i turn a ulysses fighter into shivan, the best i can do is renaming shivan textures to the ulysses fighter, but how can i change the actual ulysses skin in photoshop.

3. How many ships can you have in ships.tbl, i am using fs2_open v.3.6.9 rc5

4. Is there a list that i can put my site onto to get more visitors

5. Is there a program that makes making POF's easier, i find using treuspace hard.

Thanks for any help and remember www.peterc10.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Thanks 

[peterc10]

btw tell me if u would like me 2 add your site to my links page

[aldo_14]

1/ yes.  You just need people AFAIK.
2/extract the pcx image from the VPs, and edit it (see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/modding.html)
3/I believe the current limit is 120
4/There used to be a webring, but the link vanished when the boards were upgraded a wee while back.  It's usually a nice idea to put your link into your signature, though
5/Um, there are better (and pricy) modelling tools than truespace - i.e. max - but any way about it, it's still not easy.

[Herra Tohtori]

Welcome to HLP!

The exits are randomly located throughout the station, but they are so rarely used that I doubt you could use them even if you wanted. Once you get in, there's no easy way out. Air ducts are one remote possibility, but the problem is that our resident Shivan, Carl, lives there, which makes air duct expeditions extremely dangerous. Should you, however, encounter Carl, make sure you give him your lunch and he might let you live.

Plasma rifles would be extremely useful and we actually have plentiful of them, but they are in lockers here and there and they can only be opened by or a hyperintelligent shade of blue, both of which have not been seen in the Freespace universe in a while. Actually, the closest thing to a hyperintelligent shade of blue we have is a being known as Transcend, but It has been very difficult to communicate with him.

Enjoy your stay at HLP.

AS for the questions:

1. Of course it is. Go ahead.  The trouble is to find enough people who wish to play multiplayer. FS has always been very single-player-oriented game (in a good way).

2. You have to find the maps from the VP files using VPView (for example). Then you can edit the texture and place the edited texture in C:\Your\Freespace\Path\Shivan_Ulysses\data\maps\

Then you open the Launcher, choose your mod to be "Shivan_Ulysses", and it should show the edited map.

You can use at least *.dds, *.pcx and *.dds files as texture maps. Perhaps the game can use others too, but dds is the best and I suggest you use it in your modifications. You need, for example, GIMP and the DDS Plugin for that. I trust you can seek these tools for yourself...

3. I have no idea. 

4. I don't know of any. Though you will undoubtedly get tons of visits from Google, as people are looking information about the infamous StarForce(tm)... I would suggest changing the name of the page if it's in any way possible. StarForce brings so much *not nice* things onto mind...

5. I can't model, I wouldn't know.

And IMO, if your page is Freespace oriented (as it seems to be), of course you should have both HLP and SCP pages on link list.


PS. If you plan to have a multiplayer squadron, don't call it Star Force Squadron...

[peterc10]

thanks for the replies so far, but i know how to edit the textures, but i want ot know how ot get them 2 look like a shivan skin, and sorry about calling my page star force, i just saw it on a model

[peterc10]

does anyone know a good name for my space team in my campaign, the Star Force is like the GTA you see and i cant think of anything else. My campaign will be like the original freespace campaign only different

[Tyrian]

PS. If you plan to have a multiplayer squadron, don't call it Star Force Squadron...

Here's the link why:

www.glop.org/starforce/

@Herra -- Nice welcome speech.  Haven't seen one of those in a long while.

@pererc10 -- I could post the answers to those questions, but they've been answered already.  I can say though...I don't like TS either.  *Prepares to be flamed*

[Dark Hunter]

Just an addendum to Question #3: Inferno builds are able to support something like 300 ships. Unsure of specifics but for those who want a REALLY wide variety....

[peterc10]

Do you think Galactic Terran Star Force is ok, i hope so.

[Herra Tohtori]

@Herra -- Nice welcome speech.  Haven't seen one of those in a long while.

Thanks, it was my first one.  


Oh, and a side note to peterc10 - you might want to decrease the extensive use of capital case on your site. Proper use of punctuation wouldn't harm either.

Aside from the unintentionally hilarious name, the pages themselves are not bad, I've seen lot worse cases. The graphical appearance is not the smoothest and prettiest of pages there are, but on the other hand, neither is The Best Page in the Universe. The contents are what makes a page good or bad or in between. About that, it's difficult to say more yet as the pages are clearly going to have much more stuff onto them. The navigation seems to be working just fine, so if you fix the CAPS away, it'll be good IMO.

And about the name - if the campaign is placed in the Freespace universe, why don't you just use GTA or GTVA? To tell you the truth, Star Force sounds like a crossbreed of Delta Force and Star Fleet, both of which have nothing to do in FS universe IMO.

On the other hand, you could use the name "Star Force" as a squadron name in a campaign similar to, for example, Deus Ex Machina. But as a name of a bigger entity, I dunno... "force" sounds more like a shock troops or something like that, not a name of a big alliance of star system.

If you choose to use different name than GTA/PVN/GTVA, it would be good to tell why the name has changed - presuming that the tale happens in FS verse.


In the end it'll be up to you to decide names, and in my opinion you shouldn't be asking questions like "Is this good? I hope it's okay."

Just do it, as you like. You won't be getting any joy of making things that you don't like, and if we don't like them, too bad for us. Also it's good to remember that most likely, there will be people who disike your campaign no matter what you choose to name the factions. If someone doesn't like it, they don't need to play it. 

[peterc10]

Thanks for the advice!

[peterc10]

www.peterc10.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk click on projects to see my changes, more will come over the next few days.

[castor]

1. Is it possible to make a small freespace 2 squadron for multiplayer

I think it's been a while since that has been tried.. but certainly its not impossible
Check out the Game Warden forums, people with multi tendencies tend to stop by there
http://www.game-warden.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=42

[karajorma]

Just an addendum to Question #3: Inferno builds are able to support something like 300 ships. Unsure of specifics but for those who want a REALLY wide variety....

That distinction is likely to vanish somewhere around the time 3.7 is released. The main reason it appeared was if you had over 130 ships in your tables it broke multiplayer. Taylor has already sorted that error out and code is already in CVS that allows you to play multiplayer in Inferno builds so as soon as the pilot file changes are done it should spell the doom of the seperate Inferno build.

4. Is there a list that i can put my site onto to get more visitors

Head to the Campaigns and Missions forum and get your campaign listed on Skippy's Campaign list. Best place to find a list of campaigns available for FS2.

5. Is there a program that makes making POF's easier, i find using treuspace hard.

The tools section of my FAQ has a list of modeling programs you can try. I can't really recommend one since I've seen good models turned out with all of them. The limiting factor just seems to be the talent of the user