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Offline TrashMan

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Re: What do you hate about Freespace modding?
I discovered the "Joy of Pathing"* since then :p


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Offline Getter Robo G

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Re: What do you hate about Freespace modding?
Fine, but if I find "a happy little tree" in any of your mods I know who to blame...  ;)
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: What do you hate about Freespace modding?
Freespace modding is amazingly simple compared to other game engines, Coding and UV mapping are my weaknesses but they're not down to Freespace at all so i can't fault Fred or VP / TBL editing in any way.  :yes:
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline --Steve-O--

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Re: What do you hate about Freespace modding?
yeah...i have to go with setting paths...tedious busy work it is. and having to match turrets to turret arms in PCS...but thats not as bad as setting paths. lets what other things do i hate...reality T.V., Mr. Frodo, Tom Landry, Tom Cruise, Tom Arnold, Tom Brokaw but not Tom Hanks...(money pit is an awesome movie), scripting...it's like trying to read Russian to me, Pop Tarts without frosting, when the beer goes flat from neglect, working in retail, coffee without sugar and the wiggles...those dudes are going to be the death of any form of intelligence amongst the new genartion of kids. yup...all of these things have a negative impact on my FS modding enjoyment.




but thats okay! really.
 :lol:
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Offline Nuke

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Re: What do you hate about Freespace modding?
come on, lua is the easyest language ive ever used. you dont have to malloc anything, you dont have to **** around with pointers, you can have multiple function returns, and its bloody fast for being an interpreted language.
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Offline --Steve-O--

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Re: What do you hate about Freespace modding?
easy you say? is LUA anything like this?

-----------------------barrage script from Operation Flashpoint, cant remeber the original authors name-----------------
;BarrageArea.sqs - script to Barrage a Triggered area
;make a tigger
;call this script on activate or deactivate: 
;[ID,Type,#shells,Xrange,Yrange,starting height,minimum time, variable time] exec "tripobject.sqs"
_tag    = _this select 0
_objtype = _this select 1
_amount    = _this select 2
_randomX = _this select 3
_randomY = _this select 4
_height  = _this select 5
_timemin = _this select 6
_timev    = _this select 7
_offsetX  = _randomX / 2
_offsetY  = _randomY / 2
_height  = _this select 4
_tX   = getpos _tag select 0
_tY   = getpos _tag select 1
_tZ   = getpos _tag select 2
#Loop
? (_amount < 1 ) : exit
_obj = _objtype CamCreate[((_tX+Random _randomX)-_offsetX),((_tY+Random _randomY)-_offsetY),_tZ+_height]
_amount = _amount - 1
~(_timemin+(random _timev))
goto "Loop"

now that i look at it OFP scripts look alot like a table file.... but anyways, i can manipulate these scripts, i'm just horrible at actually writing them. where do you go to learn LUA around here? honestly, i actually do have some interest in getting frustrated learning to write script...despite the fact it looks like an encripted russian message.
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Offline Excalibur

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Re: What do you hate about Freespace modding?
A semi intelligent AI that doesn't crash into other ships just for fun.  How about a simple "When any object distance < 5 meters change direction away from said object."
:wtf:

You mean how they (fighters) expect you to move out of the way in a head to head battle?

Or the captial ship lock up when they have orders and they're close to each other?
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