[karajorma]

Red would you mind updating the wiki when you update this thread?

If you do I'll do it but it seems inefficient to have two people doing basically the same thing.

Anyway I've already updated it for this set of changes.

[redmenace]

umm I might. it just means I have to actually learn how to use it. Umm I also am planning to talk to Goober about more regularly updating the website mainly for the purposes of appearence. I mean I don't want people to think it is dead. Karajorma, are you saying you have been updating the WIKI with the most recent changes? I will gladly take that up, however, I will update both locations and most likly all 3 if Goober thinks it a good idea to keep it updated.

[karajorma]

I'm assuming you know HTML. Although the language used by the Wiki is different the fundementals are the same. If you login as RedMenace (you have to use a login with 2 capital letters) and click on the edit button you'll see the source of the page the way I made it.

When you're updating an existing link (e.g most recent media.vp, FS2_open exe) all you'll have to do is look for the old URL and replace it with a new one. Shouldn't take you more than 5 seconds to figure out how to cut and paste a new one in there

If you're adding something new you shouldn't find it too hard either since again you can just cut and paste one of my lines and edit it until it says what you want.

If you're writing a wiki page from scratch you might have a problem as you have to learn all the new commands but editing an existing page is very simple

[redmenace]

well the way I learn is to look at the source and look at the finished page. But It doesn't seem that hard. besides I dan't want to take you from your own projects. But, I think I can figure it out over spring break. I have plans to get some work on the wiki done as well that I have not had time to do.

[horridfred]

Sorry i havent replied, been away over the weekend!

as for suggestions for this semi official listings, i think it may be a good idea to start a new 1 every now and then, after the first page updates seem to get spread out too much so it takes ages to find...

havin said that there hasnt been any real problems i dont think!:confused:

so if ya like my idea, use it, if ya dont ignore me and even laugh at me if it makes ya feel better!

[redmenace]

Originally posted by horridfred
Sorry i havent replied, been away over the weekend!

as for suggestions for this semi official listings, i think it may be a good idea to start a new 1 every now and then, after the first page updates seem to get spread out too much so it takes ages to find...

havin said that there hasnt been any real problems i dont think!:confused:

so if ya like my idea, use it, if ya dont ignore me and even laugh at me if it makes ya feel better!

What do you mean? maybe I should reorganize the links into categories that can be easily read and recognized. But most likely the best thing would be the HTML solution. I will most likley work something out over spring break in march. But I must be careful my list is growing and growing.

[horridfred]

sorry, wasnt making much sense!
what i meant was that every now and then people add new links rather than just update the old ones, so they get spread out and hard to find

anyways its not a big problem so dont worry

gtg, need food be back in a coupla days...:devil:

[redmenace]

I update the old ones also. the bulds you see there are experimental builds. What I will do is work on the arangement of it.

[Wes]

I think the download links should definitely be put into categories.

eg Game enhancements, development tools, test builds etc.

Also having the last date you updated in big bold red letters somewhere would be a good idea as well.

[karajorma]

That's a good idea. I'd already put in the catagories in the Wiki Version

http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/fsdoc/index.php/LatestVersions

but adding dates isn't a dreadful idea

[horridfred]

got a small prob with modview, it still cant open some of the new ships people are bringin out, either cause they have too many turrets (>64 i think) or it has 'too many bounding boxes'

is there another version that i still havent found or is there a way round this???

[redmenace]

probably there is but I wouldn't know where to get it. ask Kazan possibly.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Could someone just take all the latest builds, vps, launchers, etc and bung them all in one largish zip?

I've done a clean install, see, and downloading loads of individual files requires more effort than I can handle.

[kasperl]

you only need the media VP, 20_01_2004, and lightspeeds stuff.

03_05 is way to unstable, and all the other stuff is in there somewhere. and it changes about every other day, and i'm not going to be the one to keep up.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by kasperl
03_05 is way too unstable

It is?  How?

[kasperl]

read Mantis, mmkay?

[Goober5000]

I see.  These bugs were there before, though.

[kasperl]

the crash on loading of release wasn't, the crash on ship select in ANY mission wasn't, and i'm not so sure about the crash in Slaying Ravana either.

(note i might have misnamed some bugs, the one named for Ravana is generic, the one you closed seems mission specific.)

[Starfighter]

I need help with those cool looking Thruster effects I can't seem to get em to work with the 03_05_2004 verson of the FS2_Open help me! I instaled em right and everything they won't work.

[redmenace]

what command line args are you using?