[Lightspeed]

Okay, i've been busy lately so I haven't had too much time, and the release will still take some time (you'll notice the effects on the new weapons are partially not quite ready yet). I decided to upload it though, since the last one was so buggy that it made some parts of the game almost unplayable (sorry for that).

The main aspect of this beta release is the bug-fixes. If you still encounter any bugs, i'll fix & update it.

Anyway, some previews:



FS2_new_weapon_FX_v0.2d -- beta

It contains three shivan weapons; one swarm missile, one torpedo and a 'special' missile. They're pretty much WIP, so i'm still open for suggestions and changes.

-edit: sorry for the terran odd-looking thruster glows on the missiles. In-game they will have the proper shivan trails, as every missile automatically gets the trail of the ship's species it's fired from.

[Liberator]

Nifty, one question though, is this going to break campaigns?

[karajorma]

Considering it has new tables it won't work with anything which has edited the tables too.

[Lightspeed]

I need edited tables anyway, so I cant keep it 100% compatible. Any table check will b*tch about the effects

However, missions that work with the standard tables will automatically also work with the effects installed.

The Shivan Weapons are additional stuff, which will not break anything (hopefully) - you'll be able to play campaigns and the like without a problem. However, you could experience some problems with MODs so the safest thing is to keep the stuff in a seperate MOD directory (which you can enable for the standard campaign). That's the way I handle it, and it hasn't caused any problems yet.

[Bobboau]

you know if you change the defalt weapons on some of the shivan fightters they'll probly show up in game more oftine than not

[Setekh]

Yeah, agreed. They shouldn't be using hornets and harpoons, give them these shiny new weaps.

[Lightspeed]

Gonna update that once i've finished some lasers to go with.

[Grug]

nice work *AGAIN*, u truely are a photoshop king.

hope i can live upto this quality of work, for mods im workin on.

cant wait to see them finished

btw, are you going to change any of the beam effects? like wasnt there some extra features u can use with that or something? or am i beatin the bush?

keep up great work.

-Grug aka GoDoFeViL (previously)

[GT-Keravnos]

They are mighty pretty. Yes they are!

[Lightspeed]

Support your local freeware favorite space flying sim. Where YOU can make a difference. (At least FRED-wise). Freespace 2 all the way.

Lightspeed 2004 !!!

 

[GT-Keravnos]

What... Don't you want to be a president?

(It was meant as a sign of respect. A sign of appreciation for what you have done for us all. If you want I will take it out of my sig. Just you say so)

[Lightspeed]

President of which country?

And no, you can leave it in your sig, I don't have a problem with it. -- I just think it sounded funny  

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
President of which country?

Sol, duh!

[Lightspeed]

I don't want Sol. I have made an arrangement with Bosch on this one.

[Stealth[cro]]

VERY nice... Very nice indeed!
Aaaaand off this goes into my Freespace folder.

[GeistKrieger]

Ok i love every bit of the weapon fx. Just 1 thing  when i fire my weapon i dont c no laserz. i c rocket stuff and all the new sheild stuff...
Plz help the n00b.

[Carl]

first off:


second, please use real english. aolspeak is hard to read.

[StratComm]

Originally posted by GeistKrieger
Ok i love every bit of the weapon fx. Just 1 thing  when i fire my weapon i dont c no laserz. i c rocket stuff and all the new sheild stuff...
Plz help the n00b.

Carl's right, please use more complete language in the future.

Anyway, we'd need a lot more information before we can say anything about the cause of your problem.  What build are you running?  What command line options?  Are you using a SCP build at all?  What type of graphics processor do you have?  These are all things that we need to know before we can get anywhere.

For the record, you need a recent scp build with (I think) -jpgtga -pcx32 and (recommended) -htl, plus any other options that Lightspeed might be requiring.

[Lightspeed]

100 pts to stratcomm.

you need -jpgtga for them to work properly, as well as an up-to-date 32-bit compatible SCP build.

[Jonathan_S47]

I have noticed a couple of problems with the new missiles. 1. I cannot equip them on any shiven fighter or bomber in Fred but I can equip them on capital ships. 2. The Iblis has a spot in the back that is untextured.