[Blink41990]

Hi, I just installed freespace open, and its excellent. I can't believe what you guys have done with this game.

First question is. Everytime I lauch the FSO launcher it gives me a couple of error messages and then launches fine. Is this bad. Did I install it wrong. Can Someone tell me the correct way to install FSopen?

Second is... Why dont my weapons show up when I fire them. I hear the sound of them firing but the projectiles are invisible. This is only for some weapons though. The prometeus is one I can name  off the top of my head that doesnt work. Missles seem to be fine though.  Anyone no how to fix this?

Thanks in advance...

and congratulations on what you guys have done with freespace 2...truely amazing.

[WMCoolmon]

1) What are the errors?
2) What command line parameters are you using? (It sounds like you're using Lightspeed's new weapon effects but don't have -jpgtga enabled)

Oh yeah,

[Blink41990]

The error is something about a flag file...

Not sure about command line paramaters. Im a total noob.

How would I enable  -jpgtga

[WMCoolmon]

Ahh...

Make sure you're using Launcher 5 with a 3.6 build, or one of the newer ones in the "Recent SCP builds" forum.

Oh, and make sure the Launcher has been set to the location of your 3.6 exe. (Click the browse button at the top of the launcher to select it)

Once that's all done, check out the 'flags' tab.

A more complete guide

[Bobboau]

actualy things have changed a bit in version 5.2 of the launcher, so a little better way of phraseing what you have to do to fix the likely cause of your problem is (assumeing you're useing version 5.2 of the launcher)
open the launcher,
go to the "features" tab,
select 'Graphics' type (it'll probly already be there),
look for "Enable jpg,tga textures",
make sure you have a check in it's box,
hit the apply button, just to be safe,
hit the run button, and come back here if you still have problems.

note to fellow developers: we realy should probly just turn that on now, I've never heard any problem comeing from it.

[Blink41990]

To install all I did was run FS2Open_3_6-Installer.exe. Is there anything else I should do. Also... I dont see an option for jpg,tga textures under the video tab. I'm so confused. I'm sorry, I must sound like such a noob.

[Bobboau]

not the video tab, the features (comand line, options, flags) tab.

[Bobboau]

I guess you got it working

[WMCoolmon]

note to fellow developers: we realy should probly just turn that on now, I've never heard any problem comeing from it.

*Drily* I think that 70 MB of planets images might not be too helpful for some people's systems, especially considering the memory leak. I find it a nice way to make Freespace 2 run faster, without having to hassle with moving VPs.

[Bobboau]

yeah, but on the other hand 99.9% of the new people are going to come in here and go "hey I don't have any weapons or backgrounds" that is of the people who don't go "this sucks. DELETED!". and then when they do come here were going to have to tell them to turn it on, wich will have the effect you describe.

[kasperl]

Just make the launcher turn it on by default.

Another launcher idea: make an "all category's" tab for those that are used and like scrolling down the entire list to seee if something has been forgotten.

[Blink41990]

Fixed it. Apparently when I had installed previously something went wrong and nothing appeared in the boxes under the flag tab. I reinstalled, enabled jpgtga textures... problem fixed.

Anyways thanks guys.

[Flipside]

Glad to hear it!

If you have problems, don't be shy to report them in here, and we'll do what we can to help

[Blink41990]

I just have one quick question. After running the 3.6 Installer. Do I need to install anything else. Like mediaVPs??

[Flipside]

The media VP's are optional, you don't have to install them, they can make the game look a lot better, but you pay the price in CPU usage.

There is a VP installer on the site which allows you to select which parts of the enhanced graphics you install. Personally, unless you have a high-spec system, I'd recommend just the shine and glowmaps

You can download recent graphical updates in this thread :-

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,25074.0.html

Hope that helps

[Blink41990]

To install what do I do? Just run the EXEs?

Also doesnt the 3.6 installer install its own VPs. Cuz the graphics look better after installing it.

[Flipside]

Yes, just run them, it should provide instructions from there if I remember correctly. If not, let me know and I'll re-install one of mine and see how it works

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Blink41990
To install what do I do? Just run the EXEs?

Also doesnt the 3.6 installer install its own VPs. Cuz the graphics look better after installing it.

All you need to do to make ANY .VP file work is to install it to the same directory as Freespace 2, or a mod directory. So if you grab the updated VP files or the ones from the wiki, all you need to do is extract them to your Freespace 2 directory to make them work.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Blink41990
Also doesnt the 3.6 installer install its own VPs. Cuz the graphics look better after installing it.

IIRC the installer does install VP's but some of them are already old and need replacing.

Get used to this. The SCP is amazing but it changes at a very high speed. Go away for 3 weeks and you'll come back to find new features have been implemented that everyone is using

Personally I reckon that the SCP do this deliberately so that once you've come to their forums you can't leave