[Ferret]

Oh well, at least I got a heads-up. Now we just need Random to fix it. 

[Goober5000]

[Fenrir]

The new ignore code does a much better job.  Just replace ai-chase-any-except with an ai-ignore-new followed by a conventional ai-chase-any, and you should be good to go.

It doesn't seem too hard a problem to fix, at least. For anyone who knows anything about FRED, that is.

[karajorma]

You'd need the right build of FRED (or notepad and a lot of patience) to fix this one. I could fix this one in about 3-4 minutes but I'd have the side effect of instantly bumping the build needed to run it to the latest CVS.

[Backslash]

(or notepad and a lot of patience)

  well not really notepad, but similar.  I was going through the missions again anyway, so why not.  So... here, try this:  http://www.qeyleb.net/files/TranscendPatch.rar

I also added a nameplate for the Generation.  I was going to do the other ships too, but I've been busy lately, plus my OS and image editor got screwed up.  I might do them later.  But the Generation is the favorite, so here you go 

[Fenrir]

Thanks lots for doing that! Now I can finally play the campaign with img2dds in working order (missions like Chaos Prayer drag my poor compy to a halt without it).

[EDIT] Whee, new error:

Error: Argument count is illegal.

In sexpression: ( when
   ( has-arrived-delay 0 "Capricorn" )
   ( send-message-list
      "Omicron 2"
      "High"
      "Omicron2_3"
      0
      "Omicron 1"
      "High"
      "Omicron_4"
      5000
      "Omicron 2"
      "High"
      "Omicron2_4"
      5000
      "Omicron 1"
      "High"
      "Omicron1_5"
      5000
      "Omicron 3"
      "High"
      "Omicron3_2"
      5000
   )
   ( clear-goals "Omicron 1" )
   ( add-goal
      "Omicron 1"
      ( ai-chase-any 89 )
   )
   ( add-goal
      "Omicron 1"
      ( ai-ignore 89 "Varcent" "Raven" )
   )
   ( add-goal
      "Omicron 2"
      ( ai-chase-any 89 )
   )
   ( add-goal
      "Omicron 2"
      ( ai-ignore 89 "Varcent" "Raven" )
   )
   ( add-goal
      "Omicron 3"
      ( ai-chase-any 89 )
   )
   ( add
      goal
      ( ai-ignore 89 "Varcent" "Raven" )
   )
)
(Error appears to be: ai-ignore)
File:C:\projects\fs2_open\code\Mission\MissionParse.cpp
Line: 5328
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
    20060412-fs2_open_r.exe 0041495c()
    20060412-fs2_open_r.exe 0041564e()
    20060412-fs2_open_r.exe 0051bf46()
    20060412-fs2_open_r.exe 0040227f()
    20060412-fs2_open_r.exe 00408c86()
    20060412-fs2_open_r.exe 0050110e()
    20060412-fs2_open_r.exe 00407c22()
    20060412-fs2_open_r.exe 00501401()
    20060412-fs2_open_r.exe 0040a3b1()
    20060412-fs2_open_r.exe 0040a4e6()
    20060412-fs2_open_r.exe 006a6872()
    kernel32.dll 7c816d4f()
------------------------------------------------------------------

[karajorma]

I think ai-ignore only accepts a single argument rather than a list. The priority also comes after the ship name too.

It's that sort of mistake that soured me on doing it in notepad in the first place.

[Backslash]

Heh, heh.  Yeah, serves me right.

Well it's fixed and actually tested on my HOME machine this time.  File has been updated.

[neoterran]

Thanks for fixing this backslash, you seem to be kicking ass lately...

[lil_bro]

Updated 7/2/2006

Well it's taken its time, but despite impressive efforts on behalf of bugs and disgruntled .pofs, Transcend is getting released.

Story:
Only a few short months after the end of the Second Shivan Incursion, amongst the chaos of Capellan refugees and ever-heightening levels of piracy, mysterious things have begun happening on the edge of GTVA space. Unexplained disappearances, strange rumours...

You are Lieutenant Sunder Marcel, recently transferred to the 103rd Shadow Guardians. Your squadron has been charged with uncovering the cause of these disturbances, to venture out into the unknown and return with an answer.

But something's strange about this case. The clues have no meaning, and reality is beginning to slip...

Everyone has a limit...


But for the love of God, run it in OpenGL. And read the installation instructions. Also Transcend requires a fairly recent build of FS Open - the 20050722 build works fine for me, but anything within last month or so should be okay. Uses Lightspeed's nebulae. And finally, it needs the XviD codec.

Transcend [44 MB]

Alternate Mirror (thanks Evophyrexy):
http://www.thewolfdog.com/Transcend.rar

I realise 44 MB is pretty hefty for a non-TC campaign. If it's wanted I'll upload a segmented download as well, but I'm afraid apart from that there's not much I can do to lower the file size.

For those of you who don't have the cruiser01x.pof (which is in the SCP's amv_models.vp): Replacement Ships Table

Finally, huge thanks to the SCP for their awesome work, and to phreak and taylor for their dedicated bugfixing - Transcend would have been impossible without it.

UPDATE: Backslash has put together an update to the campaign which adds the new starfield skybox to the missions and fixes a few minor bugs. The main link has been updated, but in case anyone who already has the campaign wants to get the update, there is a patch available here.

Hi I got a question.
Can this campaign be added to the retail version of freespace 2?if so how?
Also I tried the link above and it said that mirror is not there where else can I find this campaign?

Thank you for any info.
Michael.

[karajorma]

Nope. Transcend using a whole bunch of SCP features in order to tell the story. It simply wouldn't work on Retail.

[J.P.]

Hey, I just downloaded this campaign and got a few missions into it. The game crashed and got this error.

Error: Unrecognized operator.

In sexpression: ( when
   ( has-arrived-delay 0 "Capricorn" )
   ( send-message-list
      "Omicron 2"
      "High"
      "Omicron2_3"
      0
      "Omicron 1"
      "High"
      "Omicron_4"
      5000
      "Omicron 2"
      "High"
      "Omicron2_4"
      5000
      "Omicron 1"
      "High"
      "Omicron1_5"
      5000
      "Omicron 3"
      "High"
      "Omicron3_2"
      5000
   )
   ( clear-goals "Omicron 1" )
   ( add-goal
      "Omicron 1"
      ( ai-chase-any-except
         89
         "Varcent"
         "Raven"
      )
   )
   ( add-goal
      "Omicron 2"
      ( ai-chase-any-except
         89
         "Varcent"
         "Raven"
      )
   )
   ( add-goal
      "Omicron 3"
      ( ai-chase-any-except
         89
         "Varcent"
         "Raven"
      )
   )
)
(Error appears to be: ai-chase-any-except)
File:E:\Languages\Visual Studio Projects\Visual C++\fs2_open_3_6_9\code\Mission\MissionParse.cpp
Line: 5575
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------

What do I do?

-J.P.

[neoterran]

nothing you can do, the game is using a now removed SEXP, so it needs to be updated.

[Chris B. Yond]

Sadly, I have the very same problem

I am using the (great) Shivan Pack 1.8 with 3.6.9 RC3, but Shivan obviously didn't know about this problem either when he put it together.

So it isn't just a matter of the build anymore, is it? Can we expect an update any time soon, because I really enjoyed it so far.

@backslash: Can you put that latest update of yours up again? The link ( http://www.qeyleb.net/files/TranscendPatch.rar ) returns a 404. If it solves the problem, I could mirror it for you for the time being.

[karajorma]

The problem is fixed in CVS. If someone doesn't upload RC4 today or tomorrow I'll upload a build that will solve the problem.

[Chris B. Yond]

Thank you!

I'll be looking for it.

[Chris B. Yond]

Alright, the latest CVS 20060706 finally allows me to load and play the "Transcend" mission from Mantis bug 0000856, but it crashes constantly around the 3 minute mark even if I am way apart from the action. It's quite odd.

I've tried so far:
- D, R and Optimized Build
- Sound off
- mediavps off
- AGP mode 4x to 2x
- All sound modes
- safeload, noibx

This is the error:

Code: [Select]

fs2_open_r-P420060706 caused an Access Violation in module fs2_open_r-P420060706.exe at 001b:00595faa.
Exception handler called in FreeSpace 2 Main Thread.
Error occurred at 7/7/2006 15:50:32.
D:\Spiele\FreeSpace2\fs2_open_r-P420060706.exe, run by Chris B. Yond.
1 processor(s), type 586.
1024 MBytes physical memory.
Read from location 00000000 caused an access violation.

Registers:
EAX=010891f8 CS=001b EIP=00595faa EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00001000 SS=0023 ESP=0012f884 EBP=0012f92c
ECX=070f0ff0 DS=0023 ESI=01089414 FS=003b
EDX=00000000 ES=0023 EDI=0012f9a0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
83 3a 00 5e 0f 94 c0 c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc
Stack dump:
0012f884: 01089414 005965df 01089414 0012f9a0 01089414 00001000 01e1f92c 010b8958
0012f8a4: 00000000 437a0000 01e45130 01e45130 01e1f92c 409d98e0 418f8a80 0042662f
0012f8c4: 42112300 c18f8a80 c09d98e0 42112300 0049dd05 0012f904 01088de4 0012f904
0012f8e4: 010c4da8 010c4ddc 010c4d84 010c4e0c 010c4d84 c5afca3f 422fbe8d 00000039
0012f904: c4377aa2 c28b3c30 c5aff1d2 010c4bf0 010c4b8c 004250be 010c4b8c 41200000
0012f924: 173ae70d 3f800000 01088228 0059670c 01089414 0012f948 00596430 fffffeff
0012f944: 01089414 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0012f964: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0012f984: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00426016
0012f9a4: 01089414 00000000 00001000 00000000 00000001 00407994 3e550000 00000000
0012f9c4: 00407d40 00000002 00000000 00000001 7ffdf000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0012f9e4: 00000000 00000000 00457a9f 004167b6 0f670000 00000001 00404884 00000354
0012fa04: 00100000 00000002 00000000 7ffdf000 0040826d 0040953e 000000d0 00408228
0012fa24: 00000000 0042c697 00000002 ffffffff 00000000 0012fe98 00409bea 00000020
0012fa44: 0000001a 3ff7c000 2f20c000 99c41000 8f493000 7ffe0000 787f5000 00409d00
0012fa64: 001423a3 7c80b529 00000000 7ffdf000 00000014 ffffffff 535c3a44 6c656970
0012fa84: 72465c65 70536565 32656361 32736600 65706f5f 2d725f6e 30323450 37303630
0012faa4: 652e3630 06006578 0012fae0 0000027a 0012fad8 7c921bff 06d60000 06d65c30
0012fac4: 06d60000 06d65c30 06d60001 06d60640 0000007a 06d675e0 0012fb10 06d60000
0012fae4: 7c920732 00000040 06d603a0 00000002 06d64b28 00000008 7c920732 06d60178
0012fb04: 7c91ee18 7c920738 ffffffff 7c920732 7c9206ab 7c9206eb 00000000 000001f8
0012fb24: 06d60178 06d60640 06d675e8 7c9205c8 0012fb68 06d60000 06d60000 06d63b88
0012fb44: 00000001 0012fc1c 06d60178 0012fc1c 7c920e12 06d60000 7c92056d 06d671e0
0012fb64: 06d63f90 06d66de0 00000000 00000144 06d63b88 06d60178 7c920738 06d63b90
0012fb84: 7c920732 7c9206ab 06d60178 06d60178 00000078 06d675e0 06d60178 06d658f0
0012fba4: 06d66bb0 00000005 06d60210 06d60178 00000008 06d675e8 00000408 06d66bb0
0012fbc4: 00000000 06d60178 00000000 06d60178 06d66dd8 0000000a 00000000 00000000
0012fbe4: 06d60000 00000808 06d66de0 00000020 00000000 00000000 00010000 00000081
0012fc04: 0012fb60 06d603e8 0012fdf0 7c91ee18 7c920570 ffffffff 7c92056d 7c927cb7
0012fc24: 7c927bf5 06d60608 7c927bb0 06d63b90 00000800 00000000 00000060 00000040
0012fc44: 06d66bb0 06d65388 0000000e 7c920f46 06d66dd8 06d65388 06d66de0 0012fc70
0012fc64: 00000000 7c9205c8 06d658e8 0012fd3c 7c920551 06d60988 7c92056d 0012fc90
0012fc84: 00000000 7c9205c8 06d64768 0012fd5c 7c920551 06d60e98 7c92056d 00000007
0012fca4: 06d64770 000001f8 ffffffff 7c9206eb 00600a21 06d60000 00000000 00600a26
0012fcc4: 00000064 00000064 06d64898 06d60178 0012fcc4 00000040 00000080 005ffb60
0012fce4: 006c1be8 ffffffff 00000008 06d66dd4 0012fd04 00000000 7c9205c8 06d65b30
0012fd04: 06d63b88 7c920551 06d60898 7c92056d 00000005 06d65b38 00000078 00000010
0012fd24: 06d60000 06d64c98 0012fd68 7c91ee18 7c920570 ffffffff 0001056d 0000002b
0012fd44: 0012fca0 00000000 00000010 7c91ee18 7c920570 ffffffff 7c92056d 006009b2
0012fd64: 06d60000 00000000 006009b7 00000058 02349938 000001f8 00000000 06d658f0
0012fd84: 06d648c0 0012fdf0 06d63b90 00001bd8 00000081 06d60000 005345ea 0012fddc
0012fda4: 7c91ee18 7c9206f0 ffffffff 000106eb 0000000b 0012fd14 00000000 0012fdfc
0012fdc4: 7c91ee18 06d60000 ffffffff 00000400 00000101 01d60000 00000808 006009b7
0012fde4: 00000005 ffffffff 00673500 ffffffff 00673570 0012fe38 0060b6f2 06d60000
0012fe04: 006d5b50 0067361b 0012fe4c 0060b6f2 06d60000 00000000 0060b6fb 0067361b
0012fe24: 006d5b50 7ffdf000 7c920945 7c92094e 7c80b529 00020000 7ffdf000 005ffb60
0012fe44: 00606cdf 7ffdf000 7c911005 0012fe34 00000008 0012fe94 7c91ee18 7c920970
0012fe64: 7c98e4c0 7c8021b5 7c802011 7c80b529 00000000 7ffdf000 173ae70d 0012fa68
0012fe84: 0012f4a8 0012ffb0 005ffb60 00675a78 00000000 0012ffc0 005ffe2e 00400000
0012fea4: 00000000 001423a3 0000000a 00000094 00000005 00000001 00000a28 00000002
0012fec4: 76726553 20656369 6b636150 86003220 eecc6c14 00000000 57a10a6d a67bc160
0012fee4: 5fa6d8d2 00000000 804dbe67 ff676980 ffffffff 854ecea0 00000000 866b8c08
0012ff04: 866b8c38 ffffffff eecc6c08 804dbeff ff676980 ffffffff 854ecea0 00000000
0012ff24: 866b8c08 eecc6c28 804dc3cb 00080246 804dc3db 80556278 866b8b90 005ffcc2
0012ff44: 00000000 00ffffff 7ffdf000 00000044 001440f8 00143668 00144388 00000000
0012ff64: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0012ff84: 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 00000408 00000000 00000001 001423a3
0012ffa4: 00000000 0012feb0 867ee074 0012ffe0 005ffb60 006c1b68 00000000 0012fff0
0012ffc4: 7c816d4f 00000000 00ffffff 7ffdf000 8054a938 0012ffc8 85e72250 ffffffff
0012ffe4: 7c8399f3 7c816d58 00000000 00000000 00000000 005ffcaa 00000000.
Flags: fs2_open_r-P420060706.exe -mod Transcend,mediavps -spec -glow -env -jpgtga -mipmap -nomotiondebris -2d_poof -missile_lighting -img2dds -no_vsync -dualscanlines -targetinfo -rearm_timer -ballistic_gauge -3dwarp -warp_flash -snd_preload -noparseerrors -disable_fbo  -ambient_factor 65 -fov .589 -spec_point 0.6 -spec_static 0.8

System: AthlonXP 2100+ | 1024 MB RAM | Radeon 9000 Pro | Catalyst 4.4 | DirectX 9

Don't know whether it's caused by the build, something in the mission itself or my machine. I don't think it's the last-mentioned since the huge "Derelict SPC"-missions are working.

EDIT: Now that's interesting: I just managed to get killed shortly before the 3-minute-mark and the game still crashed during the "death animation". Time compression doesn't prevent it either

[karajorma]

Null pointer error.

Run the debug build until you get an eror you can't just click no to. Post that (and any ones preceeding it).

[Chris B. Yond]

At 1:00 a cruiser appears. This leads to three consecutive errors for Vertex 1, 2 and 3 which I can click away:

Code: [Select]

Warning: Couldn't fix up turret indices in spline path

Model: cruiser01.pof
Path: $path02
Vertex: 1
Turret model id:13

This probably means that the turret was not specified in the ship table(s).
File:c:\fs2_open\code\ship\ship.cpp
Line: 8530
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 006fcba5()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 006fc9e5()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 0070a29f()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 0070a487()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 0070aa7c()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 0070b7b3()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 006edbe2()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 006eea78()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 006efbd1()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 006f2f15()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 0089ee71()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 006f4455()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 006f46d9()
    fs2_open_d-P420060706.exe 00b8c7d7()
    kernel32.dll 7c816d4f()
------------------------------------------------------------------
Same for Vertex 2 and 3 (still in line 8530). Later at around 3:00 it simply crashes silently to desktop, writing the afore quoted error into the log.

If it's just a simple table error (how to fix that anyway?), why does it crash exactly 2 minutes later?  I doubt it's a problem with the actual model since I have seen (and destroyed ) it in several other missions before.

[karajorma]

The spline paths error is caused by the current fenris/leviathan model (amongst others). It's probably not the cause of this crash or we'd see it much more often.

Hmmm. I guess this will need looking at.