[WMCoolmon]

RELEASE

• AB Trails (DaBrain)
• New capgun effects (Pnakotus/Lightspeed/???)
• More descriptive weapons text (Pnakotus)
• Fixed Deimos model (StratComm)
• Fixed Aten and Satis models (StratComm)
• Hercules 2(Devils_hitman/Stratcomm)
• Turret alignment fix (Admiral Nelson)

IMPORTANT: This release requires a CVS build to work since it includes XMT files. If you use it with the 3.6.7 release, it will not work properly.

Readme
Patch 3 Release
Beam patch (Disables animated beamglows, for great performance increase when beams are fired)

Note that patch names follow a simple formula. Weekend one: "1000", two: "0100", three: "0010", four: "0001". If a particularly bad bug crops up, it will be added as "0090" or whatever. This weekend is 100, just because. :p

I will wait a couple hours and then check back to make sure there are no severe bugs before posting this in the news.

[StratComm]

This does include the Herc 2, right?

EDIT: short check; it does.  Cool.

[WMCoolmon]

Oops. I updated the main readme, but not the patch readme.

Fixed all the instances online except in the ZIP, I don't want to corrupt the file.

[Pnakotus]

Every time one of WMCs patches comes out, I realise I manage to miss excellent features (like DaBrains AB trails!) regardless of how much I check the forum.  Great stuff.

[CaptJosh]

Ok, just one question. If I go and redownload the 3.6.7 VPs, seeing as I can't remember when I originally downloaded them, which patch(es) do I need?

[StratComm]

2 and 3.  The first patch was a legit bugfix and so the original was updated.  That said, the difference between downloading patch 1 and a full set of 3.6.7's is huge, so I'd go with the first patch.

[m2258734a]

I believe that I am having problems with the new patch. I saved it and placed it in the same folder as my other media vps, however, I am not seeing a difference in the game itself: the Herc II looks the same, the turret angles are still at 90 degrees, no AB trails, and so on. I am currently using build 11/22 as I am to test a bug for Taylor, and my command line is D:\My Games\Freespace 2\Freespace 2\FreeSpace2\fs2_open_r-P420051121.exe -spec -glow -jpgtga -mipmap -2d_poof. 

[CaptJosh]

2 and 3.  The first patch was a legit bugfix and so the original was updated.  That said, the difference between downloading patch 1 and a full set of 3.6.7's is huge, so I'd go with the first patch.

Ah, but I have broadband, so redownloading a full set of VPs really doesn't matter that much to me. Thanks for the info.

[starfox]

Turret angle fix works for me, but I'm still not getting Afterburner trails to show up...

[StratComm]

WMCoolmon, has this been fixed yet?

The original release of the patch had a fairly fatal flaw that prevented anything from showing up.  Open it with VPView and see if it has Data/data/... in the location for some of the files; that will cause it to do nothing and you'll need to re-download it (assuming it's been fixed)

[WMCoolmon]

Yeah, it wasn't up for very long, but if you downloaded in the first 30 minutes or so you may be at risk.

Patch 1 only changed mv_models, so it's not necessary to download everything.

[TigrisJK]

I believe that I am having problems with the new patch. I saved it and placed it in the same folder as my other media vps, however, I am not seeing a difference in the game itself: the Herc II looks the same, the turret angles are still at 90 degrees, no AB trails, and so on. I am currently using build 11/22 as I am to test a bug for Taylor, and my command line is D:\My Games\Freespace 2\Freespace 2\FreeSpace2\fs2_open_r-P420051121.exe -spec -glow -jpgtga -mipmap -2d_poof. 

Yeah, I will have to concur with that, I don't see any AB Trails either. I'm running the latest CVS (11/24).

My command line is:
C:\Program Files\FreeSpace2\fs2_open_r-20051124.exe -spec -glow -jpgtga -mipmap -nomotiondebris -2d_poof -missile_lighting -3dwarp -snd_preload

[Pnakotus]

Wierd.  I had the AB trails after installing the 11/20 patch, but they've gone now.

[Krackers87]

Note that patch names follow a simple formula. Weekend one: "1000", two: "0100", three: "0010", four: "0001". If a particularly bad bug crops up, it will be added as "0090" or whatever. This weekend is 100, just because.

I will wait a couple hours and then check back to make sure there are no severe bugs before posting this in the news.

how bout just putting a freaking number and a date.

[WMCoolmon]

Doesn't work well with precedence.