[karajorma]

"You don't want to mess with that starfury, boy. He's two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal. He'll kill your ass!"

[Dipper]

For some reason FRED doesn't work as of 3.3. Just give's some odd error about parsing and such. Anyway the filename in the techroom was so long it didn't show correctly, but I'd guess it's Babylon 5 HEU 10 T10.fs2.


Just my luck, when playing that some starfury pilot gets delusions of grandeur )

-Dip

[karajorma]

Hmmm. It appears I have an old copy of Heat Em Up. I'll take a look once I've finished downloading the new version.

[Trivial Psychic]

You can also open the mission in a text editor like Wordpad, scroll down to the Babylon 5 entry and change the ship class from "EA Babylon 5" to "Babylon 5 (S1)".  That way, it'll preserve all the settings properly.

[nilsnl]

I'm having the same problem here, a starfury with B5 attitude 

But what do I open with text editor? In the zip I d/l I have some vids, a laucher (Laucher5), Fs2_open_r, a vp file called b5heatemup.vp and flags.lch, no mission files to speak of. So what do i do?

[Dipper]

I'm having the same problem here, a starfury with B5 attitude 

But what do I open with text editor? In the zip I d/l I have some vids, a laucher (Laucher5), Fs2_open_r, a vp file called b5heatemup.vp and flags.lch, no mission files to speak of. So what do i do?

You can open the vp file with a text editor, but it won't let me change the class name to anything that has more letters than the old one.

I dont know how to get around that problem.

-Dip

[Trivial Psychic]

The mission files will be stored in the b5heatemup.vp file.  You'll need to open the vp file with VPview, or some other VP viewer program.  Then extract the offending mission to the "data/missions" directory (create the directory if it isn't already there), then open the mission in the text editor and proceed as I instructed.

[Dipper]

That worked, thanks. About the Shadows of the future (or something) mission, where you have to search for the unknown ship floating somewhere in the asteroid field .. is there another missnaming at work, since I'm not able to find it?


Quick review of the demo:

Every brief starts with "Good afternoon, pilot" ... does everything happen in the afternoon ? It really started to annoy me. Briefs could inform the pilot whether he's in command of the mission, or flying second and so on. I know, I know, you can easily check it when the missions starts, but still. The missions where you change ships or go to the jumpgate just to get on the otherside are in my opinion destroying the pace of the campaign. I know it's realistic, but still for an optimum game experience, I would go with a bit more compact set of missions.

 Finally, if you like to add to the atmosphere of the B5 and surroundings you should add some traffic there unless it's too much for computers to handle. ATM B5 seems a bit void and a quiet place which it isn't.


-Dip

[madaboutgames]

On the shadow of the future mission the shadow fighter is located 5000clicks directly in front of your omega when you start, when you get within 2000 clicks it would appear as an unknown ship on your scanners.  Since a few people are having probs finding it then I am going to place a target marker near the ship.  That should make it easier to find

On some briefings it says good morning instead of good afternoon.  I might even put in a few good evenings just for good measure The brefings have audio speech but these don`t seem to play in the demo, they will be sorted for the full release in summer.

I have already added more ships to create a busy station effect.  These will all be in the full release in summer

[Dipper]

Trust me, it won't show up. I looked at the mission in FRED and yes it seems to be there, but in-game it won't show. Are you sure everything should work with 3.3?


-Dip

[Slasher]

Did you check the ship's arrival cue?  A ship can easily be in the mission file/script and never actually show up in a mission for any number of intended or accidental reasons. 

[madaboutgames]

Trust me, it won't show up. I looked at the mission in FRED and yes it seems to be there, but in-game it won't show. Are you sure everything should work with 3.3?


-Dip

Like I pointed out in numerous posts, it was made for 3.2.  I am currently updating it to work with 3.3 which should be after weekend hopefully

[madaboutgames]

The B5 Heat em up website is almost finished.  By this weekend we should have the B5 Heat em up site finished and online.  Narn wars will also be available for download when the site goes online, Narn wars will be for tbp 3.3 release.  The prevoius demo release of B5 heat em up will no longer be available, as the first 28 missions will be changed slightly to shift over to a more action orientated campiagn.  We have dropped the realistic approach due to player feedback.  Watch this space for info on the site when it goes on line.

We also require 10 voice actors and 8 beta testers.
Just PM me with your details if you are interested. 

[madaboutgames]

The Heat Em Up web site is now online : www.heatemup.stargame.co.uk

The site features more info on heat em up, downloads - Survivor & Infestation for 3.3 and The Long Twilight struggle mission.  Narn wars will be added shortly along with another huge demo comprising of the entire season 2 from the full campaign.  This will be available at the end of March (You lucky, lucky people!)