[Virgil]

hey all,

i'm quite a noob to freespace and i was hoping to play through 1 before i began 2. i have a problem, however. using the 3.6.7 release upon a retail build, i cannot begin the first FS1 mission because my ship has no weapons and there are no weapons available to add.

thanks for your help in advance,
V

[Goober5000]

Okay, anyone who's having trouble with disappearing ships, weapons, etc.: read karajorma's FAQ first.  It usually has the solution to problems newbies run into.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/intro.html

[Backslash]

That fixed that, but now it always crashes whenever I highlight any of the moving parts of the mainhall on the left side of the screen in both the March 1 and 6 builds.

Confirmed here as well.  Digging through the mainhall.tbl, I notice that the two 'doors' that cause the issue are main1-d4 and main1-d5.  They both play sound index 25 (itemdraw.wav) on open, and -1 on close.  I assume -1 is supposed to mean no sound, but perhaps this is a problem, because it crashes only when attempting to play this file.  I don't see any other use of -1 for a sound in the entire mainhall table.  (And I haven't gotten there yet, but I bet the options door [main2-d5] of the Bastion crashes too.)  I tried changing the -1 entries to something else, and it no longer crashes.  Hope that helps.   

Different topic:  The changes to the Faustus you mention, are they used only in ST:R?  (If so I can use the HTL model for the main campaign, right?)  The Leviathan, can I just replace its model with the HTL cruiser01x.pof, renaming it to cruiser01b.pof?  Or are there additional changes to it, like with the Faustus?

Oh, and:  How do we get this wonderful 3.0 release hilighted?     

[RangerKarl]

Hey FSPort crew, nice job with the mod, brings back muchos memories. Now for a problem...

I've been having some strange problems with the escort Plato mission. Every time I jump out after completion, the game kicks me out to my Visual Studio debugger, and it dies. Can't fathom why it happens only on this mission.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Download http://galeon.com/shivansps/portmod.zip Contains mod.ini for use on SCP

Broken link. >_<
Can anyone attach?

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Would if I could bloody well figure out how. But my brain or possibly my eyes seem to be offline today I can probably manage to figure out how email works though if you're desperate for it.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

It's under the Additional Options thing below the reply box thing. Yer. 

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Hmm. All I have there are "Notify me of replies", "Return to this topic" and "Don't use smileys". Guess I'm not cool enough to attach stuff Actually, give me a minute and I'll upload it somewhere and bypass all this.

[Edit] Try This. Will leave it up for a short while.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Huzzah! Cheers me dears.

[Shade]

No problem. Figure the attachment problem is just a spam guard of some sort... being that I'm fairly new here still. I can probably attach all I want once I reach, oh, 2-3000 posts Reasonable enough really.

[Cobra]

especially if you like to post about 6.984 times a day.

[Shade]

Barely past 1.5 per day... guess it'll be a few years. I could play the noob card and spam all sorts of dodgy topics with even more dodgy questions, but somehow I get the feeling that'd just make things worse. And if possible, I prefer to answer questions rather than ask them, though sometimes it can't be helped (like when trying to get FS_open to compile for the first time when not too familiar with it... I need to try that again soon). Besides, attachments are what free hosting services are for anyway

[Goober5000]

Confirmed here as well.  Digging through the mainhall.tbl, I notice that the two 'doors' that cause the issue are main1-d4 and main1-d5.  They both play sound index 25 (itemdraw.wav) on open, and -1 on close.  I assume -1 is supposed to mean no sound, but perhaps this is a problem, because it crashes only when attempting to play this file.  I don't see any other use of -1 for a sound in the entire mainhall table.  (And I haven't gotten there yet, but I bet the options door [main2-d5] of the Bastion crashes too.)  I tried changing the -1 entries to something else, and it no longer crashes.  Hope that helps.   

Oh, interesting.  That may indeed be the problem.  I'll look into it.

Different topic:  The changes to the Faustus you mention, are they used only in ST:R?  (If so I can use the HTL model for the main campaign, right?)

Yes and yes.  Although we've had to make further changes to the Faustus since we released 3.0.1, so we may end up just dropping it and including  it separately in the STR download.

The Leviathan, can I just replace its model with the HTL cruiser01x.pof, renaming it to cruiser01b.pof?  Or are there additional changes to it, like with the Faustus?

Yeah.  I don't know whose idea it was to rename it cruiser01x, since none of the other mVP ships follow that convention.

Oh, and:  How do we get this wonderful 3.0 release hilighted?     

PM an admin. I'd do it but I'm not sure of the ethics of highlighting my own thread.

Hey FSPort crew, nice job with the mod, brings back muchos memories. Now for a problem...

I've been having some strange problems with the escort Plato mission. Every time I jump out after completion, the game kicks me out to my Visual Studio debugger, and it dies. Can't fathom why it happens only on this mission.

Try disabling the talking head ani in the options and see if that fixes it.

[RangerKarl]

Nope, still dies. It seems to happen when I finish my jump cycle. Ah, well, mebbe I'll just try and skip the mission or something

[Annorax]

Speaking of the Plato escort mission, did you guys FRED up a fix for the rare common situation where the player actually manages to get the Plato to the node, and the Plato just friggin' sits there? That's the one thing I found relatively annoying about 2.3, and was hoping I wouldn't run into it when spending days on end compiling a CVS build of FSO to play this thing....

[Goober5000]

Confirmed here as well.  Digging through the mainhall.tbl, I notice that the two 'doors' that cause the issue are main1-d4 and main1-d5.  They both play sound index 25 (itemdraw.wav) on open, and -1 on close.  I assume -1 is supposed to mean no sound, but perhaps this is a problem, because it crashes only when attempting to play this file.  I don't see any other use of -1 for a sound in the entire mainhall table.  (And I haven't gotten there yet, but I bet the options door [main2-d5] of the Bastion crashes too.)  I tried changing the -1 entries to something else, and it no longer crashes.  Hope that helps.   

Oh, interesting.  That may indeed be the problem.  I'll look into it.

Fixed.  I'll upload a new version tonight.

Nope, still dies. It seems to happen when I finish my jump cycle. Ah, well, mebbe I'll just try and skip the mission or something

Try it on retail and see if it still happens.

Speaking of the Plato escort mission, did you guys FRED up a fix for the rare common situation where the player actually manages to get the Plato to the node, and the Plato just friggin' sits there? That's the one thing I found relatively annoying about 2.3, and was hoping I wouldn't run into it when spending days on end compiling a CVS build of FSO to play this thing....

I'll see if I can do that tonight.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I had that. Ended up having to kill the bloody thing myself because the Shivans were being so lackadaisical about it. Damned Plato.

Just goes to show that the FREDing in the original game was actually rather poor.

[Cobra]

I had that. Ended up having to kill the bloody thing myself because the Shivans were being so lackadaisical about it. Damned Plato.

Just goes to show that the FREDing in the original game was actually rather poor.

Are you kidding? I never could save the Plato once. Well, not the first 3 times, anyway. Then I had to restart. But what I'm trying to say is, it's not the FREDing that's the problem, it's the skill of the player.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I could never save it in FS1, but I can in the Port, for whatever reason.

And it is the FREDing that's to blame. It ought to jump out when it gets there. It's not so great a plot matter if it survives.

[Cobra]

No, it's not. Story-wise, the Plato is supposed to be destroyed. If you save the Plato, too bad, cheat and destroy it, in FS2.