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Shivan Campaign Demo
Hi evryone. Following up to what I said a week ago in a previous thread, I have started a Shivan campaign, and have released a demo of it. There are only 3 missions, as these are the only missions that have been completed so far. Heres the readme:

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Shivan Demo Campaign

Requirements:

--Freespace SCP capable of model view for ship selection

--"Use models for ship selection" enabled (absolutly vital for changing ships)


Installation:

Unzip in Freespace2\data\missions

Copy weapons.tbl and ships.tbl to Freespace2\data\tables

Create these directories if they do not exist


Author backround:

I've been playing freespace for many, many years now, with alot of off and on since 2003. I saw lots of campaign in the comunity, but none of the active or complete ones featured the shivans as a playable side. I decided that after years of fighting mostly shivans, that it was time to play as them. Being fresh form a rather long break from freespace, I had to brush up on my modding and FREDing skills and abilities, which were sadly, negleted before. Now I have relreased a demo campaign that has took me a wekk to build. FRED has fought me all the way, even destroying several complex and completed missions on me. At least now I have a demo out, and a willingness to continue it.

Enjoy.
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I hope you guys enjoy this. Bear in mind though, this is my first serious attempt at Freding in years, so it's not the best, but at least you can fly shivans. If you wish, the .tbl files will allow you to use shivan ships in your custom missions as well.

Have fun :)

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Offline Nuclear1

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Terrific. I'll give this a run tonight. :)
Spoon - I stand in awe by your flawless fredding. Truely, never before have I witnessed such magnificant display of beamz.
Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
Quanto - I for one would love to lend my beautiful singing voice into this wholesome project.
Nuclear1 - I want a duet.
AndrewofDoom - Make it a trio!

 

Offline Wedge

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Worked fine for me  :yes:

 

Offline Slime

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This was quite fun! You found an excellent way to make a Shivanish briefings. If those shivan lasers didn't suck so much... We need a whole campaign, it's lovely to finally attack the good guys.

 

Offline Dan1

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I did as stated and I kept getting this error:

Error: Required token = [$multi_text], found [$mirror: 0].

The error occured in several lines in each of the missions..same error for all 3 missions.

I am using the April 21st build.  Maybe that's the problem I don't know.  Gonna try it with an older build.
Cause what you got is what we need and all we do is dirty deeds!
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Offline Cobra

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Re: Shivan Campaign Demo
it's possible he was using an older version of FRED...
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta

 
Re: Shivan Campaign Demo
I used the retail FRED for the "framework" due to shivan-are-hsotile regardless of settings bug, then used the SCP 3.6.7 to do some "easier" editing and such. Everything got a run over with 3.6.8 (April 21st, I think) prior to release (before testing the campaign. Dan1, did you install the .tbl files? Could you also get a screenshot of the error, and be more specific on when it happens?

I've found that 2 shivan heavy lasers are pretty good. The mega laser is....... OK when it's linked with a heavy, and the light..... same thing. They don't do much damage. I've found that the Shivans tend to use far supurior numbers to win rather then the GTVA's supurior ships.Using missiles and supurior numbers/tactics I found are better then supurior "solo" tactics (common with me using GTVA fighters, don't know 'bout you guys).

Thanks for the reviews guys. I am going to continue my campaign.


Oh, almost forgot. If you see a Vasudan support ship, thats yours. The Shivans didn't have a support ship by defaut, so I copied he vasudan support ship, gave it a shivan tag, renamed it, and now the shivans have a support ship.
« Last Edit: April 26, 2006, 07:30:14 pm by Warnstaff »

 

Offline Dan1

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Re: Shivan Campaign Demo
Nevermind, I got it to work with a different build.  Playing through it now.

Mission 1: Intruders
-page 1 mission brief: "acient" = "ancient"
-end mission brief: "happen" = "happened."
-recommendations button : "recomendation" = "recommendation"

Mission 2: Sleeping Lion
-page 2 main brief: "thier" = "their"
-end mission brief: "avaiable" = "available"

Mission 3: Raiders and Bandits
-page 2 main brief: "recieved" = "received" & "revolations" = "revolutions"
-page 4 mission brief: "enem" = "enemy"
-end mission brief: "managaed" = "managed"

NOTE: The default bomber you're placed in is very interesting. 
No afterburner but how much energy you put towards engines
determines your max cruising speed...never seen anything like that
before. 

« Last Edit: April 27, 2006, 01:01:53 pm by Dan1 »
Cause what you got is what we need and all we do is dirty deeds!
-Best FS Campaign Theme Ever

 
Re: Shivan Campaign Demo
Glad you got it working :)

I'll correct the grammer errors today (I missed them in my "sweeps"). Thanks for the heads up :)

I edited the some shivan ships to allow for praticality weapons (like cyclops torps on the Tauriva), other then allowing for player usage. The Tauriva doesn't have afterburner by default. It's got a nice cruising speed and great sheilding and armour though :)


P.S. I can't remember if Tauriva is the correct spelling, LOL!

 

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Taurvi is what you're looking for, warnstaff. :)
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta

 
I'll tell you want, i just played the demo with one or two problems.  but anyways.  This campaign looks awesome, with recreating the main fs2 campaign but on the shivan side.  kick ass.

  

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SPOILERS!

ugh, now you just ruined it. :(
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta

 

Offline Slime

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NOTE: The default bomber you're placed in is very interesting. 
No afterburner but how much energy you put towards engines
determines your max cruising speed...never seen anything like that
before. 


In fact, engine power ALWAYS determines the speed too. Strange you haven't noticed, putting engines too low on power has put me in bad situations loads of times.

 

Offline Culando

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Ok...I downloaded the file twice just to be safe, but I still can't get the Shivan camp to work. Not FSO 3.6.5 or 3.6.7. The missions just refuse to load for some reason. Even in FRED. Anyone know why this is happening?
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Offline Cobra

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get the latest CVS.
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta

 

Offline karajorma

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I think we need more than "The missions just refuse to load" as that describes a whole bunch of locks, crashes and outright weirdness.
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Offline Culando

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There isn't much else to say. The most descriptive responce I get is "Unable to load mission". Quite annoying. But I'll try to find that CVS.
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Offline neoterran

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At least we can search the forums for files now. that alone is a huge improvement trying to track down all the files to run SCP optimally.
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Offline karajorma

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There isn't much else to say. The most descriptive responce I get is "Unable to load mission". Quite annoying. But I'll try to find that CVS.

I'd bet money that the full message is probably more descriptive to someone who can code than that. :)
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Offline Culando

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Then you'd lose money. I'd show a screenshot of it, but now it won't freaking run at ALL.

Tried the latest CVS build. Got this dumb error about missing flag files. Looked it up, apparently this OpenAl will fix it. It didn't do a damn thing. 3.6.5 is now not running at all for any reason, and neither is 3.6.7. Now I have to go uninstall and reinstall FS2 for the 3rd time in the past 2 days.

Edit: Just reinstalled everything. Here's your proof.

http://www.zingsdomain.com/culando/loadfailed.jpg
http://www.zingsdomain.com/culando/stillfails.jpg
« Last Edit: April 30, 2006, 04:02:16 pm by Culando »
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