[Bob-san]

Ok then it'll be like...

Destwoy da cawassus owr uu die 1337!

Instead of promotoing ya, I will take all the points from you playing, giving you negative points for rank! (make it liek -100545468451624654321368436889 penalty for destroyin colossus)

[Bob-san]

Sorry for double posting but I gotta update...

Yesterday I received a DVD with the ISO's for Freespace and Freespace 2. However, the USPS didn't know it was sensitive to some scanning types (as it wasn't marked CD or sent MediaMail). I received the DVD and popped it into my DVD-RAM drive (yes, RAM as in a burner of DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, DVD+/-R DL, and DVD-RAM as well as CD-R/RW) and went to Daemon to mount the images directly off of the CD. So, I already had the silent threat ISO on my hard drive. Virtual Drive 1 was Silent Threat (on the HD), Virtual Drive 2 was Freespace Disc 1 (on the DVD), and Virtual Drive 3 was Freespace Disc 2 (on the DVD). So, they all mounted successfully. I opened up My Computer to begin the installation of Descent: Freespace and Silent Threat, when I was kept at a frozen animation of searching/updating drive table. I reboot the computer, and go back into My Computer. Still, there was a bad problem with using the ISO's off of the DVD. So, I thought the problem was that Daemon didn't know how to mount two images off of DVD. So, I remove the DVD and reboot. I then put the number of Emulated drives down to 1, and replaced the Silent Threat ISO with the Freespace Disc 1 ISO. Still, it crashes my computer! Now, I'm like... wtf?? So, I start to copy the entire DVD to my hard drive. It makes the DVD directory as a folder in my C drive, and copies about three files in the root of the DVD. It then starts to copy Freespace 1 Discs folder into the new copy of the DVD on my hard drive. I get about a third of the way through the image copy, when the time started to increase wildy. From 60 min remaining to over 200 minutes remaing to a blank estimate. It kept the estimate blank for about a minute, before giving me a read error on the ISO. An error of some sort or another saying the file on the DVD is corrupt. I try and fail the copying of Freespace CD 2, Freespace CD 1-3,  SCP 3.6.8 (newer) Zeta VPs, Derelict Mod/Campaign, AND Inferno mod/campaign. All the files above a certain size (and were required or very useful) were corrupted!

So, my minicampaign is on hold. I sent back the DVD to ZmaN yesterday, as well as a new DVD and 5 CD-R's. I sent the discs in a box in MediaMail, taking approximately 2-4 days to arrive. When ZmaN burns a new DVD and CD-R's he will send it back to me. In 4-8 days I should be able to install and play Freespace, Silent Threat, and the entire Freespace 2 campaigns.

In other news, I am brainstorming on pen-and-paper for my Frigate or Monitor. I have a list of names of stars in constellations that I might use for the name of the Juggernaught destroyer.

[Mobius]

Why FS1?There's the FS Port....
If you want the cutscenes,there was someone her who has converted them to AVI format...

[Bob-san]

I asked for FS and FS2 because I wanted to get the "full experience" of the entire universe. The FS Port changed parts of the original game. I want to be able to play both versions before I use the FS Port (which I already DL-ed).


I will edit my first post to be the campaign details.

Here they are for everyone up to this point...

- Name of the campaign (and website, if any) - The Sagitta Project, no website (see "Mini-campaign Proposal" thread for details)
- Logo (if any) - TBA
- Author(s) - Bob-san, LieutenantGeneralM
- Number of missions - 7+
- Mods included (if any) - Using FS2 retail and maybe 1 custom capship
- Description of the campaign - A choose-your-side minicampaign... it is an alternat-history campaign.
Rear Admiral Koth's ship has been destroyed. Admiral Bosch is holding Polaris when a GTVA fleet arrives in-system. The new NTF weaponry is about to be unveiled to the GTVA. The NTMr Sagitta intends to break the back of the GTVA's joint project, the Colossus. Armed to the teeth with stolen technology and spies in the GTVA, the NTF produces the NTMr Sagitta and it's sisterships the NTMr Sagittarius and the NTMr Scutum. Along with a number of other cruisers, the new 7th Fleet takes the offensive. The primary mission of the fleet is the destruction of the GTVA Colossus and all Vasudan ships.
- Release date (if any) - Sometime December (hopefully 2006, if not sometime in 2007)
- Been working on since - Not really working on it since I don't have FRED2 yet. Will start this week (hopefully Tuesday)
- Completion - 10% (Brainstorming)

[Mobius]

I fell in the team,ok.
Another campaign for me,woo-hoo!
Make the shipmodels first...or use the beautiful GTD Raynor,like in Neo-Terra,as the NTF's secret weapon.I don't know,making a ship is something beyond my actual abilities...

[Bob-san]

I got it on paper... now if only I knew how to work Blender...

Anyone know of a good ship modeling program? I was wondering if there was one where you design top/bottom/front/back and then get it in 3D and modify it to your specifications...

I am bad at designing in total 3D i need some 2D aspects of it without the screen moving.

Since I am naming the ship's class the NTMr Sagitta (Sagitta=Arrow), I want it to be very thin at the front and rather bulky at the end. I have thought of ships similar to this but never been able to model them due to a lack of 3D modeling software and no FRED to try it in.

[Mobius]

Good thinking, Karajorma!

The Fan Club Needs You.

I reccomend TrueSpace,PCS and Modelview can both generate POF files only from files in COB format(used by TrueSpace).Visit Karajorma's FreeSpace FAQ and find the link for the 2.2 version,DL is free.

After this,you should be a Karajorma's FreeSpace FaN.

[Bob-san]

I am already his fan....

I gotta save the ENTIRE guide to my flash drive. Link for the fan club?

Oh and I am still looking for help. Anyone want to volunteer to join the team? So far it's myself and LieutenantGeneralMobius.

[Mobius]

I am already his fan....

I gotta save the ENTIRE guide to my flash drive. Link for the fan club?

Oh and I am still looking for help. Anyone want to volunteer to join the team? So far it's myself and LieutenantGeneralMobius.

You have firs tto modify your signature,like I did.If Dysko and Edivad have additional free time,they could join the team(remember, however,that Steadfast is a priority).

[Spicious]

about 500m long (1/4 that of a normal destroyer), and packed with weapons and armour.

Two of these tiny ships are designed to be able to destroy a Colossus-sized ship. One can single-handedly destroy a Destroyer.

Wow, it sounds so very excessively overpowered.

[Mobius]

Yup.Something like 14 beams.

[Bob-san]

Overpowered? Quite basically against destroyers.

Its only true weakness is its weapons systems... that may seem like a contridiction, but what it lacks in formidable anti-fighter defences, it makes up in heavy beams.

A few small notes on a NTMr Sagitta...
It's not what it seems. Only myself and LieutenantGeneralMobius know the future stats of the ship. We are keeping it quiet until it is released. 500m long and packed with weapons, its a bit weak against smaller ships but it will tear through anything else with ease.

[Bob-san]

Sorry for doubleposting again, but a little update on Sagitta Project...

Last I heard (last night), LieutenantGeneralMobius was programming the first mission in the campaign.

I have the model of the NTMr Sagitta comming along... a bit blocky, but what the heck? I will be arming it somehow, though right now it's not exactly the best...

I'm getting used to TrueSpace and pissed off at Blender... Milkshape 3D says my model is on the wrong axis (that it is about 120m on the X axis, and 375m on the Y axis. It should be 120m on the Y and 375 on the X.), but I will forget about that and continue making the model. It's rather hard to get the entire thing looking solid, as I have to use the coordinates system manually to place stuff correctly.

[Colonol Dekker]

Just correct the Axes (correct use of word?)rotation/position  in truespace..  Right click the Arrow/se;ection tool to open up the co-ordinate manager, then click the Axes button.

[Bob-san]

The problem is not so much the axis...

In Truespace it seems fine, but in Milkshape (what I use to view more detailed models, as it cant save files) it put the entire ship on the wrong axis...

Blender seems to have the same axis as TrueSpace.

By the way, I manually put in all coordinates for my models.

[Colonol Dekker]

If milkshape rotates axes on importing, Just pre- rotate them in Truespace before exporting so that it balances out perhaps  :

[Bob-san]

Ah whatever... its still a basic model.....

[Mobius]

Ah whatever... its still a basic model.....

Too basic.In order to accumulate experience with modelling,I suggested him to create fighters and bombers first.

[Bob-san]

I made a small model to test out turreting. A convoy protector with turrets on 5 of 6 sides of its very blocky form.

If I could figure out how to get POF constructor's turreting to be on the same scale as TrueSpace's scale, I'd be fine. I'll finish turreting that soon.

Oh since I've still not received FS2, I am doing a little bit of manual FRED-ing with notepad. I need to talk to you Lt. Gen. Mobius about the first mission...

[Colonol Dekker]

Scale is automatic IIRC,
*cough Karajormas FS2 faq"

^3 times in one year i got his name out in one go, I must be getting the hint