[Wanderer]

As of now there are no plans for fixes or patches for the beta release. Until we get the stuff ready you can either make your own fixes (which we most likely wont be using in the final release), or move back to earlier set of mediavp files.

Are you using latest Taylor's XT builds?

XT builds are experimental and problems with them are not our fault and therefore as for now there is no intention to fix this.

[ARSPR]

Are you using latest Taylor's XT builds?

XT builds are experimental and problems with them are not our fault and therefore as for now there is no intention to fix this.

 

 

 

I think you haven't got me right.

I KNOW that Xt builds are experimental, I know there's no data bug and I've told Taylor about this issue sometime ago... I'm neither complaining in any way about bugs in experimental builds (or even regular builds), nor asking for an immediate fix. I just point out (or mantis) the bugs I see and I wait till the coders fix them. I never demand a fix.

But as Taylor is likely to commit his code enhancements sooner or later, he need testers and he needs to know what happens with his builds.

And also XT builds are pretty extended, mainly because of their normal mapping support, so some people may suffer these bugs too. Of course, they should know that, when they use these builds, they are likely to have more troubles than usually. But nevertheless they are free to ask about any possible weird behaviour they see.

[Wanderer]

Ah... Well... Then i'm sorry. And i didn't even mean that as a direct answer to you but more as a generic answer.

[G0atmaster]

So will we be seeing these in Turey's installer anytime soon? Or are they already there?

[Jeff Vader]

So will we be seeing these in Turey's installer anytime soon? Or are they already there?

Once these and the 3.6.10 build are both finals.

[Kazan]

btw what is with the engine glows being missing?

Are you using latest Taylor's XT builds?

If the answer is yes, you are seeing a bug. (But in F3 lab you DO see the thrusters...)

This bug seems triggered by the

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$ThrustAnims:
+Pri_Normal:            <none>
+Pri_Afterburn:         <none>entries in mv_effects-sdf.tbm which just should disable the original polied thrusters. But the game doesn't like <none> because of some reason.

i dunno if i would call that a bug.. more like the tables are not setup very clever

[Wanderer]

i dunno if i would call that a bug.. more like the tables are not setup very clever

Hmm... how exactly would you do it?

[ARSPR]

i dunno if i would call that a bug.. more like the tables are not setup very clever

No, Kazan, it's a bug for sure. I just copied part of mv_effects-sdf.tbm which should work flawlessly like it does with fsopen 3.6.9. The table syntax is OK. It's something inside the build. The <none> word screws up the in-game thrusters but not F3 ones.

(OTOH this is going offtopic...)

[Kazan]

<none> for a thruster glow means no thruster glow - that's not an engine bug, that's the engine working as intended AFAIK (or was <none> there supposed to fall back to species default and i didn't know?)

[Wanderer]

The '<none>' in that particular field prevents the rendering of the modeled thruster cone animation. So it should still render the three remaining glows.

[Kazan]

ah.. then the flag is flipped because i'm getting cones but not glows

oh.. all ships with shields should be opened+saved with PCS 2.0.1 to get SLDC trees

[Turambar]

will the fun tidbits from the Stellar Enhancements thread be in here?

it is nice to see flares on stars and missiles, and if they are kept low-key, i think they could be used well on other things too, like engines and even powerful weapons (maybe making capship glob turrets seem slightly more threatening).

[Darklord42]

Engine light flares, now that would be cool.

[Admiral Nelson]

will the fun tidbits from the Stellar Enhancements thread be in here?

Yes they will.  Hopefully M87 will return to us again so that I may also include them in FS1 and other prominent campaigns that already use Lightspeed's nebulae.

[Titan]

is the german mirror still the english mediavps?

[Jeff Vader]

  No, you'll get German graphics if you download from that mirror.

[feltoar]

This might be a dumb question, but are the links on the first page still to the absolute latest public releases for the betas?

[Jeff Vader]

  Yes?

[colecampbell666]

My GPU is only SM2.0, and I'm pretty sure I don't have OGL2.0, what will happen if I try to run normal maps etc?

[Cobra]

You won't get them.