[Killer Whale]

Couldn't think of a short and explained title, so short and unexplained would do.

Can you have the decent freespace on the freespace 2 serever? Like, has anyone made the origianal campaign to run on freespace 2?

[Dark Hunter]

You'll want to look at the Freespace Port, aka the "Freespace Conversion".

Just install it like any other campaign and BOOM! You have FS1, except pretty and in FS2!

[Killer Whale]

...

I don't have internet on my computer, i'm on my mum's computer and i can't put freespace on it, so i have to save the data onto a thumb drive and extract the files onto my computer, where do i put the stuff?

(you need 2 items right? The one with the data needed to play, the other with the actual missions?)

[Jeff Vader]

You need pretty much everything FSPort related, and they can be acquired with either using Turey's Installer or downloading manually from the FSPort website. Turey's Installer will automatically install it correctly, but for manual installation: punch all the FSPort vp files into ...\freespace\fsport\ and you're done.

[Killer Whale]

so I go to http://fsport.hard-light.net/website/ and save everything to my USB and put it... where?

[Jeff Vader]

...\freespace\fsport\

That is, if you've installed FreeSpace to C:\Games\freespace, you place all the FSPort files to C:\Games\freespace\fsport.

[Killer Whale]

Do i extract them to there, or place them there and extract them (to there)

Sorry about seeming dumb, i just have no idea.

[Jeff Vader]

Whichever makes you feel good. The result is the same: they'll work. If you place the archives somewhere and then extract the files to the fsport folder, it'll work. If you place the archives to the fsport folder and extract, it'll work since the game engine cannot and will not start interpreting zips or rars or anything like it. It will only take note of vps.

[Roanoke]

The Port is great and everything but you can't beat the original with it's low-res graphics and old school music.

[Snail]

And don't forget the old nostalgic nebulae.

[Jeff Vader]

you can't beat the original with it's low-res graphics and old school music.

You mean FS1 didn't have the same oldskool music as the Port?

[Selectah]

And don't forget the old nostalgic nebulae.

Aaahh..., those. Sometimes I play FS1 just to see 'em. Heck, if I'm on a foreign compy, sometimes I D/L and install the FS1 demo just to see 'em. If those would be available in FS Open, I might actually have some incentive to install FSO... <sigh>

Cordially,
~Selectah

[Solatar]

They sort of kinda look like crap...

...Although it'd be nice if I had to option of sticking them in.

[Snail]

Is the code to add them in even public, anyway?

[Selectah]

Yes.

[Killer Whale]

All of them? There's over a score! I'd of thought you just have to get one and BOOM, you'd have it...

[Snail]

Yes.

Really? Was the FS1 code released?

[Selectah]

It's still in the FS2 code, partly crippled due to FS2 having a slightly different way of drawing backgrounds. Moreover, the NEBEDIT.EXE code -- a compilable Nebula Editor, found in the FS2 package -- is very much part of the FS2 source. IIRC, I believe there were some half-assed attempts at doing this (bringing back the FS1 backgrounds to FS2), but it became zilch. Dunno why.

The coldness of the FS1 nebulae could be a very nice change to LightSpeed's GFX. I think.

Cordially,
~Selectah

[Snail]

Yeah, I would love to see FS1 nebulae in FS2.

[castor]

Ahh, the FS1 nebulae. Yea, I remember being a bit dissapointed when I first saw the FS2 versions - the "alien" look of FS1 nebulae actually added a lot to the atmosphere.