[darkmaster]

Hi, I have some questions:

1> Can anyone tell me how to make an activated jump hole without ship jumping in / out ?
2> Can anyone tell me how to keep a jump hole open even when there is no ship to warp in or warp out ?
3> Does TBP support different jumping methods beside the conventional jump hole and the shadow fade in / out ?

Thanks in advance !
Darkmaster

[IPAndrews]

1> Can anyone tell me how to make an activated jump hole without ship jumping in / out ?

The warp-effect SEXP.

2> Can anyone tell me how to keep a jump hole open even when there is no ship to warp in or warp out ?

The warp-effect SEXP.

3> Does TBP support different jumping methods beside the conventional jump hole and the shadow fade in / out ? Darkmaster

We only have the standard jump in/out warp effect.

[darkmaster]

Thank you. Will definitely try this.

[Vidmaster]

Jumpholes and especially gates in TBP are just clever (in the good cases) fakes 
The FS2 engine has its limits.

[darkmaster]

I wonder how star ships jump in/out in Freespace2 (I've never played Freespace2 before). Can we reuse this jump effect for TBP ships ? It would be nice to have a different jumping method for special ships like those of Thirdspace.

[0rph3u5]

I wonder how star ships jump in/out in Freespace2 (I've never played Freespace2 before). Can we reuse this jump effect for TBP ships ? It would be nice to have a different jumping method for special ships like those of Thirdspace.

well the jump in/out effect of TBP is basicaly the same as in FS/FS2... but TBP uses a different model for the warp vortex...

[Skullar]

The jump-vortex is a SEXP under the category SPECIAL

Notes :
ORIGIN is the CENTER of the entire vortex ( not the opening only )
LOCATION is just a point in 3d-space where the opening points to.

The SIZE applies to the entire vortex. The proportions are always constant

Use a blue vortex for jumping in
Use a yellow vortex for jumping out
Use two vortexes at the same coords ( a blue AND a yellow one ) for a thirdspace vortex.

The ship editor lets your ships appear or disappear using a jumpgate vortex, this is no necessity.
Note that ships that arrive WITH a vortex have a pretty high inertia.
Ships that arrive ( later ) without vortex start with speed 0.

For rather common jumpgate effect use a warp-effect approx size 1000 at same coords as jumpgate.

[darkmaster]

Hi, I know this is off-topic but ... can anyone tell me how to modify the speed of a ship? I launch a transport ship and want it to go 10 km/h but it goes 40km/h making the mission complete too fast. I need to know which SEXP to do it. Thanks.

[karajorma]

cap-waypoint-speed will do it for non fighters/bombers.

[darkmaster]

Yeah I know, it is mentioned in the FAQ  but ... I can't find it.

Edit: sorry, I found it. In the "Special". Thank you a lot.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

It's under special.

[darkmaster]

HELP! There is a white sun in hyperspace ! I don't know why the hell it gets there but I can't get rid of it. I have used :

 "Full Nebula"
 "Poofs : Nothing-Nothing"
 "Pattern : Hyperspace"
 "Lighting storm : hyperspace"
 "Skybox model : hyperspace.pof"

No bitmaps and no suns of course.

[terran_emperor]

The reason for that is that you cant have a design mission without a Sun
If you dont place a Sun using the Background Editor, then a White Sun is automatically placed

To remove:
Select Background Editor
Insert a sun
Change to one of the amient_colour options

ambient_red or ambient_none are the best options

[darkmaster]

WORKS !
Thanks a lot.

[terran_emperor]

Glad to beof service

[darkmaster]

Well, I have just finished mission 5/8 of my campaign, only 3 left. At this rate it can be finished and moved to beta testing in 2 weeks. I'll include the name of all who help me here to the credit  .

I'll need someone to correct my grammatical errors and someone to play testing (or feedback or bug correction ....),   is there anyone who is willing to help me ?

[captain-custard]

ill bug test the game if you want , as for the grammar if its blatant i can help but if not im not that good , and yes english is my first language i know but was never that inteested by the written word......

[Vidmaster]

seems like it

what's your campaign about? If you manage to hook me with a thrill-and-major-battles-promising plot, I might spare some time 

[darkmaster]

The campaign is about the tale of a Primus class battleship, and it takes place in 2268. The plot shouldn't be posted here, but I can send you guys PMs if you are interested. Personally I think that knowing the plot by playing  through the campaign is a lot more interesting than knowing it before playing, but it's up to you.

For my English : I need just word and grammar correction, don't mind about writing style, formulation etc...

The campaign is aimed to all people, so the difficulty is not so high as Vid's campaign, but you must  use your wingmen well to win. You'll probably have time to look around, see how capship is destroyed, chasing enemy fighters ect... There are also ships that were never used before in other campaigns.

@andicirk: I'll send you a PM when I finish the last mission. Thank you a lot.
@vidmaster: Nothing better than the help of a pro. I will be very happy if you can have a look at it.

[Vidmaster]

so now I am a pro? 

Half a year ago I was like darkmaster here, begging (in my case Orph) to test my extremely buggy new campaign. I even upset IP until he removed multiple post by me    I guess that's what's called career 

Okay, I am gonna play it But be really sure it works, I remember the thing I send to Orph back then. Considering how many bugs I had to fix afterwards I would probably state now that it was a pre-Alpha or something