[Legate Damar]

First, I need to know how I can get my mod to not play the FS2 intro cutscene when it starts. I want there to be no intro cutscene.

Second, I am having trouble with my species.tbl

I initially had 4 entries, but in the tech room only entries 1, 2, and 4 would show up (every entry had "always in tech room" set to 1, and ctrl-shift-s does not do anything). I figured entry 3 could be merged into entry 2, but when I tried that now only entry 1 will show up.

[mjn.mixael]

1: Use this.

2: I'd need to see your species.tbl to tell you what's going wrong with it. Additionally, you may try using a debug build and checking the log. It may point you towards what's wrong.

[General Battuta]

Ooooh I am 79% sure I know what's wrong - you've got an illegal character, like a semicolon or something, in there. Something that makes it stop parsing.

[Legate Damar]

So that patch is basically an empty intro movie? Is it okay if I just put it into the movies folder in my vp for my mod?

Are parentheses and hyphen illegal characters?

[mjn.mixael]

So that patch is basically an empty intro movie? Is it okay if I just put it into the movies folder in my vp for my mod?

Yup.

Are parentheses and hyphen illegal characters?

I'm telling you.. run a debug build or show us your table, that will make this much easier.

[Legate Damar]

I'll PM you the table, okay?

EDIT: Nevermind, I fixed it

[yuezhi]

downloading that fix makes me think the intro movie is hardcoded. I always thought i could adjust that through tables when i get around to that one day.

[mjn.mixael]

As far as I know, 'intro.ext' is hardcoded to play when FSO is run. Since an intro.ext is included with retail assets, you have to override it.

[z64555]

As far as I know, 'intro.ext' is hardcoded to play when FSO is run. Since an intro.ext is included with retail assets, you have to override it.

Could add an option that allows you to turn on/off the intro movie from the in-game options menu?

[mjn.mixael]

sounds like a mod.tbl setting to me. You'll have to ask SCP for it.