[erick_satire]

The Vlanetar mod is my new mod for freespace 2.

It includes a new story with many things remade to fit it:
New backgrounds, soundtracks, ships (new looks, but no new models yet), weapons, missions and everything.

There are 2 identical sites you can check for it (if one isn't working right you can try the other):
http://vlanetar.tripod.com/vlanetar.html

http://ericksatire.fcpages.com/vlanetar.html

[Stealth]

Looks good man!

I didn't have too much time to look in-depth at the site, but it appears that the 'download' link in orange at the top of the page isn't working



Regards
~Stealth~

[erick_satire]

I had problems with putting the site on (and ESPECIALLY the files themselves) all day long. Don't ask

Soon all will be solved and people could download freely.

I'm uploading even now

[Killfrenzy]

What exactly has been done in this mod?

[erick_satire]

A lot was done in this campaign.

It is to be further improved, but generally I was trying to adapt freespace 2 to something I had in my imagination, and that was harder than I thought.
From the many stuff that didn't work you now get new weapons, new ships, and new everything (except new models, for now).

Check the site at:

http://ericksatire.fcpages.com/vlanetar.html


And see for yourself. It's all there.

[Galemp]

What? No graphics? For SHAME!
Give us pictures of the models, or screenshots, or something! We can't always take someone's word if it's a good mod. We need to see it for ourselves.

[erick_satire]

There are screenshots now, oh impatient one.
The site was just put up, it wasn't finished, but you just had to go being a smarty didn't you?

Well, don't take my word for it (As you've said). Maybe I'm just a liar that likes making up stuff and my files are actually an oversized VBscript virus, eh?, go and check the screens for yourself.

But hey, why take my screenshots for it either? Go download and see the whole thing.

Personally, I don't think screenshots can show gameplay, and we all know how freespace2 look like, plus I wanted the new things to be a bit of surprise, but that's where you and I differ apparently.

As for all the rest of you guys. THERE ARE NOW SCREENSHOTS! Go and see

[Unknown Target]

"20 Megabyte limit exceded"

[karajorma]

The funny thing is that this is the second or third major mod I`ve seen in the last month from someone I don`t recognise. Where are all these people coming from?

Anyway. Welcome to HLP Erick. Forgive us if some of us are skeptical but when you`ve got a posting name including the word satire you've kinda brought it on yourself

[Unknown Target]

Ok, now, tell me why the HELL you used Star Wars music in this campaign?

OK, now, I've played through a couple missions, and here are two pointers, for when you make the final campaign:
1. Some of your planets are screwed up, they are either off-angle, or they have a discolored blue square around them. This is evident that you cut/copy/pasted them from somewhere, I think you said it was the hubble?
and 2. No one likes bland missions where all you get is waves of enemy craft, that you blow up, with no chatter or dialogue, or plot or anything.
There, now I'm going to play the rest, stay tuned!;)

[erick_satire]

For the last 2 people.

A: Erick Satire relates to my nick from my satire site. It has nothing to do with the campaign (although there is a bit of humour)

B: If you've read the help file, it said in there that this is a DEMO campaign, not the actual campaign. The first couple of missions are supposed to put you more into the action, and let you eperience how things handle differently than in regular freespace. The last 3 get more into storyline, but I really didn't have time to make a long and complicated campaign, since I wanted to get the mod online and get some feedback first. Plus I'm hoping that talented scenario writers would write their own scenarios for this and send them, so I could patch this into a campaign composed by many people. I think it would be nicer if more people add to this (little?) project.

C: As for the planets - I didn't have any problem with them. R U using 640*480? or glide or something? Tell me if you know where this comes from.
AND OF COURSE I COPIED - PASTED Them. What did you think I would do? Create them using my ultimate god powers? (I only create planets when I'm paid well for them ) The idea was to use pictures of real planets anyway, not to generate them.

D: Why Star wars? Why not? I would add even more 'themes' but I'm not enthausiastic about the space these files take.

That's all guys. This is just a first release, but if there is a lack of interest, I admit I don't think I'll bother much improving it.
I do have a little surprise for the upcoming update though (plus I tweaked mission 5 a bit coz it has the potential to be too bloody hell tough!), and I'm also and working on the freespace code, though that isn't going too well so far. I'll try more seriously during the weekend.

Well that's it. Looking for your feedback.

[Unknown Target]

I'm running 1280 by whatever the other number is (480, I think), Direct 3D. No, I would expect you to use something that all the other people use, like a planetary generator, or at the very least, cut/paste only the planet, and not the box around it:p

[erick_satire]

Where can i get this thing you earthlings call... a planetary generator?

(But I was using real photos, is it good for them too?)

and I copied just the planet , but I had to copy it to something.
The green bits showed, so I moved to black.

And again, didn't see this problem in my comp - if you would tell me which pictures did this problem I would most appreciate it (If not, don't worry i'll check tomorrow).

I've put up a mirror site at tripod, for everyone's convenience.

http://vlanetar.tripod.com/vlanetar.html
Everything is up there, just like the other server. They are quite identical.


Oh, and I don't consider the planets to be the most important thing in the mod, I can do without them - plus I believe people have created some really nice new backgrounds already (someone posting about his here now will be welcomed) so I wouldn't mind using them instead.

How about the gameplay? Do you like the possibilities?
Are the missiles too tough? I already weakened them for the next update.

[Grey Wolf]

Originally posted by Unkown Target
I'm running 1280 by whatever the other number is (480, I think), Direct 3D. No, I would expect you to use something that all the other people use, like a planetary generator, or at the very least, cut/paste only the planet, and not the box around it:p

Can you even use 1280x1024 resolution in FS2? I thought 1024x768 and 640x480 were the only resolutions...

[erick_satire]

The first update for the mod is now ready and up on the servers.
It is a small download (about 500 k) and is much simpler than the main download was.

You can get the files at:

http://vlanetar.tripod.com/vlanetar_download.html
or at:
http://ericksatire.fcpages.com/vlanetar_download.html