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Offline Lt. Spanks

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Two Questions
on: March 20, 2015, 05:56:05 pm
Two questions...
I try to play the main FS2 campaign, but it wont let me switch campaigns from Templar to FS2, it gives me a "no" sound whenever i click the "choose" button.

How do i get rid of the really weird lighting when a ship covers up the sun; or is there any way to just tone it down a whole bunch. I looked through the Launcher command lines but I'm not sure which one might help with that.
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Re: Two Questions
Reply #1 on: March 20, 2015, 06:36:57 pm
Quote from: Lt. Spanks on March 20, 2015, 05:56:05 pm
Two questions...
I try to play the main FS2 campaign, but it wont let me switch campaigns from Templar to FS2, it gives me a "no" sound whenever i click the "choose" button.
How are you getting Operation Templar and FreeSpace 2 in the same campaign list?

Quote from: Lt. Spanks on March 20, 2015, 05:56:05 pm
How do i get rid of the really weird lighting when a ship covers up the sun; or is there any way to just tone it down a whole bunch. I looked through the Launcher command lines but I'm not sure which one might help with that.
You mean lightshafts?
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Offline mjn.mixael

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Re: Two Questions
Reply #2 on: March 20, 2015, 07:15:01 pm
There was some version of FS2 that shipped with Operation Templar as  a single player campaign. It was never rebalanced from multi, but it did work.
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Re: Two Questions
Reply #3 on: March 20, 2015, 07:29:27 pm
Well, then, assuming it's otherwise standard retail, then the only reason for switching to the FreeSpace 2 campaign to fail would be because mission_campaign_next_mission() failed, and the only reason for that to fail would be because there is no "next mission" for it to load up; if memory serves, I think this means you've beaten the campaign.
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schrödinbug (noun) - a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

When you gaze long into BMPMAN, BMPMAN also gazes into you.

"I am one of the best FREDders on Earth" -General Battuta

<Aesaar> literary criticism is vladimir putin

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.
 

Offline -Norbert-

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Re: Two Questions
Reply #4 on: March 21, 2015, 02:52:20 am
You could try clicking on the FS2 campaign, then hit the restart button (the star) and only then select the campaign as active.

Edit: Damn it... how did I just misspell campaign twice in a single sentence? And in two different ways to boot  :shaking:
« Last Edit: March 22, 2015, 02:22:18 am by -Norbert- »
 

Offline Lt. Spanks

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Re: Two Questions
Reply #5 on: March 21, 2015, 06:35:47 am
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You could try clicking on the FS2 campagin, then hit the restart button (the star) and only then select the campain as active.

Edit: Fixed it... just created a new pilot...

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You mean lightshafts?

Yes thank you!
« Last Edit: March 21, 2015, 06:39:31 am by Lt. Spanks »
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