[Ice Heart]

Hello  

Just pimping my new campaign, Pandora's Box, which is available for download here.

Hope you enjoy it  .  Post any comments, complaints, etc. here.

[Sushi]

You want to spill any details?  

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Sushi- the OTHER white meat!

Velocity Mod

[Ice Heart]

Oh, if I must  .

Basically, its set about a year before the Shivans return.  The NTF is at its peak of power, with complete control over Polaris, Regulus, Sirius and pressing the GTVA hard in Alpha Centauri and Deneb The player is a new pilot on the GVD Abydos in the secure Vasuda system.  You have little to do other than routine escort missions until the NTF makes a raid into the system and steals a Hecate-class destroyer with a full compliment of modern fighter and bomber designs.  Geuss who gets to help hunt down the NTF and take back/destroy the stolen destroyer?  

[Jabu]

It's a good campaign. Flying that rusty tin can is a bit tough at times, but at least it can turn  

[Sushi]

Sweet.  

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Sushi- the OTHER white meat!

Velocity Mod

[Setekh]

I am definitely loving this campaign. One of my missions keeps on crashing, however - I suspected it was too many polys, but I set the details right down (one bar for each section) and it still doesn't work. There aren't even that many ships in it, anyway.

The mission I'm having trouble with is the capture of the Pandora... I disarm it quickly, then Epsilon (and Delta?) wing jumps in, with a bunch of other hostiles IIRC. Then, I get no warning, and I'm just booted out of FS2, and I find myself back on the desktop - no parser error, no BSOD, no nothing. I'm puzzled.

[Joey_21]

I'm getting REALLY   at the Scramble! mission! I keep failing even IF the iron fist departs. I'm wondering WTF is going on? I failed it 2 times already and I'm thinking it is a bug.

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Shivans are chicken.
¡Viva la Galatea!

[Ice Heart]

Okay, Joey found a bug in the campaign file that, as he had the misfortune to find out, can be quite annoying.  I'm not sure how I missed it, but anyways, I am almost halfway done with a fix for it.  I'm going to fix the .vp file and I'll mail the fix to those of you who already have the campaign.  Sorry for my ineptitude  .

[Ice Heart]

Setekh:  That is very strange...I've never had problems with that one.  I'll see what I can do though   .

Doh!  Almost forgot!  I need to know, are you flying Vasudan craft or Terran craft in that mission?

[This message has been edited by Ice Heart (edited 03-30-2001).]

[Setekh]

I'm flying a Herc 2.

Don't worry, I checked out the mission file with my trusty text editor and figured there was no plot-worthy stuff in there (really), so I just failed the mission five times and skipped to the finale. Nice work.  

[Martinus]

Jeeze mission 1 is difficult enough, I'm dead unless I'm flying something that can take a few hits  

Have you considered adding voices? I know it's a lot of work but it would do justice to a great piece of work. Kudos to you.

[Setekh]

I love the Anubis Mk. II. Very nice ship.  

Voices are hard... would be cool, but I wouldn't hold my breath. I don't think the voice quality would be that good, unless you can get your hands on a professional recording studio.

[Ice Heart]

I put this up on the VBB, but I might as well do it here to:

Almost have it done.  My gaming harddrive decided to die today so that put a serious cramp in everything (not to mention creating a big mess as I removed fistfuls of hair at that little development   ).

Anyways, I backed up not so long ago and have the full campaign there as well.  I'm putting it on my 'work' harddrive for the time being (until I get my other one replaced  ).  I've got the campaign file fixed and the offending mission almost fixed...there's still something in one of the events that I've missed.  Tommorrow morning (my time anyway, which is -1 hour VBB time) and it should be done  .  Again, sorry about this  .


Now for things here  .  I'll still see if I can fix that mission, Setekh, its probably a wonky bit of event coding on my part somewhere.  As for voices, I've considered it, but voice actors seem to be at a premium.  The biggest problem I have is I can't make a decent translator voice.  Anyone know of a good program that might alter voices like that?  With that, I could do voice for translator and Command, maybe some other minor ones if I could make it higher/lower pitched.  Any volunteers for other parts?  If you'd like to, just record yourself saying something like.  "Iron Fist under attack!"  and something a bit calmer like.  "We are on course for the jump node, command."  Send them to me at:  [email protected]

[Ice Heart]

The voice quality probably wouldn't be that great though, since a recording studio is an impossibility at this time for me  .

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by Ice Heart:
Now for things here   .  I'll still see if I can fix that mission, Setekh, its probably a wonky bit of event coding on my part somewhere.

No rush, I've finished the campaign anyway. I have to say it again: very nice job. There's simply no better implemented campaign out there today.  

[Darkage]

Iam getting a sepx error in the first mission when its loading,Its a beam free error for the guradian and moscow
could some one send me a updated version of it pls?

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we all die but when we die we die togheter.
its a good day to die now
all your spacecrak belongs to me:)

[The Claw]

 

kudos

KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

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"Supernova, ya supernova, supernova goes pop
supernova, ya think it's over but the supernova don't stop" PM5K
Death:"Arnold Judas Rimmer... your life is over. You will travel with me to the-"
#knees death in the groin#
Rimmer:"Remember matey, it's only the good that die yoing"

[Ice Heart]

Okay, I've got the fix completed...I'm setting up a mass mail now to get it out to everyone who has already downloaded the campaign.  I've also sent a version that has the fixes in the .vp file to Setekh so that will be up soon.  Until then, if you download the zip file 'PBox1.zip', post here or at HLP or contact me via e-mail and I can send you the fix.  The updated file will be designated PBox101.zip.  Thanks for your patience   .

Darkage:  Hmmm...thats a different one  .  Did you beta test the campaign at some point?  If so, you may still have that mission in your missions directory, I believe the release version has a few differences in that mission.  The first mission is titled 'NTFCamp1a', if you have it in your missions directory that may be the problem.  Delete it and the conflict with the .vp should be gone.  Other than that, I'm not sure what the problem could be but I'll still look into it.

[Darkage]

All i did was putting the vp file in the data folder whit the rest of the vps started fs2 and when it loaded it took me back to windows,i also checked the mission folder and there where no mission files in it from the campaing.
you can mail me the newer one to  [email protected]

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         [email protected]                   hello,great bb
we all die but when we die we die togheter.
its a good day to die now
all your spacecrak belongs to me:)

[Ice Heart]

Alright, the campaign is now up at HLP for download  .  It can be found here:   .

Note, this version is the updated version which fixes the bug that Joey_21 encountered.