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Buda5 Mission Collection (former X-Mas Packet)

Roi DantonRoi Danton Moderator
in Buda 5 Dev Forum
Here is the first dev version of the [b]Buda5 Mission Collection 2003[/b], similar to the X-Mas Packet.

Addon's:
[list][*]Updated Ship Gallery
[*]Indie's Escort Mission [i](@Indie: See pog file for update details)[/i]
[/list]

Improvement:
Check if the user has copied the Ship Pack and Ini Pack into the correct folder. Otherwise an explanation screen appears with a "How to do message" and the Scenario wouldn't start at all.

I disabled the following temporarily:
[list][*]My X-Mas Mission, I have still to face with some bad probs.
[*]Warlord's Skirmish Generator due to the strange Ship Appearance
[/list]

Like everytime: To listen to the Music unzip the Buda5_SkGen.zip into the mods folder.

Link:
[url]http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/devtemp2420/Buda5_SkGen.zip[/url]

Comments

  • The MercifulThe Merciful Earthforce Officer
    Re: Buda5 Mission Collection (former X-Mas Packet)

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Roi Danton [/i]
    [B]Like everytime: To listen to the Music unzip the Buda5_SkGen.zip into the mods folder.[/B][/QUOTE]Actually, Roi, you have to unzip the whole damn thing into the mods folder if you want to play the scenario. All the files in the zip are under a folder called Buda5_SkGen, which is why the scenario won't work straight from the zip-file.
  • Roi DantonRoi Danton Moderator
    Re: Re: Buda5 Mission Collection (former X-Mas Packet)

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by The Merciful [/i]
    [B]Actually, Roi, you have to unzip the whole damn thing into the mods folder if you want to play the scenario.[/B][/QUOTE]
    It is so expendable? :p ... thx for the hint!
  • LogicSequenceLogicSequence Elite Ranger
    Re: Re: Buda5 Mission Collection (former X-Mas Packet)

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by The Merciful [/i]
    [B]Actually, Roi, you have to unzip the whole damn thing into the mods folder if you want to play the scenario. All the files in the zip are under a folder called Buda5_SkGen, which is why the scenario won't work straight from the zip-file. [/B][/QUOTE]


    UMMMM.. NO. IT WORKS FINE ON MY COMPUTER. AND IT'S NOT ALL IN A BUDA5 SKGEN DIRECTORY, IT'S EXACTLY HOW IT SHOULD BE. AND I DL'ED IT WHEN IT WAS FIRST PUT OUT (A DAY AGO?) ALL I DID WAS UNZIP THE MUSIC AND IT ALL WORKED FINE. MERCIFUL, WHAT KIND OF COMPUTER DO YOU HAVE? U SEEM TO ALWAYS HAVE MORE PROBELEMS THAN OTHERS..... IS ANYTHING PARTICULARLY OUT OF DATE?? OR MAYBE YOUR RUNNING A DIFFERENT VERSION OF WINDOWS?
  • MorteMorte Earthforce Officer
    If you want to include the Tinashi, it just needs some weapons sound fx and the statistics inputting (I'm basically making it 1/3rd the rating of a sharlin- 1/3rd firepower, hull strength etc.)
    And Logic... is your caps lock glued down or something?!?
  • LogicSequenceLogicSequence Elite Ranger
    Tinashi would have to be in the ship pack, not the mission pack. As for her weapons, the reason i offered to help is because i have all the correct weapon sounds and textures for the sharlin (not the one that's available now, the updated one i haven't released yet b/c i completely forgot about.. HEY i should do that now... lol i made it over 6 months ago but it got burried.)
  • The MercifulThe Merciful Earthforce Officer
    Re: Re: Re: Buda5 Mission Collection (former X-Mas Packet)

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by LogicSequence [/i]
    [B]UMMMM.. NO. IT WORKS FINE ON MY COMPUTER. AND IT'S NOT ALL IN A BUDA5 SKGEN DIRECTORY, IT'S EXACTLY HOW IT SHOULD BE.[/B][/QUOTE]First, don't shout; second my AMD 1GHz Thuderbird PC with Win 98 should be perfectly enough for anything EoC; third the directory structure of the newer version is definetly different from the older version as can be seen in [url=http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/temp/zipfolders.jpg]this picture[/url]. On my machine EoC didn't identify the unzipped version as a scenario, but showed it amongst the mods. Are you sure you have the correct version? (Or has Roi updated the zip inbetween?)
  • Roi DantonRoi Danton Moderator
    Keep cool pals

    Hey hey guys, don't dispute about such marginality. Merciful is right, there is an additional folder called [i]Buda5_SkGen[/i] that mustn't be there if you simply copy the package into the mods folder. But this shouldn't be a problem for the devs b/c

    [list=1]
    [*]At first I said you should unzip it and so the add folder is good (so you needn't to create a new one)
    [*]Meanwhile you should have familiarized with I-War 2 very well so that you can - if you've didn't followed my hint - recognize very fast what is the problem about that.[/list]

    I hope the quarrel is cleared now. ;)
  • LogicSequenceLogicSequence Elite Ranger
    i'm gonna render you some better background images for the packet... those are kinda... pixel ish. if u don't have anything specific in mind, i'll reproduce the ones already there, if you want something different, post here.

    Sample pic:
    [IMG]http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/devtemp2420/sharlins.jpg[/IMG]

    P.S.
    does anyone know if we can use .bik movies as backgrounds? sortof make a DVD interface type background to go along with the game interface?
  • IndieIndie Moderator
    Gorgeus!

    You certainly got the lighting right in that one.
  • LogicSequenceLogicSequence Elite Ranger
    Ok, here are the new bground images, they're already in .iff format and sized to either 512x512 or 1024x1024 (so they may look squashed, but appearently EOC resizes them on screen). anyways, if anyone would like desktop sized version, feel free to ask.

    [URL=http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/devtemp2420/B5.iff]Babylon 5 / sharlins / omega / and whitestar[/URL]
    [URL=http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/devtemp2420/sharlins.iff]Dual Sharlins[/URL]
    [URL=http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/devtemp2420/narn.iff]Narn G'Quan and frazis[/URL]
    [URL=http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/devtemp2420/shadow.iff]Shadow Battlecrab and Z'Ha'Dum[/URL]
    [URL=http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/devtemp2420/whitestar.iff]3 Whitestars Jumping In[/URL]
    [URL=http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/devtemp2420/buda5_logo.iff]Buda5 Logo[/URL]

    The following are larger pictures of the new logo (yes i redid it again, included v2.0 and web address)

    [URL=http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/logos-etc/buda5_logo_1024x768.jpg]Buda5 Logo 1024x768[/URL]
    [URL=http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/logos-etc/buda5_logo_800x600.jpg]Buda5 Logo 800x600[/URL]
    [URL=http://mods.firstones.com/buda5/logos-etc/buda5_logo_250x188.jpg]Buda5 Logo 250x188[/URL]

    hope u like them


    P.S.
    OK don't get mad or yell at me, this is just my honost opinion, and i'm not one to discount acreditation... But... having the person's name in front of the mission in the mission pack seems... i dunno, unprofessional? shouldn't it just be, Buda5 Director War, Buda5 Escort Mission, etc...? just my humble thought, no offense at all.
  • Roi DantonRoi Danton Moderator
    Pic w/ freighters

    Thx for the pics Logic! Maybe you could make a pic with some freighters under attack (and perhaps the Buda5 Logo attached on one container) for Indie's Escort Scenario.

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by LogicSequence [/i]
    [B]P.S.
    OK don't get mad or yell at me, this is just my honost opinion, and i'm not one to discount acreditation... But... having the person's name in front of the mission in the mission pack seems... i dunno, unprofessional? shouldn't it just be, Buda5 Director War, Buda5 Escort Mission, etc...? just my humble thought, no offense at all. [/B][/QUOTE]
    k, I'll add a credits screen instead
  • LogicSequenceLogicSequence Elite Ranger
    i'll try that one next. i've never really dabled in explosion effects, so it'll be good practice. Anyways, u liked the pics??? :) i'm especially fond of the 2 sharlins.... and the gquan... well and the B5 pic ain't bad either, LOL.. like i said, if u want normal sized versions, lemme know.
  • Roi DantonRoi Danton Moderator
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by LogicSequence [/i]
    [B]Anyways, u liked the pics??? :)[/B][/QUOTE]
    Yes, and nice lightning! I'm looking forward to your freighter pic. :)
  • Warlord IIWarlord II Earthforce Officer
    So Roi removed skirmish like I asked him to do before I left to holiday. It's bad PR if we leave skirmish there when it's not working. Now I think I'm gonna debug skirmish from beginning or should I just consentrate on small missions?

    Skirmish worked or at least ships appeared all the time in last autumn so I think bug got along somewhere in December release. I think GUI should be fine so it could be in ini files (still don't know why inis would cause this...) or global values could get messed up which decide ships for some reason (just wild guess). I do some debugging and try to make it work but if not then I probably move on to something else so I won't try to fix this forever.
  • LogicSequenceLogicSequence Elite Ranger
    i say try and fix it
  • MorteMorte Earthforce Officer
    Yeah, I say fix it. It's a good showcase for all the ships we've made.
  • Roi DantonRoi Danton Moderator
    DEBUGGING

    Skirmish is the best scenario for a fast and funny fight with all combinations of our ships so fix it plz ... whatever it'll cost ;) .
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