Freelancer Beta 1

Xalrok wrote:
Thanks, I overlooked that. Didn’t know it enabled singleplayer gameplay.

It’s funny how King goes through about 2-3 different voice actors as well as Microsoft Sam from launching off of Manhattan to meeting the USV Brandt. I didn’t have any problems with Pittsburgh and went on to the XT-19 mission, but I gave up because I kept getting fatal error dialogs that I had to keep closing when I shot at enemy fighters near death.

The Beta Order use some weird ranks, like Father, Brother and Wurm. I wonder if any other missions are different, I was listening to some of the voice files and in the escape from Liberty the IMG warn you that the Navy stormed Freeport 4 and they give you directions to Mactan.

To get rid of the dialogs open Freelancer.ini go to [Error] section and comment out all the log = $Window stuff

King even has a different model in coms later on.

Anyone figured out whats wrong with Colorado?
It’s already known that the game crashes when jumping to it, but when i load the autosave i can’t move or press any buttons exept alt+F4,
whatever causes that its not in the Li03 system files because i edited the autosave to load in a different system and i still could not do anything
It appears i’m not fully loaded in the system, the targets list is empty and King and Juni just fly away, its probably caused by the mission files and is saved in autosave it self breaking it

Anyone knows how to enable FLSpew so we can finally figure out why does it crash???

This is in single player storyline mode I assume.

If you look at the mission file, there will be action triggers etc. Chances are, there’s something missing (it does say “Beta appears to be multi-player only” at the start of this thread).

My guess is that it’s a cut scene - which would explain the lack of controls and everything else.

Have a poke around, find out how the cut scene gets triggered (probably an enter system trigger).

[d]added debug = true to the savegame and it showed me an error

E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Server\pubMisc.cpp(969) : *** ERROR: pub: Unable to locate npc_archetype, 0x884d72cd[/d]
Ok i got that error because i was using the retail m03 files
I can’t move because of Mission = Mission_03 in [StoryInfo] in the autosave it seems that the mission isn’t loaded

What does MissionNum = 7 under [StoryInfo] do?

I’m trying to implement the St02b system into our mod as it’s more interesting than the vanilla lair core system.

Problem is the nomad_airlocks.
The animations won’t open allowing the jump. I can hear the gate open sound but the gate remains closed preventing further progress of the ship.

Where is the open_anim = sc_open airlock01 animation defined?
I’m guessing I need to add it to the appropriate sections in our mod.
I tried using sc_open dock but that isn’t working.

Thanks

I had this bug as well. I think it happened because the "goto = " line wasn’t exactly matching the name of the gate on the other side.

EDIT: Not sure about that being the cause. I do remember that the animation was working in one system, but the bug happened to the airlock in another system. I can’t repeat the bug. This is my code:

Solararch:

[Solar]
nickname = lair_airlock
ids_name = 10907
ids_info = 10908
type = JUMP_GATE
DA_archetype = solar\dockable\nomad_airlock.cmp
material_library = solar\nomad.mat
LODranges = 0, 20000
mass = 1000000
open_anim = Sc_open airlock01
open_sound = gate_open_sound
close_sound = gate_close_sound
docking_sphere = jump, HpDockMountA, 10
jump_out_hp = HpDockMountA
solar_radius = 600
shape_name = NAV_jumpgate
hit_pts = 1000000000000000000000000000000000000.000000

System:

[Object]
nickname = St02b_tunnel_enter
ids_name = 10907
pos = 0, 0, 0
rotate = 0, 180, 0
archetype = lair_airlock
jump_effect = jump_effect_bretonia
ids_info = 10908
goto = St02, St02_lair_enter, gate_tunnel_bretonia

[Object]
nickname = St02b_tunnel_exit
ids_name = 10907
pos = 1629, 0, -15052
rotate = 0, -30, 0
archetype = lair_airlock
jump_effect = jump_effect_bretonia
ids_info = 10908
goto = St02c, St02c_core_enter, gate_tunnel_bretonia

On a related note, I can’t get the animation on the rotor in nomad_chamber.cmp to work. I have no idea why it’s broken, because the animation looks fine in UTF and I matched the names exactly in select_equip and loadouts.

There are also animated yellow glowmaps on the tunnel pieces, but the texture is missing. You have to add a new DcDtEc texture, lair_energyglow_ni to nomad.mat, refer to lair_energy.tga as the Dt_name and use a full white Ec node. This will cause the tubes to glow yellow and have texture animations too.

Its a Great News We Finally Got Beta

Can Anyone Mirror The File? I am Getting very slow Downloading Speed.

After You FL code Masters Fix All Crashes and Bugs of beta, can you Release a Stable beta? thanks

Freelancer-sp wrote:
After You FL code Masters Fix All Crashes and Bugs of beta, can you Release a Stable beta? thanks

I forget, but, didn’t Microsoft/Digital Anvil already do that

i mean this beta and please can you make mirror of this download , i cant download it each time got disconnect no resume and slow speed, really need a good mirror , please anyone add. thanks

Can anyone please upload it to gamefront or other good mirror? thanks , keep disconnecting while download 300 400 mb downloaded and got disconnect :@

Did you make another account to make it look like two people were asking for a mirror download?

OLLOLLOLLO

Yes Because i cannot Download it in my 20 Download limits 20 Tries thats why i am asking anyone to add any good mirror

Well its Beta, just 6 months before game get release, so its nothing important to look at in it, we really need Freelancer Alpha, the one in the 2001 trailer , who got totally different story and characters, i only wish if anyone can finds that

Got the Beta

i like when tradelane shaking effect, but something is weird when i attack ships as they hull power reduces i am getting an error each time and i have to press ok each time to continue playing it means for killing 1 ship i have to press ok many times when error appears, any fix of that?

(pokes his head in)

Well, this is a development. It seems like everything decides to happen while I am taking a break.

I trawled through the files, hoping to find something interesting that I could use, but came up disappointed. The music files, which is what I was really interested in, are of inferior quality in my opinion. The closest I found to something that I may want to use is the new (old?) Nomad Elite, but it would be a pain to wireframe that thing for little benefit. The original has a wireframe already, but it appears to not work in-game, and the new model provided by Thaddeus has changed sufficiently that said wireframe won’t work. So I came up disappointed…

Until I found something.

The gas miner.

It’s roughly the same (and is obviously a precursor) as the secondary gas miner model found in the Hokkaido system in vanilla, but unlike the vanilla model, it has working docking ports. It also features a large interior area that you can fly into, as well as a fully working SUR and wireframe. Quite a find, and I’ll probably implement it into my mod.

I’ll keep looking, but I’m not sure I’ll find anything else.

The gas miner is the most interesting thing, although it does shares the same .vms name with the newer gas miner and causes crc clashes. So you need to mod that if you want to use it in the same system as the others. It also has an animation, the exhaust ports extend out from the body ~for some reason~
Cargo pods are also interesting, they are the multi colored jobs from the beta screen shots. They are in the same early format as the No_elite, although they appear in game the wires dont show. One of these days I’ll get round to doing them. Already converted the textures to dds and cleared the texture crc issues with them.
I have since completed the Nomad elite to a vanilla standard - 4 lods, handwritten wireframe based on lod3 - working animations. On the back of that I also rebuilt the fighter, my own nomad freighter and 6 spike snub to the same standard. Drop me a pm if you want to use them

What about that Nomad Elite working in todays FL with animation and sur? http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5267&forum=9

Wow, guys are including LODs in their models now… That’s about the only vanilla thing that I don’t do.

I’ll take a look at your model, Skotty.

All of Freeworlds’ models have LODs. It’s the only way to integrate high poly models without causing heavy aliasing from a distance (it also helps performance ).

I have been playing the first mission in the beta. I really love the way the ship handles, i never liked the absurd speeds and agility in vanilla. Is there any way to copy parts of the interface to a mod? Some of those things are really usefull.