The Gameplay possibilities of the engine are great, taken in account that it is imaging what a space engine is missing - thinking of planetary quests, free movements, vehicles to reach spots, planetary and interplanetary economies bound to human and/or cpu controlled politics. A single solar system or just a planet can catch a player for weeks. After you land on an Asteroid you are walking to a station, buy a miner and start harvesting ore - putting it into a transporter, moving to a planet where you can refine and sell or build things. EVE, Second Life and a 3D shooter alltogether in space…

How do you plan the networking, mmorg, server cluster, single game?

great work!

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start here: http://www.moddb.com/games/homeworld/downloads/homeworld-universe-mod-tools

unpack the game files

use the tools to export the models to obj or 3ds

rest is how to import obj or 3ds saved models to fl - see the tutorials here at tsp.

you’ll need to use the modded texture upgrades of the HW community to get a fair result - the vanilla textures are, let’s say not “up to date”. It’s a mod - so please be fair and honor their usage restrictions in your project before you will release something.

Thx for your work to keep TSP up w0dk4 .

Now there are only three month left for reaching year two of development and Chapter I of Shadow of Fear is released. The actual version is 2.0 build 8842 RC3.

For getting a short impression you may have a look to this HD video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GmHcQtWKH0

Feel welcome to join us in Multiplayer or on our Forum, everything needed is posted on our portal, some links below are leading to different pages.

Download SoF via ModDB
Installation Instructions
Credits
Changelog
Forum
Support

Have as much fun playing the Mod, as we had while creating it!

The mods packed size is around 1,6 GB, unpacked size is 4,1 GB please be patient while downloading and installing it.

On a sidenote - because we are at TSP here, this is only the first step of SoF we will continue the project, no matter of freelancers future. If anyone is searching for a new, dedicated moddig Project to work on, just contact me here or every Admin at our Forum. It would be also cool to have the Release downloadable from TSP, thanks in advance.

this is considered as near as possible to awesome by me!

Please keep on, i will test it as soon as i have some time and will give some feedback.

Thanks for sharing it!

ImO you can not add more than 7 different parts to a sph file (6 sides + atmosphere) - at least i tried it one time but didn’t made it yet - maybe someone had more success and can provide a working draft for it, such as a second atmosphere entry.

But you can put a cmp around the sph - with a tranparent layer it should be possible to create for example moving clouds and other stuff.

It would just become a problem of performance imO, allthough it would create cool possibilities.

For the other, all ready cleared question, simply make a complete texture for the whole planet and let the planet tool create the tiles (saying it for those who may search this thread in the future).

DirtyLittleGirl wrote:
Does somebody know the method to apply lightmap and cloud layers to SPH planets? Searching forums returned for CMP only.

if i understand the request right it should be possible in just texturing the tiles the way you want them.

Your above problem is most likely because of setting up the sph, txm and mat file for one, or two instead of six sides (just a guess). Every tile needs it’s own node and have to be named in an order such as:

*.sph

sphere

• M0
• <sidename1>- M1 […]

*.mat

Material library

• Material count
• <athmosphere>- <sidename1>- <sidename2>- […]

*.txm

• Exporter Version
• Texture Library
• <sidename1>- tilefile1.dds
• <sidename2>- tilefile2.dds

It helps to make a planet with 6 tiles using simple 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 texture tiles so you must not refer to your tiles in Game all day long while making the planets.</sidename2></sidename1></sidename2></sidename1></athmosphere></sidename1>

First of all, thanks for the link w0dk4!

Second - would you please use our url instead of the disco url? Currently the link is leading to disco

Thanks!

Best would be http://shadowoffear.net because everything will be ported to the url and it is redirecting to the current one - so it will be secure for the future too.

[…]because of a few request - here are some core links.

Download
Installation Instructions
Credits
Changelog
Forum
Help

Have as much fun playing SoF as we had while creating it!

You need some patience, the downloads file size is around 2 GB.

Well,

from the point where we posted the news until now much time passed by…

Now we have the open beta online.

Enjoy

Daywalker wrote:

Daywalker wrote:
Hi,

may you please add the Modname: Shadow of Fear with the url http://sof.zumreden.de/ to the Server/Mod link section?

The bar is at: http://sof.zumreden.de/portal/

Thanks in advance

[…]

If you ever decide to place our mod into the server links use www.shadowoffear.net as the url please.

thanks

…also important when you are going to use it:

Help/Key & Mouse Commands

he is irretated - i guess, like me too

yw,

i don’t know anything about possible differences between the german and english freelancer.exe versions, sorry.

The picture shows how you need to do it - just in case.

Thanks for the update report adoxa!

yes, use a hex editor - i am using pspad for everything editing related, pretty good and freeware: http://www.pspad.com/en/

just search for 27ADCA (the lines are alway starting at zero, going into the line will lead you to Hex A) after you openend the freelancer.exe with it or your prefered Hex Editor and overwrite the current value with the one from FF.

Hi, sry for posting a link - all in there.

http://sof.zumreden.de/portal/?p=394

F!R is right .\ means the directory in which the filepointer (for Example Freelancer\EXE\ is currently.

.\subdirectory\flmaterials.dll

would point to Freelancer\EXE\subdirectory\flmaterials.dll (-> looking from Freelancer\EXE).

…\Data\subdirectory\flmaterials.dll.

…\ would change into the next higher directory (Freelancer in this case) by “…” after it to the Data and after it to subdirectory loading the mentioned dll from this location (-> looking from the Freelancer\EXE again).

This way you are able to place for example the dll’s you want to load into a directory of your choice while keeping the priority directory.

Or said in short - the system is locked in the exe folder and have to be pointed to every single location of files.

thanks for sharing this!

great stuff.