Status

[Ender Wiggin]

Hows the SP conversion coming along? Is there an installer yet to test? Theres nothing more fun than flying in SAM territory waiting to get shot down

[Snake Man]

In data terms nothing has changed since the last public release that is out there.

I made SP2 compatible installer for it, but thats all.

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Snake Man

[Ender Wiggin]

need testers?

[Snake Man]

I apprciate your enthusiasm for testing, but maybe you can manage with SP3 builds + ODS few more days?

Believe me there are going to be SO much testing. Balkans, Vietnam, ODS, Afghanistan, Europe... oh my.

When was the last time that you had so much "game" that you run out of time to enjoy it all

But if you really want, sure you can have that Vietnam installer to check it out. There is not really anything to test as it is just thrown together quickly and its not meant to be "beta" or anything to "test on".

Let me know.

btw: there is still the ghost issue of Vietnam 128 in the air...

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Snake Man

[Ender Wiggin]

I can hold out if you want, after SP3 theres the Balkans too.

[Ninja]

I'am availble if you need anymore testers

[Snake Man]

THIS IS NO MEANS ANY BETA OF VIETNAM. JUST AN EXAMPLE OF 128 VERSION!

install instructions - follow them or don't ask help!

1) unzip this package into the falcon dir
2) copy terrdata\korea\texture dir into terrdata\vietnam\texture
3) copy terrdata\korea\weather dir into terrdata\vietnam\weather
4) add line "terrdata\theaterdefinition\vietnam.tdf" into theater.lst file
5) run SPTinstall.exe in falcon dir, browse terrdata\vietnam dir and click create

There has been problems with falcon installations with spaces in path name, like
for example:

C:\Program Files\MicroProse\Falcon4

its wrong, its SO wrong man... uninstall falcon and reinstall it to for
example dir of:

C:\MicroProse\Falcon4

To get it fully standard dir name. Do not use spaces in any filenames...
If you have read this fully and still have problems, check the vietnam
forums at http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/

I don't recommend anyone to leech this piece of trash... but if you really really want to see vietnam 128 spherically converted theater with new CATE tiling, then check out dir vietnam128_test1/ in our server. Its about 18mb download.

I've created also small campaign for it, short test was working ok. There are couple of ground units also. Terrain seem to work ok. instant action should work ok. tactical engagement does not work at all, if you select it it gives you CTD. as said the terrain is spherically converted not like the Official 64 vietnam.

To me at least this version of terrain texturing is bit more jungle style as there are lot of swamp tiles. The actual elevations go like:
lowest point
# swamp thing
# wet farmland
# dry farmland
# forest
# mountain rock
highest point

Whole idea of this vietnam 128 is to show the hardcore guys what are the differences between the small and large theaters. This does not mean that its decided yet which version will be the final.

Uh, I'll shutup now. Oh one more thing, please do not post "news" about this to any other sites. This is just some nice test teaser for you guys who care to read this puny forum.

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Snake Man