ODS v0.512

kinggeorge · Post by **kinggeorge** » 2003-07-12 07:56:00

Texture's are pretty done / ready for a beta... still some bad tiling errors but that's why it is called beta

The few remaining can be adressed for a next beta.
About the rest I don't know - Snake_Man?

PMC Youtube channel · Post by **Snake Man** » 2003-07-12 11:47:00

quote:Originally posted by kinggeorge:
About the rest I don't know - Snake_Man?

There is no rest. I'm looking at you tile guys what to do next.

87th_striker · Post by **87th_striker** » 2003-07-12 16:16:00

Ami, could you contact me at striker@87th.org ?

Tiles tiles tiles....

kinggeorge · Post by **kinggeorge** » 2003-07-15 15:52:00

nuff tiles for a public beta now from my side

Ender Wiggin · Post by **Ender Wiggin** » 2003-07-15 22:44:00

Lets hope Snakeman thinks the same.

PMC Youtube channel · Post by **Snake Man** » 2003-07-15 22:47:00

OK so lets clear the table, where do we stand now...

Have I got all the tiles as of today?
Should I package all the crap together for beta (public or whatever you wish)?

Anyways whether the beta comes public or otherwise tomorrow, or months from now... I guess its time to start hunt that server to host it. It will be ... I dont know, 240mb or so, which in normal f4theater standards is largish. Any falcon sites that would want to host that?

Ender Wiggin · Post by **Ender Wiggin** » 2003-07-16 03:46:00

I would if i had the space, also, theres no kind of compression that would work out?

PMC Youtube channel · Post by **Snake Man** » 2003-07-16 07:27:00

That reported 240mb size is with using RAR v3.0 the best archiver there is that I know of.

Tazz · Post by **Tazz** » 2003-07-16 14:19:00

Can't wait to try it - excellent work guys. Is this the very first theater with 512x512 textures?

PMC Youtube channel · Post by **Snake Man** » 2003-07-16 15:25:00

quote:Originally posted by Tazz:
Is this the very first theater with 512x512 textures?

Afghanistan was the first.

However this is the first theater with 512 res tiles made by REAL tile ARTISTS. Afghanistan was just my own tile work which was horrible, but it was the first 512 res tile theater indeed.

Daws · Post by **Daws** » 2003-07-16 18:50:00

Can't wait to tray this theater!
Make it pubblic ,please :p

Ender Wiggin · Post by **Ender Wiggin** » 2003-07-16 19:18:00

PMC doesnt have the space?

RobC_F4 · Post by **RobC_F4** » 2003-07-16 20:00:00

Hi Snakeman

I have space (unused) available, but only allowed 10 Gig Xfer/month, that's no way enough for a "Public Beta". Now let's see 10Gig divided by 250Mb equals roughly 40 Downloads then I will have to close the tap ...

Let me know, will have to set up an FTP account

Greetz - Rob

PMC Youtube channel · Post by **Snake Man** » 2003-07-17 00:29:00

It seems to me that now we are just waiting word from Ami about any remaining tiles, then this thing would be packed up to first beta for tile-guys to verify everything works.

My concern is campaigns, I hope to get them checked so there is no crashing campaign. But I dont even want to think about mission generating problems...

And we do have hd space and bandwidth to get this theater spread, but its been quite long already that we haven't "hosted" any theater downloads. You can get only those theater related utils from here.

Tazz · Post by **Tazz** » 2003-07-17 10:01:00

We'll have to verif that we have enough space, but as soon as this beta is out - one of the 87th VFW can upload it to our own FTP server. All the Stray Dogs would download this theater for our private FTP server instead, saves some bandwidth for the other servers.

PMC Youtube channel · Post by **Snake Man** » 2003-07-17 13:23:00

I have the feeling with ODS v0.512b that we have the law of jungle here, strongest will survive...

I mean if someone REALLY wants this theater, he finds it under some rock and can download. We dont need some multi-mega-mammoth server host blabla advertisements going on. The underground theater peeps will get their hands on this one way or the other

87th_striker · Post by **87th_striker** » 2003-07-17 13:40:00

I guess one download for all the VFW's would start the mudslide

Tazz · Post by **Tazz** » 2003-07-17 13:55:00

Host it on Kazaa?

ccc · Post by **ccc** » 2003-07-17 14:38:00

if possible, i'd like to order one on CD.

Tazz · Post by **Tazz** » 2003-07-17 16:27:00

No problem but I ain't paying for everyone's P&P

PMC Youtube channel · Post by **Snake Man** » 2003-07-17 16:52:00

For the tile-makers I've just packed up the theater dir with winrar v3.0 which packs it tighter than zip...

DesertStormTheaterAddon.v0.512b.r5.rar - 247mb

That hopefully has all the latest tiles and three campaigns (theaters).

kinggeorge · Post by **kinggeorge** » 2003-07-17 18:47:00

I have plenty of bandwidth to send via IRC DCC the theater to those who visit me in the theaters channel (name KG) (see pmc page - contact) or on quakenet #semper (name [Semper]Sniper)

Ender Wiggin · Post by **Ender Wiggin** » 2003-07-17 19:22:00

When shes up, i wanna link! ill see what i can about getting my VFW to test it for you guys.

Wolf · Post by **Wolf** » 2003-07-17 20:19:00

Has this theater new TACAN channels and New sounds for ATC.. or are the same of Korea?

Tazz · Post by **Tazz** » 2003-07-17 22:23:00

Now that the file-name is known - does that mean that the theater is 'out'?

kinggeorge · Post by **kinggeorge** » 2003-07-17 23:24:00

it's not out yet...

PMC Youtube channel · Post by **Snake Man** » 2003-07-17 23:59:00

The tile-maker guys need to verify that the campaigns work, at least somewhat. After this test (and possibly if Ami brings in last minute tiles) its ready for public.

And I have absolutely no clue whatsoever how this public spreading does happen

FAngs32 · Post by **FAngs32** » 2003-07-18 02:00:00

quote:Originally posted by 87th_striker:
I guess one download for all the VFW's would start the mudslide

Yep <g>

FAngs_444th

Ender Wiggin · Post by **Ender Wiggin** » 2003-07-18 05:29:00

we might get lucky, and our site have enough space to hold it, i dunno though.

Malc · Post by **Malc** » 2003-07-18 12:01:00

I'd be able to post out CD copies to a beta-test team, probably worldwide, if it helps.

RobC_F4 · Post by **RobC_F4** » 2003-07-18 18:13:00

quote:Originally posted by Malcolm:
I'd be able to post out CD copies to a beta-test team, probably worldwide, if it helps.

Sure the folk on dial up will appreciate that one - heck even my "Bush 256Kb" line goes on a "go slow strike" from time to time.

PMC Youtube channel · Post by **Snake Man** » 2003-07-18 18:31:00

We could always split it to like 5mb rar's if that helps for 56k/modem/dialup guys?

RobC_F4 · Post by **RobC_F4** » 2003-07-18 19:54:00

quote:Originally posted by Snake Man:
We could always split it to like 5mb rar's if that helps for 56k/modem/dialup guys?

Geez, not 5Mb

25Mb is manageable on dialup IMHO ... 10 x 25Mb? (otherwise it's 50 x 5!)

Just IMHO. Anyone else?

kinggeorge · Post by **kinggeorge** » 2003-07-18 22:33:00

beta gave me some probs - campaing 2 and 3 crashes... desert storm did run but no flights - Snakeman could you look into it?
Also a ctd with message of unable to open terrtex cpp in midfligth over desert terrain... weird.

Maybe its just a bad install on my side

(i'm offline now...)

EDIT: just found that the texture.zip is from 30.6 so it cannot be the right one...

kinggeorge · Post by **kinggeorge** » 2003-07-19 19:22:00

texture zip now works - and with a huge upgrade to the rest of the falcon graphics by raptor-87th it is looking quite goodie:

RobC_F4 · Post by **RobC_F4** » 2003-07-19 20:35:00

kinggeorge · Post by **kinggeorge** » 2003-07-19 21:34:00

yep iran - model is from Raptors huge skinpack preview. needless to say it rules

87th_striker · Post by **87th_striker** » 2003-07-19 21:37:00

For the campaigns ...
http://www.mod.uk/publications/iraq_lessons/index.html

Enricos · Post by **Enricos** » 2003-07-20 13:37:00

Hi guys!

As I told you half year(or more) ago: "I'll be back", here I am.

I am ready for duty!
I can recive files by ICQ (so Widmak could you pleeease send me this?). DCC did not work on my PC - I'm behind NAT. I need to make some settings on my Router and in mIRC, can somene help me with it?

PS. Snake my email is enricos@2com.pl in case you lost it...

Widowmaker · Post by **Widowmaker** » 2003-07-20 13:43:00

hehe

Snakman does the spreading of the betas,
frankly said I donnot have the latest updates since I am away for the weekend.

so stay around in #falcon4theaters and try and catch Snakeman there.

/widmak