I finished up the test mission. Its a very easy, only a few minutes mission. Nothing fancy, just trying to get something that works.

Eventually, I want to make it longer, have the enemy spawn opposite from whereever your defenders are. And if I remember the Redemption scenario from X-Wing correctly, leaving the area around the ship unguarded would cause the enemy to get daring and try to take out the ship in one swoop. Thus only one group to try and take out all the Ties

Here are my notes so far

1) Music really enhances things.. are you planning on getting the music pack in this release? I didn't have a copy of the latest music installer on this hard drive, but I did find an older music.zip. Is this the same version?

I wouldn't want to have to change music references as I found some good pieces for this mission.

2) Right now, the damage effects don't fire off in the beginning ships. I'd like it move and show that the ships are damaged, but it doesn't seem to work right.

3) I'm thinking now that the orientation of the ship when it spawns/exits hyperspace is directly due to the position where it started from and the position that it appeared. Any ideas?

4) X-Wing S-Foils animation doesn't seem to work. It fires with S-Foils closed.

5) Anyway to change the overlay colors? I know people are probably use to the "green=friendly, red=enemy" of HW2, but the Empire should definitely be green and the Rebels should be red.

6) Did every ship gain the ability to drop mines for some reason?

7) X-Wings and Tie Bombers don't work too well. When they get in a dogfight, they don't do much. I just told the Bombers to go attack another ship.. and the X-Wings do fairly well when lined up for the shot. Took down the manuever speed of the Bombers too, seemed to help in that arena.

Something about the hyperspacing, when I hyperspace the carrier off the map, it still remains there seconds later. It's weird.

Tell me if you have any ideas.. I'm gonna load it up at the same link I gave you Eville

Note: the images may be different from the game, depending on the various background, light, fog settings, etc...

This is just the start

Backgrounds

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Planets

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As well, I'd like to get the current camera position, but there doesn't seem to be a function to do that. Is there a way to get the camera position in the LUA while running in-game?

I'd like to have it so I can press a button and get a readout of where all the ships are, and where the camera is. This will definitely help planning and creating these missions. Possibly the speed of the ships and so forth.

There doesn't seem to be a way to get any identification for the actual ship being selected. The LUA uses only the SobGroup names, each individual ship doesn't seem to be identified.

So well, I'm stuck. Trying to do the beginning of ESB with the probe droids, but can't get my ISD to stop where I want it, and the probes to come out where I want it. It's just boot-leg. I guess whenever someone figures out the NIS, I could do a better job.

Oh well, here's hoping for an actual mission editor using the in-game engine.

I'm trying to get the mission ROT files to load, so there's a different loading screen in-game.

I used Spooky's HW .ROT Tool to convert to the DDS. And then DDS Converter 2 to create an bitmap. It says this file is 1024x512.

Then I try putting a 1024x512 image to my campaign. Backwards process, bitmap -> DDS -> ROT. I load up the game, and the image doesn't seem to come out right. It doesn't display the entire thing.

Any idea? Do I have the wrong file size? Or is there something special about the DDS that I have to do?

I'm not offering any solutions, just discussion. From Tie Fighter and such, we have another scale where fighters are extremely strong. One can make the difference - namely, the player character.

So its really going to be hard to translate some historical missions from the game into Homeworld. I expect we'll find some that are actually useful, but some missions will have to be altered or not used.

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I'm asking anyone with lots of free time, go through the X-Wing/Tie Fighter games and start laying out each mission.

Which ships are there, what goals are done - how does it fit storyline-wise. Even a map will be good.

Those will be one resource we can use to plan single player missions. If anyone things X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter or X-Wing Alliance will prove useful as well, I'd love to get some background on those.

And anyone that actually has the Farlander Papers and Stele Chronicles (coming from X-Wing and Tie Fighter respectively), send them my way too!