Topic: Battle at the grave of thought: WTH?! (Read 8047 times)

FireSoul · « **on:** February 14, 2003, 12:54:11 am »

Ok... so I've been playing the single-player campaign (compiled for OP) for the last few days.. and I've finally reached the mission "Battle at the Grave of Thought."

Problem #1 spotted: I appear alone on my side. I hail the friendly listening post and they report that I still have 2 allied cruisers in the game.

"Ok. fine." I quickly add some basic debug output to the script.
Basically, to the part where it adds my 2 allies:

Code:


FILE *fp = fopen("c:\\batgot.txt", "w");
fprintf(fp, "Yes, I really got here.");
fflush(fp);
fclose(fp);

I start the game.. get to the mission.. and voila, the friendly NPCs are present!
.. I removed the code tidbit, got to the mission again in the game, and no friendly AI.

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.... some kind of weird timing issue?
.. any suggestion to add a proper small delay at each team's creation?

-- Luc
FireSoul

FireSoul · « **Reply #1 on:** February 14, 2003, 12:58:01 am »

Under EAW, I think the bug is:

Quote:

I'm trying to finish the "Battle at the Graveyard of Thoughts" mission (FED.) I capture all the bases, destroy all the ISC ships, and call for a transport, but it NEVER arrives.

.. sounds similar.. timing issue in the game again? Think delays will help here too?

Note:
.. all AI ships created in this mission are hardcoded in the game. If they're not in the shiplist, the ship won't get created.
ie: the Hydran AI friendlies are: H-OV, H-D7H.
.. comments?

FPF_TraceyG · « **Reply #2 on:** February 14, 2003, 02:03:27 am »

How about giving those ships specific customIDs, then do a check to see if the ships exist eg if *ship == NULL, and create the extra ships if needed...

FireSoul · « **Reply #3 on:** February 14, 2003, 02:12:18 am »

Within a TimerID? An interesting idea.
I'll look into it when I have time. My SO will be giving birth within the next few days.

.. unless someone else can take care of it?

-- Luc

FireSoul · « **Reply #4 on:** February 14, 2003, 05:42:45 pm »

It worked. First hurdle past: creation of allied ships.

.. next hurdle, fixing the Transport creation.
-- Luc

FireSoul · « **Reply #5 on:** February 14, 2003, 09:55:42 pm »

Ok!

.. I think that fixes things:

1- Allied ships now appear.
2- Calling extra cruisers now works.
3- Calling for freighters now works.

.. Is there anything else that needed to be fixed?
-- Luc

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #6 on:** February 14, 2003, 10:01:47 pm »

This is VERY welcome news! Thank you Firesoul and congrads on your addition to your family.

KF

FireSoul · « **Reply #7 on:** February 15, 2003, 04:21:54 am »

I think I'm done:

A general forum post about this script.

Tulwar · « **Reply #8 on:** July 06, 2003, 04:16:45 pm »

Would somebody be kind enough to post a link for the patched OP Battle at the Grave of Thoughts? I only found a dead link.
Many thanks.

FireSoul · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2003, 05:17:10 am »

http://klingon.stasis.ca/EAW_missions/

Tulwar · « **Reply #10 on:** July 07, 2003, 03:43:28 pm »

Thankyou very much! The fighters/PF mod is supposed to work with the OP campaigns, can't wait to try it out!

Jim · « **Reply #12 on:** July 09, 2003, 03:55:45 pm »

Hey Tracy,

Where did that picture you use originally come from? I have seen several people using it now, but nobody seems to know where it came from (some Gothic site is as close as anyone knows)...

Just curious...

Jim

ps. I saw it again today on yahoo in a chat room... the girls profile is at:

http://profiles.yahoo.com/sweetdaisey21

FPF_TraceyG · « **Reply #13 on:** July 10, 2003, 05:26:32 am »

That b**tch, she stole my picture... lol

You are in fact correct, it does come from an art website, a very good one actually, and yes, it has a very gothic theme to it. The artist is Dorean Cleavenger, his website is at http://www.dorianart.com/ , there you will find the original portrait in its entirety. I'm not surprised that others are using it as well. He has quite a lot of artwork displayed on the site. Be warned though, it does contain *** ADULT MATERIAL ***.
I chose that particular one for two reasons, 1: I liked his work and thought it would look great in a sig pic, and 2: I wanted an image that bore as close a resemblance to myself as possible. Oh, and more than likely most of the others would have been banned from the forums anyway... lol.

Jim · « **Reply #14 on:** July 10, 2003, 04:57:33 pm »

cool site... the guy is very talented!

Jim

ps. I noticed the original was already sold... wonder who bought it?

FireSoul

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