Armada and Armada 2 nostalgia

[Rifraf]

Wait Rifraf, which one worked and which one didn't? You said A2 twice! Lol.

Anyway, I know that A2 has been operational with Fleet Ops, I don't know how well vanilla A2 runs. Whatever the case, I hope that both manage to be run as, more than likely, when I get a new computer I will be forced to have Win 10 and I would like to still be able to play both Armada games.

A2 is fantastic for me with all the modding I've done with it and A1 has the best SP campaigns, so I'd love to be able to still play both on a new comp.

I know. My bad. I meant to say A1 does not work for me. Sorry for the confusion

 

[OpetJa]

Rifraf, did you try that fix I was writting about??

 

[Archonon]

No worries Rifraf, just a typo. Nevertheless, let us know if you try OpetJa's fix and it works for you; the more people that get A1 working, the better.

 

[Rifraf]

I hadn't had a chance to try that fix, but will let you know. I'd love to be able to play A1 again

 

[OpetJa]

This one is for modders...
I was wondering does anyone know how to make Galaxy class (or better said - Galaxy class textures) look better in A1?? Ok, when you zoom camera those textures look pretty good, but zooming much makes gameplay somehow harder...
By default camera setting, saucer section always looks cut by scissors... Quite annoying all these years...

 

[Archonon]

You could maybe ask Phantom, his mod Future Tense is for A1 and the Future Tense team have gotten those ships to look spectacular.

 

[CABAL]

This one is for modders...
I was wondering does anyone know how to make Galaxy class (or better said - Galaxy class textures) look better in A1?? Ok, when you zoom camera those textures look pretty good, but zooming much makes gameplay somehow harder...
By default camera setting, saucer section always looks cut by scissors... Quite annoying all these years...

Try going into the ART_CFG.h file in the main game directory with Notepad. Find the line "float DETAIL_1_LOD_0_DISTANCE = 300;" (without the quotes). There should also be two more lines for other distances. Add a few zeros to the end of each value. So instead of

// Levels of detail based on depth
float DETAIL_1_LOD_0_DISTANCE = 300;
float DETAIL_1_LOD_1_DISTANCE = 150;
float DETAIL_1_LOD_2_DISTANCE = 75;

it would be

// Levels of detail based on depth
float DETAIL_1_LOD_0_DISTANCE = 300000;
float DETAIL_1_LOD_1_DISTANCE = 150000;
float DETAIL_1_LOD_2_DISTANCE = 75000;

That should do it, I think.

 

[OpetJa]

Well, I tried Cabal's suggestion, but nothing changed... There are 4 lines "float DETAIL_1_LOD_0_DISTANCE = xxx" in ART_CFG.h file
and I have added 3 zeros everywhere I could, but that Galaxy model still looks same...

 

[OpetJa]

Is there any way to make ships appear in game "higher" than default (I hope you now I'm talking about) or better said - more above background grid? Maybe that way we could get ships (and stations) look more detailed...