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FO Modding Questions

stardust

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K_merse said:
Whenever I try to debug the game I play around with the map editor, spawning a single ship type and using it. Let it move, fire at things and be destroyed by another ship. It will tell you if there is a problem with it. Then go on to stations. If all these work fine and the game still crashes then the problem will be most likely in the .cfg files, the AIPs or the techtree. Although the techtree usually clears up earlier as usually leads to a crash while the game is loading the map.

EDIT: On a side note, it would be interesting to try and tidy up the Future Wars mod as a side project :)
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I'd be down to try, but my skills lie in coding, and not modeling.
 
Terra_Inc

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stardust said:
I'd be down to try, but my skills lie in coding, and not modeling.
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It's been literal ages since I last looked at Future Wars, but I don't think you'd need modeling skills if you were trying to fix bugs in it. Probably just some ODF and maybe tech tree or sprite file coding. IDK about the campaign, I never looked too closely at it.
 
stardust

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Indeed. More looking to get skirmish working and stable before trying to fix a campaign!
 
Tryptic

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stardust said:
Indeed. More looking to get skirmish working and stable before trying to fix a campaign!
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Where do you download the "last" version of Future Wars? And is there anyone who worked on it previously whom you think would have an issue with people cleaning it up or recreating it? Fixing a few bugs and crashes in Skirmish mode shouldn't be difficult, once you have the right knowledge.
 
dvatreknerd314

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Tryptic said:
Where do you download the "last" version of Future Wars? And is there anyone who worked on it previously whom you think would have an issue with people cleaning it up or recreating it? Fixing a few bugs and crashes in Skirmish mode shouldn't be difficult, once you have the right knowledge.
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I think Future Wars still has a ModDB page, and the modders that are listed as the authors on ModDB I dont think are still active
 
Tryptic

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oh boy, the Settings Menu doesn't have a button to return to the Main Menu. Fixing this up...may be a bigger project than I first anticipated.
 
dvatreknerd314

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Tryptic said:
oh boy, the Settings Menu doesn't have a button to return to the Main Menu. Fixing this up...may be a bigger project than I first anticipated.
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Can you hover over areas where the return button would normally be at? Try to click something there to make it work?
 
Tryptic

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dvatreknerd314 said:
Can you hover over areas where the return button would normally be at? Try to click something there to make it work?
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I've tried, the button is straight gone :D
With that said, it might be possible to retrieve the skirmish and campaign modes without actually using all of the menu UI. I just don't know if I have the kind of time it would take >_>
 
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