[Pnakotus]

Is anyone else getting corrupt dls?  I pulled down the zipped vp, and it was broken.  I pulled down the unpacked zip, and it was broken.  AFAIK I'm only missing 'peracles.pcx', but for all I know it stopped downloading early.

[Pnakotus]

Yes, my downloads are ending prematurely.  Who'd believe so much trouble to download a 2.4Mb file?

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Mefustae
It appears that the Readme for the functional Zipped version appears to be on the fritz.  Now, i've got a folder full of various files (below) and no idea what to do with 'em. Would someone be able to inform me as to how one would go about getting this bastard to work...?

Make a new folder called data inside the one you've got pictured called data.

Make a new folder inside that one called tables. Copy anything that ends in .tbl to that folder.

Make a Data\Models folder. Move the .pof file in there.

You should just be left with just 2 .vp files in the main folder.

Select the twlight folder with the launcher as your mod and you're done.

[Mefustae]

Curses! I'm getting a launcher error that says:

Mod directory name can't contain space

Which is quite perplexing, as the name of the folder is simply 'twilight', no spaces, symbols, or anything in sight...for the record, i'm using the Launcher version that came with 3.6.7...

...Upon further inspection, this appears to affect every attempt I make to select a mod, no matter which one...!

[karajorma]

It's cause you've installed FS2 in "program files".

I've heard that selecting no mod and then manually typing in -mod twilight should solve your problem though.

[Mefustae]

Oh, bloody hell, i'm about ready to just give up on the whole damn thing...!

...I get this error on starting up with Twilight selected, doesn't even get to the opening cinematic...

Error: music.tbl(3):
Error: Required token = [#Menu Music Start] or [#SoundTrack Start], found [:  Copyrighted 2001 except where] .

File: parse/parselo.cpp
Line: 551
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------

[Goober5000]

Yeah, that's what I meant here:

1) In practically every table, the copyright notice was introduced by a colon, not a semicolon. This meant that the copyright notice was being parsed as part of the table, not as a comment.

I found all the table errors in my link back there, and I wrote down all the instructions for anyone who wants to read them.

[Mefustae]

Riiiiiight, sorry about that, i'm what one would call - in technical terms - an idiot...

...Still, how does one fix it...?

[Target]

http://rapidshare.de/files/5582507/Twilightedit.rar.html

Made Goobers changes and a few others, mission6 locks up my computer though.

[Ace]

Originally posted by BlackDove
Twilight wasn't finished and never will be

Unless Ace has masochistic wishes.

What's been delaying a Twilight re-release is two things:
1) New CB animations.

2) Waiting for the SCP features to have everything I want. (namely pixel shaders so I can have my glow effects!)

The plot is still the same, just an overhaul on the Creon and the inter-system subspace device.

As it is, I'm not very happy with the current campaign. Too many weird glitches that appear on some computers, but not on others. Even the attempts by other people to fix the various model bugs haven't panned out, as if it is caused by some sort of phantom.

Anyway, some day there will be a finalized version.

As for the plot:
Warzone, Derelict, and Twilight are more or less concurrent.

Twilight is a small operation in Ikeya (just the GTD Morgaine and a Vasudan admiral who caught wind of what the GTVI was really up to...), it ties more directly to the supar-secrat stuff in BWO than any of the shady dealings in either Warzone or Derelict.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Ace
What's been delaying a Twilight re-release is two things:
1) New CB animations.

a) What's wrong with the ones you have?  They're already better than 90% of the stuff out there.
b) You asked Setekh to make them back in 2002 or so and he hasn't yet. That's not a good trend.

2) Waiting for the SCP features to have everything I want. (namely pixel shaders so I can have my glow effects!)

Ugh.  You'll likely be waiting a long time on that as well.

As it is, I'm not very happy with the current campaign. Too many weird glitches that appear on some computers, but not on others. Even the attempts by other people to fix the various model bugs haven't panned out, as if it is caused by some sort of phantom.

Nobody else who has posted is a coder or a modeller.  Don't you think it's rather more likely that they didn't fix the model correctly?

I ran the debug build of FSO a year ago and found out what the problems were.  They're still the same problems as the campaign hasn't changed between then and now.

Bah.  Whoever has trouble running Twilight, download this file, extract it to the appropriate places, and run the campaign.  It'll work just fine.

[Cooked Salmon]

A running motif in Twilight, Warzone, and Derelict seems to be a GTVI insurgency in the works.  In Warzone, you have Admiral Russik, a former GTI agent wanting to control Shivans; in Twilight, there's the Laomedon Conclave, a GTVI division making artificial nodes and trying to control Shivans; and in Derelict, it's a lot more subtle with that strange mission where a GTFf Saphah and stealth fighters suddenlt attack you while you're searching for the MTD Auriga.  MT is probably part of the GTVI conspiracy, and I guess things will come to a head in BWO.