The Stars Beyond

Tue May 24, 2011 7:29 pm

Actually, you are surprisingly close on your guess.

At any rate, I'd be getting ahead of myself to explain it all now, but I hope to have the lore post up tonight or tomorrow.

mtirchick · Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:43 am

Oh man I am drooling just over the graphics(starting to think about modding myself) i got several cool ideas that i will not share until I am done modding them though(starting to read up on modding)...i love to think outside the box...i did share some semi-cool ideas...gonna save the best ideas for myself thank you. By the time you finish the stars beyond...I am sure I willl have extensive knowledge to creat some!

Gen.Marko · Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:58 pm

wolfy where can i download transcendence the stars beyond its great best extension ever. I got alsow some idead
1.
CSC can be bould in st khatarins star it should take 5-30 minutes in a giant shipyard
2.
korolov station in Charon system can be bould if destroyed
3.
some war and normal prisons

sorry for my bad writing

Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:27 pm

TSB is not yet released, though it will be opened to developers soon (mostly to do things like actually coding things into the game)

Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:35 pm

:3
https://github.com/AvanWolf/TheStarsBeyond

First push on 23rd of the 7th month (2010)

the resources file is soon to follow sometime tonight. (contains graphics & sounds: this is not going to be on github)

Sat Jul 23, 2011 10:15 pm

ok, once it is working... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3061400/TSB_resources.zip <-- resource files are here

Its not uploading right atm for some reason.

-edit: it should be up now

Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:22 am

I can't find Some stuff I know I sent you in the resource file.
UWA2-4 are absent, as is the Makayev cruiser unless it got nixed at some point.

On the xml front how do you plan to assign UNIDs? I need some for the UWA stuff and I assume I'm going to be the one coding the new Huari ships as well.

Hatsuya Kanzaki · Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:27 am

The Centauri Warlord itself looked scary to beat, such that I wish for a Class 3 shield!

PKodon · Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:35 pm

Wolfy, between R_P_C and I, we've found a few oddities...

First off, why are UNIDs defined in two places (both TSB_Core.xml and TSB_Ansabi.xml, for instance, both contain the following line:

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<!ENTITY snEnergyCannon							"0xE3140606">

Also, why, when this mod is installed in a Vanilla Transcendence directory, do the Ansabi and Huari ships show up in the game, if you start a Vanilla game, instead of a TSB game?

EDIT:
Okay, I tried disabling TSB_Core.xml, but then there was no Adventure Extension selection when starting a new game (in fact, it started a new Vanilla game without even allowing a ship selection).
So, I re-enabled TSB_Core.xml, disabled TSB_CoreEXT.xml, got the Adventure Extension selection for starting a new game, got the ship selection, was listening to the Transcendence theme while text scrolled the story, but as soon as the Transcendence theme ended, the text stopped scrolling, without all of it having scrolled by, and there the game sits, apparently locked up. However, if you click the mouse, you enter the game, but the last text you saw was "As you journey to the Stars Beyond...". Note: on the second try, I sat comparing ships, before selecting one, it was apparently coincidence that the music stopped right as the text stopped, the first time.

Sun Jul 24, 2011 4:28 pm

If you read the read-me, you are not supposed to use the adv. extension yet. Pretty sure I mentioned that on my post and IRC as well.

Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:36 am

... and turns out I totally imagined it being in the readme >.<
sorry about all the confusion guys, but yeah, don't use it. (just load up a vanilla game, it will use that; don't use the adv. extension; that is there for someone who can fix it to well... fix it.)

Mon Jul 25, 2011 5:17 am

PKodon wrote:Wolfy, between R_P_C and I, we've found a few oddities...

First off, why are UNIDs defined in two places (both TSB_Core.xml and TSB_Ansabi.xml, for instance, both contain the following line:
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<!ENTITY snEnergyCannon							"0xE3140606">

Because if a non-vanilla weapon/ship/equipment/WHATEVER is coded in one XML, and used in another..you need to declare it in both, otherwise it won't start. I've done that before.

Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:07 pm

Actually that shouldn't apply to true modules any longer: any unid duplication is an artifact resulting from TSB's modularized system having been devised before george implemented module support.

Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:07 am

Ok, I'm officially declaring that I'm going on haitus from TSB for ~1-3 months (Sept: work + moving around, Oct: uni stuff & side jobs I have been neglecting, Nov: skyrim)

HOWEVER, as always, I fully intend to be accessible on IRC, and can help those wishing to contribute during this time.

I am also taking this time to plan out my Wyvera in greater detail.

Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:42 am

Wolfy wrote:Ok, I'm officially declaring that I'm going on haitus from TSB for ~1-3 months (Sept: work + moving around, Oct: uni stuff & side jobs I have been neglecting, Nov: skyrim)

HOWEVER, as always, I fully intend to be accessible on IRC, and can help those wishing to contribute during this time.

I am also taking this time to plan out my Wyvera in greater detail.

Putting an entire month to a game not Transcendence? *shocked* Well, I think I can speak for all of us, good luck with the stuff, and can't wait to see you back modding again.