New Mod: Babylon 5 Shadowfall

ImUrOBGYN · #1 August 1st, 2006, 04:00 PM

woohoo!

Aw, man. It's only been like two mintues. I have no patience. Hurry up! ;-)

Psientist · #2 August 3rd, 2006, 12:22 PM

ANNOUNCING - the Babylon 5 Shadowfall mod - Version 2!!!

OK, here it is. I think I have improved the stability quite a bit, and there are lots of new items, quests and races. Unless there are some quick small fixes to make, this will be the final release of the Shadowfall mod. I don't plan any further debugging at this point. There are a few quirks that still show up - sometimes Z'ha'dum is undefended on the highest difficulty settings, the Sunhawk merc quest hasn't made an appearance in a while, and sometimes an ally ship doesn't "load" correctly. But it should be very playable and complete.

And no, I'm not planning any future mods. This took too much time, and the WW:r2is mod system is too undocumented for me to spend months trial-and-error exploring the mod limits and requirements. If I had it to do over again ... i might have made a Futurama mod instead!

ImUrOBGYN · #3 August 3rd, 2006, 04:12 PM

Sweet, I just sat down ready for the boredom (waiting on a game in the mail... didn't come again) hoping against hope you would have ver.2. And here it is. Thanks for making my day.
Just wondering, I transferred the torc of babylon and hyperdrive into your ver.1 mod. Are there any items that take the place of those in this new vers? If so, I don't want to go back and add them again.
I hope to see more mods from you in the future as I've really enjoyed this one and I'm sure anything after this would be as good if not better. Hopefully, you'll find the time again.
Thanks again.

ImUrOBGYN · #4 August 3rd, 2006, 04:25 PM

I think I got the ally ship thing. After finding a Centaurian hulk. Couldn't select the Centaur ship no matter what I tried. Crashed when I tried to enter a battle. Back to try again.

Psientist · #5 August 3rd, 2006, 06:40 PM

Yeah, that's the ally bug alright. I have been trying to track that down for two weeks. But, the allys play fine for about 4 times out of 5 in my tests... so who the heck knows what it doesn't like? Unfortunately, I have no way of guessing what I can do to fix it or even recreate the problem consistently.

The Torc of babulon is not necessary - it just grants hypervision. Both Mr. Bester and the Neutrino Array give that ability.

The Hyperdrive has been replaced by the Jump Point Generator, which is quest item. If you don't want it quested, you can turn off the "nogen" flag in the item file.

ImUrOBGYN · #6 August 3rd, 2006, 10:53 PM

In previous versions, Mr Bester (telepath?) and the Neutrino Array (orange globe?) didn't seem to show cloaked ships in battle. I'll try again later with those items and the torc. In the new version, are the shadows the only cloakers? If you feel it gives anything away, don't worry about it. Im sure I can dig in there and find out.

Psientist · #7 August 4th, 2006, 12:10 AM

The shadows are the only cloakers. I think they both are working now, but you can confirm... if they don't, then it's a bug with the mod language, because they both have the "hypervision" flag set.