KA2: Empire at War 1.2 beta

posted on October 7th, 2014, 1:29 pm

Thank you for your time and consideration...

I won't bother with my graphics card then...

posted on October 13th, 2014, 4:09 pm

Just a small announcement or two

Version 1.4 is incoming. I have decided to go to 1.4, as thanks to enormous help from Rifraf, I now have KA2 working as a Standalone FleetOps mod. That should stop any further installation woes!

I am still testing 1.4 to ensure there are no further little bugs in it now that it's standalone (I caught a few that slipped through the net with it being a child-mod), and I decided to tweak a few things whilst I was doing so...

- FleetOps font. I decided to switch to the far better looking font used in FleetOps
- FleetOps Style selection boxes. I used the Dominion one for the ISC, the Borg one for the Gorn, recoloured the Romulan one, and I have made new ones for the Federation, Tholians, Hydrans and Lyrans, using the Klingon one as is. I was having some trouble with sprite corruption when it tried to switch between the full size and the _1 LOD files, so I removed them.
- New GUI for the Federation. Decided to go back and remake the Federation GUI to look more like LCARS v1.0. I will also be tidying up other GUIs to try and clean up some of their rough edges, move some of the infobars around etc.

posted on October 13th, 2014, 7:06 pm

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OMG, This Is Amazing news and i really like to thank you Squire James and Rifraf for all the amazing work you and all other people
that work on this amazing mod have done so far, and for all the amazing work you and all other people continue to do!... :woot:

p.s. Sense this instalment will use fleet ops. staff, will there be real colonisable planets like in star trek armada 2 in it?... :ermm:

emmett

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posted on October 13th, 2014, 7:10 pm

Thanks again Squire James

posted on October 14th, 2014, 12:15 am

stfb; It only uses some FleetOps graphics (I may use their moons, can't decide), it's not a complete rebuild. So it looks closer to FleetOps, but still plays the same

Colonisable planets, trading stations etc etc. I may also make it use the 4.0 Loader to fix some other niggling hang-overs from the conversion process. (Recycling bug for example)

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posted on October 14th, 2014, 4:37 am

That sounds great and all but explain to me like on a retard because i em little sleepy :sleeping:

you talking about a possibility of using 4.0 Loader... Is that mean that you will use 4.0 Fleet Operations Loader, and is this mean that the update will be delayed greatly? :ermm:

p.s. I em sory if i sound ungrateful or impatient or silly, but i em very excited for your mod... :dance:

posted on October 14th, 2014, 7:32 am

The 4.0 Loader has been released already, for the Sigma Mod I believe. I could even streamline the tech tree if I wished so, but for now I'll leave it (if it isn't broke, don't fix it!)

Do people like the new GUI? I think its far less cluttered and easier to use myself.

posted on October 14th, 2014, 8:47 am

Ok thanks for your quick reply and the info, and forgive me for the stupid questions :blush:

but i was really tired when I wrote this. And by the way i personally really like the new GUI, and i think its really more clean and easier to use this way! :thumbsup:

posted on October 14th, 2014, 10:27 am

Thanks. I've updated the resource icons for all GUIs, and tidied up the others too. Hardly noticeable, but just little tweaks like increasing the shaded area on the centre panel, tweaking where the infobar appears etc.

Oh I also managed to fix that texture shearing issue on planets. Just needed to increase the atmosphere distance. All the planets that suffered from it have now been fixed