Looks like it could be fun! But first things first: finish that Dralthi. As an aside, I also began thinking about a way to use the new COM file to expand the WC1/WC2 mission environment and hook a new scripting system. Began exploring the possibility of making a COM file for dynamically patching SO2 into supporting full-angled ships and started tweaking the Dralthi stats. WC2 Ship Importing: last but not least. Naturally, i have a research stream were I'm exploring this. Part of the CEL chunk structure is different, and the VGA chunk corresponding to the Huffman stage seems to be encoded differently. Looking into it, it seems there are *two* variants of the WC3 3DO codec, which is very interesting. #Wing commander privateer map movie#WC3 3DO Movies: ok, so I thought I had the movie decoder fully documented, but recently discovered the script I put together perfectly uncompresses one file sample I had, but apparently doesn't decompress the movie files I am ripping from the CD images i dumped into my hard drive. #Wing commander privateer map Patch#This new version of the Privateer 2 patch can be downloaded here, feel free to join into the ongoing CIC thread here Hopefully this option should help with that. It becomes necessary to coerce P2 to use one specific MIDI device, which can be problematic, especially in Windows 8. #Wing commander privateer map software#Third party MIDI software synths are a great alternative to Microsoft's default synth, but unfortunately might now work well together with P2 as of yet. Privateer 2 Patch: Since the first release, I managed to make a few tweaks to the MIDI code and added a very simple setup utility which allows selecting a specific MIDI device for use with P2. You can get it here and follow the CIC thread here. The subtitle code ended up being reworked as well, and should hopefully work better in the more recent versions of Windows. Basically, i changed the DirectShow interface being used by the patch in order to improve compatibility with Wine, which means the patch now works correctly on Linux. WCP DVD Patch: due to the release of the WCP on GOG, i decided to revisit my WCP DVD patch and make a few improvements. (this game, along with -Origins- short lived 'Privateer', sparked what we all now know as E.V.E.I've been making a few tweaks here and there to a few of my projects since the last update. And some how, your character was to blame for it. Unfortunaly he dies on a capital ships got destroyed by an enemy faction sneak attack. If i remember right, he was a father who was loved by his family and had an only son, When the war broke out he lost his whole family to the war and was going to get the enemy back. One of WC's (wing commander for you slow ones out there) fighter pilot's that flew on your wing. and a few expantions to WC one, Secret Missions. And it made about 5 or 6 sequals to the game. This particular NPC, is a take off of a character in an old 'Origin' Game (semi huge back in the 90's when we all though 16 bit graphics were all the rage on computers. Mainly, its a way on how Blizz say 'Thanks' and this is one of those characters. A lot of characters are refrenced from previous games. I would not expect to many people to get this. Comment by 271777Nutshell Version: this characters name is a spin off of a character by the name of Iceman in a old PC game called Wing Commander.
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