The FFED3D Thread

potsmoke66

potsmoke66
official or not

at least my landing gears don't flicker,
i know in 3dsmax it's hard to realign axis' of mirrored objects to world :p
 

potsmoke66

potsmoke66
reduce framerate? ok, have to test it:)
like i said, i don't fear massive ships they are no big deal even with PA at least a 4mw was allways enough to beat most of them up, no what's really annoing me is that, when you get the alert and fall out of time accel., (too) often your opponents (i.e. 3 stupid eagles) are right behind you and firing at you having their missiles allready launched and you didn't even have the time to press "E" and you're willing to start to cheat your game, of which you thought "this time for real"!:mad:
one of the hardest opponents in my oppinion is the merlin but i did not meet all ships of ffe.
 

DraQ

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potsmoke66 said:
reduce framerate? ok, have to test it:)
like i said, i don't fear massive ships they are no big deal even with PA at least a 4mw was allways enough to beat most of them up, no what's really annoing me is that, when you get the alert and fall out of time accel., (too) often your opponents (i.e. 3 stupid eagles) are right behind you and firing at you having their missiles allready launched and you didn't even have the time to press "E" and you're willing to start to cheat your game, of which you thought "this time for real"!:mad:
one of the hardest opponents in my oppinion is the merlin but i did not meet all ships of ffe.
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What are you flying again?

You might want to downgrade your weapon (or switch to pulse) and put more shields on.

Also, in JJFFE Num0 also fires ECM, and it's right under your palm when using Jordanian Controls, and not too far when using normal ones.
 

Silenus

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FFED3D Problems and fixes

Hello everyone! I am a big fan of the game and tried out the ffed3d version but I have a few problems that I could not find in the forums, I don't have the mouse problem for the hud, it's my icons that are not appearing, and the save/load feature will crash the game. Are there any fixes for this? I will provide some screenshots if needed.
 

Geraldine

Geraldine
Hi Silenus
Welcome to the forum:)
Now your problem with FFE3D, I had a similar problem and it turned out to be that my download was not complete, there was some bits missing. I solved this by down loading the game from this site

http://www.hooplatec.com/encounters/ffed3d.htm#tag1

Also you can get the game in 2 parts from the space sim central (SSC) site here

http://www.spacesimcentral.com/downloads.php?cat=37&sort_by=0&order=ASC&start=30

This version is updated from time to time with the latest add-ons or you can download them separately as they are released.

Also I have heard that there maybe issues with using Vista. Turning off aero seems to help with problems too.

Hope that helps you:)
 

Steve

Steve
Silenus said:
Hello everyone! I am a big fan of the game and tried out the ffed3d version but I have a few problems that I could not find in the forums, I don't have the mouse problem for the hud, it's my icons that are not appearing, and the save/load feature will crash the game. Are there any fixes for this? I will provide some screenshots if needed.
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In addition to Geraldine's response...

Open up the ffewin.cfg file and make sure the fullscreen resolution is set to 1280x1024. Other resolutions will hopefully work in the next release.

Regarding the loading and saving crashing, make sure in the [DIR] section of ffewin.cfg you've got "CmmdrPath=C:\firstenc\COMMANDR" and that is a valid path to your save game folder on your computer.

Welcome to the forums! :)
 

OzFalcon

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Current Download

Does the current download have that nice looking escape capsule?

Should I be downloading from here? (Posted 1.11.09) (116mb)
http://www.spacesimcentral.com/downloads.php?cat=37&sort_by=0&order=ASC&start=30

or here? (Posted 4.11.09) (150mb)
http://www.elite-games.ru/conference/viewtopic.php?t=50657




For reference (ie fullscreen resolution set to 1280x1024 for correct icon display)
Russian and English Faq on FFE3D
Ref: http://www.elite-games.ru/conference/viewtopic.php?t=50908

KR
Oz
 
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scowie

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16:10 resolutions work fine for me. I play in 1680x1050. 1440x900 works too.

It's just 16:9 ones that dont work for me. My monitors native res. is 1920x1080 (16:9) but I get a black screen (all except for the very bottom line of pixels) if I try that resolution. Same happens with 1600x900.

I would guess that 1920x1200 would work for those with monitors of that res.

Also, I dont get icons if I try playing in windowed mode

EDIT: Just done a bit of testing and it seems I can play in 1920x1080 if I turn the aspect fix off, although I noticed some text getting chopped off the right edge of the screen in places, like on a ship info page (hyperspace ranges table) at a shipyard.
 
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potsmoke66

potsmoke66
if you want to download the newest compilation, i think it would be from elite.games.ru
but if it's from last year it won't contain the escape capsule.
latest model upgrades are here http://www.elite-games.ru/conference/viewtopic.php?p=2375954#2375954

ok. you can strech the screen to full on fs (card or screen), try to set fs to your screens native resolution, it will work. it's just that iv'e recognised a lot of screenshots with a wrong aspect (sun's looking like it's flattened on the sides), sadly 1600x1000, which is a multiple of 320x200, don't works.
in windowed mode you can fix this with aspectfix=1, on fullscreen i didn't recommend that, except you have a older monitor with aspect 4/3.
 
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potsmoke66

potsmoke66
usually i start with 100 credits and i don't like cheating!:D
so i fly an eagle at first, and you?
and i'm allways very proud managing it to get it to my first viper, ok?
am i a bad pilot? i don't know, never had the chance to fight against a human in frontier.;)
maybe i have to many assasin's on my trail:p
 

DraQ

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potsmoke66 said:
usually i start with 100 credits and i don't like cheating!:D
so i fly an eagle at first, and you?
and i'm allways very proud managing it to get it to my first viper, ok?
am i a bad pilot? i don't know, never had the chance to fight against a human in frontier.;)
maybe i have to many assasin's on my trail:p
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Unless you're an ace of space, I'd stick to the safe routes 'till you can afford a Viper.

There are people who can simultaneously avoid enemy fire and five homing missiles till they run out of juice and self destruct, but you are not one of them (neither am I), so ECM, shields and something slightly beefier than Eagle to fit all this gear would be welcome.
 

potsmoke66

potsmoke66
escaping the missiles, thats the point, in frontier i never had a problem, flying towards the missile, simultaniously attack or escape and to watch how the missile turns around, but in FFE, i don't know, they seem to be spiced up.
anyway, if there allready launched when you come out of time accel. you have no chance to go no where (except grave). but i think i have to get more experienced in ffe.
 

dcforeman

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Pantha Clipper, 400 shield generators, 20Mw laser on top and buttom turret. Then laught in the face of your enemies. Oh, and hope the ******s aren't packing a small plasma acellerator. Remeber, save save save and if in doubt, ****** save.
 

DraQ

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dcforeman said:
Pantha Clipper, 400 shield generators, 20Mw laser on top and buttom turret. Then laught in the face of your enemies. Oh, and hope the ******s aren't packing a small plasma acellerator. Remeber, save save save and if in doubt, ****** save.
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If you fly Cobra or Asp you can laugh at all the hulking brutes totting their SPAs and LPAs, as no mass produced ship able to fit this kind of armaments will be able to track you, while you still have enough shields to shrug off occasional missile or a laser hit (or energy bomb blast).
 

potsmoke66

potsmoke66
5:4 then ;)
but, yes again didn't a posted something like that before :confused:

windowed 1280x1024 or higher, but keep aspectfix set to 1 (ffewin.cfg)

fullscreen, find out by yourself, i think it depends very on your monitor, i use 1680x1050 aspectfix 0! (my screens native res.) and it works with nvidia and ati on a via/intel chipset, even on my slower computer i owned before with a via/amd.
 
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potsmoke66

potsmoke66
when they created that shiny vista they must have forgot that some people use their computer. ;)

pimp it up! hack the FFED3D file replace ARIAL with frontier, looks very familiar.

open ....ffed3d\textures\ and replace tex96.png with or
some shots from my ships interior, there's some more i made for ffe and glffe, i think i will upload them at ssc.

use hoopers ffed3d.exe, ;)

have phun
 
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