No problem. It’s difficult for me to find a good number though because I can see fine on my machine. MK thinks the caves are still too light for him, LOL So I guess some people get different results due to hardware differences or something. If you look at the file, you will see I’ve tried different numbers over time for people, but it’s…[Read more]

You are the second person to complain about the cave darkness, so I think I will lighten them up a little.

The gamma settings are disabled unless running in full_screen mode. Back in the DX8 days, those settings were limited by DirectX to only work in full screen, so the options are disabled if you do not have full screen checked on. When I…[Read more]

Okay, I figured out how to search the forum via Google and found Jeffrey’s earlier response on modifying the ambient light in caves. Will try it. Thanks and sorry.

My apologies if this has already been covered, but I have a hard time searching the site forum. I’m finding ERAS2 to be very stable and great, but the one thing that is driving me crazy is the pitch blackness of caves. I’m playing on a laptop with Intel graphics, so the default screen brightness settings are somewhat limited. The two caves I…[Read more]

SHIP Crashing

Looks like companion ships crash again while in harbour. They do for me anyway and receive significant dam to rigging.

Rgds, Oldtimer

woah nice work didn’t expect anything less from the great Jeffrey!

I was correct that the quest was missing models; Portugal needs soldier models defined and I’ve added them so that quest works now. I tested it and the enemy group now spawns properly.

Ha! Using the model viewer, texture viewer and the Tool program, I narrowed down what I thought was the shipyard problem, then used a Hex Editor to change something and voila! I got the shipyard model fixed.

Not too shabby for a guy with no modeling skills, eh? Weird that nobody noticed this in COAS or GOF.

“… we need some Portuguese marines for the pirate captain quests as of yesterday I’ve come across the mission where they supposedly landed, but there was none of them so I couldn’t leave.”

Ugh. Since we don’t have any Portuguese colonies, we didn’t create certain soldiers/officer models because they weren’t needed…completely overlooked the…[Read more]

Mr. Jeffrey,

THX for your attn.,

Rgds, Oldtimer

Going back to this one:

– Combat music continues to play until a scene transition after defeating rapists.

Another peculiarity with both this scene, and the “gang” encounter, is that as soon as a fight commenced, the thugs would attack, then briefly sheath their weapons, then resume attack and fight ’til the end.

I spent a considerable amount o…[Read more]

Looking in RESOURCEINItexts…ShipsDescribe.txt, the Hoy is a ship id Lyon.

In ProgramShipsShips_init.c, find refShip.Name = “Lyon”; and change to 7:

refShip.Class = 6;

This will only take effect for a new game. In order to change an existing save-game, some code would need to be written to iterate the RealShip array, and to re-init the…[Read more]

Someone told me that was a feature in Caribbean Tales Supermod…it played softcore. I guess some folks at PA! and across this game’s community thought it was terribly offensive and took it out, LOL.

In ProgramQuestsquests_reaction.c, find this:

case "PlaySex_1":
...
...
SetLaunchFrameFormParam("", "", 0,…[Read more]

I just took a look at the sail behavior of the Snauw and it looks correct to me. Here’s what changed:

When the wind is coming from behind the ship, I kept the same sail behavior for square sails as it seems fine; no change there. What I changed, is that as the ship turns, and the wind approaches close to perpendicular to the ship, the original…[Read more]

Also, any comments on the other ideas I mentioned, but which you didn’t mention as denied or finished?

I was considering/exploring some of them…like this one.

expand the camera angles in first person.

While exploring the possibility, I found that I was backward on my assessment of the problems viewing the PC in 1st person, but the problems r…[Read more]

Actually, I have anew project I’d like to do real quick, so if you guys get a moment, I’d prefer if you could answer this question before my last one.

I want to try and find a way to get the sex scene to play a movie clip instead of a sound file and a screen image. I find the current sex sounds alittle awkward, so I’m trying to build a mod that…[Read more]

Nice work, Jeffrey!

As for the sail direction, I was sailing the Snauw at the time, but from what you said, I may just be seeing things that happen correectly and interpreting them incorrectly in my own mind.