I apologize for the delay, but I was away, on holiday for awhile with the family. No work, and much play!

Yes, I reduced the waiting to some extent, but it is still there. It is also possible to eliminate the wait entirely. I will probably make this an editable mod option on the ‘Options’ screen in the near future, since you are not the first…[Read more]

One last thing with the 64 bit, preventing release, was that the 32 bit save-games were incompatible and would not load properly for the 64 bit executable, and vice versa. Since a file-write/file-read of certain data types are a different byte size between the two platforms (e.g. 4 bytes for 32 bit, 8 bytes for 64 bit), the mismatch caused…[Read more]

If you have already saved the game with the new ship additions, my fix won’t help because it needs to load an older save game, without the new ships, to do it properly before it adds the new ones. But, I can fix a fort because it has a different type, but if you have any companion ships, they will still be wrong…my new fix can only work going…[Read more]

I think the problem with some ships is that they have closely stacked textures, with the underlying ones supposed to be hidden/covered by others. This flicker problem is typically a z-fighting issue. Doing some reading, the depth buffer resolution might be increased in the projection matrix.

Try changing to these values in start.ini and let me…[Read more]

I think that flickering has something to do with the change from DirectX 8 to DirectX 9, actually; the DirectX 8 version does not have this issue. My guess is a slightly different handling of either depth bias or Z bias between the two. I had a similar problem with shadows on the ground when moving to DX9, but got that figured out. However, I’m…[Read more]

Ah, yes. I had that on my list to resolve. When we add to the base number of ships like we’ve done in some of the recent updates, the fort descriptions in the spyglasses gets messed up (forts are actually included as a type of ‘ship’ but they are the last of the list, so when others are inserted into the list, it skews the fort references),…[Read more]

A long time ago, I had made this game ‘smarter’ and to recognize when certain array sizes, like for ships, locations, etc. get changed (enlarged to accommodate new places/ships), it will reinitialize the arrays and call the Init functions to populate them with base info. Without this, every time new ships are added, locations added, etc. a brand…[Read more]

A long time ago, I had made this game ‘smarter’ and to recognize when certain array sizes, like for ships, locations, etc. get changed (enlarged to accommodate new places/ships), it will reinitialize the arrays and call the Init functions to populate them with base info. Unfortunately, one of the side-effects for this is to sometimes lose or…[Read more]

Somebody sent me a save game yesterday with this surrender/lose crew bug and it was fixed in yesterday’s update. I found it was a bug inherited from GOF 1.2.

Surrender boarding bug now fixed.

Looking at AoP2 COAS and GOF 1.2 code, this was a bug inherited from GOF 1.2. Did not exist in COAS.

Uploaded and ready: https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

Perfect. Yep, a bug. I lost 242 men after boarding.

I will figure this out.

To add, one of the reasons the ships often turn into enemy trouble is that the ai always seems to favor an upwind path, which can be great for triangle sail ships to get away, against square sails, but it never takes into account the ‘point of sail’ number for the actual ship (it may be a square sail itself, that sails horribly into the wind) and…[Read more]

I think I have read similar for GOF, but I have not seen this. Do you have the boarding save for that I could look at?

LOL, yes this has been a frequent discussion. The ‘sail away’ logic can be very poor at times.

I have researched several ‘pathfinding’ and flee/evasive ai techniques and there are some common suggestions: A* (A star) and Recast, ‘policy based’, creating an influence map, etc. The task to rewrite the AI code, using the existing input data is…[Read more]

LOL, yes this has been a frequent discussion. The ‘sail away’ logic can be very poor at times.

I have researched several ‘pathfinding’ and flee/evasive ai techniques and there are some common suggestions: A* (A star) and Recast, ‘policy based’, creating an influence map, etc. The task to rewrite the AI code, using the existing input data is…[Read more]

To clarify, this download is complete and requires nothing other than to put everything into a folder for New Horizons, and play from there. You do not need to copy .exe/.dll, or add mod files…the download is a stand-alone, complete set.

A new update is available. One new ship and over 40 new ship textures changed/added.

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

New Horizons, running 2.8 Storm engine in DirectX 9 link:
https://mega.nz/#F!L001VaYZ!hwNV3uh3sQPbKDkOeDvrcg

This is a functional proof of concept, provided for New Horizons modders to finish; most everything I’ve checked looks like it works to me, but then again, I’ve never actually played this game. I can sail, fight, visit tavern, shop,…[Read more]