Orazio, I agree with Schiavonna. That ship is stunning. Seriously great work so far.

Yeah, it’s a strange time of year and depression is fairly common. Probably a bit of winter doldrums (depending on if you live in a part of the world that is experiencing winter right now) with the shorter days/longer nights and sometimes dismal weather, and holidays that for whatever reason dredge up in the psyche elements that make one…[Read more]

I haven’t seen Orazio in awhile. I am checking in every once in awhile, but if nobody has any testing info of my apps for me to check into, I haven’t been doing much considering the ‘real’ work I have going on at the moment. Myself, haven’t been testing more due to time constraints.

Though I will look into anything if someone brings attention…[Read more]

I can look into the possibility of a torrent, but I can’t do it from my machine as I’m always connected to my work VPN with no split-tunnel so prevents external internet access to anything on my PC. But maybe I can set up one of my kids’ with the file and set it up when I get some time.

In the meantime, have you tried the MEGA client? I had…[Read more]

Yes, follow Schiavonna’s instructions, but a few things I would like to add.

I don’t believe that the start.exe in the download will work without the original cd. I think it is the original .exe from Akella, which doesn’t allow play without the cd lodged in the drive. In fact, to test, I just downloaded ERAS, tried it, and got the ‘Insert Age…[Read more]

Hot off the presses! Get a new download. Fixes made. If interested about the details: https://buccaneersreef.com/forums/topic/bugs-and-fixes/#post-3368

ERAS, GOF & AoP COAS Files: https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg

Some work done. Part of the reason for the lengthy time it’s taken for me to get to this point of using some of these analysis tools is that I am not primarily a C++ developer; the majority of my career has been working with a different programming language, with different tools. But I made some major finds this past week, and I’m quite…[Read more]

I found a bug in Control Activation, download the newest copies:

ERAS, GOF & AoP COAS Files: https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg

ERAS.Patch.zip = patch files for ERAS
AOP2.Patch. = patch files for vanilla COAS with fixes
GOF1.2Patch = patch files for GOF 1.2 with fixes
ERAS2Test.zip = Our source compiled ERAS in DirectX…[Read more]

This cabin is awesome! I chased a few ships around, then finally an English 5th rater cooperated and attacked me; it has this cabin. Really sweet!

Another fun fact is that if using our compilation, with the OnLoadReinit.c I wrote, I literally did nothing other than load an old save, find a ship, board it, enter cabin and there it was. Nice…[Read more]

I just toyed with Orazio’s new cabin interiors: https://buccaneersreef.com/forums/topic/mod-additional-interiors-for-ships

I posted similarly in that thread, but will repeat here. In the README.txt, Orazio mentions that after implementing this, a new game is required. Unfortunately, even with the OnLoadReinit.c magic, this turns out to be…[Read more]

I got around to trying this new cabin set out. In the README.txt, Orazio mentions that after implementing this, a new game is required. Unfortunately, even with the OnLoadReinit.c magic, this turns out to be unavoidable. It’s not the array resizing that causes the crash, as that feature re-synchs the Locations array size just fine. What poses…[Read more]

I think your hamster has the idea. Here’s what I would like to see happen:

Extract again, the RESOURCE from the 1.5.7 original download/patches to your 1.5.7 to ensure everything is there, nothing missing in models, textures, etc.

Download ERAS.Patch.zip and extract the RESOURCE folder from that to the original ERAS 1.5.7 RESOURCE directory.…[Read more]

Well, I was able to load that save. Went to the store, bought some stuff, left for sea. While at sea, engaged in several encounters, boarded a few ships, looted, sank some, let some go. No trouble.

I see a couple things in your log that lead me to believe you don’t have some of the matching Program code. Along the way, I have made a few…[Read more]

Well those logs tell me nothing…those NPC trace node not found errors aren’t usually fatal. Just a character that no longer exists trying to be found. But we might be able to figure this out without the .dmp file yet. If these are crashes while loading a save, upload and give me a link to the save. I can run that in debug-mode while loading…[Read more]

Good to hear.

I’m sure MK won’t mind any raving about models and texture, here or elsewhere in the forum 🙂

As for those screwed up model names in the log, though they aren’t contributing to any malfunction I see, don’t be concerned about mentioning them; they are now driving me crazy.

I found exactly in the source where that message is output,…[Read more]

Good to hear.

I’m sure MK won’t mind any raving about models and texture, here or elsewhere in the forum 🙂

As for those screwed up model names in the log, though they aren’t contributing to any malfunction I see, don’t be concerned about mentioning them; they are now driving me crazy.

I found exactly in the source where that message is output,…[Read more]

Mr. Philanthropist, as a preliminary check to see if the world map geometry fails were possibly related to the string expansion that I certainly fixed (beggar donations, moneylender and new game profile name typing were all similarly broken, and I ascertained they are now fixed), I sailed for a month on the world map, accosting as many ships as I…[Read more]

Oh no, as sad as it is to admit, that keyboard character problem is my doing. I found it was the result of an inadvertent change I had made quite some time ago. I have fixed that.

You will only need JustExecutables.zip

ERAS, GOF & AoP COAS Files: https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg

Let’s see if that is also the culprit for some…[Read more]

I’m assuming that is only in DirectX 9 version? I made no changes to the shaders in DirectX 8, because it wasn’t necessary, so I’m presuming they still look the same there?

For DX9, I undoubtedly made a mistake, but that’s because I really don’t know what I’m doing in DirectX shaders. I made changes in order to, at minimum, get past the shader…[Read more]

Seriously beautiful work @Orazio! I’ll work to get that incorporated into my downloads. I’m anxious to go find a ship to board so I can check them out firsthand 🙂