OK Sorry Mates,

Jeffrey and I in our final testing have found a half dozen last minute bugs. They are all fixed but one. Once that one is squashed we will get the update out. I have full confidence in Jeffrey’s abilities to figure out what is going on. Its actually an old bug and Jeffrey wants to get to the bottom of it in the source back end. We…[Read more]

I have to tell you guys that I think this is quite possibly my favorite topic on this website.

Jeffrey and I continue to discuss your ideas. Orazio’s motivation has been for a more immersive and realistic world from the beginning and he’s has done so much to make that happen. I plan to hit him up tonight in a PM for yet another favor. Now that…[Read more]

@ Jack,

Thanks for the enthusiastic comment. We are pretty proud of our work and its just going to get better.

MK

@ Old Timer,

Yes

MK

The description mentioning only when assigned to relevant officers is a holdover from COAS, that has never been changed, and is a bit misleading. Here’s how they work:

You can assign yourself the ship perk, and it will have effect, with/without any officer in the correlated position. So if you assign yourself ‘quick reload’ for cannons, it will…[Read more]

Cabins will be opened up for class 7 ships in the next update. It will be available for existing saves, so no new game required.

The crew party mentioned is being debated/considered.

Yes, the voiced greetings are simply a stock list of sound files, (the list is usually relevant to the character type), that are randomly selected and have no correlation to the dialog. In fact, that portion of the greeting code has no way of really knowing what is about to be said, so not easily changed.

However, the option you ask for to…[Read more]

Based on your input Jeffrey and I had a long discussion and we are gonna change a bunch of items. I have more new items in the works as well that will modify other skills.

Books: Our plan is that you have to take the time to read them (like in Mount and Blade mods). Based on your intelligence level that will determine how many at a time you can…[Read more]

OK GREAT NEWS! We got it all working right. Thanks to a long conference call between Jeffrey and I we have everything working. Let me test this for a couple of hours and we will get it out to everyone right away.

Some really neat stuff in here. Jeffrey and I are still working on new and better water (work in progress) but we now have SEAFOAM on…[Read more]

Eventually a bunch of characters will have more outfits. My first attempts at character textures were very amateurish and I am reworking a bunch of them now that I have got really good at this. So the Hans Sloane texture (Dr. House) with the white hair is getting a complete overhaul because so many don’t like him.

There were almost several other…[Read more]

Sorry folks, There is something wrong in the update and I can’t get the game to run. Can’t test if it won’t run.

Will get this out to everyone as soon as it works.

MERRY CHRISTMAS anyway!

MK

Yes, that’s it. I noticed in my previous post, I confused things a bit. The problem with Des Moines is that it had ‘officer’ no plural as the locator group, but for your fighters to show, the model must have ‘officers’ with the ‘s’ for a locator group.

What I’ve found so far is that most of the inside model locations have no such group and that…[Read more]

By the way, I peeked at a few of the inside locations (houses, rooms, etc.) and it will still disallow your fighter officers from spawning inside for fights such as the ‘dinner party’ or Isabella scene because of the same problem that Des Moines had; there are no ‘officer’ group locators. Now Des Moines was a typo error in that it had ‘officers’…[Read more]

Thank you very much. I have Win7, without a problem, but now see that is 2008 redist, which I already have installed so of course I would not have the problem. I think the reason config.exe needs that is due to how it obtains the monitor resolutions, using a ddraw method, which is old/deprecated and is probably compiled with a point to an old…[Read more]

Yep, that adjustment to the locator file fixed DesMoines; the workaround is no longer needed.

However, there are indeed some locations that are explicitly set to not allow fighters (e.g. Panama route). That is handled by that function: LAi_LocationDisableOfficersGen

OK, that last post was wrong. I did some digging, and the real function is LAi_LocationDisableOfficersGen, but it doesn’t work for that particular shore because the locator definitions in the model have the wrong group name (probably a typo); it is a bug. I will fix the locator file and I bet it works without the workaround.

Give me a bit to…[Read more]

I did DesMoines shore by looping and manually placing the fighters during the particular quest function in reaction_functions for when you land at shore_ship3 location, but I later discovered what is probably an easier way; I think where you find LAi_LocationFightDisable, where the 2nd parameter is true, disables the ability for your fighters to…[Read more]

Well, it’s possible this may have been a problem, but I don’t get this in my game, after several tries. But, I have also been working on in my update, so I may have already fixed it, but I don’t have notes for it, so I don’t know if I fixed it deliberately or my adjustments for the new update fixed it as a side-effect.

I did make a change in…[Read more]

This is interesting. The C redistributable is supposed to be the version that matches the toolset version used to compile in Visual Studio, which is what I provide. I did not know that for some Windows versions, config.exe might still need a different one.

For more information, can you remember which version you had to download and install? I…[Read more]

WOW! Feedback! Amazing! Love it! Keep it coming.

So I’ve been traveling and just arrived at my destination this evening. So I am just now seeing this and just now getting Jeffrey’s combined update. I will test it tomorrow so that we can get it out to everyone for a Christmas present.

SO yeah just as Vincent stated, as long as you have a spare…[Read more]