Older Full Mods with Fleet Ops

[Rifraf]

I have a confession that I'm embarrassed to admit. I've never actually played the B5 mod nor Tactical Assault nor Art of War. I did however, play the hell out of the Borg Incursion series of mods so I'm not totally out of touch I guess.

I've been thinking of making them as standalone mods inside FO so I could finally try them out and was wondering if anyone ever did this with the above mods? I was really only thinking of this for myself though I supposed I could ask permission of Achilles or Yacuzza or Major Payne to get them working in their stock form with perhaps the Midnight Universe Mod for pretties and see if they'd let me release them?

Anyone tried doing this for themselves or have thoughts?

 

[CABAL]

I actually converted the B5 mod to a FO mod module. You even responded here. Here's the mod, by the way. The Classic Mod is required, but the B5 mod is separate. When you load the B5 mod, FO loads the Classic Mod first, then the B5 mod on top. I don't think the others have been converted, though.

 

[Rifraf]

Thanks Cabal. I thought I remembered you did that and released it, but then never found the thread. Thanks for the reminder. Downloading now

 

[MajorPayne]

RifRaf. If you want to have a go at this with ANY of my BI mods then feel free to and release them as and when you get any of them done. I would strongly suggest though just taking what you need unless your likely to disable species 8472 (there was a seriously bag bug that crashed the hell out of the game which I was never able to fix). That was in the last BI for Armada 2 I did. Also remember to check for any additional models from my latest BI mod for Armada 1 (currently only available from my MODDB page to my knowledge) as there are some models in there which aren't in the other BI mods.

Just stick with whatever credits are in the readme's and all will be fine, and good luck BTW!!

 

[Rifraf]

Awesome. Thank you much. You are very generous with your time and work and I greatly appreciate that. I'll see what I can come up with.

 

[Majestic]

I actually converted the B5 mod to a FO mod module. You even responded here. Here's the mod, by the way. The Classic Mod is required, but the B5 mod is separate. When you load the B5 mod, FO loads the Classic Mod first, then the B5 mod on top. I don't think the others have been converted, though.

You should consider releasing that on MSFC mate.

 

[Terra_Inc]

I've been thinking of making them as standalone mods inside FO so I could finally try them out and was wondering if anyone ever did this with the above mods? I was really only thinking of this for myself though I supposed I could ask permission of Achilles or Yacuzza or Major Payne to get them working in their stock form with perhaps the Midnight Universe Mod for pretties and see if they'd let me release them?

If you do reach Achilles, you could ask for permission to use AOW4.1.7. Some of us still have that lying around. Sadly he never finished AOW4 as far as I know, so the .1.7 beta is really just an extended AOW3. But I still think it's superior to its predecessor.

 

[Rifraf]

Did you by chance mean the AOW 1.4 beta? I have never seen a 1.7 beta anywhere. Were only a privileged few allowed access? If it's up to 1.7 would I be able to get access to it?

I'll email Achilles and see if he would allow conversion to a FO mod as Major Payne has done with his works.

 

[Rifraf]

I forgot to mention that Yacuzza already granted permission to use anything of his and release it so that takes care of his Tactical Assault mod. Just need to find Achilles' email

 

[CABAL]

The B5A2 FO Port is now available on MSFC. Linky. That bit labeled IMPORTANT has instructions for how to download the first and second parts of the archive.

 

[Rifraf]

I grabbed it from over at FO when you mentioned it above. Can't wait to give it a go.

I've decided to have all these re-releases use the Classic Mod as well so anyone would only need that 1 extra mod. I'm thinking of also including Midnight Universe 2.0 to pretty up the backgrounds, but the mods should essentially be identical as when they were originally released unless something unforeseen comes up

I also emailed Achilles. He has a general permission for anyone to use anything of his and edit them as they wish however, I told him out of courtesy I was asking anyway so he knew what I was doing.

 

[Terra_Inc]

Did you by chance mean the AOW 1.4 beta? I have never seen a 1.7 beta anywhere. Were only a privileged few allowed access? If it's up to 1.7 would I be able to get access to it?

It's labeled AOW4-1-7. He passed it around to some beta testers and fans of his work, but considering he probably won't finish AOW4 anyway, I don't think he'd object to making it publicly available. But as always, asking permission before is better than apologizing afterwards.

 

[PreciousRoy]

Is there a collection of Fleet Ops models somewhere? I really like the graphic detail of Fleet Ops, but want to see some of the Pathfinder and First Contact ships in there.