Battleships Forever Info | 0.90d released 14 Apr

Post by **th15** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:26 pm

I just put up v0.81b, if you've downloaded the game already download it again.

Normandy · Post by **Normandy** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:51 pm

-Support for new custom weapon values (Shipmaker 3.0 support, however Shipmaker 3.0 will be released later)

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

^Please Ignore^

Ok anyways.., is it true? Is Shipmaker 3.0 well on it's way? Its a miracle!

Post by **th15** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:56 pm

It's all part of the re-writing of the .shp file format. I had to build compatibility into it now or it would break later.

pwhk · Post by **pwhk** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:41 pm

The quotes in the descriptions bug not fixed!! I want to have those ships in game without changing those descriptions!

Post by **Arcalane** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:43 pm

-Support for new custom weapon values (Shipmaker 3.0 support, however Shipmaker 3.0 will be released later)

Speaking of this support for new CWVs;

What is this supposed to mean? Stuff like support for modifying beam durations?

Post by **th15** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:20 pm

Eh pwhk try re-saving them in the new shipmaker.

Himura.Kenshin · Post by **Himura.Kenshin** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:23 pm

Bad update =(

It gave me a plethora of problems I didn't have before =(

Post by **th15** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:11 am

eh what's wrong?

Himura.Kenshin · Post by **Himura.Kenshin** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:27 am

Everything is running extremely slow, my Direct Music Audio isn't initializing, the sounds are all whack (dunno how I even have sound without Direct Music Audio), and its just generally spazzy. I'm taking your advice and restarting my computer to see if that has any effect.

Water_and_Wind · Post by **Water_and_Wind** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:05 am

Could it be possible to nerf the Athena more?

Otherwise an awesome update.

ChickenSalad · Post by **ChickenSalad** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:37 am

There's a bug in the new ship files:
Names can't have apostrophes in them.

E.g. Tom's Ship will crash the game with a compiler error. Same ship named Toms Ship will work.

Unlike any BSF bugs that I've encountered so far, this one actually crashes the game completely.

Post by **Anna** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:06 pm

This bug doesn't cause thing to crash, it's just really weird.

The HUD thing, that shows a diagram of your ship, when you zoom in or out, the pieces on the HUD also get larger or smaller, but remain in their fixed position, which looks really weird... uh... well, it's hard to describe, so I'll post screenshots.

Here's what the Athena looks like on the HUD, at different levels of zoom.

As you can see... it's kind of weird.

Post by **th15** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:46 pm

Ugh, arg... thanks for find that guys.

Post by **Aralonia** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:52 pm

ChickenSalad wrote:There's a bug in the new ship files:
Names can't have apostrophes in them.

E.g. Tom's Ship will crash the game with a compiler error. Same ship named Toms Ship will work.

Unlike any BSF bugs that I've encountered so far, this one actually crashes the game completely.

Mm, it worked for a while but it stopped working now. I have a ship called the Al'Mouakir that I just renamed to Al-Mouakir for now.

ChickenSalad · Post by **ChickenSalad** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:42 pm

It's realy in the file format. Old ships/files work fine with the ' still in them. It only gets broken when recompiling.