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Shivan Datafiles - Version 0.5

1 by BlackHole
SG General
I give to you guys the beta version of my shivan datafiles, all compiled neatly into one .VP file. All you have to do is plop this file into your root FS2 (retail) directory and you will have the files nessacary to make a shivan campaign. This beta version includes:
  • icons, single-frame animations and loadviews for all 6 shivan fighters.
  • Working shivan weapons that use substituted icons and animations
  • 4 Shivan head animations for messages (kudos to ngtm1r)
  • 5 made-up shivan speech audio clips
  • msgstart.wav in the personas folder, making it usable for missions.
  • Shivified traitor message
  • New main hall with a remix of FS2_cinema2.wav as the music (Hi-res ONLY)
  • 2 new tech entries that are not normally shown - you must use a SEXP to show them (WARNING: Spoilers, view at your own risk)
Hopefully this will greatly simplify making shivan missions. Anyone can use any of these files in their campaign, either keeping them in a seperate .VP, integrating them into their own VP or otherwise, provided that they give me credit.
  • Suggestions
  • Include 4 shivan bombers
Suggestions? Comments? Hatemail? :P The reason i didn't include the bombers is because they are, as far as i know, inherently incompatible. The Nahema bomber looks promising but i have yet to get it to work. If anyone knows how to make them work or have working versions, please consider donating them :) That goes for any shivan related material that anyone digs up. If you made it and you would like to make these datafiles the best they can be, please PM/E-mail/Contact me. This is meant as a generic pack for making any kind of shivan campaign imaginable and is a community resource.

data_shiv.rar

Have fun 8)
Erik McClure

2 by ngtm1r
Ascended SG Initiate
I'd have to talk to Sesq about donating the Nahema...and Sesq is missing in action for months. Paradox. Argh.

You could hack the Shivan bombers via PCS or something similar and eliminate some secondaries/primaries for "player" versions.

EDIT: .rar seems to be corrupt, too.

And for that matter you could always bring back the Shaitan and Scorpion...
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3 by BlackHole
SG General
I'm going to see if i can get the Nahema to work, as for hacking new versions, i don't know how to do that. As for bringing back the Scorpian/Shaitan i might be able to do it if someone gave me a working POF file.

Stupid RAR file.

EDIT: RAR file re-uploaded, it is no longer corrupted.
Erik McClure

8 by BlackHole
SG General
Dang it, i can't figure out why FS2 crashes if i try to import the Shaitan. I'm pretty sure i've imported all the nessacary files. Is there a list of files/tables that ships reference? Does anyone know why it is crashing?
Erik McClure

13 by Snail
Elite SG Admiral
I thought you added the Shaitan? The Shaitan is probably taking up the remaining space. Have you tried using Goober's Table Cleaner? Or (more preferrable) used an SCP build?

14 by BlackHole
SG General
Yeah, i only added the shaitin. And no, i won't use an SCP build because i want this to be compatible with everything. As for teh table cleaner, i'll try it when i'm not so busy and when someone actually gives a crap about this :P
Erik McClure
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