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[Sticky] New FFED3D builds from Ittiz & AndyJ

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(@Anonymous)
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There are two ongoing builds of FFED3D out at the moment, expanding on the work done a few years ago by Dreamzzz.

 

I've put up a page with links to all the downloads at  http://www.frontierastro.co.uk/Hires/hiresffe.html  if you fancy a look  :music:

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Topic starter Posted : April 17, 2013 07:39
(@pinback)
99 Star General

Nice one Steve :drinks: not been following any of the threads on Frontier for a while.

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Posted : April 17, 2013 10:26
Geraldine
(@geraldine)
Famed Member

Seen the announcement on the Frontier Forum, great stuff Steve, Oh and Darkone has now removed that "broken" listing from the FFE3D archive on here now. If you had not mentioned it, we never would have known, so thanks for that too. :curtsey:

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Posted : April 17, 2013 11:06
DarkOne
(@sscadmin)
Illustrious Member Admin

Should this patch be uploaded for FFED3D for AndyJ?

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Posted : April 17, 2013 13:12
(@xenons)
Reputable Member

AFAIK, the State of the Art version for FFD3D before AndyJ 's version was the "FFD3D_Complete.7z" version which I have already downloaded on this site.

The FF3 D3D.exe corrisponds to the version 1.12b that AndyJ is recommending to use. I will surely give it a try.

Very happy to know that finally the ingame-videos are working with FFD3D !! 😎

 

XenonS

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Posted : June 2, 2013 06:13
(@Anonymous)
New Member

New version of AndyJ's build coming soon.

  • New options to Enable Multisample Anti-Aliasing to smooth model & line edges.
  • Enabled support for global model shaders. There is now a ships.fx, asteroids.fx and models.fx within the Models folder to provide a generic shader for ships, asteroids and everything else. Individual model shaders will be used where they are available to permit customisation.
  • Added multiple skins support for objects. Each can have up to 10 different skins and in the case of Police Vipers, they have their own dedicated skin. Implementation is via new shader variables. Use the 'Buffet' utility to tweak the colour/name of your ship if you want it to use a particular skin!
  • Improved the atmosphere shader so that the sky and clouds obscure the stars during the daytime and then fade to reveal them at night, with just a faint cloud layer visible in the night sky.
  • Reworked part of the rendering code so that when inside an atmosphere, the sky is now drawn before the sun, which in turn is drawn before the planet - so the sun can now be seen in the sky of a living planet.
  • The current sun colour was being applied when drawing your ship in the Equipment view and when viewing other ships in the ship yard. They are now correctly lit with a white light as per original FFE.
  • The "1st Encounter" Quest ship now displays throughout the intro sequence.
  • Chasing Quest ship at end of intro sequence is swapped to be the expected police Viper when using models.

 

 

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Topic starter Posted : July 23, 2013 05:50
(@pinback)
99 Star General

Look like some of those long standing problems are starting to get sorted out. :biggrin:

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Posted : July 23, 2013 09:38
Geraldine
(@geraldine)
Famed Member

My long held dream of all 3 of the classic Elite games re-make and fully operational for the modern day, draws a little bit closer with this news. A wonderful thing to see.

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Posted : July 23, 2013 23:13
(@Anonymous)
New Member

AndyJ is just making a few final adjustments, such as getting the three dashboard lights (red, blue & green for under attack, landing gear down and autopilot engaged) working again, plus a few rather more technical matters.

 

A few more days at the most, methinks  :yahoo:

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Topic starter Posted : July 26, 2013 12:51
Geraldine
(@geraldine)
Famed Member

:girlimpossible:  WOW. What a massive amount of work you put into this Andy. I think I speak for most on here by saying thank you very much for this. :curtsey:  I am sure Pinback or Darkone will be around shortly to sort out the upload limit for you. Once again, space sim fans prove why they are the best in gaming! :fans: :girldance:

 

Oh one more thing, could any Russian speakers out there please spread the word over on the Elite games site? I think those guys would really like to see this too.

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Posted : August 13, 2013 01:00
(@pinback)
99 Star General

 

:hi:

 

Hello everyone !

 

Well I think I've made the final (final, final) adjustment and have decided to draw a line under what Steve can attest to become a never ending v1.01 build of FFED3DAJ!

Sorry about this - it was for good reasons - so I hope the wait will prove to be worth it! :ninja:

 

If there's an admin about, I may need a little help with the uploading... it's grown "a little" way beyond the 9MB posting limit ... please can you drop me a PM?

 

Cheers,  AndyJ

 

 

 

Excellent work AndyJ looks like you have squashed the long standing bugs 😎 😎

You will need to contact Darkone/SSCadmin or a post here http://spacesimcentral.com/ssc/forum/3-ssc-administration/ although you should be able to upload 1.95GB to the download area http://spacesimcentral.com/ssc/files/

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Posted : August 13, 2013 10:11
(@pinback)
99 Star General

Nice one AndyJ :good: will definitely have a look at this but will not be able to do it till the weekend.

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Posted : August 14, 2013 09:51
(@stamasd)
Active Member

Any chance of access to the source code of your version? I have been playing with the FFED3D source code from the google code project myself, as well as with the original JJFFE... There are a few mods that I like to make for my own enjoyment, in particular an old bug that was fixed by John Jordan which I like to reintroduce... It's easy with the source code, not so easy with the binarues only. 🙂

 

IMHO the most stable revision of the Google code project was r65, that's what I usually compile and play with.

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Posted : August 22, 2013 01:34
(@hasenack)
New Member

I am very impressed with the way FF3DAj starts... unfortunately the package misses bass.dll

Any way I added the dll from another FFD3D package, and it starts up. Starting screens look very impressive.

And then it crashes :((

 

COuld it be I need to add some more DLL's? Ittiz's FFD3D seems to run just fine. except for distant planets being drawn /OVERBEFORE the nearby spaceship ..

 

It crashes on my dev PC, my Laptop . Heres the crash ,message:

 

Probleemhandtekening:

  Gebeurtenisnaam van probleem: BEX

  Naam van de toepassing: FFED3DAJ.exe

  Versie van toepassing: 0.0.0.0

  Tijdstempel van toepassing: 520e6dbe

  Naam van foutmodule: FFED3DAJ.exe

  Versie van foutmodule: 0.0.0.0

  Tijdstempel van foutmodule: 520e6dbe

  Uitzonderingsmarge: 000c20f9

  Uitzonderingscode: c0000417

  Uitzonderingsgegevens: 00000000

  Versie van besturingssysteem: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1

  Landinstelling-id: 1043

  Aanvullende informatie 1: e39a

  Aanvullende informatie 2: e39a95b388da1176da7870165ec491d1

  Aanvullende informatie 3: c685

  Aanvullende informatie 4: c6856b97feb6f7465c874beaac7db3f1
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Posted : August 23, 2013 23:01
(@hasenack)
New Member

Managed to fix the crash by adding FX,DATA and COmmandr folders...

 

Better said: I took Ittz folder, and overweriiten/merged it with the FFD3DAJ archives. Now it runs stable.

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Posted : August 24, 2013 03:58
 OSH
(@osh)
Estimable Member

Great! Maybe I will find some time to check this version out. Big thanks Andy!!!

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Posted : September 5, 2013 06:32
(@mv2000)
Estimable Member

Strange. I've downloaded both versions (with the AndyJ's being the latest version); it fixed the missing HUD icon bug (I'm playing on default windowed mode - 800x600) but for some reason, the planets' textures are seems way too dark (or worse, some are totally black - still cities have brighter ground terrain though).

 

...or is it just me <_<

 

GJiCvgc.jpg

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Posted : October 5, 2013 06:59
(@Anonymous)
New Member

Just wanted to point out that AndyJ's patch has reached v1.04 and now includes - amongst other things - the ability to return to the desktop and go back to the game without messing everything up! The download page is at   http://spacesimcentral.com/ssc/files/file/1036-ffed3daj/

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Topic starter Posted : October 12, 2013 23:11
(@captainkal)
Prominent Member

 

v1.05a of my patch has now been uploaded into the downloads section here:

 

Just to be sure. Can I use Ittiz's build with your patch?

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Posted : October 29, 2013 07:37
(@captainkal)
Prominent Member

Thank you very much, for your answer. I have a x64 Win7 with 8GB.

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Posted : October 29, 2013 09:09
(@captainkal)
Prominent Member

Thank you very much AndyJ. Keep up the good work!!

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Posted : February 23, 2016 07:31
Geraldine
(@geraldine)
Famed Member

Wonderful news Andy! Thank you for your tireless work in keeping FFE3D flying! :curtsey:

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Posted : February 23, 2016 15:51
Gernot66
(@gernot66)
Honorable Member

🙂
hi everybody

preface:
sorry, i opened a new account simply because the former one was registered to a no longer existing e-mail adress.

**THANK YOU ANDYJ!**

very well done, you're a sort of wizard.

your release brought me back to life (in frontier).
after loosing so much of my work (for pioneer)..... i'm happy to run a lousy FFED3D.

however,
i started to (re)create a couple of models, some are new onesy i made especially for FFED3D, some are conversions of models i made for Pioneer.
most is work in progress, some more some less.

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**INSTEAD** to overload this thread with screenshots of my models,
i opened i own thread for my new and old FFED3D models (or whatever else).

http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/discussion/7025/new-ship-models-for-ffed3d-by-potsmoke-gernot#latest

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Posted : December 11, 2016 19:57
(@walterar)
Prominent Member

@gernot66 "after loosing so much of my work (for pioneer)"

Losses? Never! Your ships are more alive than ever, check here:

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"https://youtube.com/watch?v=F8ZxjLJRYzU")
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"https://youtube.com/watch?v=F_2S4hr66DU")

:smiley:

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Posted : December 12, 2016 10:06
Geraldine
(@geraldine)
Famed Member

Gernot!!!! So happy to see your back making your wonderful ships again! <3

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Posted : December 12, 2016 18:54
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