Freespace 2

Lone_Wolf · 2006-10-15 13:54:24

Recently i was looking for something to do in my spare time (between jobs atm) and adopted/updated the Oolite package.
I got hooked on space combat games again (played xwing, tiefighter, wing commander, freespace a few years ago) , replaced my old worn-out joystick by a new one and looked for space combat games under linux.

The freespace2-scp-cvs package in Aur is outdated, requieres a lot of manual work from the user and needs a lot of cleaning up. Since i have 2 weeks left until i start at a new job, i have started working on a new package for freespace2 , that will be called fs2_open-cvs .

It is a huge package, but taking the freespace2-scp-cvs PKGBUILD as a starting point , and using info from Fs2_open_on_Linux , some other threads on the Hard Light Productions forums and offcourse Arch_CVS_%26_SVN_PKGBUILD_guidelines
i am confident i will soon have an uptodate working package and archers can play freespace2 again.

barebones · 2006-10-15 18:29:49

Sounds great, I'm looking foreward to it.

Lone_Wolf · 2006-10-18 14:39:16

Package submitted to AUR , see fs2-open-cvs

- HUGE package of 1.5 Gib , make sure you have enough diskpspace for building and installing. (i had to resize my / with gparted to be able to install it).

- original movies WITH sound work

- multiplayer not tested

bneate · 2006-10-19 02:14:03

Just wanted to say thank you for updating the PKGBUILD for this I have been meaning to do that very thing for a while now but havn't found the time. The PKGBUILD you added to AUR works like a charm except I when I created the fs2.tar.gz I couldn't get the md5sums to match up so I removed the check for it. Once I got passed that it worked like a charm and I can finally play freespace 2 again!

Lone_Wolf · 2006-10-19 07:47:19

yup, that makes sense as there appears to be more than 1 version of those files.

f.e. there is an update for freespace 2 on windows. if you copy those files from an updated windows/wine install they will result in a different checksum.

I'll put a note in the pkgbuild and upload a new version.

Gilneas · 2006-10-22 19:56:46

I installed the package, but when starting the campaign it says:
$ fs2-open
ERROR: "Could not load WarpMap01 anim file" at fireball/fireballs.cpp:697
Vertex3f: 2

Lone_Wolf · 2006-10-22 21:30:41

Gilneas wrote:

I installed the package, but when starting the campaign it says:
$ fs2-open
ERROR: "Could not load WarpMap01 anim file" at fireball/fireballs.cpp:697
Vertex3f: 2

I tested training mission 1 and mission 4 in both the 1019 and 1022 cvs installation and had no problems.

try running the game with

./fs2_open_r -mod mediavps

from the /usr/share/fs2-open-cvs folder.
that will run the game without any special options, if that does work it means your videodrivers may not support all options in the fs2-open start command.

Did you use the torrent link in the pkgbuild to get the files needed from the original game ?

Gilneas · 2006-10-22 21:59:50

It loads a hell of a lot faster that way, but it crashes in the same way.
I did indeed use the CDs from the torrent you said, but I got a different md5sum.
I have a Radeon 9250 and use driver "radeon" not fglrx because it no longer supports the card.

EDIT: Also, about the CD files, I browsed the hardlight wiki and saw a note about capitals in the names. The files in the CD-files-archive do have capitals in mine and are also chmod rx.
Does your PKGBUILD take care of that? I see the files in yours are all in small letters.

Lone_Wolf · 2006-10-23 10:00:37

tmv-l $startdir/pkg/usr/share/$pkgname/

This command in the PKGBUILD resets the names to lowercase and the install -D lines are used to set permissions correctly.

this is the content of my fs2.tar.gz file :

[panoramix@julius fs2-open-cvs]$ tar -tvf fs2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 35637782 1999-09-13 18:32:24 BASTION.MVE
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 83388218 1999-09-13 18:14:10 COLOSSUS.MVE
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 83254536 1999-09-13 18:25:04 ENDPART1.MVE
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 43984802 1999-09-13 18:29:56 ENDPRT2A.MVE
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 43963654 1999-09-13 18:31:22 ENDPRT2B.MVE
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 205252206 1999-09-14 01:55:56 INTRO.MVE
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 61605812 1999-09-13 18:16:20 MONO1.MVE
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 55612204 1999-09-13 18:17:30 MONO2.MVE
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 53939080 1999-09-13 18:19:32 MONO3.MVE
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 59796474 1999-09-13 18:21:18 MONO4.MVE
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 633600064 1999-09-16 03:04:10 data1.cab
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 29423 1999-09-16 03:08:14 data1.hdr
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 195887233 1999-09-15 07:29:40 tango1_fs2.vp
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 72778161 1999-09-15 07:30:06 tango2_fs2.vp
-rw-r--r-- panoramix/users 50497261 1999-09-15 07:30:22 tango3_fs2.vp
[panoramix@julius fs2-open-cvs]$

if you have the same files in yours, the md5sum should match.

It may be that the game uses a wrong videomode , check .fs2_open/fs2_open.ini in your home folder.

This is my fs2_open.ini file :

[Default]
VideocardFs2open=OGL -(1280x1024)x32 bit
LastPlayer=aS

You should change the -(1280x1024)x32 bit part to match your screen settings.

Also run glxgears to check if open gl acceleration works.

Gilneas · 2006-10-23 17:13:46

My fs2.tar.gz has the same contents, except permissions and, of course, username. The rest is identical.
In fs2_open.ini, neither the same video mode as xorg.conf or lower/higher works for me.
And glxgears displays pretty gears just fine.

I also tried recompiling and reinstalling the package, but it gives the same error message.

Lone_Wolf · 2006-10-23 17:49:12

I'm almost out of ideas, but i think there's 1 thing worth checking :
if the files in fs2.tar.gz are correct.

extract them to a temporary folder and execute

md5sum BASTION.MVE COLOSSUS.MVE ENDPART1.MVE ENDPRT2A.MVE ENDPRT2B.MVE INTRO.MVE MONO1.MVE MONO2.MVE MONO3.MVE MONO4.MVE data1.cab data1.hdr tango1_fs2.vp tango2_fs2.vp tango3_fs2.vp

This is the output that command gives on my files :

5e451ef90831da3453696660fc4db066  BASTION.MVE
d33f21ec6df7eb82d629b75125e3811a  COLOSSUS.MVE
819c0ae94d9467409ee7ab530a4fc2ed  ENDPART1.MVE
08677efe8264a495db2d90cc7b1ce756  ENDPRT2A.MVE
ed0e8cd99ee7534141abdadeafb8c828  ENDPRT2B.MVE
59d0085dcf98e50d2ca49a0a2304afb6  INTRO.MVE
3d52c77261aca0144f5f2d25f0a0cbea  MONO1.MVE
efb555b01a54b138a52342ef23729305  MONO2.MVE
b76fa014c89a14d268b19b130c96be3d  MONO3.MVE
ea031404c39aff2973b80240178751a2  MONO4.MVE
434f3580f95fbc83fc8653a7fca26407  data1.cab
5e7929d77d4cb21e873eb3efdee689a6  data1.hdr
8ca7330cfe63329b41868efc2e40e048  tango1_fs2.vp
6fb6e9a36248980540155a9777c51c47  tango2_fs2.vp
d42c20b6ffb4782e431899c211ae55c4  tango3_fs2.vp

Compare it with the output on your system, it should be the same.

Gilneas · 2006-10-23 19:54:47

It is also exactly the same.
I have another computer with a Geforce 2, I will try it on there.

Update: It works brilliantly on there! ( same .pkg.tar.gz I tried on here) I will fiddle around with the drivers on this computer, it really ought to work.

Thanks for the help Lone_Wolf, and thanks for the awesome game

Cagnulein · 2006-10-24 11:26:21

great idea!
/me looking for the 3 cds in his bedroom...

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Freespace 2

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