Talk:FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project

Category: FreeSpace mods
Currently only Beyond the Red Line and Shadows of Lylat have Wiki articles. If more mods with substance can set up their articles, should we create a "FreeSpace mods" category for them, or just lump them all within the "Descent: FreeSpace" category (which I feel should be renamed to "FreeSpace series")? Jappalang 03:23, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:06, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

External link: FSO Installer
I have added an external link to the FSO Installer project. If anyone believes that this link does not belong here please discuss. ~ Ameliorate U T @ 03:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Removed the link as the Installer is known to cause support issues. Using it is no longer recommended. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.196.222.227 (talk) 14:14, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Detail boxing?
The term "detail boxing" doesn't mean anything to me, and there is nothing about this elsewhere on Wikipedia. A Google search turns up many results involving people hitting each other with big, brightly-coloured gloves, but I do not see how this would help to allow "real-time rendering of models in the several-hundred-thousand-polygon range" as the article claims. Could anyone who knows the engine perhaps replace this with a correct and existing term, or, if the algorithm was created specifically for this project, provide details? ThomasTenCate (talk) 20:00, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

"Detail boxing" is a term that means models shown in game with very high detail are not displayed in full detail to avoid causing frames per second issues. Instead there are sections of the ship or model that are displayed at certain detail levels based on how close the player is to seeing that object. This is done by having the model split up into sections (detail boxes) that are displayed at certain times. Redstreblo (talk) 09:41, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Category
Just added this article to the linux games category, as the wonderful improvements made by the scp team means it now runs natively in linux. 92.23.172.233 (talk) 22:16, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Silent Threat: Reborn
In the notable projects section, the project "Silent Threat: Reborn" should be mentioned. It is a community made re-make of the Silent Threat expansion. It adds 10 new missions to the campaign, revamps old ones and is fully voice acted. When it was released the community made posts on Hard Light Productions website praising it. I think this project is worthy of mention (I am the brother of Galemp - a major writer and creater of the project).Redstreblo (talk) 09:51, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Gallery of screenshots
The third screenshot is not the retail model of the Hatshepsut as mentioned below screenshot four. While looking through the history of this page I noticed that much information which outlined the advancedments in comparison to the retail engine was removed by Eik Corell (talk). This included much of the original detailed captions of the screenshots. The last screenshot was even let uncaptioned. It was recaptioned with wrong information by another user. The gallery should be corrected and updated to reflect the current version of the mod. For example this FreeSpace WIKI page could be used as source. Germanicianus (talk) 23:40, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

I corrected the caption. Germanicianus (talk) 22:32, 26 February 2012 (UTC)