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  1. Posted

    1 minute ago, Grandslam said:

    Shows 28 online but still got inv 300 error. 

     

    The people currently online used the following temporary fix.

    The issue has not been resolved on our side yet, we will post when we have fixed the problem.

     

     

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  2. Posted

    DISCLAIMER:

    ==========================

    This is not officially supported by any of the development team.

    If you want to do this please make sure you allow the Editor to back up any files that it recommends backing up.

    If you run into issues, use the backups that it created to fix the problem. If that doesn't work message me privately on the forums and I will help you fix the problem. Do not message other developers or create tickets about issues that you caused using this tool!

    If you run into any bugs with the Editor let me know and I'll update it.

    ==========================

     

    This tool will work with any of the assets in the game including textures, music, and .W3D assets.

     

    Dependencies:

    • .NET 3.5 or higher - Also required by LaunchNet7 so you should have this already.

     

    Instructions

    • Download and extract MixEditor.zip (attached to this thread), place it in it's own folder
    • Make sure E&B is closed
    • Figure out which assets you want to switch out and which mixfile that asset is in (check my post with the list above)
    • Open Mix Editor.exe and go to File -> Open and open a mixfile with an asset you want to replace
      • You're looking for "<Earth & Beyond Folder>/Data/client/mixfiles"
      • A message will show advising you to create a backup of the mixfile, select Yes
    • Now you have a list of the embedded asset files. Look for the asset file that you want to replace (you can sort by name by clicking on the column at the top)
    • Right click the file you want to switch out/customize and click Replace
      • Another message will pop up asking you to back up the original asset file, select Yes and save the file somewhere safe
    • Next you want to navigate to, and select the file that you want to swap in it's place. The file must be in the same format (mp3 files can only be swapped for other mp3 files, etc)
    • You'll get a message that the replace was successful. At this point you can move on to any other assets you wanted to switch out.

     

    Here's a gif video showing me opening a mixfile and switching out a Jenquai track for a Track from Interstellar's OST.

    Note that I copied the mixfiles into the tool folder but you don't have to.

    https://i.imgur.com/GVzNhOu.gifv

     

    Download Mix Editor:

    MixEditor.zip

     

    Change Log:

    - Feb 21 2019 - This post was created :)

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  3. Posted

    On 2/16/2019 at 9:39 AM, kapla said:

    Interested, in the words of a great man..... "Hell yeah!"

     

     

    Alright, I apologize for the delay; I've had a lot to do and ended up just writing up a new mix editor as quick as I could for you guys.

     

    DISCLAIMER: This is not officially supported by any of the development team. If you want to do this please make sure you allow the Editor to back up any files that it recommends backing up. If you run into issues, use the backups that it created to fix the problem. If that doesn't work message me privately on the forums and I will help you fix the problem.

     

    If you run into any bugs with the Editor let me know and I'll fix it and re-upload.

     

    The only dependency / requirement is .NET 3.5 but you should already have that since LaunchNet7 also requires it.

     

    Instructions

    • Download and extract MixEditor.zip (attached to this file), place it in it's own folder
    • Make sure E&B is closed
    • Figure out which music you want to switch out and which mixfile that music is in (check my post with the list above)
    • Open Mix Editor.exe and go to File -> Open and open a mixfile with a song you want to replace
      • You're looking for "<Earth & Beyond Folder>/Data/client/mixfiles"
      • A message will show advising you to create a backup of the mixfile, select Yes
    • Now you have a list of the embedded asset files. Look for the music file that you want to replace (you can sort by name by clicking on the column at the top)
    • Right click the file you want to switch out/customize and click Replace
      • Another message will pop up asking you to back up the original asset file, select Yes and save the file somewhere safe
    • Next you want to navigate to, and select the file that you want to swap in it's place. The file must be in the same format (mp3 files can only be swapped for other mp3 files, etc)
    • You'll get a message that the replace was successful. At this point you can move on to any other music you wanted to switch out.

     

    Here's a gif video showing me opening a mixfile and switching out a Jenquai track for a Track from Interstellar's OST.

    Note that I copied the mixfiles into the tool folder but you don't have to.

    https://i.imgur.com/GVzNhOu.gifv

     

    Download Mix Editor:

    MixEditor.zip

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    Posted

    3 hours ago, ghent96 said:

    EnB used 3DS max for 3d models, animations, 3d graphics.  Any old 2d graphics program should be able to handle texture making for 3d models, or re-texturing old models with higher quality textures.  There's also a set of plugins for 3DS max created for Command & Conquer: Renegade that will work for EnB, because they use the exact same game/gfx engine.

     

    Not quite.

     

    EnB uses Westwood's WW3D2 proprietary 3d asset format (.W3D) which does contain 3Ds max-derived structures (hierarchies of pivots with attached meshes); but these files also contain lots of other data including material information, material mapper parameters, shader parameters, references to textures (mostly DDS but some TGA), animations, texture stage data, HLOD data (Used for Level of Detail switching), lights, particle emitters, and a few other things.

     

    Although some tools were developed by the Renegade guys to export the hierarchies from W3D files to their 3DS Max equivilant and back, many of Earth & Beyonds W3Ds are incompatible with these tools in one way or another (some stuff just straight up crashes the tools and others either export, or re-import incorrectly and can cause crashes and many other artefacts) due to changes in the engine that were made for E&B specifically and just changes in the engine from the C&C games to other games.

     

    Creating higher-resolution textures is more simple though; as I said they are just in standard DDS and TGA formats.

     

    I am actively working on creating a series of tools to edit E&Bs 3d assets, including full scenes and aggregate objects (such as stations and player ships), animations, and texturing.

     

    Currently my main tool is able to open any of the game's asset files to render and edit hierarchies (although not perfectly, I'm still working on the renderer), as well as adjust lights, sound objects, emitters, and soon animations. Hierarchies are able to be imported/exported to modeling software which I have created plugins for, although some work with hierarchies must be done in the tool still (such as setting up LOD levels and morphs).

     

    Rendering the main Progen station docking area for those curious:

    cam8hee.jpg

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  6. Posted

    The version of the WW engine E&B uses supports .mp3, .wav, and .ogg audio, and the game's sound assets are pretty distributed between the various formats.

     

    The in-game music is broken up into a few mp3 files packed into the sound mixfiles ({RegionRace}Wander{ID0}-{ID1}, ex: TerranWander01-1.mp3 packed into mixfile_sound_09).

     

    It is possible to replace this music with your own mp3 files in the mixfiles, but you cannot add additional music that was not already there; you can only replace existing tracks with your own.

     

    To do so you will need a tool that can unpack and repack, or simply edit-in-place the appropriate sound mixfiles. I am hesitant to release my/our tools for this but you may find similar tools in the RenegadeTools pack or other W3D tool packs (although I can't endorse the safety of any of them).

     

    Note: This is completely unsupported by the emulator and the development team. If you break something it is up to you to fix it.

    (But if you send me a private message I'm more than happy to help you fix what you broke!)

     

    If you decide to attempt this, please be aware that if an update touches a mixfile that you have edited, you will have to re-apply the change you made to the newly-updated mixfile.

     

    Space Music

    Spoiler 
    
mixfile_sound_02	terran1.mp3
mixfile_sound_02	jenquai2.mp3

mixfile_sound_02	ProgenWander02-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_04	TerranWander03-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_07	JenquaiWander01-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_07	JenquaiWander02-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_07	TerranWander03-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_07	TerranWander03-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_08	JenquaiWander02-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_08	JenquaiWander02-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_08	TerranWander04-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_09	TerranWander01-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_09	TerranWander04-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_09	TerranWander04-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_10	TerranWander01-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_10	TerranWander01-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_10	TerranWander05-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_10	TerranWander05-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_11	ProgenWander01-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_11	TerranWander01-4.mp3
mixfile_sound_11	TerranWander01-5.mp3
mixfile_sound_11	TerranWander05-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_12	TerranWander01-6.mp3
mixfile_sound_12	TerranWander02-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_12	TerranWander02-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_12	TerranWander02-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_13	JenquaiWander01-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_13	JenquaiWander01-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_14	JenquaiWander05-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_14	JenquaiWander05-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_14	TerranWander07-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_15	ProgenWander03-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_15	ProgenWander03-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_15	TerranWander07-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_15	TerranWander07-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_16	JenquaiWander06-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_16	JenquaiWander06-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_16	ProgenWander03-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_17	JenquaiWander03-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_17	JenquaiWander06-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_17	ProgenWander04-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_18	JenquaiWander03-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_18	JenquaiWander07-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_18	ProgenWander04-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_19	JenquaiWander03-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_19	JenquaiWander07-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_19	TerranWander10-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_19	TerranWander10-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_20	JenquaiWander07-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_20	TerranWander10-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_21	JenquaiWander04-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_21	ProgenWander01-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_21	ProgenWander01-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_21	ProgenWander05-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_22	JenquaiWander04-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_22	ProgenWander05-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_22	ProgenWander05-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_22	TerranWander06-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_23	JenquaiWander05-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_23	ProgenWander02-1.mp3

     

     

    Battle Music

    Spoiler 
    
mixfile_sound_01	JenquaiBattle04-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_01	JenquaiBattle04-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_01	TerranBattle02-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_02	JenquaiBattle03-5.mp3
mixfile_sound_05	JenquaiBattle01-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_05	JenquaiBattle04-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_07	ProgenBattle01-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_08	JenquaiBattle01-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_08	JenquaiBattle01-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_14	JenquaiBattle03-6.mp3
mixfile_sound_15	JenquaiBattle04-4.mp3
mixfile_sound_15	ProgenBattle01-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_17	ProgenBattle02-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_17	ProgenBattle02-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_18	JenquaiBattle02-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_19	JenquaiBattle02-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_20	JenquaiBattle02-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_20	JenquaiBattle02-4.mp3
mixfile_sound_20	ProgenBattle03-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_20	ProgenBattle03-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_21	JenquaiBattle02-5.mp3
mixfile_sound_21	JenquaiBattle02-6.mp3
mixfile_sound_21	ProgenBattle03-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_22	JenquaiBattle03-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_22	JenquaiBattle03-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_22	TerranBattle01-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_23	JenquaiBattle03-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_23	JenquaiBattle03-4.mp3
mixfile_sound_23	ProgenBattle04-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_23	TerranBattle01-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_29	TerranBattle03-1.mp3
mixfile_sound_29	TerranBattle03-2.mp3
mixfile_sound_30	TerranBattle03-3.mp3
mixfile_sound_30	TerranBattle03-4.mp3

     

     

    Station Music

    Spoiler 
    
mixfile_sound_01	AMBIENCE_SpaceStation01A.wav
mixfile_sound_01	station_ambi_22.wav
mixfile_sound_02	space_station_con_08.wav
mixfile_sound_03	jenquai_station_door_1.wav
mixfile_sound_14	station_ambi_09.wav
mixfile_sound_19	station_ambi_01.wav
mixfile_sound_20	station_ambi_03.wav
mixfile_sound_23	station_ambi_06.wav
mixfile_sound_24	station_ambi_04.wav
mixfile_sound_24	station_ambi_20.wav
mixfile_sound_24	station_ambi_21.wav

mixfile_sound_04	ProgenStarbase3.mp3
mixfile_sound_05	mus_terran_starbase_1.mp3
mixfile_sound_05	ProgenStarbase1.mp3
mixfile_sound_06	ProgenStarbase2.mp3
mixfile_sound_24	mus_terran_starbase_2.mp3
mixfile_sound_25	JenquaiStarbase3.mp3
mixfile_sound_25	mus_terran_starbase_3.mp3
mixfile_sound_35	JenquaiStarbase2.mp3

     

     

    Bonus Music!

    Spoiler 
    
mixfile_sound_28	JenquaiShopping.mp3
mixfile_sound_31	TerranShopping.mp3
mixfile_sound_32	ProgenShopping.mp3

mixfile_sound_35	mus_december_shopping_1.mp3
mixfile_sound_35	mus_december_shopping_2.mp3

mixfile_sound_27	Net7Starbase.mp3

mixfile_sound_34	NightClub.mp3

mixfile_sound_34	PlanetLava.mp3
mixfile_sound_32	PlanetIce.mp3
mixfile_sound_29	PlanetGas.mp3
mixfile_sound_27	PlanetEarthen.mp3

// VV This is Ennio Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold" - I have ZERO explanation for why this is in the client files
mixfile_sound_37	1800_01eog_001e.mp3

     

     

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  8. Posted

    Try this:

     

    Navigate to the EBCONFIG folder: 

    <E&B Directory>/EBCONFIG

     

    Right click E&BConfig.exe and click properties.

    In the compatibility tab, click "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" and select Window XP (Service Pack 2) in the drop-down menu.

     

    Click Apply then OK, then run E&BConfig.exe as Administrator.

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  13. Posted

    I saw your post in another thread as well -

    It looks like you are trying to log in using your forum/net-7 username and password.

     

    Your forum/net-7 login is essentially your "master account". You need to make sure you are logging in using one of your game accounts, which each have their own username and password which is used to log into the game.

     

    You can see which characters are on which game accounts using the Account -> Avatar Transfer page on the portal.

     

    If you forgot the password to one of your game accounts, you can reset it by going to the Account -> Avatar Settings page on the portal, selecting the game account from the dropdown, and clicking Forgot Password.

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  15. Posted

    3 hours ago, Lquan said:

    Kyp ... "content developers" doesn't communicate much to me.  There are a profusion of languages, database systems and scripting tools out here.  Plus graphic tools.  I can't even find a link to which ones EnB uses.

     

    I'm retired and income is fixed plus somewhat scant -- limits my donations.  What I do have is time.  And a bit of willingness.

     

     

    Might be that our game could use some added ingame publicity regarding the need for donations, too    [when was the donation tracker last updated?] ---  what comm channels to us players are available for that?

     

    Content Developers, at least in the Emulator's case, use graphical tools that we have created to add content (such as missions, items, mobs, systems, etc) to the game. No programming experience is required to help out with content development, just the time and willingness.

     

    The Donation Tracker on the forums should be updating in real-time, this is not something that we have to update manually.

  16. Posted

    2 hours ago, RenoJD said:

    Thanks Kyp - but I seem to remember something else. This is the launcher shortcut icon on the desktop. Right now it's "C:\Program Files (x86)\Net-7\bin\LaunchNet7.exe". Maybe I'm confused and thinking of another game or something but I just seem to remember people changing or adding to it for some reason.

     

    I believe what you're recalling is that people used to append "-NoClassRestrictions" to the Character Creator tool in order to create the new classes. This is no longer necessary though as the classes are available in the live client.

     

    Note that you need to use the arrows at the bottom of the Character Creation interface in order to reach them - I still need to deploy the update that adds the buttons to the interface

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  18. Posted

    I don't have any ASUS systems or hardware, nor do I have any software from them installed.

     

    Unfortunately it is difficult to identify/resolve conflicts caused by random software; and I do think that it would be strange for your problem to be caused by ASUS software since you did say that it still doesn't work on a clean install (assuming you tried before installing ASUS software).

     

    What software from ASUS do you currently have installed on the system(s) experiencing problems?

  20. Posted

    13 hours ago, Geffin said:

    <17:46:19> Disconnected from server (server version is too old for command)

     

    Sorry for the inconvenience.

     

    TeamSpeak pushed a client update without backward-compatibility with the 3.1.x servers meaning that people who update to the 3.2.x client will no longer be able to connect to servers that don't have the latest update.

     

    Hopefully we can get the server updated soon so that you'll be able to connect again.

  21. Posted

    13 hours ago, Xiaolinmantis said:

    @Cipher thanks for your reply. As per my original post in this thread, I did set compatibility mode to XP with Service Pack 3.. and what happened was it shows up for about a half a second and then disappears. I just tried with compatibility mode set to XP SP2 instead and same thing yet again. To answer your other questions:

     

    - sunrise.net-7.org  is indeed the host name I am attempting to connect to.
    - Yes, it shows the number of players currently online
    - Yes, what is shown in "Local IP" is correct

     

    FYI - This is not the first time I have played the ENB emulator. I played it for about a year or so and had no problems. I even installed ENB and the NET-7 launcher multiple times before (after wiping my hard drive to do a complete reinstall). I am not a total noob to this and I am telling you guys something is not right here... this is not one of the normal, easy to solve issues.

     

    And as for Windows System File Checker, I really don't see what good that will do. Look guys, I have told you before that I have installed this on 2 different machines with the exact same results. Something is amiss. If you guys have no clue, I understand... debugging issues like this can be a nuisance, especially when you can't reproduce the problem yourself. Perhaps @Kyp you might wish to have a remote viewing session with TeamViewer at some point. Then you can look at my machine for yourself and help determine what the problem is. I'm in Australia though, so we'd need to organize a time convenient to us both.

     

    My apologies, I was in a bit of a hurry when I saw this thread was updated and didn't have time to properly read through the thread before responding.

     

    Some research shows that exceptions / access violations being thrown directly from wkscli are actually quite rare, but can be caused by Explorer Shell Extensions (you can use ShellExView to see what extensions are enabled) or from security software (Antivirus/malware/etc), which you have stated is disabled.

     

    The fault offset from the E&BConfig error leads us into the _output subroutine of the *printf functions and can't really be used to diagnose the problem without a call stack or trace. (Note that E&BConfig is the original config tool that released with the game, we have no part in creating it and no access to the source code)

     

    You seem to have indicated that this happens for you even if you try installing/running on a clean Windows installation?

  22. Posted

    E&B Config generally needs to have it's compatibility mode set to around Windows XP SP2 for it to run on W8 or later.

    To change the Compatibility mode for E&B Config:

    • Right click the file
    • Click Properties
    • Open the Compatibility tab
    • Ensure that 'Run this program in compatibility mode' is checked
    • Select Windows XP SP2 if available, or Windows Vista if WinXP is not available.

     

    I have a few other questions:

    • What is the hostname shown in the Server Host field on the launcher? It should be sunrise.net-7.org
    • Does the Launcher show you how many players are online under the Host dropdown?
    • Have you verified that your local IP is still correct in the Launcher after reinstalling?

     

    As a side note, I would recommend running the Windows System File Checker:

    • Open the Command Prompt w/ Administrator privileges
    • Run "sfc /scannow"

  23. Posted

    7 hours ago, Zarg said:

    So I got a new laptop, and amongst the the things I install on new PC is BOINC.  BOINC has an option to install virual box aloing with it, and since I occasionally like to dabble in Linux VM's, I figured I'd install that too.   

    Shortly after installing Virtual box,  the Net-7 loader would no longer get into the game.  Instead, It would throw a 'server failed to respond' error before bringing up the login screen.   Uninstalling virual box would return the Net-7 loader  to normal functionality.

     

    Virtualbox sets up a bunch of virtual network interfaces, possibly this confuses the net-7 loader.  

     

    Anyone have any experience with this, or know of a workaournd?

     

    -Zarg.

     

     

    Ensure that your Local IP is set correctly under 'Debug' on the launcher after installing VirtualBox.

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