how have folks' JPDS adventures been? i'm anxious to hear people's experiences. it should be assumed that this thread will contain SPOILERS, feel free to speak about anything you've discovered in the levels in this thread.
addressing some of the issues i've noticed:
- it appears that some people's machines don't like the renamed SCN files, with mixed up palettes. for example, the level files known as "JPDS~camp" use an SCN named "JPDS~Trails", for the sake of trying to have the original names i wanted to give them. "Camp" was originally a sublevel to be dumped into another level, and couldn't be renamed. if repeated restarts of the level - or loading a savegame you make right after loading - does not fix this issue, you could try manually renaming the SCN files to their original level names, but be warned this may mess up some level-load triggers.
- JPDS~Trails was JPDS~camp
- JPDS~HRS was the same
- JPDS~Forest was JPDS~dam
- the HSP - Hazardous Species Paddock - fence, being very high poly, can certainly threaten crashes. i had to reduce the rendering distance of them in JPDS~Trails, but i don't think i ever got around to this in JPDS~Plains. my best solution to offer is reducing all render settings to compensate if necessary, from Draw Distance to Render Quality to Resolution. there is no stability issue i know that sufficiently-low Render Quality cannot handle; it's a question of how much quality you must sacrifice for your hardware in that area. remember to change Quality without a level loaded to avoid CWaterEntity issues.
- it seems there were some issues with level load/end triggers in JPDS~Forest. i honestly did not have time to check the one at the Embryonics Administration gate myself, i had Tatu do it as one of the very last things. it's intended to simply end the game, when you enter the area; it was going to play a credits SMK too but we couldn't make one in time. (might be good if someone checks to make sure it simply has AT 31.) if you cheat and enter the area without passing thru the trigger, there is a secret trigger which activates something special. otherwise, yes, the "secret" PV trigger, which was going to be harder to reach, requires you to put an SCN file called "PV.scn", preferrably linking to the actual Pine Valley, in the \data folder. ironically, this was put in JPDS years before we got the real level, and i'd intended to release a fan-reconstructed Pine Valley around the same time as JPDS.
~Draco