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Actually, I never read any Wing Commander books, or any other books based on games. Except BattleTech. So, as BattleTech had a recent revival (the computer game), I decided to give the Wing Commander books a try. Starting with Freedom Flight, I have to say I'm pretty impressed. It really fits...

Actually, Secret Missions 2 for Wing Commander introduced the fps cap. But as it's a separate binary, WC1 and SM1 don't benefit, unfortunately.

@WallyWest WC2 comes with a frame rate cap ootb. so it will run much smoother than WC1 does without going too fast. So, IMHO WC2 DOS plays much better on today's machines. If you give it a try, let me know what you think.

Ha, finally I know why skipping cinematics sometimes takes multiple keypresses until it finally does skip.

I was thinking the same :-) So, welcome Iskovlun :-)

Boy, geniuses all over the place in this here forum :-) Awesome, thanks for sharing

More on the block at offset 187. 15 24 00 28 FF #byte 3 (0x00) changes flightsuit of bluehair in closeup and full-view (screenshot) 28 88 06 24 22 28 FF #byte 5 (0x22) is background for bluehair closeups (mentioned in previous post) 28 88 08 24 22 28 FF 1E 24 0A 24 01 00 28 FF #byte 3 (0x0A)...

SERIES.S00 As most other files, this consists of a series of "Groups", most notably the TextGroup. But, as you can see in the snippet below, this comes without any specific information on the timings of backgrounds, sprites, text color, music, etc. In WC1, a cinematic description contains of...

INCIDENT.S00-ContainerBlock078-SpriteGroup ----------------------------------------------------- #background images, not moving, displayed permanently 24 00 46 25 90 01 47 23 0E FE FF 24 00 46 24 00 47 23 0E FE FF 24 00 46 25 C8 00 47...

There we go :-) https://www.wcnews.com/chatzone/threads/wc2-cinematics-reverse-engineering-thread.29245/

Just a space for collecting any findings. Anyone looking for more condensed information might want to prefer the thread over here: https://www.wcnews.com/chatzone/threads/wing-commander-toolbox.27769 INCIDENT.S00 SceneGroup/ScriptGroup: <SceneGroup> <ScriptGroup>...

I wanted to take a look into cinematics. For reverse engineering, it's best to start with a piece that's small and (supposedly) easy to understand. I looked a bit into INCIDENT.S00, especially into INCIDENT.S00-ContainerBlock078-ContainerGroup-PlaneGroup-ScriptGroup-OffsetChunk.bin...

Alright, thanks. Hm, speech files are in .voc format. Maybe these are just .voc files without the header...

right, there's the missing piece. Thanks @UnnamedCharacter, any perspective not readily available in a slot can be reached by rotating. Thanks a lot for your efforts, guys! Highly appreciated!

In SHIP.V08.png, let's start at Slot #30 (left of #31, there's no label to it) The Claw is seen from behind, and rotated 30° left, right? Imagine the ship is flying ahead of you and that's exactly the angle you're looking at it. Now, the pilot pulls the ship up. You should see the Claw as...

Creating this thread as a spin-off to @UnnamedCharacter's Adventures in Explorations: WC1 Edition here: https://www.wcnews.com/chatzone/threads/adventures-in-explorations-wc1-edition.29214/ Also, attaching the images in question. right. I see that we can do anything with 37 images. But I...

These images are killer when it comes to illustrating how this is done, thanks @UnnamedCharacter! This thread is awesome! Question: I only see 0 (no mirroring) and 1 (flip horizontally) in the image, but I think there should be 2 as well? Looking at the picture showing the 62 aligned images...

Right, I remember @HCl sharing some thoughts about that a while ago: https://www.wcnews.com/chatzone/threads/hellcat-cockpit-in-the-wc2-style.27107/page-3#post-385216

Nice. What do I need to do to have files that I can actually play in VLC for example? Just changing the file extension doesn't work :) I'm especially interested in the SoundBlaster files, btw

Does anyone know, which file contains the sound effects of WC2?