[Solved] Two death stars at Endor!

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[Solved] Two death stars at Endor!

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Post by Fdr1c0 » Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:46 pm

Hi guys, I'm making a new thread as I haven't spotted any on this yet. When I play the battle of Endor (GOG version), I see two Endors and two Death Stars! Is there a way to fix it? Also, Whenever I play the Battle of Endor it is disturbing not to hear the adequate soundtrack when you enter hyperspace, start the battle, and escape the Death Star tunnel… That's an issue in the vanilla version as well, but maybe you can fix it here. Thank you and sorry if it was already addressed :D :D
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Post by Ace Antilles » Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:53 pm

Yeah I've reported this bug but not had any comments on it.
If you restart your game does it happen all the time? Mine kinda fixed itself.
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Also what do you mean an adequate soundtrack? What I think you need is....The Battle of Endor Update 2020! ;)
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Post by JeremyaFr » Wed Jun 03, 2020 5:56 pm

Hello,

I can reproduce the error by doing that;
- launch the 2nd Endor mission and exit (there is no issue)
- launch the 1st Endor mission and exit
- launch the 2nd Endor mission again: the Death Star appears twice

Then I've replaced "1b7m2w.tie" with the vanilla version (make a backup first): the issue doesn't appear.

Then I've taken a look to the mission in AlliED: the backdrops for the Death Star and Moon are duplicated.
So I think that the issue comes from the mission file itself.

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Post by Ace Antilles » Wed Jun 03, 2020 6:08 pm

The missions were edited by DTM a long while ago I believe.
I'm not sure what in it could cause this bug though
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Post by Darksaber » Wed Jun 03, 2020 6:55 pm

Jeremy just said, they're duplicated, I don't think it's a bug
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Post by Ace Antilles » Wed Jun 03, 2020 8:07 pm

Darksaber wrote:
Wed Jun 03, 2020 6:55 pm
Jeremy just said, they're duplicated, I don't think it's a bug
I'm looking at it and testing. I think I may leave the satellites out of my version when it's released.
I know why there were put there but I don't know if the positives outweigh the negatives.
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Post by Ace Antilles » Wed Jun 03, 2020 8:45 pm

I've had a look at it and it really needs DTM to check over. It's got a lot to do with the Super Backdrops and sizes.
If you remove the duplication then you either get no images or no light sources and everything is black.
It's not as simple as it looks really.
The way to bypass it right now would be to exit out of the game before going back into a replay probably. It doesn't happen on first go I believe.
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Post by DarHan » Wed Jun 03, 2020 9:00 pm

I’m wondering if this is the same issue that causes Kothlis to be duplicated at the end of the Suprosa mission on my machine.
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Post by Ace Antilles » Wed Jun 03, 2020 9:02 pm

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I’m wondering if this is the same issue that causes Kothlis to be duplicated at the end of the Suprosa mission on my machine.
Possibly. DTM has some Kothlis updates coming.
Can you list the Battle and mission number please
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Post by DarHan » Wed Jun 03, 2020 9:43 pm

Battle 4, mission 4.

Whenever I play, there’s a giant Kothlis filling the lower half of the sky, and one tiny Kothlis right at the bottom of the screen.
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Post by DTM » Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:28 am

As JJ Abrams would say: "Fixed! Now it's much better!" …

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Post by DTM » Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:34 am

Ok I fixed the problem with the two Death Stars … using the "real" Death Star, not the Starkiller Base...
To be precise, there was not only one more Death Star, but Endor's moon was also double. It was a kind of reflection, which appears if you play Endor's second mission after playing the first one. These latest missions are specially coded, so don't ask me why it happened.

To solve the problem I had to duplicate the image of the Endor moon in a free slot of the Planet2.dat file.
So the fix will be contained in the new version of the Super Backdrop Patch which will be published shortly.

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The Kothlis mission (1b4m4) has been fixed. You will find it in the new SBP.

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Post by JeremyaFr » Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:44 am

Thanks :applaus:

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Post by Darksaber » Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:14 am

If your going to include the missions in Super Backdrop Patch there is no longer any need to include two sets of missions, as I'm doing away Gold Ywing option

There will only be one version of the Y-Wing with Red, Gold, Blue and Green

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Post by DTM » Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:05 am

Ok DS, I understand. The patch will incloud the fix only for the standard Y-Wing. I will share the fix for the Gold version separately.
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Post by DTM » Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:02 am

The new SBP version 3.0 is online. Use it as fix for the bug reported.
You may download the fix for the second mission of Endor (GOLD squadron as main color) separately from here (you neew the new SBP patch version 3.0)

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