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FS2_open
========
If you don't have FreeSpace 2, get it from
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/freespace_2
Installation
------------
* Manual instructions:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=79545.0
* With game-data-packager:
game-data-packager --no-download -i freespace2 <path/to/gog.com_installer>
Or if you already installed the game on Windows or with Wine:
game-data-packager --no-download -i freespace2 <path/to/fs2_directory>
Or, if you own the original 3 CDs release, you can point game-data-packager
to a directory where you have previously copied the content of all the CDs.
Screen resolution
-----------------
Odds are, you'll want to run fs2_open in a higher resolution than the
default 640x480. This requires use of launcher such as "wxlauncher"
provided by "freespace2-launcher-wxlauncher" package or couple line changes
to a config file. You will need to run fs2_open once before you can make
the necessary changes, otherwise you won't have a configuration directory
to work with.
Video resolution setting can be found in the following file:
~/.local/share/HardLightProductions/FreeSpaceOpen/fs2_open.ini
(formerly "~/.fs2_open/fs2_open.ini"), which contains something like the
following:
[Default]
VideocardFs2open=OGL -(640x480)x16 bit
To set fs2_open to use the highest setting possible on retail Freespace2,
change the VideocardFs2open to:
VideocardFs2open=OGL -(1024x768)x32 bit
You can set this to pretty much anything you want as long as your monitor
supports it.
Starting game
-------------
cd /usr/share/games/freespace2-open
./fs2_open -spec -glow -mipmap -jpgtga -orbradar
## Start 'Freespace 1: "The Great War"':
./fs2_open -mod fsport
# http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Command-Line_Reference
Starting the game is the easiest using "freespace2-launcher-wxlauncher"
package.
Known issues
------------
Unrecognised command line parameter -spec_exp
Unrecognised command line parameter -ogl_spec
If experience the above warnings on start, it is probably due to legacy
config:
~/.fs2_open/data/cmdline_fso.cfg
New configuration location is here:
~/.local/share/HardLightProductions/FreeSpaceOpen
Joystick calibration
--------------------
Use "jscal" (/usr/bin/jscal) binary provided by "joystick" package to
calibrate joystick.
Mods data
---------
Debian source packages are provided for some mods.
These -mod packages are optional.
Typical build instructions are
1. Copy source packages to temporary directory where at least ~10 GiB
of free space is available:
cp -rv /usr/src/freespace2-open/packages/* .
2. For every -mod package fetch the data using the following command:
./debian/rules get-orig-source
3. Build the package(s) using `dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc`,
(install build-dependencies if prompted).
Typical build-dependencies can be installed as follows:
sudo apt install dpkg-dev wget p7zip-full unzip diffutils
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