The Definitive FAQ Thread for TFTC

[Dax]

There seems to be a joystick quirk where it wants to roll on me when I maneuver. My joystick settings work fine in XWAU (up is up, down is down, etc., roll is push a button and turn left or right). Is this built into the game? Do I need to modify my joystick settings in some way?

For one thing, most craft have roll and yaw combined in their "yaw" axis - a feature of the original Tie Fighter and XWA. Is that the behaviour you're talking about?

The experience I'm having is that a full yaw turn results in a pure roll. This is different from the yaw turns in XWA and XvT (and original TIE Fighter as I remember it), where there will be a slight roll component to the yaw, but you can still execute a lateral turn. I'll keep playing with the joystick options to see if I can fix it that way.

[Dax]

There seems to be a joystick quirk where it wants to roll on me when I maneuver. My joystick settings work fine in XWAU (up is up, down is down, etc., roll is push a button and turn left or right). Is this built into the game? Do I need to modify my joystick settings in some way?

Also, is it possible to set craft waves so that if you die once the mission is over? Realism is painful, but I like it that way.

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You should edit the player Flight Group for this, making it a solo, in a global unit to build the full squadron. Totally possible.

Would I do that within the game or in the code?

[capitanguinea]

You simply edit the mission file wirh AlliED ot Yogeme mission editor. It is a simple but tedious and ripetitive work to do each mission

[capitanguinea]

You simply edit the mission file wirh AlliED ot Yogeme mission editor. It is a simple but tedious and ripetitive work to do each mission

[Sir Glonojad]

Hi! Grest work with the conversion!

A quick question - will my campaihn progress be erased if I swithch the game between efitions (or back to XWA, for that matter)?

[Bman]

Yes they will. You might want to make a backup copy of your pilotname.plt files first.

[AngeI]

What @Bman said is not quite true. When you swap versions (XWAU, TFTC Classic or Reimagined), your pilot file is not deleted or changed. In TFTC it swaps to a default pilot file so you will need to reload any pilot you may have created. Otherwise if you use a pilot file from TFTC for example on XWAU, you will find you have already unlocked the entire XWA campaign. All the pilot file really does is track what missions you've played and your stats so it carries over to any version of the game you're playing if you load that file.

However we do recommend you backup your pilot files anyway, on the off chance something does happen to them.

[Sir Glonojad]

Well, unless I cleared my pilot accidently, using an XWA pilot in TFTC resulted in him forgetting his XWA campaing it seems.

EDIT: None of my old pilots seem to have any campaign progress saved when opened in XWA. Strange.

Neverthismind

Is it possible to extract the music files? I'd love to make a playlist of the Inflight tracks

[Bman]

Ok. Good to know. I thought the converter copies over the directories and deletes/replaces the pilot.plt files. We can also open the config.cfg file with notepad and edit the line that says last pilot used line near the top. But becareful because the actual .PLT file keeps stats relative to the mod you played in.

[Roshengar]

Hi- thanks to all the hard work that's gone into this both mod and the XWAU .

I was wondering if two great features from the original Tie Fighter are included (or are planned to be included):

1- The Time Multiplier for when you're waiting around and want to speed things up
and
2- The "bait enemy fire" technique I super enjoy- where you get an enemy to miss you and accidently hit an enemy ship, prompting return fire.

[Forceflow]

Hi- thanks to all the hard work that's gone into this both mod and the XWAU .

I was wondering if two great features from the original Tie Fighter are included (or are planned to be included):

1- The Time Multiplier for when you're waiting around and want to speed things up
and
2- The "bait enemy fire" technique I super enjoy- where you get an enemy to miss you and accidently hit an enemy ship, prompting return fire.

1. Unfortunately that is currently not possible in the XWA engine. It would be great to have that feature but it is unlikely that will be possible.

2. Not sure, I think in some rare missions with multiple different factions this could happen, but not if everybody else is from the same team. At least I am not aware of it.

[JeremyaFr]

WIP

Hello,
Here is a WIP of the time hook.

Press the space key when in-flight and see what happens...

Download link:

xwa_hook_time_WIP_2207312151.zip

[Roshengar]

1. Unfortunately that is currently not possible in the XWA engine. It would be great to have that feature but it is unlikely that will be possible.

2. Not sure, I think in some rare missions with multiple different factions this could happen, but not if everybody else is from the same team. At least I am not aware of it.

Thanks for the answer Forceflow, much appreciated

[Roshengar]

WIP

Hello,
Here is a WIP of the time hook.

Press the space key when in-flight and see what happens...

Download link:
xwa_hook_time_WIP_2207312151.zip

Thanks JeremyaFr! I'll give it a go

Edit-
Seems to work as intended. Holding spacebar activates "fast time", releasing returns to normal.
Great additional feature!

[Forceflow]

WIP

Hello,
Here is a WIP of the time hook.

Press the space key when in-flight and see what happens...

Download link:
xwa_hook_time_WIP_2207312151.zip

Thanks JeremyaFr! I'll give it a go

This just shows beautifully how much is going on behind the scenes right now. I cannot even keep track of what's possible and being worked on anymore

[Roshengar]

WIP

Hello,
Here is a WIP of the time hook.

Press the space key when in-flight and see what happens...

Download link:
xwa_hook_time_WIP_2207312151.zip

A thought just occurred- if it's possible to speed up time, would the same/similar code be able to stop (or slow to a virtual standstill) time while - for example- the map screen is active?
Maybe not something everyone would be interested in but I did find it helpful in the original Tie Fighter that I could go to the map and get my bearings

[Ace Antilles]

WIP

Hello,
Here is a WIP of the time hook.

Press the space key when in-flight and see what happens...

Download link:
xwa_hook_time_WIP_2207312151.zip

A thought just occurred- if it's possible to speed up time, would the same/similar code be able to stop (or slow to a virtual standstill) time while - for example- the map screen is active?
Maybe not something everyone would be interested in but I did find it helpful in the original Tie Fighter that I could go to the map and get my bearings

There's been a new pause feature added.
Try Alt and P in the map screen. I'm pretty sure that is the keyboard combination

[Roshengar]

There's been a new pause feature added.
Try Alt and P in the map screen. I'm pretty sure that is the keyboard combination

Yup, absolutely. Alt+P is correct.

However what I'm talking about is different.
I'm curious about a "Map Pause" where you can take your time to scroll around the battlespace, select your next target and see what's up.

Currently time passes at the normal rate on the map screen (XWing Alliance style)- whereas re-tooling the "speed up" into a "slow down" would more closely replicate the Tie Fighter style of map viewing.

[Ace Antilles]

Well I've learnt to never say never lately! Lol

I would never have expected some of the things we have had happened recently come to life

[JeremyaFr]

Hello,
I've published a new WIP of the time hook.

See viewtopic.php?p=187154#p187154

I've assigned the time speed increase feature to the Ctrl+Q key. Is this key already used?

[Ace Antilles]

I've assigned the time speed increase feature to the Ctrl+Q key. Is this key already used?

No I don't think it is.
https://www.xwaupgrade.com/phpBB3/viewt ... 41&t=13904