Buda5 - vol. 2

Starfury from inside - October 26th 2002 - The Merciful

Fly Starfury. Now form the inside too. Simon's latest version of Starfury cockpit added to 'downloads' section of our site. Unfortunately Simon has been cought up by RealLife™, so there may not be updates coming.

Narn attack! - October 24th 2002 - Indie

Some new narn ships have been added and the old ones have been updated. These were ready ages ago, but somehow they never got uploaded on the site. The new ships are: T'Loth, Th'Nor and the monster ship Bin'Tak. Get them from the 'downloads' section. Better late than never, eh?

We are currently balancing the ships and I have a feeling you get to download a working skirmish generator soon. ;-)

Models and updates - September 10th 2002 - Indie

EA Omega, Omega-X, The Whitestar and Minbari Nial have been updated. New models: Brakiri Avioki and Minbari Flyer. All at the 'downloads' section.

Models galore, new screenshots and a status update - August 24th 2002 - Indie

More ships from Logic Sequence: Earth Alliance Cotton Tender, Centauri Vorchan, Vree Xorr, ISA Excalibur (update) and the Drakh Cruiser. All are at the 'downloads' section.

Next - here is a small update for those of you who have been wondering what we've been doing lately: We are currently working to make all ships work properly as AI ships. We already have many cool scripts such as a test campaign by Roi_Danton, but nothing worth releasing at this point. We also have a working jumpoint script that may still need some refining. The jumppoint script is part of a Buda5 scripting package that will contain many general purpose scripts for Buda5 ships and missions, such as fighter launching, music scripts etc. I have posted some screenshots of some of the effects, the campaign interface -test and some shots of our newer ships. The screenshots are at the 'propaganda' section.

Several new models! - July 7th 2002 - Indie

Dragon_Hearth's Earth Alliance Warlock got some finishing touches from Logic and is now ready for download. From Logic Sequence we get an updated EA Nova, EA Triton and Narn Gorith bomber. As usual, get them all from the 'downloads' section.

G.O.D. platform available - June 14th 2002 - Indie

Logic Sequence's G.O.D. platform is now available. It replaces the gunstars in the normal game. Get it from the 'downloads' section.

hyperion update - June 12th 2002 - Indie

EA Hyperion has been updated. Get it from the 'downloads' section.

updates for you - June 9th 2002 - Simon_DR

I have sorted out the lateral thruster problems which were visible in the following mods: ea_starfury, black_omega_starfury, psi_corps_transport (starfurys that are with this mod) and also the ea_thunderbolt (not the version with the red textures as it uses this mod as well. These are all available in the 'downloads' section. .

new model for you - April 19th 2002 - Simon_DR

I have uploaded Logic Sequence's EA Nova Dreadnaught to the 'downloads' section. .

new models for you - March 1st 2002 - Simon_DR

I have added some more ships for you, 3 of which still need things done to them. EA Hyperion, ISA Excalibur, EA Maintenence Fury and an Atmospheric Shuttle. All are at the 'downloads' section. More details can be found here.

new models for you - February 16th 2002 - Simon_DR

I have added a Black Omega Starfury as well as the Psi Corps Transport (complete with 4 starfury's alltough only 3 of them actually do something) and also the Jumpgate model which only replaces the Jump Acellorator just now. All are at the 'downloads' section.

banners, scenarios and mods - February 16th 2002 - The Merciful

Apart from the obivious update to the site, I've uploaded R2D2's test scenario to 'downloads'. The scenario has been around some time, but it hasn't been available directly from our site yet. Comments and suggestions based on the scenario can be made at our message board.

Speaking of which, there has been some messages about not being able to dock to stations with Omega, and the like, in the normal 'Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos' campaign. Our ships aren't supposed to be fully compatible with the default campaign - they are there to showcase our proggress, give you some taste and draw in new modders. Saving your game while using one of our ship mods isn't advisable, since there appears to be written in the save file some data about the ships. You may end up stuck, so the risk is yours.

Oh, and a scripter gets always a job. (Or anyone else who feels like he/she could be useful.) No seremonies are needed - just start contributing to the mod. Again, the message board is an ideal medium.

The last thing to mention is that the 'propaganda' section has a full new set of screenshots. Twelve of them.

update for you - February 10th 2002 - Simon_DR

I have updated the Minbari Sharlin to now include beam weapons.

tutorial for you - February 2nd 2002 - Simon_DR

I have created a tutorial for you on making a fake spotlight glow effect for your models in the extras section. I have also updated the Omega X so it uses beam turrets based on the idea by DarkRift.

new ship - January 28th, 2002 - Simon_DR

I have added an Omega-X model to the downloads section. Just replaces the comsec just now.

particle systems has released the scripting sdk! - January 24th, 2002 - The Merciful

...And we have mirrored it on our own site. Great many thanks to Stephen and the rest of Particle Systems. Since scripters are a rare commodity, let us hear if you're interested in mod scripting. Now's the time... ;-)

Update: PS updated the SDK due some proken links within. The version on our site too is updated from V0.9 Beta to V0.91 Beta.

omega with fighters, and the whitestar linked - January 21st, 2002 - The Merciful

Dragon_Heart's Omega with two fighters - either Starfuries or Thunderbolts - added. I've also put the link to the Whitestar mod. The model has been on the server for quite a while, but for some reason the link wasn't in its place. Go to 'downloads' to get both updates.

new model - January 17th, 2002 - Simon_DR

Added a Minbari Nial Fighter to the 'downloads' section.

new model - January 16th, 2002 - Simon_DR

Added a Raider Fighter to the 'downloads' section.

update for you - January 12th, 2002 - Simon_DR

I have added another file for the Thunderbolt. This one replaces the textures with the "Sharks Teeth" version.

update for you - January 5th, 2002 - Simon_DR

I have just updated the Starfury by resizing it to be the same scale as all the rest and i've also added the engine gas effect to it as well.

update for you - January 3rd, 2002 - Simon_DR

I have just updated the Thunderbolt for you with a few changes, mainly resizing it so it looks good when using it as a turret fighter in an Omega, which is being worked on just now.

update for you - December 30th, 2001 - Simon_DR

Just to let you know that the Drakh Fighter has been updated. It has been re-modeled and re-textured and is also flyable in IA and SP.

mirror, mirror... - December 30th, 2001 - The Merciful

Forgot to mention this last night... I-War 2: EOC Community has the old Buda5 campaigns for the first Independence War and all our current ship mods for Independence War 2 available as downloads. Thanks, SoupDragon.

the power of the narn regime - December 29th, 2001 - The Merciful

Narn Frazi fighter and G'Quan cruiser udpated. G'Quan is now flyable and Frazi looks better too.

a christmas gift for you - December 25th, 2001 - Simon_DR

There are 3 new ships for you to play about with in the 'downloads' section. The Babylon 5 station, the Whitestar and a Drakh Fighter.

another update for you - December 23rd, 2001 - Simon_DR

The Omega now has working beam weapons and a Shadow Fighter and Vorlon Fighter have been added to the 'downloads' section. Both of these replace the Marauder Cutters but don't work at the same time.

merry christmas and happy new year - December 21st, 2001 - The Merciful

Yet one more update to Omega - some doubled parts have been removed. Available from 'downloads', as usual. For Christmas' sake, here's also two Buda5 desktop backgrounds. I hope you like them.

it's back - December 19th, 2001 - The Merciful

Earth Alliance Omega updated - Simon has been brilliant! Screenshots are updated too.

narn fighter added - December 16th, 2001 - The Merciful

The Claw's Narn Frazi figher added to the 'downloads'.

the secret of buda, and other matters - December 9th, 2001 - The Merciful

More mods and screenshots. This time Omega, Centauri Sentri and a replacement screen for in-base animations.

Oh, and we finally almost know why we are called Buda5. See the 'F.A.Q.'.

it's raining ships - December 1st, 2001 - The Merciful

EA Starfury, Minbari Sharlin and Narn G'Quan uploaded and linked from 'downloads'. I added some screenshots to 'propaganda'. Note that Sharlin doesn't have have any weapons yet and G'Quan needs some work too - G'Quan isn't player pilotable. If you want stay "on the leading edge" when it comes to Buda5 and Babylon 5 mods for EoC, remeber to visit our message boards. Even more so since Simon has had trouples accessing the ftp server and thus being unable to update our site.

Starfury firing

ps. SkyQuake e-mailed me he had made a Nokia cell phone logo for Buda5 for Edge of Chaos. I haven't yet seen it on the Pelit www-site, but keep your eyes open.

yowsa! - November 25th, 2001 - The Merciful

The site is now complete with links and all. I've added the official graphical SDK and R2D2's texture converters to 'downloads'. The Thunderbolt is also updated to newer version with sharper textures and more detailed model.

There's an article on Babylon 5 mods I have't seen before. Buda5 has its own paragraph. Text is in Hungarian, so I don't undertand a word, but getting attention is great newertheless. Another thing worth mentioning is Finns out there can get a 'Buda5: Raiders' logo for their Nokia cell phones from Pelit www-site. Cool. Also CNV-301 from the first Independence War is available as a logo.

thunder strike - November 20th, 2001 - The Merciful

We have the first textured and armed ship now: Thunderbolt. You can download the mod from the 'downloads' section and watch the screenshots in the 'propaganda' section. A "in progress" version, but I didn't see any reason to not uploading it.

the first step - November 12th, 2001 - The Merciful

You may be interested to know that Simon has imported the very first Babylon 5 model to Edge of Chaos. Now, this model is untextured, unfinished, thruster effects are far from final etc. etc. So I'm not uploading it to 'downloads' yet. Anyways, the first step on a long road has been taken, and you can read more about it in this thread.

fury

hi there everyone - Septemper 7th, 2001 - The Merciful

OK, if you are wondering if there will be Buda5 for I-War2: Edge of Chaos, we can only tell that we don't know for sure either. It all depends on wether or not Particle Systems will release all the tools and/or plug-ins neccessary to import new models and textures. Anyways, here's what Stephen Robetson of PS had to say about the tools on the INA board:

"As far as tools go there are only a couple of tiny command line programs we used to help us create the game content.

There is NO custom object editor ( we used lightwave ).
There is NO mission editor ( all missions are scripted in pog ).

Since the tools we do have don't have graphical user interfaces they are absolutely no use whatever without extensive documentation.

For example, scripting missions for Edge Of Chaos is not simple - it requires at least a basic knowledge of programming.

In fact it's not really like scripting at all, as it's multi-threaded - you're not limited to running just one script at a time as in I-War. Edge Of Chaos has dozens of scripts running simultaneously while you play the game.

And as there are no tools for placing ships or setting up game situations, all object placement, ship creation, etc. has to be hand coded in pog.

In order for you guys to be able to do that we have to write some detailed documentation on the pog scripting language, and what all the various pog and flux packages do. This won't happen overnight I'm afraid - for example the GUI package which contains the user interface commands contains over 100 separate functions you can use.

So please be patient we'll release the tools when we've got them ready for release."

Anyhow, here's some taste of what might be possible in Buda5 v2.0:

Capital ship beam	Shadow Death Cloud