Tour Multiplayer Hook

[buzzoid]

Thanks for the installation guide. In the end, that's exactly how I did it and I even got the newer starfields working so far (only tested it alone though). So everything is fine for me.

Although my question is still open. It's true, that the missions aren't greyed out if you install the MISSIONS folder from the original files. But it was mentioned (a few posts earlier), that these folders don't need to be installed with the updated hooks and that's why I thought there must be another way. But maybe there has been a misunderstanding somewhere .

[guru_redeye]

Well actually I'm currently only having Jeremy's xwa_hook_tourmultiplayer_WIP_2105121428.zip and the tactical officer hook installed. I have utterly skipped Justagai's XWA_TourMultiplayer_Hook because I am focusing on my own multiplayer mission projects. This way, besides my custom missions, only the default sp tour missions are available in the tour multiplayer menu and all of them are greyed out, no multiplayer versions in the list.

Btw I realized that accessing missions which are greyed out is not as easy as just clicking some more on them.

Here's how it actually works:

[buzzoid]

I tried this method already. But it didn't load the mission when 2 players are assigned to the same ship. Only player 1 can actually continue and go into the loading screen, where he's going to be stuck as player 2 doesn't have a continue button at all and can only withdraw from the mission.

Well it doesn't really matter as the other method with the 8P missions works for me. I was just wondering if I missed something regarding the updated hooks. The only thing I could complain about is that background (the one which is on the screenshots guru_redeye sent), which makes things hard to see. It's like everywhere, even in solo mode (debrief screen). But it's not that game-breaking; more of a cosmetic issue.

[capitanguinea]

Every player has to be on a different FG. You have up to 8 fg slot for plsyers. By the way in in game players fg can be merged in globsl units and or global groups.

[guru_redeye]

Well yes that's a single player mission because as I've described it above I use the multiplayer hook only for my custom multiplayer missions so I don't have the 8 player tour missions installed, I only have the hook itself. I just wanted to demonstrate how to access a mission that's greyed out using tour multiplayer mission list.

EDIT: I admit that the 4th picture is misleading. It seems to tell that you could place 2 players in 1 ship what I have actually never tested. My actual intention was to show that all missions which are greyed out are still available from the mission list.

[CupcakeFS]

I tried this method already. But it didn't load the mission when 2 players are assigned to the same ship. Only player 1 can actually continue and go into the loading screen, where he's going to be stuck as player 2 doesn't have a continue button at all and can only withdraw from the mission.

Well it doesn't really matter as the other method with the 8P missions works for me. I was just wondering if I missed something regarding the updated hooks. The only thing I could complain about is that background (the one which is on the screenshots guru_redeye sent), which makes things hard to see. It's like everywhere, even in solo mode (debrief screen). But it's not that game-breaking; more of a cosmetic issue.

Did you try editing the ship with Mxvted4.2? You might have to make Flight Mode: GunnerFlyable

[CupcakeFS]

If I made a (well formed) custom mission for XWA, with players on opposing teams, would the multiplayer hook work? Or, do all the human players have to be on the same team? Sorry, I don't know enough about the technical details to figure this out myself. I'm thinking about it in terms of recreating the XvT functionality where you could play a mission with some humans on the Rebel side and some on the Empire side. I know you can kind of already do this with the skirmish mode.

If the multiplayer hook wouldn't let you do that with XWA, then what causes the roadblock? Functionality that just hasn't been implemented in the hook, or something baked into what it means to be a XWA campaign mission?

[guru_redeye]

... The only thing I could complain about is that background (the one which is on the screenshots guru_redeye sent), which makes things hard to see. It's like everywhere, even in solo mode (debrief screen). But it's not that game-breaking; more of a cosmetic issue.

Even if it's quite late to contribute to this thread, everyone who has problem with seeing/reading things displayed before the background in Flight Simulator/Multiplayer/Tour of Duty menu create a backup of and replace the file "XWingAlliance\Frontres\CONCOURSE\CREATE.CBM" with the one zipped in the attachment of this post.

[JeremyaFr]

UPDATE

Hello,
I've updated the tour multiplayer hook.

You can download it with XwaHooksSetup.

By default the tour multiplayer hook is disabled.

[JeremyaFr]

UPDATE

Hello,
I've updated the opt limit hook.

I've disabled the checksum error message in multi when desync.