Map and colors not appearing during mission briefing.

[Callewsa]

First of all, thank you for your extraordinary work!

I have a slight issue with the map display before selecting the location for the next mission. In the original game, I could see the colors of the factions progressing. However, here, even though the audio commentary indicates the progress of each faction, I can't see it until I reach the static image of the menu (selecting the next mission).

This only occurs during the “video” phase of the comments (when colors appear on the map).

I hope my post is clear enough :)

[Callewsa]

Hi,

 

Little up 😀

Even if there is no solution, please let me know ^^

 

Thanks.

[Fey]

11 hours ago, Callewsa said:

Hi

ah, sorry we didn't see this sooner, mate!

aye, old game voodoo. the 'cinematic' part of the map showing up is kinda screwy on modern systems, but the map loads just fine. it's only a cosmetic glitch, so I guess nobody's really looked into it and we're not sure what to do about it

there might be a solution if you mess around in the video settings, but definitely take note of what's currently working before messing with those

as a side note, that you're seeing those cinematics means you're going through the game exe, yeah?  Feda built some lovely extensions for Funky's Mission Launcher application, enabling some very fancy custom campaigns. some which come by default with gruntmods or dunemaster nowadays. and, the Mission Launcher has a dedicated section for the original campaign missions at the top of the "All Missions" page. if you haven't tried going through the Mission Launcher, I'd suggest giving it a look! although it doesn't have those cutscenes or pre-game maps like the original campaigns, perhaps having a broken map screen is a bit more immersion-breaking.

if you'd like more info about the Mission Launcher (which you should have by default nowadays, but there's still this thread for it), I'll point ya over here:

and if ya got any other questions, I'd invite ya to drop by the Landsraad Discord over here.

apologies about the pre-game map issue; wish we knew what to do about that. still, I hope this helps!

EDIT: I was just made aware of a potential fix. try running the game in 640x400, the vanilla game's resolution. apparently that solves it? apparently, a friend forgot to up his resolution before playing and accidentally discovered this possibility. what a fortunate coincidence lol

Edited Sunday at 06:47 PM by Fey

[Callewsa]

Hi !

 

No worries, it's a minor glitch.

I've tried with 640*480, but it didn't work:/

Anyway, it's still a pleasure to be able to play this game after so many years ^^

Case closed and thanks a lot!

[Fey]

o7 godspeed, mate!

see ya in the Landsraad, if ya stop by