Turanic vs Kadesh B v1.0 (WIP) file

- TvsK-S Version 1.7
- TvsK-B Version 1.0
- TURANIC VS KADESH (S) SMALL MOTHERSHIP MOD and TURANIC VS KADESH (B) BIG MOTHERSHIP MOD
by: herbyguitar@gmail.com AKA Charvell
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This is a work started 21 years ago but never finished due to life changes and other complications. Last year I got a wild hair and decided to finish it. The things I wanted to do were not available back in the day but with the advent of the Splendor Mod and its EXE changes and additions things finally opened up to see an end to a long lost project. Full credit to the SPL MOD team for the excellent innovations added to Homeworld. SPL gave me the inspiration to resume TvsK.
I've tried to reach the author of the Splendor Mod to ask for consent and possible help in translating to different languages and to build upon his work, with no success. Does not reply or answer inquiries. Since this is the situation, I've decided to hope for the best and proceed with this endeavor and give credit where credit is due.
Since these are total conversion Mods I determined that there would be no real harm in using SPL as a base from which to start. TvsK-Small-MS or TvsK-Big-MS will in no way interfere or change the original SPL MOD. TvsK-Small-MS, TvsK-Big-MS, and SPL can co-exist independently within the same game folder. I've made sure TvsK-Small-MS and TvsK-Big-MS do not interfere with an installed SPL MOD or change any settings of an installed SPL MOD. All 3 Mods can be played from the same game folder completely independent.
The easiest way to play all 3 is to create shortcuts from all 3 EXE files on the desktop.
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Turanic vs Kadesh (TvsK-Small-MS) MOD, Turanic vs Kadesh Big Mothership (TvsK-Big-MS) MOD, SPL (Splendor) MOD, Homeworld COPYRIGHT AND NOTES:

Homeworld Splendor MOD based on original English version Homeworld 1B.05, created by Relic Entertainment. The Homeworld IP rights now owned by Gearbox Software.
The SPLendor Mod is freeware and may be freely used and distributed under the condition that the integrity of its files will not be in any way broken.
Homeworld Turanic vs Kadesh and Homeworld Turanic vs Kadesh Big Mothership conversion Mods built from the SPL mod enhancements is free to distribute under the above conditions.
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INSTALLATION:

- Unzip. Depending on which mod you have, drop files from "TvsK-Small-mod" or "TvsK-Big-mod" MOD folder int your Homeworld directory.
- Overwrite if asked. I've included SPL music files pack since they are better than the original.
- Make a shortcut on your desktop to the "HW-TvsK-Small-MS.exe" or "HW-TvsK-Big-MS.exe". This will be your mod start icon. If you do not use the shortcut you may have to reset your video options in game every time you play.
- I've added a folder (HW-Fixes-If-Needed) with some files that may or may not be of use, to ensure you can play Homeworld (original). Use if needed.

- To uninstall, delete files:
TvsK-Small-MS: SavedGameTvsKS (folder), HW-TvsK-Small-MS.exe, TvsK-S.big, commandlineTvK.txt, debugMessagesTvK.txt
TvsK-Big-MS: SavedGameTvsKB (folder), HW-TvsK-Big-MS.exe, TvsK-B.big, commandlineTvK.txt, debugMessagesTvK.txt
- There's really no need to delete the files. They don't take up much room. The games play independently from each other. There is no crossover from one game to another. Original Homeworld, Homeworld TvsK-Small, Homeworld TvsK-Big, Homeworld SPL, all run independently within the same folder and no modifications are done to any installed games.
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IMPORTANT:

1) Increase game speed: The (\) key can be used to increase speed of game to x8. This comes in very handy during slow times in game like harvesting between missions.
2) All 4 games have independent "SavedGames" folders. They are not interchangeable.
3) TvsK-Small-MS, TvsK-Big-MS, have separate and independent "CommandLine.TXT" files from SPL for setting each game independently. Using (#) before the command disables it.
4) TvsK-Small-MS, TvsK-Big-MS, will output different debug files (debugMessagesTvK.txt) from SPL (DebugMessagesSPL.txt) to differentiate between them. They are reset after every game.
5) If you have trouble starting the game, try running the shortcut as ADMINISTRATOR.
6) If the game opens but you can't get past the opening menu, try deleting the "homeworld.cfg" (configuration) file. The game will reset and make a new file.
7) If the game crashes while loading a map or mission, Try setting the video to (GL) default openGL. Some machines don't want to run the game in D3D. You may get a crash running D3D. It's been reported that in some cases you may not be able to switch from SW directly to openGL. You may have to switch to D3D and then to openGL.
8) Check the version number at the top of this file to make sure you have the latest release. It will have the version number for each mod. Any mod that does not have this version number will be an older mod.
9) Parade formation with other race Motherships: Select Mothership. You'll get a "Mothership" voice notice. Now while holding down the SHFT key select or band box the ships you want to put into parade around the Mothership. Works every time.
- What's happening when you select several ships: The first ship you select get's put in the lead position. When band boxing it will vary depending on which ship the game selects first. When you select the Mothership first it becomes the lead ship.
- A problem you may encounter: If you select the Mothership first and then bandbox ships including the mothership, you may have forfeited the motherships lead status because you band boxed it along with the rest of the ships. Only select the Mothership once.
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Descriptions for: commandLineTvK.txt - commandLineSPL.txt

'Info from SPL readme file'

Trilinear Filter
soft = software
hardsgi = hardware-(standard-for-OpenGL-1.4)
hardfbo = hardware-(Standard-for-OpenGL-3.x)
auto = autodetect-(hardfbo->hardsgi->soft)
Anisotropic Filtering (1,2,4,8...), 1 autodetect
Antialiasing (1,2,4,8...), 1 autodetect

- anisotropic texture filtering (OpenGL only). This feature activated via /glAnisotropicFilter <n> command-line switch, where parameter <n> specifies anisotropic ratio and must be power of two (1,2,4,8...), 1 - autodetect maximum supported value (usually 16 on modern video cards).

- antialiasing for 3D-models (OpenGL only). This feature activated via /glAntiAliasing <n> command-line switch, where parameter <n> specifies antialiasing ratio and must be power of two (1,2,4,8...), 1 - autodetect maximum supported value (usually 16 on modern video cards).

- 16-bit texture support for OpenGL in order to save memory in the corresponding video modes [1.03].
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THANK YOU:

SPLENDOR MOD for giving us a platform to build upon.

I've borrowed 2 ships and also a few files because they fit the role I was intending. I want to give credit to those mods.

RAIDER ASCENDANT MOD: No contact info.
"Turanic Destroyer": New engines.
"Turanic Support Frigate": Used as mini-carrier. Minor tweaks. New engines.

DERELICT MOD: No contact info.
Thanks to my old friend "Tech" for several tweaks and files from his mod. He was on the original TvsK mod back in the day.

TvsK TEAM:
- “Raygoza“ (Weimond) for his help in concept, game play, research, and vision for this effort.
- "Devon J. Wing" for Testing and finding many errors. A valuable asset. He was part of the original TvsK mod team back in the day.
- "herbyguitar" (Charvell) That's me.
- Two models that were made for the original game (but I can't remember who made them) are the K- Tactical Swarmer and the K- Heavy Swarmer. If anyone knows who they are please let me know.
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MULTI-PLAYER:

I've included a plethora of maps. They're not my designs. They were gathered from the internet. Not sure how many. I've not counted them all but there are over 100 maps. All I could find.
I've made a few global changes in order to have specific ships appear and enabled for build in ALL maps. These ships are not normally enabled.
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SOME GAME DIFFERENCES:

1) Sub-systems were created using 2 ship slots from each race. Because of the Sub-Systems and the way they work. "SP" games will not dock (research ship, sensors array) sub-systems when hyperspacing. The Quick-Dock button is required to force docking before hyperspacing to the next mission.
2) The two mods (TvsK-S, TvsK-B) are very different. Each has its own roster.
2A) TvsK-S: There are a few shared slots between r1 and r2, however most slots are not duplicated on the other side. For instance: R1 Kadesh Swarmer (Light Defender slot) builds but r2 Turanic Heavy Corvette (Light Defender slot) does not. This was done purposefully to avoid name conflicts. Because the two races are extremely different double naming was out of the question. It only serves to confuse and clutter. These un-buildable slots are by no means empty slots. Every slot is filled but every slot is not buildable or researchable. These slots are used as "CRATE" gifts, starting fleet additions in MP maps, and also to be encountered in Single Player missions. They'll all make an appearance somewhere.
2B) TvsK-B: All slots are buildable. There are also some ship rearangements and model changes. This MOD is designed to function more like the original Homeworld.
3) Some ships will not perform as their counterparts in 'vanilla HW'. Their roles have been altered to suit the ship changes in game.
4) Kadesh Fuel Pod will be very important to Swarmers. Keep plenty around and have them follow your Swarmer squadrons.
5) Resource collectors have been weaponized. The harvest beam does considerably more damage than before. You can use it in a pinch.
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SINGLE PLAYER POINTS TO KEEP IN MIND:

- Single Player hyperspace requires the 'quick dock option' to hyperspace because of subsystems as mentioned above.
- "TvsK-Small-MS" Cruisers and Motherships can not be captured, however if you make it to level 9 there is a surprise gift at the end of the mission. Can't say what it is. You'll just have to find out for yourself.
- "TvsK-Big-MS" All ships are capturable except Turanic and Kadesh Motherships.

OTHER SINGLE PLAYER CHANGES:

I made changes according to how I interpreted the races to be if expanded. This made the races very different from each other. Strategies and options will be very different for each race.

- Levels will play a little differently depending on which race the player uses.
- A few level maps have been altered to some extent to accomodate the slot changes.
- If you don't research anything in level 3, then Bentusi will offer you plasma tech instead of Ion tech. This may be more useful in level 4.
- TvK: Level 12 will see a surprise twist in the plot.
- Level 13 "Junk yard" junk ships have been changed.
- Level 16 will have another big surprise.
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TvsK-Small:

MP SHIPS (buildable)

K- Scout (Light Swarmer)
K- Swarmer
K- Advance Swarmer
K- Defense Swarmer
K- Plasma Guard
K- Multi_Gun Guard
K- Salvager
K- Fuel Pod
K- Resourcer
K- Escort_Frigate
K- Pulsar Frigate
K- Multi-Beam Frigate
K- Multi-Gun Frigate
K- Drone Frigate
K- Gravity Well Frigate
K- Proximity Sensor
K- Research Sub-System
K- Sensor Sub-System
K- Mini-Carrier

T- Scout (Bandit)
T- Heavy Fighter
T- Attack Bomber
T- Cloaked Fighter
T- Standard Corvette
T- Missile Corvette
T- Minelayer Corvette
T- Repair Corvette
T- Salvager
T- Resourcer
T- Support Frigate
T- Standard Frigate
T- Ion Array Frigate
T- Missile Frigate
T- Cloaking Ion Array
T- Destroyer
T- Probe
T- Mini-Carrier

MP SHIPS (non-buildable)

K- Tactical Swarmer
K- Cloaked Swarmer
K- Heavy Swarmer
K- Ion Guard
K- Minelayer Frigate
K- Heavy Support Frigate
K- Heavy Cloak Generator Frigate
K- Heavy Multi-beam Frigate
K- Heavy Multi-Gun Frigate
K- Missile Cruiser
K- Probe

T- Heavy Corvette
T- Defense Fighter
T- Heavy Missile Corvette
T- Taidan Multi-Gun Corvette
T- Standard Frigate
T- Mini-Array
T- Drone Frigate
T- Taidan Field Frigate
T- Taidan Escort Cruiser
T- Proximity Sensor
T- Taidan GravWell Generator

ADDED SLOTS:

There are six added ship slots.
r1 Light Defender = Kadesh Swarmer
r2 Light Defender = Turanic Heavy Corvette
r1 Defense Fighter = Kadesh Defense Swarmer
r2 Cloaked Fighter = Turanic Cloaked Bandit
r1 Defense Field Frigate = Kadesh Pulsar Frigate
r2 Drone Frigate = Turanic Drone Frigate

P Race SHIPS

P1:
Taidan Heavy Interceptor
Taidan Light Corvette
Taidan Heavy Corvette
Taidan Assault Frigate
Taidan Assault Carrier

P2:
Derelict Light Corvette
Derelict Multi-Gun Corvette
Derelict Support Frigate
Derelict Ion Cannon Frigate
Derelict Super Carrier

P3:
Derelict Drone Frigate
Derelict Assault Frigate
Derelict Heavy Cruiser
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TvsK-Big:
- TvsK Big has some differences from TvsK Small.
- All ships are buildable.
- There are a couple new models and some small changes in ship design.
- Some ship slots have been rearanged. A few ships will behave differently.
- Single player will play differently.

MP SHIPS (buildable)

K- Swarmer
K- Advance Swarmer
K- Tactical Swarmer
K- Heavy Swarmer
K- Cloaked Swarmer
K- Defense Swarmer
K- Ion Guard
K- Plasma Guard
K- Multi_Gun Guard
K- Salvager
K- Fuel Pod
K- Resourcer
K- Escort_Frigate
K- Pulsar Frigate
K- Multi-Beam Frigate
K- Multi-Gun Frigate
K- Minelayer Frigate
k- Heavy Support Frigate
K- Heavy Multi-Beam Frigate
K- Heavy Multi-Gun Frigate
K- Missile Cruiser
K- Probe
K- Proximity Sensor
K- GravWell
K- Cloak Generator
K- Research Sub-System
K- Sensor Sub-System
K- Needle Ship

T- Scout (Bandit)
T- Heavy Fighter
T- Cloaked Fighter
T- Defense Fighter
T- Standard Corvette
K- Heavy Corvette
T- Multi-Gun Corvette
T- Missile Corvette
T- Heavy Missile Corvette
T- Minelayer Corvette
T- Repair Corvette
T- Salvager
T- Resourcer
T- Support Frigate
T- Standard Frigate
T- Mini Ion Array Frigate
T- Drone Frigate
T- Ion Array MkII
T- Missile Frigate
T- R.A. Destroyer
T- Escort Cruiser
T- GravWell
T- Cloaking Ion Array
T- Probe
T- Proximity Detector
T- Research Sub-System
T- Sensor Sub-System
T- Attack Carrier

ADDED SLOTS:

There are six added ship slots.
r1 Light Defender = Kadesh Tactical Swarmer
r2 Light Defender = Turanic Missile Corvette
r1 Defense Fighter = Kadesh Defense Swarmer
r2 Cloaked Fighter = Turanic Cloaked Bandit
r1 Defense Field Frigate = Kadesh Pulsar Frigate
r2 Drone Frigate = Turanic Drone Frigate

P Race SHIPS

P1:
Taidan Heavy Interceptor
Taidan Light Corvette
Taidan Heavy Corvette
Taidan Heavy Assault Frigate
Taidan Assault Carrier

P2:
Derelict Light Corvette
Derelict Multi-Gun Corvette
Derelict Support Frigate
Derelict Ion Cannon Frigate
Derelict Super Carrier

P3:
Derelict Drone Frigate
Derelict Assault Frigate
Derelict Heavy Cruiser