User:TopAce

My user name is likewise TopAce on the Hard Light Productions forums. I contributed in great part in converting the contents of the old FS Wikipedia into this new, enhanced one. My biggest project in expanding the Wiki is probably the FRED category.

I've been an HLPer since February, 2003. I was a high school student aged 17 back then. Nowadays, I just work on my Fate of the Galaxy missions. Fate of the Galaxy is the biggest and most ambitious Star Wars total conversion for the FreeSpace Open engine. I joined its spiritual predecessor, simply called the Star Wars Conversion, some time around I joined the forums, but that iteration fell apart and a new team (with only Black Wolf and myself remaining from the old SWC staff) was recruited. As of September, 2022, it is finally very close to an actual release.

Apart from working on anything FRED-related content here, I often spellcheck other articles.

Articles written

• Aesdherians (messed up spelling the first time around)
• Alexander McCarthy
• Alpha 1 (complete rewrite)
• Ancient artifacts
• Ancient-Shivan War (campaign) (significant expansion)
• AWOL debriefing stage
• Battle of Deneb (2367)
• Briefing
• Counting with variables
• Custom HUD elements (basics)
• Destruction of Capella
• Destruction of Vasuda Prime
• Destruction of the SD Lucifer
• Editing a mission in a text editor
• Escort list
• Fiction Viewer
• First engagements against the Shivans
• GIMP
• GTVA Colossus ship type debate
• Hard Light Productions
• Heist of the Avenger Prototype
• Herra Tohtori's texturing tutorial (copy/pasted from forum; images uploaded)
• Hunt for the SJ Sathanas
• if-then-else
• Liberation of Epsilon Pegasi
• List of FRED-related topics
• List of modding-related articles
• Maja Express
• Making cutscenes (basic)
• Making resilient missions
• Mission balance
• Mission pre-release checklist
• Music (significant expansion)
• Non-native speakers of English and campaign making
• Operations inside the Shivan Nebula
• Return to base directive
• Spellchecking a mission
• Setting up a campaign file
• Testing
• Vasudan Ace
• Variables example mission
• Very simple missions

My community activities

• My Background Emporium
• Current project: Fate of the Galaxy — very possibly the last project for FreeSpace I'll participate in, so I'm doing my very best here.
• Creator of the campaigns Renegade Resurgence (Mod DB entry), The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi (Mod DB entry), Rogues! (Direct download), Luyten Civil War. (Mod DB entry)
• Caretaker of Into the Halls of Valhalla (Mod DB entry)
• FREDder for Fate of the Galaxy (the Star Wars Conversion) (Mod DB entry)
• General contributor for Syrk (FRED, tables, ideas)
• FREDding for Scroll of Atankharzim
• Tester for the FRED Academy, and Casualties of War remake.