Various Terms

=Terms used by the Freespace community=

Terms related to abbreviations

• GW: Game Warden. A popular site for the FreeSpace community that hosts equally common mods like BtRL.
• V: This is equal with Volition, the creator of both Freespace games. On most occassions, the V is encircled by square brackets or ordinary brackets.
• SEXP: Do not think it has anything to do with copulation, it is the abbreviation for Symbolic-Expression, a term used by Mission Editors.
• FRED: FReeepace EDitor. The program we make missions with.
• FREDder: Mission designer/maker. Somebody who uses FRED.
• Mapper: Newcomers who have had any preliminary experience in level designing/creating for action games may think this term is the same as FREDer. It doesn't. You may know "mappers" as texturers; mapper and texturer mean exactly the same thing.
• SCP: The Source Code Project.
  
  • See Freespace Source Code Project for a lot of details
• HLP: Hard Light Productions. The best known and most important forum of the FreeSpace community
• NW: NodeWars , now also called Penguinbomb; a forum run by a community member called an0n
• SG: Sectorgame
• WS: Warpstorm, another forum where a few people of this community post. Not directly FS related.
• VWBB: Volition Watch Bulletin Board (site removed)
• VBB: Volition Bulletin Board (site removed, once was the official forum at www.freespace2.com)
• COB: COB is a file extension. which are models which can be converted into POF files and then into the game
• POF: FreeSpace ships MUST be in POF extension. POF files contain all the necessary information about the model/ship, including dockpoints, subsystems, squadron logo locations and paths.
• PCS: POF Constructor Suite.
  
  • SEE ALSO:

PCS

• FS2: This can not only mean FreeSpace 2, it also stands for an extension that is used for FreeSpace Missions
• FSM: Extension for Conflict: FreeSpace Missions
• TS: Truespace, a model creation programma that many people use and almost as many people hate.
• 3DMAX: 3D Max is a model creation programme that is used by some people in the community
• GMax: GMax is just another model creation programme that a few people use.

Terms related to modelling

• Greeble: Small piece of detail which serve no other purpose only to make a ship look better.
• LOD: Level of Detail. The further you get away from a ship, the less detailed it will be rendered.
• TrueView: A plugin utility for TrueSpace. Ideal for building hierarchy, however, not a must.
• Single-part turret: A single-part turret, is, in a word, a turret without any barrels.
• Multi-part turret: A multi-part turret is, in a word, a turret with one, two or three barrels.

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Abbreviations of campaign names

• The 158th: The 158th Banshee Squadron
• AAB: Ascension and Beyond (dead)
• AHTW: All Hands to War (not hosted at HLP)
• AotD: Angels of the Damned (not hosted at HLP)
• TAP: The Apocalypse Project
• TBP: The Bablyon Project
• BtRL: Beyond the Red Line (not hosted at HLP, it can be found on GW)
• BWO: Blackwater Operations
• CoW: Casualties of War
• CoS: Nukemod - Children of Shiva (also refered to as Nukemod-CoS or just Nukemod)
• DEM: Deus Ex Machina
• FA: FRED Academy (This is not a campaign)
• FotG: Fate of the Galaxy (also known as the Star Wars Conversion)
• FSC or FSPort: Freespace Conversion or Freespace Port (they're the same project)
• FSU: Freespace Upgrade Project
• INF: Inferno, can refer to any Inferno mod
• INFA or INFA1: Inferno Alliance
• INFA2: Sequel of INFA1 or INFA
• INFR1: Inferno Release 1
• INFASA: Inferno Alliance Standalone
• INF SCP: Inferno SCP
• ITHOV: Into the Halls of Valhalla
• JAD: Just Another Day
• JtEP: The Journey to Epsilon Pegasi
• LM: The Lightning Marshal
• MT: Machina Terra
• MG: Mind Games
• NTV: Neo-Terra Victorious
• PI: The Procyon Insurgency
• RR: Renegade Resurgence
• SA: Scroll of Antankharzim
• SoL: Shadows of Lylat (not hosted at HLP, it can be found on GW)
• ST: Silent Threat
• ST:R: Silent Threat: Reborn (a Freespace Port campaign)
• SWC: See FotG (Fate of the Galaxy)
• TI: Twisted Infinities
• ToT: Teeth of the Tiger
• TTP: The Titan Project
• TS: Technological Superiority (discontinued)
• TVWP: Terran-Vasudan War Project
• WCS: Wing Commander Saga

For more campaigns, and for info about them, see Skippy's campaign list.