Various Terms
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=Terms used by the Freespace community=
- 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 S-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. Mappers are the same who most people would call texturers. In a word, the terms Mapper and Texturer mean exactly the same.
- 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 Pengiunbomb; a forum run by a community member called an0n
- SG: Sectorgame
- VWBB: Volition Watch Bulletin Board (site removed)
- VBB: Volition Bulletin Board (sire 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 Converter Suite.
- SEE ALSO:
- 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.
- Greeble: Small piece of detail which serve no other purpose only to make a ship look better.
- LOD: Level of Distance. 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.
Abbreviations of campaign names
- (The) 158th: The 158th Bashee 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
- BWO: Blackwater Operations
- CoW: Casualties of War
- DEM: Deus Ex Machina
- FA: FRED Academy (This is not a campaign)
- FSC: Freespace Sonversion
- FSU or FSUPR: Freespace Ugrade Project
- 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
- (T)PI: The Procyon Insurgency (dead?)
- RR: Renegade Ressurgence
- SoA(Never seen used): Scroll of Antankharzim
- SWC: Star Wars Conversion. Also SWTC
- TI: Twisted Infinities
- TS: Technological Superiority (dead)
- TVWP: Terran-Vasudan War Project
- WCS: Wing Commander Saga
For more campaigns, and for info about them, see Skippy's campaign list
