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 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:
- 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 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.
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)
- 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: Star Wars Conversion. Also SWTC
- TI: Twisted Infinities
- 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.
