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Starsiege: Tribes

by Max Krivanek · in General Discussion · 05/27/2006 (3:12 pm) · 17 replies

Tribes seems to be dying. The damn master server went out again this morning. I was wondering if someone has a collection of Tribes development kits. The first Tribes, not Tribes 2. Like an SDK kit, documents, ect. I'd really like to get my hands on those to make some magical things happen.
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Torque Owner Matt Vitelli
#1
05/27/2006 (3:39 pm)
Well, it's not surprising that Tribes is dying. It's been out since 1998 so it's almost had a decade long run. I don't think there's any SDK for the Tribes1 engine.

Max Krivanek
#2
05/27/2006 (6:41 pm)
I wanna make some magical things happen. So I atleast need all GUI, .dts, pretty much all utilities I can get for Tribes. Because I'm going to make some major overhauls and see how far I can push that 1998 engine.

I'd actually perfer the source code to Starsiege: Tribes just cause I wanna mess with its workings. People already do that, they just use ASM to do it though. >.>

Torque Owner Paul /*Wedge*/ DElia
#3
05/27/2006 (8:16 pm)
The engine's already been modified and updated and pushed... its' called TGE. GG doesn't own any of the Tribes property, so don't go looking to them for that.

Max Krivanek
#4
05/28/2006 (8:57 am)
I know that, VU games owns it. But I've seen stuff around.

People have been making DLLs you can attach to Tribes. mem.dll and something else.
But to my knowledge these people have used ASM in order to do it.

What I want to know is does anyone know where a massive collection of utilities are for Tribes.

Torque Owner Alan H
#5
05/31/2006 (5:23 am)
I'm surprised it's still up. I never did like the game.

Torque Owner Okashira
#6
08/28/2006 (4:14 pm)
@Paul
I know this is a few monthes old, but I just wanted to remind you that TGE is made up of a pushed Tribes 2 engine.

Torque Owner Paul /*Wedge*/ DElia
#7
08/29/2006 (12:07 am)
And why did you feel compelled to bring up a pointless dead thread just to say that? Tribes 2 was a continuation of the Tribes/Starsiege engine. It was the primary in-house engine for Dynamix being developed over many years, Tribes 2 just happened to be the last game/update to the engine before Dynamix was shutdown and it became Torque.

Max Krivanek
#8
12/08/2006 (10:25 pm)
Well, whoever shutdown Dynamix is an idoit. But there isn't much I can do.

I've sent stuff to VU games. But they apparently just wanna see Tribes die.

Torque Owner Okashira
#9
12/09/2006 (5:28 am)
Quote:Well, whoever shutdown Dynamix is an idoit
It was shut down in 2001 by Sierra due to a restructuring program with Sierra's new owner Vivendi. Maybe you should contact Sierra?

Torque Owner Wayne Eversole
Default Studio Name
#10
12/09/2006 (7:00 am)
Try this site.
http://the-junkyard.net/files-tribes.php?action=listfiles&category=5

Max Krivanek
#11
03/26/2007 (9:09 pm)
I know about the reconstruction within Sierra due to VU games. But there had to be a person that decided it.

Anyhow, I've gotten a few things.

I'm now able to code in new functions due to the fact that Tribes looks for a 3rd party memory management DLL.

Torque Owner JD
#12
05/19/2007 (7:23 am)
Look I loved Tribes, Tribes1 in particular, but it is dead. I think it's time to simply create a new game with those aspects of gameplay.

Presley Caudill
#13
05/23/2007 (12:45 am)
Timeshift is looking like it will be pretty good just no flying but there is ctf

Max Krivanek
#14
07/23/2007 (6:24 pm)
I guess I'll post this since no one else has in this section.

Sierra (aka VU Games) plans to cut support for Starsiege: Tribes. From posts located on the TribalWar forum it appears GG is hopeful they'll be able to work out a deal to keep Tribes alive.

Torque Owner Fleeky
#15
07/24/2007 (11:10 am)
Hi im the lead modeller for a tribes inspired game called ascension ..

were in talks with gg about this and i think that an agreement will be reached and hopefully either gg or us or maybe tribalwar will get rights to the domain name so we dont have to worry about moving everything over to some server no one knows about..

but really if you want to help tribes if you have any experience in modelling or coding or scripting with tgea or even tge you can contact me: fleeky at gmail.com or you can go to http://renwerx.com/forums to get a hold of one of the devs just start a thread posting what you can do .. or you can go to irc.dynamix.com while it lasts and join #renwerx to get a hold of the devs there..


last but not least go check out our site

http://ascension-game.com

Torque Owner Jules
Something2Play
#16
09/21/2007 (5:05 am)
If you love flying in games, you can in ours, some screenshots are on our website: www.something2play.com
Game should be released before Christmas, or New Year.

Max Krivanek
#17
11/23/2007 (10:27 am)
Well, just some updated information for you people.

I'm currently running a replacement master server for Tribes 1 that is working on a dedicated server that has a static IP.

kigen.ath.cx:2800

For those who have Tribes 1 but are just lazy, here is a file.

Download: www.codingdirect.com/ServerPrefs.cs

Paste that over the current file in your TRIBES' config folder. ( C:\Dynamix\TRIBES\config )

I currently am curiously looking at T2 lately, but I cannot find any good documentation on its master server and authentication server protocols.