Who was/is Phsyc0Fred? I was looking through his secret society site and I saw some beta pictures of vehicles, weapons, troops etc. That he was making. Was he really a developer of SWBF? Where did he go? Is his stuff 'beta' to SWBFI?
Quote from: Kit Fisto on January 18, 2013, 04:36:20 PM
Who was/is Phsyc0Fred? I was looking through his secret society site and I saw some beta pictures of vehicles, weapons, troops etc. That he was making. Was he really a developer of SWBF? Where did he go? Is his stuff 'beta' to SWBFI?
He is the greatest modder (and yes developer) of swbf hands down. He probably moved on to other games since pandemic shut down. You can see his name in the swbf credits list under "Designer". He has contributed invaluable amount of resources and knowledge to the modding community and for this we are grateful.
Oh ok! Is some of the stuff on his site beta vehicles/units/models for SWBFI?
For example I see the SWBFII geonosis map but it looks like SWBFI, was that map originally for SWBFI? :o
wait, psych0 Fred has a website (gee a bet that made me look newbie)
what is it?
Yup.
If I'm not mistaken he was primarily the audio engineer for the game. He is also responsible for single handedly fixing the mod tools.
He's moved on from SWBF maybe 6 years ago give or take.
Quote from: -RepublicCommando- on January 18, 2013, 10:07:13 PM
wait, psych0 Fred has a website (gee a bet that made me look newbie)
what is it?
http://www.thesecretsociety.com I believe. I know I've seen webpages from the site linked in some of the modding forums, if this link doesn't work, try some of the links in the modding forums then.
Quote from: {Alpha}Gold Man on January 19, 2013, 05:19:30 AM
http://www.thesecretsociety.com I believe. I know I've seen webpages from the site linked in some of the modding forums, if this link doesn't work, try some of the links in the modding forums then.
the forum from his site is archived here
http://www.swbfgamers.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=593
Quote from: aeria. on January 18, 2013, 11:19:24 PM
He is also responsible for single handedly fixing the mod tools.
What was wrong with the mod tools? What did he fix?
Judging from what I have read and remember. He was a Designer on SWBF. He also wrote all the Documentation that came with the modtools, without which we would be lost. In addition after the modtools were out he released several patches for items in them to fix various bugs.
How do I know he was a Designer? Well "designer" appears to be a loss thing with him. Clicky (http://secretsociety.com/forum/display_message.asp?mid=1121) Also you can cross reference his name with the credits to verify that he was officially a Designer.
FYI His real name actually has nothing to do with Fred unless his middle name does. He put it in the Documentation.
http://secretsociety.com/ is his page.
The original release of the mod tools were broken. They were unusable. The model exporting tool was broken. The boundries button in ZeroEditor was broken. He uploaded a fix to that. He even bothered to update ZeroEditor with the version used in 1.2. The model exporter plug-in was broken. He uploaded a fix. He released a fixed version of BFBuilder AND the unofficial BFbuilder Pro which was an improved version of it. BFBuilder made it far easier to make mods. The particle editor was broken. Another fix there.
And not only did he upload fixes but he also uploaded plenty of reference diagrams and text files. There were also plenty of beta items that the community eventually brushed up and uploaded. Of the things that weren't released to the public he at least took screenshots of.
And for a while he helped out on gametoast.
So yeah. he's important.
Wow! I guess he is important!