XW Undergraduate Course

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The purpose of this course is to teach you how to properly download and install the current mission, and how to properly report on that mission.

Graduation Criteria

Cadet Graduate:

-Run Mission

-Send in PTL file, SS, and Stats


Master Cadet:

-Run Mission

-Send in PLT file, SS, Stats, and narrative (one paragraph MINIMUM).


Master Cadet with Honors:

-Run Two Missions

-Send in PLT files, SS’s, Stats, and quality Personal Narrative for both. Narratives can be in either first or third person, MINIMUM 500 words each.

What To Do

Until there is a set standard training mission, you will get a mission from your instructor to download. You will download the mission and extract all the files. Move the file from wherever you downloaded it to, to Computer/Program Files/LucasArts/XWING95/X-Wing Data

Now, if you have never downloaded a custom mission before, you will need to rename your "Mission" Folder. Rename it as MSNORG (For Mission Original). This way you wont lose your regular missions. Create a new folder, and name it "Mission". This is where you will be placing the files that you have just downloaded. You will need to rename the files as "defect.brf" and "defect.xwi". This is the briefing and then the mission.

Once you have your files in the right spot, close your folders, and get to flying! Please Note: When you fly a mission, you have to create a pilot. When you fly a second mission, you MUST create a NEW pilot! You MAY NOT use the same pilot name unless you delete the original one first. A good way to keep track of what you have done is to actually name your "pilot" the name of the mission. IE: If the Mission Name is "Sabaac Part 1", name your "pilot" - "Sabaac1". During the ITOD, you can refly the missions as many times as you want, but you still need new pilot files for every refly. Sometimes, you end up with "Sabaac1f" before you get a score that is halfway acceptable. It happens. Don't worry about it! But by naming them this way, if there is ever a problem with our system, you can always go back and grab your pilot file for verification of your score.

Report

When you report for an ITOD, you will use the RS Mission Reporter. We aren't quite up to that yet.

For your very first mission, you will report the score, whether it is a success or a failure. We don't really care what your score is, we just want to know that you get the idea of how to report.

This is what I want you to do:

-Upon completion of your mission, pass or fail, take a screen shot (SS) of the page that has your score on it. Fraps is an excellent SS program, but you have to change the file to a jpg file before you report it, or it wont go through.

-Also for this game, you are required to send in a Pilot File (ptl). To do this, you will need to go to Computer/Program Files/LucasArts/XWING95. You will see the name of your plt file underneath the folders. So if you named your pilot "Sabaac1" you will see "SABAAC1.PLT".

-In an email to your instructor, as well as the rest of your squad if you wish you should put what things that you see on your debrief so that we know how you did without opening the picture. (Score, pass/fail, kills, hit%, et al.) Also put your SS and PLT file in this email. And with that, you are done!