[Forge]

RichardStorm, on 27 May 2013 - 01:51 AM, said:

Some old mods just run the classic duke3d.exe through the .bat file... so i copied eduke32.exe and renamed as duke3d.exe in my folder to run both modern and old mods

wouldn't it be easier to edit the bat file and replace instances of duke3d with eduke32? that's a one time deal instead of renaming every updated snapshot over and over

[ck3D]

1400 sectors and 11000 walls, even though the vehicles eat up a lot of them, i am starting to feel more and more claustrophobic about the limits. i think i might build the last few locations and call it a map. hopefully i can find the time to do that in the next couple of days before i have to leave again (provided that i don't hit a mapper's block). otherwise this is going to be delayed for a little while i am afraid. the map is turning out to be less aesthetically ambitious than i originally intended it to be, probably due to its large size and snow theme which makes it more bland and spread apart. i still think it looks pretty unique, though. 2d screenshot of what has been made so far. i know it definitely needs more sector shading. this is only the playable area by the way, no unreachable areas have been implemented yet.

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[DavoX]

Very good man, can't wait to try it out!

[TerminX]

GreenTea, on 26 May 2013 - 11:33 AM, said:

There are some mods that use modified eduke32 exe's, is it really possible to add compatibility for those mods in later releases of eduke32?

I've never seen one that modified eduke32.exe in any meaningful way that would cause the mod not to run with the standard version.

[Jblade]

TerminX, on 27 May 2013 - 12:53 PM, said:

I've never seen one that modified eduke32.exe in any meaningful way that would cause the mod not to run with the standard version.

From what I've seen all of the mods that have modified exes pretty much just change the Eduke32 picture on the side to something else.

[TerminX]

That's my experience as well. The one that came with the DNF mod also removed a couple of things from the startup window, but it was just hacks done in a resource editor and not actual source changes or anything.

[Diaz]

Not much can be seen here, but anyways.
http://www.dailymoti...sion_videogames

I plan to upload some more short gameplay videos later. This thing is taking longer than I expected to be finished

[Diaz]

[GreenTea]

Mod compilation



Download (1.7 gb): https://docs.google....dit?usp=sharing

[Tea Monster]

Diaz, that looks freaking awesome.

[XThX2]

How on Earth is that based on Eduke! I'm amazed, Diaz! It almost looks like... the whole map is a model o.o

[Gambini]

The only thing giving it away is the rocket. If it weren´t by that I wouldn´t be able to tell it´s Duke. Great work.

[DavoX]

Unreal assets really do wonders

[LkMax]

Diaz, on 29 May 2013 - 12:03 PM, said:

-snip-

If you told me it was unreal engine I would believe.

DavoX, on 29 May 2013 - 04:05 PM, said:

Unreal assets really do wonders

The question is: does it also runs well on eduke? Polymer is known to be resource intensive (is that the right expression?).

[xPreatorianx]

Diaz, on 29 May 2013 - 12:03 PM, said:

Is the blue flickering going to be fixed? I sincerely hope so. Also what is the performance for that mod? As it looks entirely done in polymer so I'm guessing it's a bit slow on the FPS sometimes?

[MusicallyInspired]

Wow wow wowie. Can't wait to play.

[Mblackwell]

xPreatorianx, on 29 May 2013 - 05:40 PM, said:

Is the blue flickering going to be fixed? I sincerely hope so.

That's a capture issue, not a game issue.

[Hendricks266]

I've been working all week on this bad boy.

screentext is an extremely powerful CON text drawing function.
qstrdim returns the dimensions in BUILD coordinates of what would be drawn by an equivalent screentext command. (This command is used internally to calculate things necessary for the right and center alignment and justification.)

Spoiler

qstrdim <width returnvar> <height returnvar> <tilenum> <x> <y> <textscale> <block angle> <quote> <orientation> <width of space character> <height of empty line> <letter spacing offset> <line spacing offset> <text bitfield> <x1> <y1> <x2> <y2>
(In case of any line breaks, this function returns the largest width)
screentext <tilenum> <x> <y> <textscale> <block angle> <character angle> <quote> <shade> <pal> <orientation> <alpha> <width of space character> <height of empty line> <letter spacing offset> <line spacing offset> <text bitfield> <x1> <y1> <x2> <y2>

new text bitfield:

• horizontal right-align
  
• horizontal center-align
  
• vertical bottom-align
  
• vertical center-align
  
• let the game handle space character width internally
  
• use the width of the tile after '~' for space characters
  
• let the game handle empty line height internally
  
• use the height of the tile after '~' for empty lines
  
• letter spacing offset from the left edge rather than right
  
• horizontal justify (using <letter spacing offset> for total width)
  
• line spacing offset from the top edge rather than bottom
  
• vertical justify (using <line spacing offset> for total width)
  
• enable automatic off-screen line wrapping (incompatible with: alignment bits, angle not multiple of 512)
  
• all uppercase
  
• invert case (combine for lowercase)
  
• ignore "^##" palette escape sequences
  
• treat "^##" palette escape sequences as literal text
  
• iterate through string backwards
  
• hack bit: numbers always space from the left (the width of the zero tile) minus one, like gametext
  
• use THREEBYFIVE/DIGITALNUM tile order
  
• use BIGALPHANUM tile order (grayfont included, using capitalization bits)
  
• use grayfont (#2966) tile order

enum ScreenTextFlags_t {
    TEXT_XRIGHT          = 0x00000001,
    TEXT_XCENTER         = 0x00000002,
    TEXT_YBOTTOM         = 0x00000004,
    TEXT_YCENTER         = 0x00000008,
    TEXT_INTERNALSPACE   = 0x00000010,
    TEXT_TILESPACE       = 0x00000020,
    TEXT_INTERNALLINE    = 0x00000040,
    TEXT_TILELINE        = 0x00000080,
    TEXT_XOFFSETZERO     = 0x00000100,
    TEXT_XJUSTIFY        = 0x00000200,
    TEXT_YOFFSETZERO     = 0x00000400,
    TEXT_YJUSTIFY        = 0x00000800,
    TEXT_LINEWRAP        = 0x00001000,
    TEXT_UPPERCASE       = 0x00002000,
    TEXT_INVERTCASE      = 0x00004000,
    TEXT_IGNOREESCAPE    = 0x00008000,
    TEXT_LITERALESCAPE   = 0x00010000,
    TEXT_BACKWARDS       = 0x00020000,
    TEXT_GAMETEXTNUMHACK = 0x00040000,
    TEXT_THREEBYFIVE     = 0x00080000,
    TEXT_BIGALPHANUM     = 0x00100000,
    TEXT_GRAYFONT        = 0x00200000,
};

EDIT: Now with more color to hopefully separate the demonstrations:

[DavoX]

I'll never use that but Awesome man

[Diaz]

Thanks guys

Gambini, the rocket is from Quake 2, and it desperately needs replacing (I was using the Quake 2 rocket launcher at first). So do the gibs, which are sprites. I also went back to sprites for the cultists, as the model I made sucked badly; might think about remaking it, though my first priority now is finishing the damn maps

xPreatorianx, on 29 May 2013 - 05:40 PM, said:

Is the blue flickering going to be fixed? I sincerely hope so. Also what is the performance for that mod? As it looks entirely done in polymer so I'm guessing it's a bit slow on the FPS sometimes?

As Mblackwell said, the flickering is a capture issue, so don't worry. Performance is not great, but it's rather decent for Polymer. I'd say if you can run the Polymer HRP well, you can run this well. There are some sluggish areas but I tend to avoid combat in those; also, some non essential lights can be turned off with cvars to improve performance.

[Jimmy]

Hendricks:

[Micky C]

Diaz, on 29 May 2013 - 10:15 PM, said:

As Mblackwell said, the flickering is a capture issue, so don't worry. Performance is not great, but it's rather decent for Polymer. I'd say if you can run the Polymer HRP well, you can run this well. There are some sluggish areas but I tend to avoid combat in those; also, some non essential lights can be turned off with cvars to improve performance.

Yeah, IIRC you put a lot of effort into optimisation for your maps, looking at it in wireframe mode and splitting up sectors for maximum performance.

[Marcos]

[Hendricks266]

Interesting recreation. Please always label it as a recreation.

1. v0.99 did not have the skycar implemented yet. Instead, it is a series of C9 explosions. Use the actual beta maps.

2. Instead of using the Blood diving suit glare, use this. Fox made it.

[Fox]

Lighting attempt

[Bloodshot]

Wow, can't believe that's Eduke Diaz.

I've always found it strange how 90% of older games with animated water textures, the water doesn't really look like water at all, but the textures they made for Unreal still look excellent for just being a texture.

[Diaz]

Yep, Unreal water is great.

This is the other thing I'm working on (which will be finished before Fusion, as it's just a single map)

[Fox]

Diaz, on 29 May 2013 - 12:03 PM, said:

That's an interesting look with Quakeish gameplay. But I think it's hard to make a complete mod with that quality.

[Diaz]

it's a single map I'm making. But I don't think it would be hard to make a mod like that, it would just take too long for a single man...

[Diaz]

ouch. didn't see you were actually refering to the fusion video. that's a mod indeed.