Ok so me being the voxel aficionado that I am, I could not wait till tomorrow to test this bad boy. So after playing with the first part of level 1 this are my initial thoughts:
- The voxels look great as always however there is a performance hit in game. At the very least on my machine (i7 6700 HQ CPU, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 960M, with IF installed on SSD running on 1080p at fullscreen) there was stuttering and slowdowns present. This was of course to be expected. This lessened as soon as I lowered the resolution but still it should be noted.
- Maphacks need to be made obviously. It's gonna take a while though and the effort of the community to figure it out. So far there is not something egregious so for a alpha release it was all right.
- Gameplay wise, things kinda changed. Specifically relating to the route you have to take to get to the Blade Runner easter egg, jumping on the cables can be harder with voxel mod than without. This is because the voxel cable looks (obviously) way thicker than the sprite, so it can lead to overshooting a jump that you should be able to make. I expect this can also be a minor problem on other areas were this kind of platforming is a thing.
- There was a error while loading the voxels.def fiel relating to some voxels with the names Ballon, cockroach and eye. I assume however that they were not loaded because they are WIP (lol, silly Ion Fury). Still I attached my fury.log just in case.
Those are the 4 main take aways at this time. I'm gonna try and install eduke32 to play around and see if changing the settings give me a boost in performance, because this one looks to be more demanding than vanilla IF or the other 3 Build games (DN3D, Blood & SW) + voxel patch.
Or at the very least with my setup...
Here are some screenies for your viewing pleasure:
Also you missed the most important thing you could have added to make this alpha release perfect:
The Blade Runner easter egg.
At the end of the day, I'm really excited at were this voxel pack is going! Even if I'm gonna have to play IF at 720p
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