[NightFright]

Hate seeing black borders on both sides of your screen? Use this. 'Nuff said.

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[NNC]

As much as I respect your work here, this is not something we can call "Fixes for Duke3D". Fixes should include the handling of some bugs, ie. adding the reconcar spawn for E1L2 and for the egg, adding the palette 21 troop spawns, fixing the shrinker radius issue for the Battlelord, adding the initial voices for newbeasts/bosses, resizing newbeasts/tanks at map load, fixing the self-destruct mode and 1 HP for the miniboss 2-3, and other things. Maybe some maphacks as well with typos (ie. using 321 instead of 231 for M lo-tag in Area 51, or properly fixing the horn M sounds in Derelict, or fixing the R hi-tag typos in E1L2 babe), so on.

[NightFright]

Well, the fixing part is handled by Darkus' game.con which is also included. Since the focus is on something else though, I guess the time might have come to rename this thing.

[Danukem]

NightFright, on 18 May 2021 - 10:59 PM, said:

Well, the fixing part is handled by Darkus' game.con which is also included. Since the focus is on something else though, I guess the time might have come to rename this thing.

Does the Darkus code work with Raze? You mentioned Raze support was added so that's a logical conclusion to draw. If so then Raze has better scripting then I realized.

[NightFright]

Nope, I mentioned in the readme and on the HRP website that you need to remove game.con for that purpose. Darkus' fixed con script only works with EDuke32 and nothing else. No Rednukem, no DukeGDX, no Raze. Given the approach Graf Zahl is taking with Raze, it is safe to assume EDuke32-specific code will never work there again after support had been removed during the beta phase.

[Aleks]

The Watchtower, on 18 May 2021 - 10:48 PM, said:

As much as I respect your work here, this is not something we can call "Fixes for Duke3D". Fixes should include the handling of some bugs, ie. adding the reconcar spawn for E1L2 and for the egg, adding the palette 21 troop spawns, fixing the shrinker radius issue for the Battlelord, adding the initial voices for newbeasts/bosses, resizing newbeasts/tanks at map load, fixing the self-destruct mode and 1 HP for the miniboss 2-3, and other things. Maybe some maphacks as well with typos (ie. using 321 instead of 231 for M lo-tag in Area 51, or properly fixing the horn M sounds in Derelict, or fixing the R hi-tag typos in E1L2 babe), so on.

Sorry to derail the thread a bit, but what's the issue with Battlelord's shrinking? I.e. would you want it to be unshrinkable or easily shrinkable like regular monsters? I personally find it perfect as is, that you can use the shrinker to your advantage there, but also need some proper skill to do it, so it's not too cheap. Kinda like Battlelord having an "Achilles heel"

[Phredreeke]

Honestly, I would pick either to keep GAME.CON and make it EDuke32 only, or ditch it and make it port agnostic. (the inclusion of GAME.CON also breaks Life's a Beach)

I'm a bit puzzled by what you mean with Added: Missing widescreen tiles for weapons (not needed in EDuke32, but elsewhere) as both DukeGDX and Raze already comes with widescreen tiles bundled.

[NightFright]

There was a time I had removed game.con, and I guess in the end that's what will happen again. A rename of the project to something like "widescreen stuff" or whatever will be fitting better, then.

EDuke32 does not need certain widescreen tiles such as the RPG or Freezer since it attaches the sprite to the edge of the screen. Other ports need those. It's true that most posts bring their own widescreen replacements, but I just wanted to bring this to the same level.

[Phredreeke]

Reminds me, I need to add the token to the DEF file to disable widescreen correction for the upscale pack, you might want to do that here too

[Futuretime23]

Aleks, on 19 May 2021 - 12:31 AM, said:

Sorry to derail the thread a bit, but what's the issue with Battlelord's shrinking? I.e. would you want it to be unshrinkable or easily shrinkable like regular monsters? I personally find it perfect as is, that you can use the shrinker to your advantage there, but also need some proper skill to do it, so it's not too cheap. Kinda like Battlelord having an "Achilles heel"

It's bugged?
it's annoyingly inconsistent and i've noticed that even when turning off autoaim for the projectile weapons and aiming directly at the space between the feet, there's still a random (even if lowered) chance of it whiffing.
That's not skill, that's a bug fucking you over when the intent is very clear they are supposed to be easily shrinkable like all the rest - hell I've had minilords get shrunk at the first shot WITH autoaim on randomly, and in some (admitedly rare but still bs) occasions, commanders didn't get shrunk despite the fact I clearly hit them. (autoaim on AND off in this particular case)
It's terrible no matter how you slice it and it's one of the bigger technical gaffes of DN3D.

[The Battlelord]

Futuretime23, on 19 May 2021 - 05:21 AM, said:

It's bugged?
it's annoyingly inconsistent and i've noticed that even when turning off autoaim for the projectile weapons and aiming directly at the space between the feet, there's still a random (even if lowered) chance of it whiffing.

Don't aim between, aim the feet or their dick

Or you can increase the shrikerblastradius a bit if really pisses you off , let's say from 650 to 1000, just don't stay too much close to walls if there are new beasts around.

[Futuretime23]

The Battlelord, on 19 May 2021 - 06:03 AM, said:

Don't aim between, aim the feet or their dick

Or you can increase the shrikerblastradius a bit if really pisses you off , let's say from 650 to 1000, just don't stay too much close to walls if there are new beasts around.

I initially aimed at their feet and it wasn't working, I noticed aiming in between was giving me better results.
Keep in mind my last full DN3D playthrough was 4 years ago, I'll try testing this out later, thanks.

That being said though, it's still terrible to have to do this kind of shit to shrink an enemy who otherwise should be easily shrinkable like all the rest. The few times commanders weren't affected by shrinker also pissed me off really bad. WTF was up with that?

[NightFright]

Phredreeke, on 19 May 2021 - 05:20 AM, said:

Reminds me, I need to add the token to the DEF file to disable widescreen correction for the upscale pack, you might want to do that here too

What cmd would that be?

[Phredreeke]

Found it, not a token but a flag

[jkas789]

Tried it out and so far I'm liking it. Good job Nightfright!

I'm not using the game.con though.

[NightFright]

Well, the only relevant option I can see there is to make weapons stop being pinned to the edge of the screen (globalgameflags 1). It shouldn't have any effect on the widescreen menu tiles (I guess).

Still it's a parameter to consider if you want to show the extra (widescreen) parts of RPG and Freezer which you normally wouldn't see in EDuke32. I will add this for the next version.

[NightFright]

In the meantime... decision time about game.con (see poll on top of the thread). Personally, I wouldn't mind if it's removed from the mod (again). Would solve a lot of compatibility issues with other ports (actually pretty much all of them, lol).

[Phredreeke]

Yeah, I'd be in favour of its removal. It may be worth considering its inclusion in the HRP successor pack since it will likely be limited to EDuke32-based ports anyway due to its reliance on indexed hightiles

[NightFright]

Now that people even start opening issues on Github about it, I am going to remove that game.con file for sure. Most important argument is that Vacation is not working, but also pretty much nothing else with a custom game.con included. That's limiting the usability of this mod just too much. I will also rename this since it isn't really fixing anything.

[NightFright]

Version 1.41 has been released.

Besides the rename, weapons are no longer pinned to the edge of the screen and game.con is removed. This time, it's gonna stay that way.

[Phredreeke]

It's kinda odd how your pack has two different purposes depending on the port.

For EDuke32 it adds the new widescreen sprites. For DukeGDX most of those are already included in the port, but Fox's skyboxes are loaded (personally I'd be in favour of always loading the skyboxes but I realise you run into issues with addons then)

[NightFright]

I would omit the DukeGDX skyboxes as well if its renderer was able to display parallax skies properly (does it already maybe?).
EDuke32 and Rednukem are a bit on the "poor" side these days since they don't come with widescreen tiles out of the box. It's getting hard to cover all bases.

[jkas789]

NightFright, on 31 May 2021 - 07:45 AM, said:

I would omit the DukeGDX skyboxes as well if its renderer was able to display parallax skies properly (does it already maybe?).
EDuke32 and Rednukem are a bit on the "poor" side these days since they don't come with widescreen tiles out of the box. It's getting hard to cover all bases.

Is there a reason why EDuke32 and Rednukem don't come with widescreen tiles? Is it to maintain vanilla fidelity?

[NightFright]

Well, the lack of content filtering can't be the reason since we kinda have it (for 8-bit tiles at least) with the ifcrc parameter.

[Dzierzan]

jkas789, on 31 May 2021 - 07:50 PM, said:

Is there a reason why EDuke32 and Rednukem don't come with widescreen tiles? Is it to maintain vanilla fidelity?

Because eduke32 team has a weird mindset that you user has to provide widescreen tiles yourself (modding in general). Now nukey could do it for RedNukem, as he did that for DN64.

[NightFright]

Nash already said he will take a look at Duke3D widescreen tiles one of these days. Once they are done for Raze, we will have 100% certified and high-quality widescreen replacements to use with any port we choose.

[Phredreeke]

Dzierzan, on 01 June 2021 - 04:06 AM, said:

Because eduke32 team has a weird mindset that you user has to provide widescreen tiles yourself (modding in general). Now nukey could do it for RedNukem, as he did that for DN64.

Rednukem lives in the NBlood repo though. I think the EDuke32 devs want their repo to be clear of any 3DR assets.

[Avenger]

I've been waiting for this for so fucking long. I had hope when the HRP packs had the images included for widescreen but sadly none of them were actually utilized. This had been lacking for at least a decade now and I don't care what anyone says, black bars look like shit.

Much appreciated.

[Avenger]

Is the loading screen right?




It doesn't appear to be widescreen like the image in the pack:




So far everything else seems to be working fine except this from what I can tell.



EDIT: The "Life's A Beach" credit screen also appears to be displaying the standard Plutonium Pack / The Birth overlay.

[Phredreeke]

Avenger, on 01 June 2021 - 01:38 PM, said:

EDIT: The "Life's A Beach" credit screen also appears to be displaying the standard Plutonium Pack / The Birth overlay.

I assume it missed including CRC check for those. Edit: weird, it's there. Are you using an old build of Duke3D by any chance?