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Duke Caribbean: Life's A Beach Plus "Now Duke Plus-compatible!"

#151 Posted 29 July 2012 - 05:28 AM

While speaking about credits elsewhere:
HangNail appears to be unmentioned for creating Shark's Cove (dcava0r.map, dcava1.map).

#152 Posted 29 July 2012 - 11:12 AM

Good catch, I'll add him to the docs.

#153 Posted 30 July 2012 - 07:03 AM

LeoD, on 17 July 2012 - 04:25 AM, said:

XXX-Lite beachbabe for future use:

I forgot the frozen skins.

#154 Posted 30 July 2012 - 11:11 AM

Thanks, I forgot about those too or I would have asked.

(Good job optimizing the files by the way, I could not squeeze another byte out of them.)

What is the purpose of the included switches.def? They simply redefine vanilla HRP assets over Caribbean tiles, and they do it inefficiently too: you could have just doubled up the off/on frame definitions in their respective spots after the correct skins.

Compare:
Original / Caribbean

130
Posted Image

131

170

171

(The Caribbean set is duplicated.)

Hence:

undefmodelrange 130 131
undefmodelrange 170 171
undeftexturerange 130 131
undeftexturerange 170 171

LeoD

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#155 Posted 31 July 2012 - 09:19 AM

Hendricks266, on 30 July 2012 - 11:11 AM, said:

Thanks, I forgot about those too or I would have asked.

(Good job optimizing the files by the way, I could not squeeze another byte out of them.)

Ken's PNGOUT, of course (2011-07-02).

Hendricks266, on 30 July 2012 - 11:11 AM, said:

What is the purpose of the included switches.def?

Leftover from my last playthrough. I was annoyed by the lowres switches, decided to try and adapt the normal HRP ones. I gave up soon due to missing skills but left my HRP switch definitions while playing the rest of the maps.

darkprince227

#156 Posted 27 August 2013 - 04:48 AM

Hello? Anybody here?! (echoes)

Looks like people have almost forgotten this project, nobody's touched it for over a year it seems.

Anyway, adding Shark's Cove was a brilliant idea. Keep up the good work!

Also, does anybody remember on 'The Alien Remains' on the part where you go to the surface, you can just about hear the endgame movie music in the background?
Was that a bug, or was it supposed to do that, because I can't seem to hear it anymore.

Hendricks266

Weaponized Autism

#157 Posted 27 August 2013 - 07:50 AM

Thanks for the praise. Like any HRP, updates to the highres content depend on community contributions. The only non-HRP work I can think of to be done is on the Duke Plus bridge. Since I originally added support, there have been compatibility-breaking changes on the DP side, and integration of the new enemies with DP features was never done in the first place.

darkprince227, on 27 August 2013 - 04:48 AM, said:

Also, does anybody remember on 'The Alien Remains' on the part where you go to the surface, you can just about hear the endgame movie music in the background?
Was that a bug, or was it supposed to do that, because I can't seem to hear it anymore.

That was a bug present in some of the levels because the ambient wind sound plays during the episode credits, so that is what Sunstorm chose to override, but they forgot to remove all instances of the wind sound from the maps. As part of the Vaca+ map patching, I added a new sound ID entry for the original wind sound and changed maps that use the credits-music-overwritten one to use the wind, as intended.

Ode To Joy

#158 Posted 09 November 2013 - 12:12 PM

Why all this stuff with SVN and .bats and everything? Can't it be done via single zip file in the autoload folder like the HRP for the main game?

This post has been edited by Ode To Joy: 09 November 2013 - 02:20 PM

Hendricks266

Weaponized Autism

#159 Posted 09 November 2013 - 12:53 PM

Autoload is not a sufficient mechanism for launching the add-ons because each one takes exclusive control of the game episodes and art tile ranges.

I have planned and designed an automatic loading mechanism of sufficient complexity for EDuke32 for some time but I have not implemented it because it would be enormous.

LeoD

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#160 Posted 30 July 2014 - 09:32 AM

Quote

Revision: 80
Author: h266
Message: Remove Shark's Cove.

How come?

Hendricks266

Weaponized Autism

#161 Posted 30 July 2014 - 01:36 PM

Bundling user maps with the package no longer felt legitimate.

http://hendricks266....rkcove2_plus.7z

darkprince227

#162 Posted 22 December 2014 - 01:25 PM

Waddup y'all?!

I'm having a problem with the last level, The Alien Remains!

When you enter the Cycloid Emperor's chamber and those walls come down, I think the beach ball is supposed to be bigger and spin round in the air like a disco ball but
for some reason, it just appears as a regular beach ball and drops to the ground

Also, the end level movie/slideshow doesn't play for some reason, it just hums in darkness for a second, then flicks to the credits scene that appears at the end of the game and
plays the theme music for a second, then cuts right to the score screen. I'm sure it's not supposed to do this!

Can someone help me please?

This post has been edited by darkprince227: 22 December 2014 - 01:26 PM

TheDragonLiner

#163 Posted 23 December 2014 - 12:02 AM

For the beach ball I suppose it's just bad map hacking but I suppose making a big 3D model based on an originaly small one is more complicated than the same with a sprite, animated or not.

I'm not an expert but I'm sure you can solve this problem by either modifying the 3D model's size through map editing, or you can't still create a new 3D model just for that based on the original beach ball one.

As for the cutscene, I know things related to that are very hard for the people here to make because of how it's done in the original codes and the corresponding files but since I never managed to instal Vacation Plus in a working state because of that SVN thing I can't try to help you

darkprince227

#164 Posted 23 December 2014 - 08:42 AM

Unfortunately, I don't know the first thing about editing models or maps, so I'm pretty much stuck here.

As for the cutscenes, I've discovered that Hendricks has cut them out of the pack itself and put them in an 'extras' file because like you said, it's hard to put them in the game itself
(the same with the NWinter pack, but the opening cutscene still plays for some reason, not that I'm complaining)

It seems all I can do now is hope that somebody will eventually fix these problems, but I'm not holding my breath because everybody seems to be focused on the DukePlus stuff or
whatever nowadays, which is no good for me because DukePlus etcetera takes a huge toll of my computer, especially with the polymer/special effects stuff added, so I don't really
use it.

Also, not to rain on anybody's parade more, but the new eduke32 hacks don't seem to work with the VacaHRP, the weapons you're holding are suddenly invisible except the conchanator
for some reason, just so everybody knows.

But okay, that's enough of me being all pessimistic. Happy holidays and kick ass, y'all!

sergey808a

#165 Posted 24 December 2014 - 03:27 PM

darkprince227, on 23 December 2014 - 08:42 AM, said:

I find a way to play highres replacement for the Vacation ending cutscene in-game.
Place this file Vacation_Ending_HD into vaca_plus folder.
Use old build eduke32_win32_20131028-4125. Newest builds are skipping ending videos, this is a bug. I wrote about it to the developers but they do not fix this bug.

darkprince227

#166 Posted 24 December 2014 - 04:01 PM

Thanks for the movie, Sergey

I tried putting in the eduke32_win32_20131028-4125, but now, whenever I run it, it says 'CON file 'VacaEDuke.con' missing' same with the 'NWEDuke.con' in Nuclear Winter even though the cons
are clearly in the VacaPlus folder where they should be.

I tried using your cutscene with the newest eduke32 (the one I've been using) and it starts for a second, but then just cuts to the credits scene.

Thank you so much for making that movie though. Keep it up, and keep reminding the developers, this bug MUST be fixed!

Merry Xmas, and thanks again.

Hendricks266

Weaponized Autism

#167 Posted 24 December 2014 - 06:31 PM

sergey808a, on 24 December 2014 - 03:27 PM, said:

I find a way to play highres replacement for the Vacation ending cutscene in-game.
Place this file Vacation_Ending_HD into vaca_plus folder.

Yes, I know about IVF support. But it's not ideal for a slideshow of PNG files.

Besides, you didn't get the audio to work. That's a different procedure.

sergey808a, on 24 December 2014 - 03:27 PM, said:

Newest builds are skipping ending videos, this is a bug. I wrote about it to the developers but they do not fix this bug.

Where??? I re-read all nine of your posts on this forum and you never mentioned it before today.

darkprince227, on 24 December 2014 - 04:01 PM, said:

I tried putting in the eduke32_win32_20131028-4125, but now, whenever I run it, it says 'CON file 'VacaEDuke.con' missing' same with the 'NWEDuke.con' in Nuclear Winter even though the cons
are clearly in the VacaPlus folder where they should be.

Yeah, don't use old builds.

darkprince227, on 24 December 2014 - 04:01 PM, said:

Keep it up, and keep reminding the developers, this bug MUST be fixed!

This kind of talk irritates me.