[Striker]

Uploaded the first video of the port, in the previous post.

[Mark]

Is there some reason you can't upscale the models in a modelling program and put them back in?

[Striker]

Mark., on 10 August 2015 - 10:12 AM, said:

Is there some reason you can't upscale the models in a modelling program and put them back in?

Hell no. This needs to be directly binary compatible with the original game. I cannot redistribute assets (don't have the rights to). There's also a technical limitation preventing that from happening, due to how BIN files work. (They use integer coordinates, and have an upper limit on size.)

Anyhow, Mark Randel got my e-mail. He understands the issue now, and he's actually working with me now to get it fixed.

[Mark]

OK. Maybe I mixed up your project with the other one that is using new assets.

[Striker]

You're thinking of Smoke's HD remake project.

I'm working on the port of the originals. (Aka. TerminalFury.)

[Striker]

This isn't related to our work, but I found a neat render of the TV202 by someone on DA: http://crazyyoda.dev...2-WIP1-33965531

[Striker]

Model rendering is fixed, same with the perspective and depth precision errors. Only thing that needs to be fixed now is picture-in-picture/multi-viewport rendering. I'll be speaking with Mark about it tomorrow.

[MrBlackCat]

StrikerMan780, on 13 August 2015 - 01:30 PM, said:

Model rendering is fixed, same with the perspective and depth precision errors. Only thing that needs to be fixed now is picture-in-picture/multi-viewport rendering. I'll be speaking with Mark about it tomorrow.

Good to see you back on track.
You can "blame" your success on neurotic, reactive, hyper-focusing, if you want, but you seem to be quite skilled.
Guys like you make me wish I still worked in software engineering... we were always looking for more people like you back then... amazing.

MrBlackCat

[Striker]

Ok, so multi-viewport rendering is fixed... mostly. I still need to fix some parts of it.

Screenshots would be pointless. There's nothing that'll seem different from a still image.

[Smoke Fumus]

On the unrelated note. I decided to take a break from TVHD for a week or so. Right now i am doing JS13k game jam (compressed, deflated and minified resulting game should be no more than 13.272 kb). This one is pure webgl 8.84 right now. But only because of svg file, once that one is off, it will be even smaller.
With any luck i'll either just re-implement my spacefarer but with free flight, or advance it to include star systems and space stations.

Preview

Active demo (which gonna be updated with gameplay as i go forward in dev)
http://psq-games-projects.tk/sf3d/

[Striker]

I've implemented a gameplay feature that ought to have been in there in the first place: If you shoot an enemy that is immune to your weapon type, they no longer spew debris, and you'll hear a distinct but subtle sound indicating that they deflected your shot.

[MrBlackCat]

StrikerMan780, on 15 August 2015 - 04:47 PM, said:

I've implemented a gameplay feature that ought to have been in there in the first place: If you shoot an enemy that is immune to your weapon type, they no longer spew debris, and you'll hear a distinct but subtle sound indicating that they deflected your shot.

Excellent idea!

MrBlackCat

[MrFlibble]

Juris3D, on 15 August 2015 - 09:31 PM, said:

I have some off-topic-ish question. Maybe anyone recognize what game this screenshot is from? That web page is all wrong, screenshot is not from game in title. Anyone know game pictured here? Screenshot:
http://gamezdes.com/.../1oktluw1fp.jpg

Google search-by-image suggests this is some massively multiplayer online game called Air Rivals.


[Edit] The same shot but in higher resolution can be found here.

[Striker]

Anyone here good at assembly?

I need this bitty piece deciphered (preferably as a C function):

All I know about this function is that is uses a dot product to calculate visibility. Returning 1 if visible, returning 0 if not visible. How it reaches that point I don't know. Assembly confuses the fuck out of me.

int	dotProduct(int *n) {

	_asm {

	push	esi

	mov	esi,n
	mov	eax,[esi]
	or	eax,[esi + 4]
	or	eax,[esi + 8]
	or	eax,[esi + 12]
	mov	eax,1
	je	isTrue
	mov	eax,[esi]
	imul	xv
	mov	ebx,eax
	mov	ecx,edx
	mov	eax,[esi + 4]
	imul	yv
	add	ebx,eax
	adc	ecx,edx
	mov	eax,[esi + 8]
	imul	zv
	add	ebx,eax
	adc	ecx,edx
	mov	eax,[esi + 12]
	cdq
	sub	eax,ebx
	sbb	edx,ecx

	mov	eax,1
	jl	isTrue
	mov	eax,0
isTrue:
	pop	esi

	}

}

[Hendricks266]

Try this. I'm not 100% sure it's correct.

int dotProduct(int32_t const * const n)
{
    if ((n[0] | n[1] | n[2] | n[3]) == 0)
        return 1;

    int64_t const result = (int64_t)n[3] - ((int64_t)n[0] * xv + (int64_t)n[1] * yv + (int64_t)n[2] * zv);

    if (result < 0)
        return 1;

    return 0;
}

[Striker]

It needed a small tweak, but it's working. Thanks!

[Striker]

The game was getting some serious Z-Fighting on box lamps in some maps, but I managed to fix it. Learned how to do depth biasing, was a lot simpler than I thought.

[Daedolon]

StrikerMan780, on 17 August 2015 - 04:28 PM, said:

The game was getting some serious Z-Fighting on box lamps in some maps, but I managed to fix it. Learned how to do depth biasing, was a lot simpler than I thought.

Now if EDuke32 could get it fixed

[Striker]

Daedolon, on 17 August 2015 - 08:49 PM, said:

Now if EDuke32 could get it fixed

It's very simple. And yeah, EDuke32 needs it, especially for transparent/alpha blended objects and wall-aligned sprites.

For the weird cutting with explosions, enabling depth testing, but disabling depth writing will fix that. Alpha testing wouldn't hurt either.

[Striker]

Some of the HUD is done in OpenGL. Keep in mind some stuff is a little wonky still.

[Striker]

Here's a nice shot of Iowah, stage 2. (The level in the Hellbender Trial Version)

This screenshot was taken with 32x Antialiasing, and 16x Anisotropic Filtering.

[Striker]

There is. Stuff up close is nearest-neighbor filtered, while stuff far from the camera are linear filtered and mipmapped.

[Striker]

Well, I just got OGG music playback working in TerminalFury. This means the original CD music for Fury3 and Hellbender will be there without need for the disk.

It also opens the gateway to soundtrack re-masters working in-game.

[Striker]

Don't ask. It's When It's Done™. These things take time, and are unpredictable, especially when it's in a stage of serious re-writing, which it is right now.

I made that TF640x480 exe file. The one you have is the latest I ever released.

[Striker]

Does anyone here have experience with OpenGL Frustum Culling? If so, speak up, and I'll post a small snippet containing my OpenGL projection matrix.

I looked up several tutorials, but they all fucking suck ass through a straw.

[Striker]

I posted my question on StackExchange, hopefully someone will be able to help. http://gamedev.stack...g-in-c-language

[Striker]

Well fuck my life. Almost everything hinges on getting this done (since performance is shit without it) and I'm getting nothing but shitty, useless responses for my question on StackExchange.

Getting fucking pissed off to be honest. Mostly at myself. I can't bloody fucking get this piece of shit working, and the tutorials for frustum culling are complete and total crap, aiming at very specific applications and implementations... so if you're not working with their exact tutorial code as a base, they're useless shite. I can't understand it, or wrap my head around any of this despite 2 weeks of futile attempts. All I have is this very half-assed code that, while it gets the performance I need, has visual artifacts out the bloody dick.

I need a team member. Someone who's extremely experienced with OpenGL, and writing renderers in general. I can't do this on my own. What pisses me off the most though, is I can't open the source due to signing an NDA, and others who join need to sign it too.

FUCK COPYRIGHT LAWYERS.
Seriously, If I had a choice, I'd hang them all by their own entrails.

*sigh*

[Hendricks266]

/me turns on the Plag signal

[DustFalcon85]

Greedy bastards! Where do these lawyers come from? Microsoft? How the hell did those lawyers get the hold of the IP rights of TV and it's source code? Lawyers from the ruins of Terminal Reality or something? Why sign this NDA bullshit? How could this happen? I would like to hear an explanation. Mark Randal has to do something a/b this.

EDIT: This is the same situation as Blood's Source Code and the rights to NOLF, is it?

Have you heard any news from Frederik Schreiber a/b this StrikerMan? Any PMs from him?

[Striker]

As far as I know, It's basically in the same situation as Blood, except it isn't a giant corporation holding onto the code, but rather legal pundits who have never even played videogames and only see dollar signs. I could be wrong however, but this is as far as my knowledge extends. Kind of reminds me of the downfall of TRI, and the kind of crap that lead to Kinect Star Wars and The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct.

What Mark told me, is that while he wants to see the code be open, his lawyers won't allow it... something about how TRI licenses their engines out to other companies for profit (such as their Infernal Engine). Why the fuck their lawyers think that should still apply to an engine from 1996 that isn't even used or licensed anymore, I don't know.

I PM'ed Frederik about the possibility of working together, but I never got a response.