[HellFire]

I have a little feature request that other mappers will find usefull too... maybe an cstat value that completely removes any sprite AND his coded effect if polymer is being used. This could be used mainly to make your map look good in all renderers. This could be used in two ways:
1- You know the old trick that uses sprites with pal 4 to make shadows? With that special flag enabled these sprites would be rendered only in polymost and classic mode, in polymer an shade would be cast by an light source and would look much better.
2- In the future we will probably have an method to make flashing lights in polymer so we need a way to deactivate the sector based flashing lights (SE with lotag 4) and maybe even cyclers, with this method you could simply put the flag in these sprites and they wouldnt be rendered in polymer, cause in polymer youre able ( well, in future i think we will ..) to do the same kind of lightning but all dynamic using polymer.
Note that im not talking about the 8192 flag.

[Fox]

Is it possible to disable this status bar stage?

[OpenMaw]

 Ilovefoxes, on Oct 20 2009, 08:53 AM, said:

Is it possible to disable this status bar stage?

As I recall, all you have to do is make the graphics really really small in the art files, or make a dummy tile for it of 0 0, or something.

[Fox]

That will only adjust the sacale of the screen. It will not remove that stage of the status bar (where you have the full status bar but can see the background).

[zchri9]

http://i38.tinypic.com/2vm97gz.jpg
Screenshot is about 1mb~

[OpenMaw]

I've encountered a problem and im hoping it can be addressed...

http://img18.imagesh.../3601/duker.jpg



Whats happening here is Polymer seems to be rendering back faces. This is a problem for me as I am trying to do a bit of a stylised thing here (Psuedo cel-shaded jazz) and if I try to run Polymer it draws all the faces. Polymost doesnt. Can this be "fixed" ?

[BuddhaMaster]

quick question: should I see normal-maps with current HRP 4.1.1 and "polymer update" pack (about 247mb) ?

[Parkar]

 BuddhaMaster, on Oct 27 2009, 10:45 PM, said:

quick question: should I see normal-maps with current HRP 4.1.1 and "polymer update" pack (about 247mb) ?

i.e. the canyon rock texture got a normal-map, but I dont notice any bumping. Btw the normal map looks very wrong

I asume you are viewing the normal map without removing the alpha layer. The heightmap is stored in the alpha layer so you have to remove it first to see just the normal map.

You should not install both the latest HRP and the polymer update as the polymer "update" pack is not an update, it's the whole thing.

[BuddhaMaster]

 Parkar, on Oct 28 2009, 12:25 AM, said:

I asume you are viewing the normal map without removing the alpha layer. The heightmap is stored in the alpha layer so you have to remove it first to see just the normal map.

You should not install both the latest HRP and the polymer update as the polymer "update" pack is not an update, it's the whole thing.

file polymer_hrp.zip 291mb, delete ?

But there are all normal maps inside. I don't see any in the 4.1.1 hrp pack

[OpenMaw]

 BuddhaMaster, on Oct 27 2009, 06:43 PM, said:

file polymer_hrp.zip 291mb, delete ?

But there are all normal maps inside. I don't see any in the 4.1.1 hrp pack

You only need the polymer pack.

[BuddhaMaster]

 Commando Nukem, on Oct 28 2009, 02:56 AM, said:

You only need the polymer pack.

um it's working. but I had to extract the polymer pack to get the folder 'highres' one level back in folder structure (there was a additional base folder)...

[Hellbound]

 zchri9, on Oct 21 2009, 03:32 AM, said:

http://i38.tinypic.com/2vm97gz.jpg
Screenshot is about 1mb~

Fucking great!

[vtastek]

Congrats on the official release. I have been compiling revisions but needed a break recently. Here some shots with official release:





We need a screenshot thread.

[TerminX]

Indeed. God damn is Polymer awesome looking. It's pretty sweet watching EDuke32 slowly transform from a port of a 13 year old game into something capable of modern awesomeness, through the wonder of open source and people committing tons of time to helping improve it. My baby is getting all grown up.

[cip123]

I got that polymer and HDR but nothing new i got, no better lights what i should do?!

[Megadeus]

Make sure you enable the 'Polymer' checkbox on the eDuke32 startup dialog. Next you need Polymer HRP content. The current official release of the HRP does not include the Polymer specific content so you will need a version that does, so download http://www.plagman.n...polymer_hrp.zip and use that in place of it. Assuming you meet the hardware requirements that should get Polymer working with full effects.

[supergoofy]

Request: TX can you please bring back OpenAL support? The new AudioLib caused many problems and crashes, but OpenAL was more stable. I would like to have the choice to use the new AudioLib or the OpenAL for music and sound playback.

[TerminX]

Unfortunately, you don't quite know what you're talking about... OpenAL was only ever used to play background music, and only on Windows. It never played sound effects or anything in EDuke32. Using an entirely different audio API as a hack just to play one type of audio was horrible and will never be happening again.

There are some bugs in Polymer as well. Want us to remove that, too? Seems like it would be prudent to just fix the problems when we find a way to reproduce the issue at will. No sense razing the whole building just because of some bad drywall.

[The Commander]

Ive just been playing online again (haven't for quite sometime) and I just noticed a bug that has existed in eduke32 for ages is still around.

In the map, train255.map or train263.map if you jump out of the train you will die from the BIGORBIT1 sky, which is normal.

What isn't normal is that when you go to respawn you don't and instead keep dieing on the same spot from which you were originally killed, which makes the map completely unplayable. (My guess is that there could be other maps with this bug as well)

[TerminX]

Shock and awe... bugs that were never reported never got fixed. News at 11!

[Jblade]

TerminX, will the sound limit be increased any further at any point now? IIRC it's 2500 now....I know that seems like a odd request but with the amount of characters and voices in the TC I'm sure I'm gonna hit that limit fast. For cutscenes originally I basically pasted all of the dialogue together into 1 OGG file to save space but that's a nightmare to properly edit and sort out - having 1 sound file for each line is much easier but it takes up alot of space. I'd appreciate it if you could (So far there's 1909 sounds taken up in the TC)

[Chip]

I may put this post in the bug forum as well (in the thread about crashing) but with this latest build my mod doesn't appear to be crashing anymore due to the many sounds played. As said before it would crash almost instantly but with the new build - no crashes so far and I haven't changed any of the game's options so the Eduke32.cfg file is the same. My computer hasn't had any other updates either.
I've tried multiple runs and still no crashing so if you did something then you certainly hit it, however its not fully fixed though as if I were to increase my amount of sounds played then it crashes. Currently I play it with 32 sounds and no problems. I then tried my luck and doubled it to 64 but the game crashed instantly as soon as I entered the map.
I only did one test though and only with 64 sounds after that I put it back to 32.

I haven't been able to do much more testing on this due to work getting bust due to Christmas but I have today off so I'll try the amount of sounds at different levels and see how much my computer can take before it crashes.
Also I only managed to try this build out for the first time last week so sorry for the late reply about my crashing situation.

Anyway, I'm happy as I can now actually play the game again with audio ..........unless of course those 14+ tests were all pure luck. (note: due to the memory leak my tests were 2x 5 minute plays on the same map before restarting Eduke32)

[Stabs]

1544 has that nasty mapster wall drawing bug again

[Forge]

DanM, on Nov 18 2009, 03:08 PM, said:

1544 has that nasty mapster wall drawing bug again

The one where you connect adjoining red lined sectors together and get some "extra" one sided walls as a bonus? I love the challenge of flipping them around so I can use alt-s and then J - to have them assimilated by the parent sector. It's kinda like playing pac-man, but eating sectors instead of pellets.

[Stabs]

nah, you start drawing a sector and you cant finish it cause the last point wont join to the first point and when you hit backspace it makes a line to nowhere

[Mark]

It may have been my own doing or a mapster glitch. I had a bug for a while that every time I made a new sector in lower left quadrant of my map, all the sectors disappeared in that quadrant in 3D mode but were still showing in 2D. I had to delete them all and rebuild that whole section from scratch. The backup map had the same glitch. After rebuilding and losing it all a few times I ended up isolating that whole area from the rest of the map with a few carefully placed lines and it has been rebuilt and working fine ever since.

Edit: OOPS. This should be in the other mapster thread. My mistake.

[Forge]

Marked, on Nov 18 2009, 06:56 PM, said:

It may have been my own doing or a mapster glitch. I had a bug for a while that every time I made a new sector in lower left quadrant of my map, all the sectors disappeared in that quadrant in 3D mode but were still showing in 2D. I had to delete them all and rebuild that whole section from scratch. The backup map had the same glitch. After rebuilding and losing it all a few times I ended up isolating that whole area from the rest of the map with a few carefully placed lines and it has been rebuilt and working fine ever since.

Edit: OOPS. This should be in the other mapster thread. My mistake.

That's not isolated to that particular quadrant, but by close coincidence it happened in my map in the mid-left section. Lucky I had a backup that wasn't corrupted. I was adding and reshaping sectors and nothing else so I'm not sure what triggered it.

[Forge]

DanM, on Nov 18 2009, 06:05 PM, said:

nah, you start drawing a sector and you cant finish it cause the last point wont join to the first point and when you hit backspace it makes a line to nowhere

Another great effect. I'm still trying to figure out how to implement that into the map and use it to my advantage. So far I've managed to get those orphaned lines to stick, but they make poor masked walls and they're a excellent ingredient for the recipe of corruption.

[Stabs]

damn right

as soon as that kind of stuff happens its quit without save time, regardless of what i have done

[Forge]

I've managed to recover from it a couple of times by inserting a vertice onto the orphaned wall. It turns it into a sector that can be removed. Sometimes it works, other times it corrupts the sector it happened in and takes out all the child sectors with it in a similar fashion as to what Marked described.