[Mark]

I am using the spriteshadow feature in a map. There are clipping issues some times, just like I get occasionally with sprites on walls. I solve the problem on walls by moving the sprite one smallest grid unit away from the wall. But there is no option to move the spriteshadow off the floor. Could it be done easily or would it introduce other problems? The problem has been noticed by others so I assume its not something specific to my setup.

OOPS. I posted in the wrong thread. I got fooled because the last few posts were about bugs and I clicked post instead of heading over to the bugs section.

[RPD Guy]

Marked, on 03 April 2011 - 04:27 AM, said:

I am using the spriteshadow feature in a map. There are clipping issues some times, just like I get occasionally with sprites on walls. I solve the problem on walls by moving the sprite one smallest grid unit away from the wall. But there is no option to move the spriteshadow off the floor. Could it be done easily or would it introduce other problems? The problem has been noticed by others so I assume its not something specific to my setup.

OOPS. I posted in the wrong thread. I got fooled because the last few posts were about bugs and I clicked post instead of heading over to the bugs section.

not answering your question, but doing another, what the hell is spriteshadow? I'm curious! =)

[Hendricks266]

EDukeWiki, promoting reading things instead of asking stupid questions since 2005

[RPD Guy]

Hendricks266, on 03 April 2011 - 08:30 AM, said:

EDukeWiki, promoting reading things instead of asking stupid questions since 2005

i'm sorry, i'm not idiot, i just forget it =)

[bullerbullerseven]

Some of the commands are hidden. You would only find them if you know they are there... ( how did i find them in the first place? )

[Hendricks266]

There are no hidden commands.

[bullerbullerseven]

You know what i mean. Some commands are hard to find, especially if you don't know where they are. That's what i mean with hidden. Sometimes you just get surprised that there are some commands that you didn't know were there. Takes time to learn the wiki in your head.

[Master Fibbles]

In other words: there are commands in the wiki that aren't easily accessible. It needs a usability revamp.

[bullerbullerseven]

Yea, if you take the command palfrom. I had no idea what the hell that was before someone told me. And that it was extremely useful. Should be called color flash or something.

[RPD Guy]

Jhect, on 05 April 2011 - 08:23 AM, said:

You know what i mean. Some commands are hard to find, especially if you don't know where they are. That's what i mean with hidden. Sometimes you just get surprised that there are some commands that you didn't know were there. Takes time to learn the wiki in your head.

you're right! I never used "spriteshadow", I only use on actors "spriteflags 1" (perhaps is the same thing)

[Hendricks266]

Spriteshadow tells the game to set spriteflags 1.

I see what you mean now. Perhaps in addition to an alphabetical listing we should also categorize them all on one page.

[bullerbullerseven]

Glad to hear that. In case you wonder. Yea i am rasmusthorup on the eduke wiki. So you can talk to me there if you want to. I've been doing a lot of very small updates. But those are the updates that makes it easy to manipulate around. Feel free to correct my graphical errors because sometimes i mess up xD

[Mike Norvak]

I know polymer is able only to render one skybox texture per map but I have the next question: Is possible to code it so it could render the same texture but with different palettes? Maybe my first point answer the question, anyway i have this doubt.

[Plagman]

No, you would hit the same limitation. I really intend to have this fixed at some point, though.

[fgsfds]

It is possible to make autoload work with folders? For example, if I put polymer_hrp (from SVN) in autoload folder, it will work.

[Micky C]

I thought it already worked with folders? Have you tried it?

[fgsfds]

Yes. It works only if you put all files from polymer_hrp in main folder (where is eduke32.exe), but it doesn't work with autoload folder. But maybe I do something wrong.

[The Commander]

Micky C, on 09 April 2011 - 04:27 AM, said:

I thought it already worked with folders? Have you tried it?

The autoload folder does not read folders inside it AFAIK, it will only read zip's etc.

He can get the folder to work by having the "polymer_hrp" folder in his main Duke directory and selecting it from the custom game content directory drop down box as shown in the SVN guide.
But I think he may want it to load from the autoload folder so he can use it with DukePlus.

[Superthijs]

The Commander, on 29 November 2010 - 10:38 PM, said:

I like the new addition to Mapster.


For those that don't know what they are looking at, it's E1L1 but in a angled view.

wow that's cool!
how to do that??

[The Commander]

Press F3 in 2D mode.

[Danukem]

I'm not sure where to post this, but it involves Polymer so I'll post it here.

For various CON coded light effects, it is necessary to change the hitag of light SEs in game. For example, you can make a polymer light appear to turn on or off by changing the hitag of the SE. Unfortunately, the light seems to use the same amount of resources (i.e. affect frame rate the same) even if the hitag is set to 0 and there is no visible light. So as an optimization, I suggest that extremely weak lights be ignored and not be processed. This would help a lot in certain parts of DNE.

[Stabs]

DeeperThought, on 12 April 2011 - 11:26 PM, said:

I'm not sure where to post this, but it involves Polymer so I'll post it here.

For various CON coded light effects, it is necessary to change the hitag of light SEs in game. For example, you can make a polymer light appear to turn on or off by changing the hitag of the SE. Unfortunately, the light seems to use the same amount of resources (i.e. affect frame rate the same) even if the hitag is set to 0 and there is no visible light. So as an optimization, I suggest that extremely weak lights be ignored and not be processed. This would help a lot in certain parts of DNE.

its also interesting to note in scenarios where i have turned off lights with the intent of getting frames the fps is actually worse than it would be with the lights on.

[Hendricks266]

Jhect, on 05 April 2011 - 07:40 AM, said:

Some of the commands are hidden. You would only find them if you know they are there... ( how did i find them in the first place? )

Jhect, on 05 April 2011 - 08:23 AM, said:

Some commands are hard to find, especially if you don't know where they are. That's what i mean with hidden. Sometimes you just get surprised that there are some commands that you didn't know were there. Takes time to learn the wiki in your head.

Jhect, on 05 April 2011 - 09:10 AM, said:

Yea, if you take the command palfrom. I had no idea what the hell that was before someone told me. And that it was extremely useful. Should be called color flash or something.

Here's a categorized command list which I've sorted over the past week. There are only a handful of commands that I don't know how to sort listed under "unsorted". Tell me what you think.

[Danukem]

Hendricks266, on 13 April 2011 - 08:16 AM, said:

Here's a categorized command list which I've sorted over the past week. There are only a handful of commands that I don't know how to sort listed under "unsorted". Tell me what you think.

That's pretty good overall. I would change "meta-settings" to "game settings", and move some stuff around. I'll take another look at it when I have more time.

[bullerbullerseven]

That's awesome dude! Just what we need. Let's put in on the scripting page. Is it the same list as the full command list, just categorized? If it is, should we just replace the "full command list" link? Or make a link under the "full command list" link saying categorized full command list? Your list, you choose

[The Commander]

Jhect, on 13 April 2011 - 12:32 PM, said:

That's awesome dude! Just what we need. Let's put in on the scripting page. Is it the same list as the full command list, just categorized? If it is, should we just replace the "full command list" link? Or make a link under the "full command list" link saying categorized full command list? Your list, you choose

You really need to look closer at the page dude, mainly at the very top.
Full command list (alphabetized · categorized)

[bullerbullerseven]

Sure, but that doesn't matter lol.

[The Commander]

DeeperThought, on 12 April 2011 - 11:26 PM, said:

I'm not sure where to post this, but it involves Polymer so I'll post it here.

For various CON coded light effects, it is necessary to change the hitag of light SEs in game. For example, you can make a polymer light appear to turn on or off by changing the hitag of the SE. Unfortunately, the light seems to use the same amount of resources (i.e. affect frame rate the same) even if the hitag is set to 0 and there is no visible light. So as an optimization, I suggest that extremely weak lights be ignored and not be processed. This would help a lot in certain parts of DNE.

On similar type of note,

Apparently this was fixed, but from my testing it does not seem to be the case (Someone else please confirm this)
If the APLAYER spawns a sprite, and that sprite is tuned into a Polymer light everything works BUT.
Spotlights cast a projection of the APLAYER and not a proper light.
It makes no difference to what the .owner member is set to, even before or after it it turned into a light.
I even DNDEBUG'ed and looked at the light in mapster, oddly it works correctly there and has the .owner -1 (or what ever I set it to in code)

It seems the code is all correct, but Polymer fails to set the right .owner in gameplay.
Point lights work fine though.

[Jblade]

The latest few snapshots give me compiling errors, it doesn't seem to want to accept rotatesprite commands in states anymore:
http://pastebin.com/DJsCednp

and here's my log from the last snapshot that works, dated 24th of March 2011:
http://pastebin.com/zejvV3y5

[The Commander]

I use rotatesprite in a few of my states, but I don't get any errors oddly.