[Alexraptor]

Its a WIP, its not out yet for the general public.

[Jokke_r]

Besides without normal/displacement maps or any light hacks all you will get from it are a few light effects with fire/gunfire/pickups/switches etc.
Just having polymer won't give you everything you see in the screenshots.

[MusicallyInspired]

I had no idea what the priority settings were for....feel kinda stupid for not getting it. That makes perfect sense now.

[Hellbound]

Had the same.

[engineer]

How woudl one affix a light to a pre-existing sprite, such as a ceiling light?

Or better yet, a "flashlight" that only works when the Pistol is active?

[engineer]

BY THE NAME OF ST. JIMM THE PATRON SAINT OF COW-ORKING, I'VE DONE IT!!

[Hellbound]

Is it yours wall texture? Looks pretty good!

[engineer]

It's a texture from the current public version of the HRP, with a normal/specular map applied.

[Hellbound]

Yeah, but I was asking you did YOU made those normals/specs

[engineer]

Yes, I used Insane Bump to generate them and hand-altered them when needed.

Besides- the parallaxing isn't working in that shot. I'll put something new up when I get it working well enough to make some eye candy.

[MusicallyInspired]

Is that supposed to be stone? Looks a little too shiny...unless I'm missing something. Good job on the bump, though.

[Plagman]

MusicallyInspired: when the game "seizes up" because sprites are in view, the "compiling GPU program..." messages keep popping? They're supposed to stop after every different one has been compiled. Can you attach eduke32.log after having looked at sprites and reproduced the seizing for a good 30 seconds? Thanks.

[Jezza]

MusicallyInspired, on May 18 2009, 05:32 AM, said:

Is that supposed to be stone? Looks a little too shiny...unless I'm missing something. Good job on the bump, though.

That looks like it is underground... often underground stone becomes damp and looks just like that... I'm making excuses, but I like it.

[MusicallyInspired]

Ah, actually those don't keep coming up. My apologies. I incorrectly assumed they were constantly popping up but it's just a group of them after/while the map loads. Actually nothing appears in the console when the seizing occurs. Also, I said earlier that when the slowdowns occur the FPS increases or is unaffected. This is incorrect. I was actually looking at the MS count which goes up into the thousands the closer I get to a sprite. The FPS is displayed in brackets and goes from 10 FPS all the way down to actually 0 FPS.

Here's a screenshot and a closeup I managed to get of one of the bulletholes...took forever because of 0 FPS! You can see the black box around it and the checkered/garbled nature of the sprite (and also my horrendous FPS count on the top right).



EDIT: Also here's a couple screenshots showing how you can see a bullethole or other sprite through a wall if close enough.

[Plagman]

Well, that looks awful. Maybe try installing older versions of your graphics driver and/or fiddling with your control panel settings.

Roma Loom: I tested your set of door textures in-game. It looks like this:


Note that I had to resave the glow map from gimp because kplib didn't like something about its header. Are you using a crazy russian image editor or something?
The specular map looks fine, I looked closely and the edge of the letters doesn't shine like you said it did.
The textures look great, by the way. If all of the HRP art is replaced by top-notch stuff like that, it'll be pretty cool!

[engineer]

MusicallyInspired, on May 18 2009, 08:32 AM, said:

Is that supposed to be stone? Looks a little too shiny...unless I'm missing something. Good job on the bump, though.

That would be the overpowered Specular map.

[ReaperTK]

Looking good!

I've been playing around in Polymer and like what I see. I've got an ATI card (Two 4870's). I don't have any graphical issues, but most maps fail to load at all. Where can I get a hold of the current E1L1 polymer maphack? I want to see if it works on my setup.

On a side note - On the 3DR forums there was a shot posted of the Death Row sub showing both the above and under water areas in Polymer. Was that done by the use of sector effectors/tags or was it done through CON, and how easily could that be adapted to non water sectors for true ROR? At the moment I'm mostly interested in just having the ability for the player to see ROR sectors, I'm not too worried about having the ability to move between ROR sectors yet.

Keep up the good work. I'm anxiously awaiting an official release.

[lycanox]

ReaperTK, on May 18 2009, 11:56 PM, said:

Looking good!

I've been playing around in Polymer and like what I see. I've got an ATI card (Two 4870's). I don't have any graphical issues, but most maps fail to load at all. Where can I get a hold of the current E1L1 polymer maphack? I want to see if it works on my setup.

On a side note - On the 3DR forums there was a shot posted of the Death Row sub showing both the above and under water areas in Polymer. Was that done by the use of sector effectors/tags or was it done through CON, and how easily could that be adapted to non water sectors for true ROR? At the moment I'm mostly interested in just having the ability for the player to see ROR sectors, I'm not too worried about having the ability to move between ROR sectors yet.

Keep up the good work. I'm anxiously awaiting an official release.

For the ROR an earlier implemented system was used. However while i did hear ROR works better now. It still isn't as reliable as it should be, if you want to use it on a big scale.

[ReaperTK]

lycanox, on May 18 2009, 06:27 PM, said:

For the ROR an earlier implemented system was used. However while i did hear ROR works better now. It still isn't as reliable as it should be, if you want to use it on a big scale.

I do know that at one time there was a horribly buggy implementation that required SEs in all sectors that could see into the ROR sector and it was such a PITA that it wasn't worth it, but I thought I read in the old Polymer thread that ROR in polymer was trivial by design or something.

[engineer]

I'm having an issue- I can't get the Parallax maps to work.

I got them to work once. ONCE out of over 30 tries, but even after overriding and tweaking the scale and bias settings I can't reproduce the effect I was able to pull off sometime last night.

[Jokke_r]

make sure you set the r_pr_parallaxoverride back to 0

[engineer]

I do- But I can't replicate the results of this one instance! That's my current issue.

[Jokke_r]

Are you sure the heightmap is stored correctly as alpha channel for then normal map? Are you sure the game is loading the texture, have you tried deleting the texture cache?

[Roma Loom]

So I'm still havign trouble with gloss with texture #4304 on two machines here at the office. Can anyone test it at their end?

The deflines for #4304:

texture 4304 {
   pal 0 { file "highres/textures/4304.png" specpower 25 specfactor 2 }
   glow { file "highres/textures/4304_glow.png" }
   detail { file "highres/detail/metal.png" xscale 0.15 yscale 0.15 }
   normal { file "highres/textures/4304_normal.png" parallaxbias 0 parallaxscale 0.05 }
   specular { file "highres/textures/4304_gloss.png" }
}

The link for texture #4304 package

The results I'm getting concerning specular (black spots and yellow outline on the letters):


The result I want is the pic Plagman posted above.

[Parkar]

Roma Loom, on May 19 2009, 02:52 PM, said:

So I'm still havign trouble with gloss with texture #4304 on two machines here at the office. Can anyone test it at their end?

The deflines for #4304:

texture 4304 {
   pal 0 { file "highres/textures/4304.png" specpower 25 specfactor 2 }
   glow { file "highres/textures/4304_glow.png" }
   detail { file "highres/detail/metal.png" xscale 0.15 yscale 0.15 }
   normal { file "highres/textures/4304_normal.png" parallaxbias 0 parallaxscale 0.05 }
   specular { file "highres/textures/4304_gloss.png" }
}

The link for texture #4304 package

The results I'm getting concerning specular (black spots and yellow outline on the letters):


The result I want is the pic Plagman posted above.

your specpower seems way to big. This should give you a really big specular with a rather sharp edge that just looks very unnatural, like a big round spot. Try putting it at something like 0.5. I have yet to use anything over 3 I think and thats on stuff like carpet etc that shouldn't have much of a highlight at all.

[Roma Loom]

Looks like I've misread how glossmaps work in polymer. Plagman has already explained it to me. Everything is fine when I use simple RGB greyscaled gloss maps. Problem solved. Thanx.

[Plagman]

The problem here is that he put his specular map in the alpha channel. 0 alpha means a specular exponent of 0, which means an infinitely wide specular spot. If you're trying to achieve no specular highlight, it should be 0 in the RGB channels instead. Basically if you want specular maps to act like gloss maps in most games (like Doom 3) just dump the grayscale of the gloss map in all three RGB and don't put an alpha channel.

[Parkar]

Plagman, on May 19 2009, 03:41 PM, said:

The problem here is that he put his specular map in the alpha channel. 0 alpha means a specular exponent of 0, which means an infinitely wide specular spot. If you're trying to achieve no specular highlight, it should be 0 in the RGB channels instead. Basically if you want specular maps to act like gloss maps in most games (like Doom 3) just dump the grayscale of the gloss map in all three RGB and don't put an alpha channel.

Wouldn't it be an infinitely small specular with alpha (specpower) 0?

In any case only make changes to the alpha if you want varying size of the specular, the RGB controls the strength per colour channel.

[Plagman]

No, an exponent of zero always results in 1, so specpower 0 means full specular highlight no matter what the angle is. A specular exponent of 1 makes a very diffuse and wide specular reflection as the result is directly proportional to the dot product of the perfect reflection vector and the eye vector. As the specular exponent tends towards infinity, the specular reflection looks more and more like a point.

[Parkar]

Don't listen to me, not sure how I was thinking about the specular power. Infact I have several textures defined with a power that high.