[Helixhorned]

Alright, userdata it is then.

r3866 said:

CON: add projectile member .userdata and predefined label PROJ_USERDATA.

It is a 32-bit signed integer. No version bump necessary, although CON code
accessing this new member will not work with earlier revisions (obviously).

[Hendricks266]

Duke4 needs a Dopefish smiley so I can use it right now. In the meantime,

[Fox]

Is it possible to add an option to create the alpha channel of a texture from a separate B&W image?

[Plagman]

It doesn't make sense to add a feature for something that you can offline; it would just add bloat to the game code. There would be no runtime performance benefit either.

[Fox]

It has the advantage of working on the invisible parts of the texture.

[Plagman]

I don't know what you mean by that. Can you clarify?

[DavoX]

I know this has been brought up a million times but I wanted to check on it's progress... will it ever be possible to make sloped floor and/or alligned sprites? (within mapster32 without con) I saw some post from Hendricks that shows sloped or diagonal letters, maybe it's something related?

[Gambini]

What Hendricks showed was on-screen rotation and zoom.

[DavoX]

Ok my bad. So will it be available for mapster32?

[Fox]

Plagman, on 11 June 2013 - 07:37 PM, said:

I don't know what you mean by that. Can you clarify?

Some parts of the texture are invisible, i.e. 0% opacity. And that part might be displayed if, for example, you are using the texture as a wall.

[Plagman]

So what? What is the problem you're having exactly?

[Jblade]

Just wanted to say that the userdata thing works brilliantly; I've saved space and it's made things much simplier when it comes to adding new damage types. Before if I wanted to change what kind of attack a projectile does I would of had to of added tons of case specific code but now I can just change a flag and itll handle it from there (I should of done this from the start but of course I've been improving as I go along and coding systems rather than constantly making case specific stuff is one of those things I never really thought about doing until the last couple of years)

[The Lone Duker]

I'm using an xbox 360 controller on eduke I have every button set up like the xbox version the problem is the right stick I try to look left but it delays a little

[Fox]

Plagman, on 12 June 2013 - 08:00 PM, said:

So what? What is the problem you're having exactly?

I want to have control of what is in the invisible parts...

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Is it possible to include an orientation flag to display a tile as the skybox defined? It could work like showview, using <x1> <y1> <x2> <y2> to position it. The unusued values of rotatesprite would be used for angle, horiz and roll.

[Plagman]

Fox, on 13 June 2013 - 06:10 PM, said:

I want to have control of what is in the invisible parts...

You also have control over the invisible parts with a regular PNG image; there's still color data if alpha is 0.

[Diaz]

What program are you using?

In Photoshop, for TGA images the alpha channel is edited separately as a black and white channel... can't you set up the image program you're using to do the same?

[NightFright]

Eduke32 r3885:
Usage of DNCLIP cheat does not display confirmation message any more.

[TerminX]

Thanks, forgot a file in a previous commit.

[Fox]

Plagman, on 13 June 2013 - 10:53 PM, said:

You also have control over the invisible parts with a regular PNG image; there's still color data if alpha is 0.

Unfortunately the image editing softwares don't seem to like it.

And it would not "just add bloat to the game code", it would help to organize the textures.

[fgsfds]

UPD:

How to compile lunatic eduke with mingw?
I've installed mingw using manual from eduke wiki. It works ok and can compile common eduke32. Then I've complied LuaJIT 1.1.8 and put it in bin folder.
This is what I get when trying to compile lunatic with

make eduke32.exe LUNATIC=1

[Helixhorned]

fgsfds, on 15 June 2013 - 10:24 AM, said:

How to compile lunatic eduke with mingw?
I've installed mingw using manual from eduke wiki. It works ok and can compile common eduke32. Then I've complied LuaJIT 1.1.8 and put it in bin folder.

First, you'll need a fairly recent LuaJIT -- at least version 2.0.2 which was released two weeks ago. Major version 2 is required for features and the latest stable version because Lunatic (or some CON-to-Lua translated code, to be exact) exposed some bugs with its machine code generation [brag ]. You'll also need a statically linked library of LPeg 0.12 (its makefile doesn't have an option to build one, but I intend to publish the necessary changes on github sometime).

However, beware if you want to start writing Lunatic code. The API is still unfinished and parts of it may change before the first public release.

[Micky C]

When models have polymer light on them, the surface seems really smooth when in reality it's just a bunch of triangles with sharp corners.

So I was wondering, why can't the same be done for sector geometry? It looks a bit ugly when you make a nice smooth curve but the wall segments become extremely obvious due to light.

[Gambini]

Triangles in models look smooth when smoothing is applied on them. Doing the same for sectors/walls would require to use smoothing groups in mapster, which is ridiculous considering you shade sectors/walls manually.

Smoothing is a shading interpolation between surfaces, which requires an external lightsource.

[Mblackwell]

Micky has one, I believe. Looks like an example scene with a light to me.

[Gambini]

He has the lightsource but he has surfaces with their own shading attributes. The only way a smoothing method could work is by generating continuity between walls of the same shade and the same texture. Like, if five connected walls share shade and tilenumber, then they are automatically added to a smoothing group. Mappers then should avoid using the same shade value on perpendicular walls. Very complicated IMO.

[Micky C]

Hopefully there's some kind of automatic way to have it work in-game. I find the curved corners in DNE and any column with a light near it in WGR2 distracting.
You never know, plagman might stroll in here and go "oh yeah that's very easy" and we'll have it the next day.

[Fox]

We need a new starttrack command that can specify the volume. The setuserdef[].volume_number trick doesn't work in multiplayer because it must be set per-player, and CON doesn't have power to change the userdef structure of each player.

[Hendricks266]

^A problem like that makes me want to pull a screentext and design some sort of new system from the ground up--stuff like pausing, seeking, and playing music that isn't tied to an episode and level.

[Jblade]

 Hendricks266, on 21 June 2013 - 11:30 AM, said:

^A problem like that makes me want to pull a screentext and design some sort of new system from the ground up--stuff like pausing, seeking, and playing music that isn't tied to an episode and level.

A system like that is sorely needed, as well as being able to fade music in and out.

[Fox]

That's interesting. But the background music is a very primite principle, you can't expect much customization from it. I suppose you could have a sound / music volume "multiplier" control via CON independent of the regular sound / music volume as a workaround.

The new starttrack command should use two variables, the first one for episode and the second for the level. You would play and episode tracks with VOLUME+1, while zero would play the Title/Brifing/Loading tracks, and -1 would stop the current track from playing. It could be called startmusic, as a reference to the music command.