[Daedolon]

I'd like them to be sorted out by height > width and having the largest resolution at the top, with all the text aligned to the right.

[Helixhorned]

MetHy, on 24 May 2014 - 01:20 PM, said:

I've already mentioned this glitch in another thread and I found a way to 'fix" the problem but the 'fix' I found doesn't work anymore.

Here is the thing, some textures get misaligned when switching to 32bit mode.

That's a well-known issue, its root cause being the improper rendering of walls with non-power-of-two height textures in 8-bit mode. Here's an example with BIGORBIT2 which is h := 400 texels high:


See what classic does here. Basically, it renders the wall as if with a texture of a height that's the next power of two greater than h, 512. This pseudo-texture has 400 horizontal lines of the original texture, plus 112 more, made up from the first ones of the same texture. As a result, there is now a seam in the apparent texture. What's the problem with that? Well, the Polymodes have no problems with NPOT height tiles at all:


But this means that such walls can't always be displayed the same in both renderers. A necessary but not sufficient condition is that a wall can only show at most h texels in height.
In order to overcome certain improperly aligned cases in the original maps, Polymost, and then later Polymer added a hack that modifies the apparent ypanning of a wall when its real .ypanning exceeds some value (that's also dependent on h). However, this workaround suffers from the obvious drawback of introducing a discontinuity with ypanning.

Enter r_npotwallmode (r4498):

Quote

Polymost: r_npotwallmode, emulating 8-bit for walls w/ nonpow2 height textures.

When that mode is enabled (see below for caveats), wall textures that have a
non-power-of-two height (call it 'h') will be modified to look like in classic:
Let 'H' be the next power of two greater than 'h'. The texture will be uploaded
with height 'H', made up from 'h' hlines of the original texture, followed by
'H'-'h' first hlines of the same.
No panning "corrections" will take place. The mode is disabled by default.

Caveats/notes:
* the mode requires that r_hightile is disabled
* it is not implemented in Polymer
* in the Lunatic build, it is ineffective when a VX map is loaded, as those
display walls with NPOT height textures correctly

[Jblade]

Anyway to disable the darkening effect of the menu on the gameworld?

[Helixhorned]

James, on 01 June 2014 - 08:30 AM, said:

Anyway to disable the darkening effect of the menu on the gameworld?

Currently no, but feel free to add it to the suggestions wiki page under a new section.

[Fox]

Can you add a function to offset the menu up or down (at least for the main menu)? This is an issue if you are using an header tile bigger than the original.

[LeoD]

Synthesis builds are broken - last version created is r4488.

[Plagman]

Fixed!

[Fox]

Any chance of having sloped sprites in the future? Or is it just too complicated?

[Diaz]

I've been away for a while, and after retaking work on Fusion with the latest EDuke32 build, I noticed there's a new behavior for palettes. Sprites on a sector with a fog pal always take that pal.

This means an enemy (or any other sprite) with a different palette (for example the grey cultists I ripped from Blood, which are brown cultists with pal 13) will lose its pal if it's in a fogged sector. In the example I mentioned, now all grey cultists are brown.

Is this the new expected behavior or a bug?

Thanks.

[blizzart]

Diaz, on 01 June 2014 - 11:04 PM, said:

I've been away for a while, and after retaking work on Fusion with the latest EDuke32 build, I noticed there's a new behavior for palettes. Sprites on a sector with a fog pal always take that pal.

This means an enemy (or any other sprite) with a different palette (for example the grey cultists I ripped from Blood, which are brown cultists with pal 13) will lose its pal if it's in a fogged sector. In the example I mentioned, now all grey cultists are brown.

Is this the new expected behavior or a bug?

Thanks.

Try to press 'N' on those sprites, so that they keep their own shade and pal should work here.

[Micky C]

N doesn't ale them keep their pal, only their shade. Although I believe that it should make them keep their pal as well.

Diaz, there's a new fogpal feature for openGL which allows you to set a sector's fogpal independently of pal, using a previously unused sector tag. Can't remember which one though. Press F7 and see if there's anything new.

[Mike Norvak]

Diaz, on 01 June 2014 - 11:04 PM, said:

I've been away for a while, and after retaking work on Fusion with the latest EDuke32 build, I noticed there's a new behavior for palettes. Sprites on a sector with a fog pal always take that pal.

This means an enemy (or any other sprite) with a different palette (for example the grey cultists I ripped from Blood, which are brown cultists with pal 13) will lose its pal if it's in a fogged sector. In the example I mentioned, now all grey cultists are brown.

Is this the new expected behavior or a bug?

Thanks.

Yeah, I noticed it as well, on WGR there are pal 17 petrified enemies that don't look like gray stone on fogged sectors. It is definitely a bug.

[Diaz]

Mickey C, that's nice, but does that mean I have to go through all of my maps to change sector tags?

Though m32script could do the trick.. the new feature shouldn't break old maps/mods though, and it currently does.

[Kyanos]

Mike Norvak, on 02 June 2014 - 06:07 AM, said:

Yeah, I noticed it as well, on WGR there are pal 17 petrified enemies that don't look like gray stone on fogged sectors. It is definitely a bug.

That forgettable map foothold had lots of alt pal enemies in fog.

I've been beta testing some maps, and wanted to record screenshots of my level stats but it won't take a pic of the text, just the background sprite gets captured. (rev-4482) Not sure if it's a bug or even a big deal but I know Megaton lets me do it.

[Diaz]

I'm new to m32script, and this doesn't seem to work (to implement the new fogpal system in existing maps):

gamevar i 0 0
gamevar paltemp 0 0
gamevar isparallax 0 0


for i allsectors 
{
    ifge sector[i].floorpal 30
    {
        setvarvar isparallax sector[i].ceilingstat
        ifvarand isparallax 1 
        {
        }
        else
        {
            setvarvar paltemp sector[i].floorpal
            set sector[i].fogpal paltemp
            set sector[i].floorpal 0 
            set sector[i].ceilingpal 0
        }
    }
}

any idea why?

thanks!

[Helixhorned]

Diaz, on 01 June 2014 - 11:04 PM, said:

I've been away for a while, and after retaking work on Fusion with the latest EDuke32 build, I noticed there's a new behavior for palettes. Sprites on a sector with a fog pal always take that pal.

(...)

Is this the new expected behavior or a bug?

It's kind of a bug. It has nothing to do with the introduction of sector[].fogpal, but is a consequence r4335: the predicate that tells whether a sprite should take over the floor pal of its sector was changed with a then-unforeseen side effect. It only concerns nonzero pals that are not the default fog pals (26 .. 29 for the vanilla LOOKUP.DAT). More on that later.

Diaz, on 02 June 2014 - 07:23 AM, said:

I'm new to m32script, and this doesn't seem to work (to implement the new fogpal system in existing maps):

Please post the error output. It should be written out to mapster32.log.

[Diaz]

No error output, but the sectors are keeping their original palette and looks like the .fogpal member is not being written.

BTW, the sprites do keep their palette "internally" - pal 13 enemies behave like pal 13 enemies in CON code, for example. They just revert to pal 0 visually.

[Helixhorned]

Diaz, on 02 June 2014 - 08:23 AM, said:

No error output, but the sectors are keeping their original palette and looks like the .fogpal member is not being written.

If you're running Polymer, make sure you have ART mapping disabled: r_pr_artmapping 0. There, visibility/fog is done by looking up the shade table of each pal, there's no additional GL fog.

[Fox]

Is it possible to do something about the effect of linear filter in repeating textures? Flat sprites won't blend with the wall texture:

Spoiler

I believe that flat sprites should have the same default behavior as the level architecture. This won't look good in some cases like blood splats but it's the same for masked walls. This is also a problem for rotatesprite.

Maybe it could detected if one of the corners is transparent, at least it's a hack that would work for Duke 3D textures. But we should have the ability to define it for each texture individually.

[Hendricks266]

Why wouldn't you just use a masked wall there?

[Fox]

That's not the point, this is an hypothetical example.

[MetHy]

Version 4500 doesn't ask you whether or not you want to load your latest save when you die; it just loads it.

[Kyanos]

Also saves don't name themselves as the map name anymore... If I don't name a save it comes up empty and overwrites the old save with nothing.

added
So, I go back to the game and now the saves do exist but they are all named user map.

[Hendricks266]

Damn, and I thought the new save menus were all ironed out. Keep the bug reports coming.

[Fox]

Can you make saved games created with save command to be hidden? I.e. create an autosav#.esv file.

[Hendricks266]

No, because the point is that you're saving a game in a slot in the savegame menu.

[Jblade]

Would it be possible to determine if a player has line of sight with any part of a sector? Basically right now in the AMC TC I've got a system to manually deactivate the skybox whenever the player triggers a sector, for performance reasons. That's ok for maps which aren't too connected together, but there's a large map with lots of views to the outside and if there would be a way to find out if the player can see the skybox sectors (or maybe specifically the skybox texture?) it would be pretty cool.

Or in other words, if there was a way to determine if a specific texture was in the player's point of view, I could enable/disable the skybox based on that rather than the manual system we've got going now.

[Fox]

How the game determines if a sector is "visible" or not is a bit more complicated.

But are you using a regular skybox, or using rotatesprite/showview?

[Jblade]

I'm using the showview method.

[Fox]

It would require some new rendering time variable/event.