[High Treason]

Not entirely sure where to put this one, I don't think it warrants a new thread as I suspect the answer is simply a "no way around it." kind of thing.

I recently attempted to have video display in-game by importing individual frames - 4500 per video, 4 videos - and having the game cycle through each frame one by one at a rate close to 15fps. The problem being that this results in a "cache space all locked up" happening which I sort of expected. I increased the cache as far as it would go (maxes out at 1152mb) but it still happens. Also tried turning off caching and playing with texture compression and such but it makes no difference.

Much as it was tedious work writing DEFs for 18000 images it's not really a big deal as what I was doing was just a joke, if it saw a release it wasn't even going to have my name attached to it because it's horrible. But I am curious as to whether there is any way around this or if I have simply hit a limitation that I can't do nothing about?

Each frame is a 640x480 JPEG, it is loaded as a hi-res texture onto a 320x240 dummytile.


One thing I think is important is that the video is an interactive thing, as in you're supposed to be filming what happens in the video and so it moves around in response to the mouse and affects the score you receive from filming it making it impossible for me to make use of the IVF feature. As a last resort I could probably shorten them as I seem to be able to get about 2500 frames in before a crash.

[Kyanos]

Sounds similar to what I hit loading all the voxel enemies. I custom broke the cache system to make it load. You could try the exe in the voxel pack.
https://sites.google...site/duke3dvmp/

[hismasterplan]

Has anyone ever thought of lighting up the windows of surrounding buildings, much like how the background Los Angeles skyline is? I always thought it was odd how wherever the player is, the power is off but everywhere else in the city is bright and neon.

[Hendricks266]

Can you show a practical, in-game example of what you mean? I bet it's not possible, and I'll explain why after you reply.

[hismasterplan]

Hendricks420, on 14 August 2014 - 07:17 AM, said:

Can you show a practical, in-game example of what you mean? I bet it's not possible, and I'll explain why after you reply.

Sure. I don't mod, this is just something that's had me wondering so feel free to educated me. The building on the right, compared to the lit-up L.A. background. I'm wondering if it's possible for the solid buildings to have lighted windows to match the 2D background. I could understand if it's a big challenge with the most recent lighting effects, but maybe in older builds?

[Hendricks266]

I wasn't clear with my post. I understood what you meant, but I wanted you to try it, expecting you to fail.

One part of it is that the original levels are fairly well illuminated so the player can navigate. All the original levels should be much darker, considering that they are set at night or in space.

The other part of it is that illuminating the windows while keeping the outside of the building dark is not possible with Duke 3D's stock texture set (to my knowledge). Your options would be:
a. Make a new texture with a dark exterior and a lit window.
b. Make a new art tile with a lit window to use a sprite over a dimly-shaded texture (which would give better-quality shading, but use a lot of sprites).
c. Make a new texture with a lit window and the rest of the space transparent and use it on a masked wall 1 unit in front of the dimly-shaded building.
d. Create an impossible amount of TROR to shade each window as its own wall, which would probably need a custom texture anyway to look good.

[Fox]

The easiest way would be to make a larger highres texture with glowmaps, but that would only work with Polymost/Polymer. A more complicated solution would be to spawn wall-aligned sprites in front of walls with building texture, but it would fail to work with oddly aligned textures.

[Mark]

You could do a comprimise by putting a bright texture sprite in front of the window and hit T to make it transparent. I used tile 4207 in this test. Because of the transparency you can still see the curtain texture when close up.

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[Hendricks266]

 Fox, on 14 August 2014 - 03:23 PM, said:

The easiest way would be to make a larger highres texture with glowmaps

No.

That is not what glowmaps are for.

 Mark., on 14 August 2014 - 04:19 PM, said:

You could do a comprimise by putting a bright texture sprite in front of the window and hit T to make it transparent. I used tile 4207 in this test. Because of the transparency you can still see the curtain texture when close up.

Well you proved me wrong by finding a suitable sprite in Duke's art!

[OpenMaw]

 Hendricks420, on 14 August 2014 - 04:50 PM, said:

No.

That is not what glowmaps are for.

Um.... Why not? They're ideal for tex-lighting situations.


EDIT: In case I came off douchey there. I'm honestly asking, because I never knew this was an issue.

[High Treason]

 Drek, on 11 August 2014 - 02:31 PM, said:

Sounds similar to what I hit loading all the voxel enemies. I custom broke the cache system to make it load. You could try the exe in the voxel pack.
https://sites.google...site/duke3dvmp/

Doesn't work, but thanks.

At this point I guess all I can do is limit each video. I think 2500 frames should be safe and should give me just over two and a half minutes worth of video to use - around 30 seconds per video - which is enough to make my point. Oh, well, back to work on this abomination.

[Fox]

 Hendricks420, on 14 August 2014 - 04:50 PM, said:

No.

That is not what glowmaps are for.

How not? The 8-bit counterpart would be to make a fullbright table for the windows.

[Hendricks266]

 Skulldog, on 10 August 2014 - 08:32 AM, said:

-addon [0.1.2.3] does not seem to work for megaton addons anymore. Also the megaton addon group files don't show up in the startup window.

I've found the cause of the issue, which I think you already did for your DOSBox launchers. Megaton's directory layout for the add-ons changed.

It will be fixed in an upcoming push.

I hope to soon support loading the SC-55 OGGs included with Megaton as well, but it will require redoing some infrastructure. Damn the grabbag.ogg included in the nw folder.

[Hendricks266]

 LeoD, on 31 July 2014 - 09:12 AM, said:

Oh boy, this picky type of behaviour really ain't what anyone would expect from a command named veryclean. The outcome should never be dependent of whatever make parameters were used for previous build runs. Academic excuses about cleaner implementation of makefiles or whatever don't apply here. If I can't rely on veryclean, it's useless.

 Hendricks420, on 31 July 2014 - 09:30 AM, said:

It's not called veryclean because it'll make everything spic & span and wipe your ass while it's at it. Though, as much as I want to reply

Spoiler

I can't find a good reason not to change the behavior so that it once again deletes $(OBJ)/* instead of the list of object files.

I just found a good reason. We execute `rm -f` in our clean statements, and I'm not about to include a wildcard that could seriously mess things up.

Besides, if you want the functionality you ask for, you can always recursively delete all directories named "obj".

[Fox]

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loadgrp can only be used in the originating .def file;

The question is, why? It would be usefull to use it in another .def file.

[Hendricks266]

Works for me. Wherever that is stated should be corrected.

[Fox]

I found a small mistake. Eduke32 hack for switching weapons allows you to switch a weapon being fired, however it doesn't when you are using the Mighty Boot Engaged.

[LeoD]

 Hendricks420, on 20 August 2014 - 04:07 PM, said:

Besides, if you want the functionality you ask for, you can always recursively delete all directories named "obj".

So you could add that one to make veryclean ... no wildcards involved.

[Fox]

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r4575 | helixhorned | 2014-08-20 10:58:21 -0700 (Wed, 20 Aug 2014) | 3 lines

Amend r4378 to hopefully make "stuck in water" fix work properly.

NOTE: lizmen may walk on water. I don't yet know why.
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http://forums.duke4....155#entry176155

[LeoD]

make USE_OPENGL=0 fails to build, 3rd incarnation:

Spoiler

source/common.c: In function 'G_ExtInit':
source/common.c:315:17: error: implicit declaration of function 'initprintf' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
                 initprintf("Failed adding %s for game data: %s\n", CommandPaths->str,
                 ^
cc1.exe: some warnings being treated as errors
Failed building source/obj/common.o from source/common.c!
Makefile:565: recipe for target 'source/obj/common.o' failed
make: *** [source/obj/common.o] Error 1

[Fox]

At this point wouldn't it make sense for Eduke32 download to include two executables?

Eduke32.exe
Eduke32_x86.exe

[LeoD]

Fox, on 25 August 2014 - 06:01 AM, said:

At this point wouldn't it make sense for Eduke32 download to include two executables?

Eduke32.exe
Eduke32_x86.exe

I'm in favour of a small number of downloadable packages as well, but this would break all batch files for Win32 users. IIRC there was talk about a 32 bit EDuke32.exe that could start some EDuke64.exe if possible on the given machine. The SysInternals Process Explorer seems to work somewhat like that, for example.

[Fox]

Batch files

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[Tea Monster]

Batch files for people who know how to use them are awesomesause. Distributing them with software packages and asking non-technical types to use them is selling fishing weights made of Plutonium and putting in big red letters on the front of the package: WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT CLACK THEM TOGETHER!!!.

[Kyanos]

Batch files are part of the heart and soul of Dos games. What other choices are there? Command line options in shortcuts
ps. I love the picture, I'll be sure to bring keys if I ever cross the pond.

[Fox]

Drek, on 25 August 2014 - 08:28 AM, said:

What other choices are there?

What do we need batch files for these days?

[Kyanos]

Mostly I use .bat to run EDuke32 with different mods or multiplayer modes. I used them to make all the enemy voxels from command line using poly2vox. Some other random scripting here and there too.

[LeoD]

Fox, on 25 August 2014 - 09:48 AM, said:

What do we need batch files for these days?

Properly start a plethora of maps and mods which were created over the last decade.
I don't promote batch files for new projects, but they're reality for old ones. Even NightFright's project from the other thread would never be able to replace them all.

Drek, on 25 August 2014 - 11:29 AM, said:

Mostly I use .bat to run EDuke32 with different mods or multiplayer modes.

Same here. Besides lots of BATs within it, I have only one clean EDuke32 installation folder, and therefore only one textures file to save precious space on my SSD.

[Fox]

Can't you just use "custom game content directory"? Although Eduke32 should have a \mod subdirectory for that stuff.

And it would be better to use an SSD for the operational system only. Otherwise it kinda of ruins the purpose of having a faster drive...

[LeoD]

Fox, on 25 August 2014 - 12:42 PM, said:

Can't you just use "custom game content directory"? Although Eduke32 should have a \mod subdirectory for that stuff.
And it would be better to use an SSD for the operational system only. Otherwise it kinda of ruins the purpose of having a faster drive...

Faster load time of the HRP is a purpose, too.
"Custom game content directory" gives me extra textures files in my DukePlus and Attrition subfolders, therefore I leave that blank and use the -j option instead.