[Jblade]

Is there any reason why setthisprojectile may not work at times? is setting certain values like extra not possible once the projectile has been fired, or are there flags that might conflict with it? The projectile's workslike is 36866

EDIT: Ok just tested it and taking out PROJECTILE RPG IMPACT made it do the damage I specified. Is this a bug or part of how that flag works?

Also another minor thing; if I fire a projectile directly from the player, its userdata flag isn't set.

[Jblade]

http://wiki.eduke32.com/wiki/Xpanning

Is there any way to implement the texture shifting part to weapon models? Basically I'd like to use it to implement a HL-style chrome effect on a part of a weapon model - I've split the chrome part into it's own model so there's no seperate surfaces to mess about with or anything.

[JankJason]

Darth Slaughter, on 17 November 2016 - 05:37 PM, said:

If only shadows, dynamic lighting and specular effects weren't deactivating everytime I have to reload a game. If I restart the game from main menu, everything works fine, but if I die and reload, I lose the effects, even if they're turned on in the settings menu. Also, if I complete a level, the next level will start working perfectly, but if I die and restart or reload, effects disappear...

Also If I enter the game and load a save to continue playing, the game starts with the effects turned off. This happens in both HRP and old sprites/original textures. Frame-rate is 60 in all cases, except when the effects are working with HRP models and textures, when FPS drops to 40 sometimes.

The only way to keep the effects is if I don't die at all.

Here are screenshots of my problem:

same case with HPR on:

http://i.imgur.com/DK9gVDd.png

http://i.imgur.com/rYhIvK6.png

Thank you.

I hope there's a solution to this.

[Tea Monster]

Is there any way to directly access how the shaders in Polymer work? Is there a scripting language that you can use to hack how specular and gloss maps work in the renderer?

Also, is there any way to turn off that disastrous optimization where models disappear when not directly viewed by the player?

[Mblackwell]

You mean the one where models are completely tied to sprites so if the sprite isn't visible/drawn the model isn't visible?
No.

And that's not an "optimization". That goes back to the first implementations of models since there's nothing in the engine for objects other than Sectors, Walls, and Sprites (and the player entity which is really just hooked into sprites, for the most part). So models were simply set to draw in the position of the sprite (with offsets given from def) whenever the sprite it was tied to was rendered.

Design accordingly.

[Micky C]

AFAIK there's no kind of scripting to control polymer's shaders either. All shaders need to be hard-coded at the moment.

[Mblackwell]

The most you get is tweaking parameters in def. Shaders generally aren't "scriptable". You write them in GLSL (in this case), or if you're using D3D you would write HLSL shaders. There are also various intermediary languages and compilers that allow you to write shaders in a way that's comfortable for you (either language) and use them in different APIs. The shaders are currently compiled into the source, not external. Simply modifying them willy nilly would break more than you might think, unless you had a very clear idea of both what you were doing and how and why the original shader functioned the way it did and the kinds of input/output the engine might be expecting to get from the shader. Not impossible but pretty impractical.

[Och]

I'm getting graphic flickering when running eduke with polymer. Latest version of eduke32-64, but it happens with other versions as well.

[Kawa]

Yeah, that's the same problem that was already discussed earlier on this very page, back in October.

[Och]

Kawa, on 01 January 2017 - 01:07 PM, said:

Yeah, that's the same problem that was already discussed earlier on this very page, back in October.

I understand there is no fix for it? It's been a while since I've played the game, but I think even years ago similar flickering existed.

[Hendricks266]

We should probably port the fixes for this from Polymost to Polymer.

[Och]

More of what I believe is an extension of the same glitch.

[Hendricks266]

Yes, we are aware of this.

[Och]

Is there a way to increase console text size? I'm playing at 4k resolution, and the text is tiny.

[Hendricks266]

The osdscale command.

[MusicallyInspired]

Hendricks266, on 02 January 2017 - 01:26 PM, said:

The osdscale command.

On my current build (2.0.0devel r5805 64-bit) that only enlarges the size of the console dropdown window. The test size remains the same. I have no idea what the latest version is though or how long ago I updated.

[Hendricks266]

My bad, you're right. The console doesn't have any text scaling features because it is designed to work with the small bitmap fonts from the editor (osdtextmode 1) which aren't drawn with scaling anywhere else. Maybe we could work in integer scaling (2x, 3x, etc) some time.

[Och]

What is lunatic built in the newest synthetis?

[Och]

Hendricks266, on 02 January 2017 - 03:43 PM, said:

My bad, you're right. The console doesn't have any text scaling features because it is designed to work with the small bitmap fonts from the editor (osdtextmode 1) which aren't drawn with scaling anywhere else. Maybe we could work in integer scaling (2x, 3x, etc) some time.

Osdscale command did increase my font size. Not sure if it always worked or if its something that you quickly added to the newest version, which I downloaded before trying. In either case, much appreciation!


http://i.imgur.com/JIKql6L.jpg

See screenshot

[Hendricks266]

I'm glad to be wrong!

Och, on 07 January 2017 - 01:11 PM, said:

What is lunatic built in the newest synthetis?

It's a prototype Lua scripting-enabled build.

[MusicallyInspired]

Weird. My text is just text and not Duke font texture text. Guess I should jump in and get the latest build...

[Hendricks266]

MusicallyInspired, on 07 January 2017 - 05:36 PM, said:

Weird. My text is just text and not Duke font texture text.

osdtextmode 0

[Micky C]

Hendricks266, on 07 January 2017 - 01:58 PM, said:

It's a prototype Lua scripting-enabled build.

Wasn't Lunatic meant to have other changes, such as an extendable text-based map format, and (consequently) TROR that doesn't restrict ceiling/floor texture panning?

[Hendricks266]

Micky C, on 07 January 2017 - 06:51 PM, said:

Wasn't Lunatic meant to have other changes, such as an extendable text-based map format, and (consequently) TROR that doesn't restrict ceiling/floor texture panning?

Give me a break, I'm trying to give a concise summary in simple terms to a newcomer. I could have just linked Helix's own essay on the subject.

[MusicallyInspired]

Hendricks266, on 07 January 2017 - 05:58 PM, said:

osdtextmode 0

Ah there we go. And OSDSCALE works now too.

[brullov]

Does blend table work in polymost?

[Hendricks266]

Blend tables themselves, no, but you can assign a GL blending mode to a blend ID from a limited set that we are able to use in Polymost.

What blend tables are you using? (100% additive, etc).

[brullov]

Hendricks266, on 18 January 2017 - 10:12 AM, said:

Blend tables themselves, no, but you can assign a GL blending mode to a blend ID from a limited set that we are able to use in Polymost.

What blend tables are you using? (100% additive, etc).

Yeah, additive.

[Hendricks266]

Assuming a blend ID of 255, the most efficient way to define 100% additive is

blendtable 255
{
    glblend { both { src ONE dst ONE } }
}

This is functionally equivalent to

blendtable 255
{
    glblend
    {
        forward { src SRC_ALPHA dst ONE alpha 1.0 }
        reverse { src ONE dst SRC_ALPHA alpha 1.0 }
    }
}

but in this form, you can change the intensity value. 0.5 is 50%, etc.

I know this should be documented somewhere, but everything about palettes hinges on having better tools available for several steps in the process.

[brullov]

Hendricks266, on 18 January 2017 - 01:38 PM, said:

The most efficient way to define 100% additive (assuming a blend ID of 255) is

blendtable 255
{
    glblend { both { src ONE dst ONE } }
}

This is functionally equivalent to

blendtable 255
{
    glblend
    {
        forward { src SRC_ALPHA dst ONE alpha 1.0 }
        reverse { src ONE dst SRC_ALPHA alpha 1.0 }
    }
}

but in this form, you can change the intensity value. 0.5 is 50%, etc.

I know this should be documented somewhere, but everything about palettes hinges on having better tools available for several steps in the process.

Thank you!