[Spiker]

Dk2, on Jan 28 2010, 10:04 PM, said:

PS: why not the lights affects the HUD weapon?

Patience.

[BrOiler1985]

I have a (maybe) stupid question.. what does Polymer do? Polymost kinda converts most of the visible things to polygons, right? So what does polymer do? Does Polymer convert everything into polygons?

[kenia]

I have not read the code so I dont know the exact rendering pipeline, but in the end when you render something on your gpu with opengl everything is "converted" to triangles... somehow its a stupid question. So basically what polymer is doing is just calculating shadows (and using vertex shaders). so I guess it builds on top of polymost and just extents it (basically) with this feature.

[TerminX]

No, Polymer doesn't share anything in common with Polymost. It is a completely new renderer that works entirely different from Polymost in about every way possible.

[kenia]

I never looked at the code

[RPD Guy]

i have a question!
what i do to run duke plus with the polymer?
I tried to merge the folder ''duke plus'' with ''polymer_hrp'' folder, however I had no result

[The Commander]

Dk2, on Jan 31 2010, 09:34 AM, said:

i have a question!
what i do to run duke plus with the polymer?
I tried to merge the folder ''duke plus'' with ''polymer_hrp'' folder, however I had no result

Put "polymer_hrp.zip" in the Autoload folder and just run "dukeplus.bat" with the Polymer box ticked.

If that doesn't work then you have installed either Duke Plus wrong or the Polymer HRP wrong.

[RPD Guy]

tanks! this works!

[Tea Monster]

Sangman, on Jan 26 2010, 08:32 AM, said:

What good does that do if the game crashes for people every so often? (the recently fixed soundbug reduced a lot of crashes but I still get them, sometimes quite often, but not as much) TBH I'd rather have stability over looks

This is exactly why Plagman didn't release any alphas of Polymer for ages. He has said that there is still loads left to do, let him get it done.

Writing your own next-gen rendering engine is NOT easy. Trying to marry it to an old DOS game is near-on freaking impossible. Just wait.

[zilp]

I finally got the new trooper model to work somewhat ingame (Thanks to Tea Monster!).

But how should I declare the normal maps to the model with multiple surfaces?

skin { pal 0 surface 0 file "highres/sprites/monsters/1680_trooper_skin_color.jpg" }
normal{ file "highres/sprites/monsters/1680_trooper_skin_normal.jpg" parallaxbias 0.1 parallaxscale 0.5 surf 0 }
skin { pal 0 surface 1 file "highres/sprites/monsters/1680_trooper_gear_0.jpg" }
normal{ file "highres/sprites/monsters/1680_trooper_gear_normal.jpg" parallaxbias 0.1 parallaxscale 0.5 surf 1}

I tried the "surf" since it was used in glowmaps.. but what is the correct syntax?



Here is the model ingame now, and as you can see, the normal maps are not really visible... probably because they are not applied?

[Plagman]

Yeah, 'surf' or 'surface' should just work.

Can you post the fixed MD3 and DEFs so that I can make sure that normal maps work?

[zilp]

Plagman, on Feb 2 2010, 10:40 PM, said:

Yeah, 'surf' or 'surface' should just work.

Can you post the fixed MD3 and DEFs so that I can make sure that normal maps work?

Here you go!

 trooper.zip (1.56MB)
Number of downloads: 811

[Plagman]

http://plagman.free....rmaltrooper.jpg

I "works" if you add spaces between 'normal' and '{' as well as 'surf 1' and the trailing '}'.
It's definitely buggy on some triangles, though. I'll try looking into it in some more detail, but I think it's bad interaction between the smoothing code and how the skin is unwrapped.

[MusicallyInspired]

Man this looks nice. I wanna play polymer again!

[Spiker]

Comparison.

Attached thumbnail(s)

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[Danukem]

Spiker, on Feb 3 2010, 02:09 AM, said:

Comparison.

I wish you had picked a shot of the new one that didn't have a green light on it from the shrinker.

[Sebastian]

Here's some shots.



It's too bad Duke is such a fastpaced game, it would be much more enjoyable to play this as a somewhat slow modern shooter. You miss too much of the details with its Unreal Tournament-style gameplay.

[Mblackwell]

Definitely needs work, but damn it sure is getting there.

[Spiker]

I'm absolutely impressed. Eduke32 is now probaly the best engine if you consider how awesome games/mods you can create with it in so EASY way (If you comapre it to other engines). It definately needs more promotion, which should not only be related to Duke but also the engine itself.

[LeoD]

I don't like the tint of the green armor somehow but can't tell why.
And the eyes need to be reworked desperately - these guys are blind!
Anyway, good work.

[Mblackwell]

Spiker, on Feb 3 2010, 12:24 PM, said:

I'm absolutely impressed. Eduke32 is now probaly the best engine if you consider how awesome games/mods you can create with it in so EASY way (If you comapre it to other engines). It definately needs more promotion, which should not only be related to Duke but also the engine itself.

Honestly I think Duke Nukem Eternity will be a decent showcase of polymer and creating new styles in the game, and I hope DanM releases early Betas.

[LeoD]

Don't want that. Because I'd play the first beta and later on I wouldn't replay a 'known' map.
Screenshots only, please ;-)

[Stabs]

I think i will have to Beta to see how it performs on a variety of systems, it will be very closed though

as for that alien, i think the green suit needs to darkened and he needs to be a bit grittier, hes a tad to clean atm

[TerminX]

 Spiker, on Feb 3 2010, 10:24 AM, said:

I'm absolutely impressed. Eduke32 is now probaly the best engine if you consider how awesome games/mods you can create with it in so EASY way (If you comapre it to other engines). It definately needs more promotion, which should not only be related to Duke but also the engine itself.

Not only are the mods easy to make, but the engine scales all the way from lowly ARM based handhelds to whatever expensive new PC hardware you can throw at it. I'm not really sure how to promote things more... I want to get more developers on board and make more huge progress.

[The Commander]

 Spiker, on Feb 4 2010, 07:24 AM, said:

It definately needs more promotion, which should not only be related to Duke but also the engine itself.

 TX, on Feb 4 2010, 09:25 AM, said:

I'm not really sure how to promote things more...

http://www.moddb.com/engines/eduke32 - Feel free to add videos, pictures etc (Try to make sure they don't look like crap, heh)

It's beaten the Source engine a couple of times in the rankings, they reset each day and go on view count.

EDIT: I think LordMisfit placing his news of his mod on it makes it look a little out of place? Though I'm not to sure.

[Danukem]

 The Commander, on Feb 3 2010, 07:30 PM, said:

EDIT: I think LordMisfit placing his news of his mod on it makes it look a little out of place?

Not just out of place but potentially confusing, since people might mistake that as information about eduke32 instead of his mod. It's fine to have links to various mods on that page, but the links should be in a section clearly designated as "EDuke32 based mods". A small screenshot and a one sentence description for each mod is more than sufficient: other information about the mods should be kept on their respective pages. No offense to Lord Misfit, but what I'm suggesting would actually give his mod MORE publicity; a screenshot and a one line description in the main body of the page would be a lot more attractive than a huge amount of text in the news section that no one will read.

[The Commander]

I think I know a quick fix (with out deleting his item)
Just might take a couple of hours to get verified.

[Stabs]

i really should try find some way to get eternity onto that eduke32 page

[The Commander]

 DanM, on Feb 4 2010, 05:00 PM, said:

i really should try find some way to get eternity onto that eduke32 page

It works easier if your mod is actually under the title of an indee game, that way it can be placed under the GAME tab, as it thinks it's a game for the EDuke32 engine, It seems that MODDB didn't relies that engines could have mods as well. heh

I suppose if you wanted to, you could go to all the trouble of remaking a new one, but under the title of indee game, but I will try talking to my MODDB contact and seeing if there is a way to force your listing on the GAME tab.

[Stabs]

well thats fucked up, according to my profile page

Location

Wii : Mods : Duke Nukem Eternity : Edit


WtF Wii?? clicking edit does NOTHING