[Tea Monster]

DeeperThought, on Jun 9 2009, 03:20 PM, said:

Are you saying you want the battlelord to drop his weapon when he dies, so the player can pick it up and use the minigun/mortar launcher as a subweapon of chaingun?

Yeppers. Sounds like a pretty cool idea if you ask me.

And as Fantanaikos mentioned earlier, the Chain/Mortar gun that Hellbound made is a separate model, so should be pretty easy to make a HUD version and a Pick-up.

[Fantinaikos]

Here's the model separated from the battlelord and the skin in the case you have problems to find it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8d207c5...04e75f6e8ebb871

For the mortar model, is in the "projectile" folder with the skin and a glow skin.

[Jimmy]

Thats a good idea, but to make the weapon fair, it should slow Duke down a lot.

[supergoofy]

or for duke to use it, he has to use steroids

[Danukem]

Captain Awesome, on Jun 10 2009, 02:45 PM, said:

Thats a good idea, but to make the weapon fair, it should slow Duke down a lot.

Yes. And that's easy to do, because I already have code for Duke moving slow when carrying heavy objects.

[Danukem]

Would anyone be interested in a DP feature that allowed the player to turn off models on just the characters? So you could play with the HRP but the monsters, strippers, etc. would have 8-bit art and everything else would be models/hires. I know it sounds strange, but I would use that sometimes due to framerate, clipping and other issues (plus I prefer the original art in some respects).

[Sebastian]

Yeah, I'd use that actually. No offence but some character models look pretty awful.

[BlackDays]

Good feature. I always thought that Eduke32 should have come with this option, anyway.

Duke Plus is great. I hope you don't mind if I use a similar method of wall jumping in my TC (not a direct rip or anything.)

Actually, now that I think about it, I may have it switch to third person actually and code some separate animations, though, if I'm going to require it.

[Danukem]

BlackDays, on Jun 13 2009, 09:36 PM, said:

Good feature. I always thought that Eduke32 should have come with this option, anyway.

But which tile numbers are "characters" depends on the mod/TC, and EDuke32 is a general platform for TCs, so I doubt that will happen. I've already added the feature to DP.

BlackDays, on Jun 13 2009, 09:36 PM, said:

Duke Plus is great. I hope you don't mind if I use a similar method of wall jumping in my TC (not a direct rip or anything.)

No problem. In fact, you can rip the code if you want, as long as you give credit.

[Danukem]

Duke Plus Version 2.02 Released

• A new level has been added to the Duke Plus hub: Tribute to Action II, by Dan Mason.
  
• The lighting demo has been removed along with the fake dynamic lightning system to make room for Polymer, the upcoming renderer which has true dynamic lightning.
  
• Various bug fixes since version 2.00
  
• Optimization to the advanced monster AI option; framerate is improved in some situations.
  
• New option in the Effects menu for disabling character models when the HRP is used.
  
• Added some basic support for Polymer (currently, the player can use flares and glowbugs have been made into dynamic lights)
  
• Added several new Duke taunts and other Duke one liners.
  
• Added a new rain sound for light rain.

That new map by DanM is really great and a lot of fun. Check it out!

Edit: I'm re-uploading to fix a minor bug (I left some spawned characters out of the no model option, so they would still use models)

[supergoofy]

Report: the userplus.con in current dpcons.rar is different/newer than the one in current DukePlus.rar
The other con files are the same.


[edit]

it seems that you reuploaded DukePlus.rar
now it's ok

[Danukem]

supergoofy, on Jun 15 2009, 08:48 AM, said:

it seems that you reuploaded DukePlus.rar
now it's ok

I also included an updated version of TTA2, the excellent new map by Dan M.

[Fantinaikos]

In future, in addition to the mortar/chaingan, you can make a way to use DP with Carribean and Nuclear Winter?

[XenoMatriX]

From the lack of response I take it this question was posted in the wrong place

I'll find somewhere more appropiate for it to go.

[Slapchop]

Hi guys, I've been trying to install DukePlus for the past couple of days but I continually crash on start up. I have Version 1.4 of Duke Nukem Atomic edition installed and have followed the installer text file that comes with DukePlus to the letter and I still cant get this to install correctly. My log is attached, any help would be appreciated.

Attached File(s)

•  eduke32.log (2.79K)
  Number of downloads: 842

[supergoofy]

1. Download DukePlus.rar

2. Download and install OpenAL from my link:
http://www.mediafire...php?gotzmkzyuin

3. Unpack DukePlus.rar to an empty new folder, for example: C:\Duke Plus v2.02\

4. Copy DUKE3D.GRP from your Atomic Edition CD to C:\Duke Plus v2.02\

5. Run dukeplus.bat


It's super easy. If it still crashes, then either your DUKE3D.GRP is not the Atomic Edition v1.5, or it may be corrupted.

Also update your graphics card drivers and your sound card drivers.

[Slapchop]

supergoofy, on Jun 16 2009, 07:29 AM, said:

1. Download DukePlus.rar

2. Download and install OpenAL from my link:
http://www.mediafire...php?gotzmkzyuin

3. Unpack DukePlus.rar to an empty new folder, for example: C:\Duke Plus v2.02\

4. Copy DUKE3D.GRP from your Atomic Edition CD to C:\Duke Plus v2.02\

5. Run dukeplus.bat


It's super easy. If it still crashes, then either your DUKE3D.GRP is not the Atomic Edition v1.5, or it may be corrupted.

Also update your graphics card drivers and your sound card drivers.

Thanks very much, i ll give it a try when i get home from work tonight.

[Slapchop]

Works flawlessly, thanks so much

[Danukem]

Here is a 3 minute video preview showing the first part of Tribute to Action II, the new level by Dan M. The level is included with the latest version of Duke Plus.

http://www.youtube.c...6--MxbkU&fmt=18

[Headless_Horseman]

Perhaps another bug report : with Advaced AI on, when you're using the Mindblast attack on that flying fat guys that shots rockets (I really don't remember their name, blame me), they keep using their slam-attack on you and rarely target the other enemies with it.
Obviously, I'm referring to version 2.02

[Stabs]

yer its the breakable glass sprites that enemies wont shoot through, iam not sure about other ones, ive never used them before, only want to use dp glass.

[Danukem]

DanM, on Jun 26 2009, 02:48 AM, said:

yer its the breakable glass sprites that enemies wont shoot through, iam not sure about other ones, ive never used them before, only want to use dp glass.

It's because my AI has monsters doing hitscans to check whether they have line of sight to their targets. The hitscan bit is set on the glass sprites, so for them it blocks their view even though we can see through it. You could turn off hitscan by pressing H on the sprites, but then weapons will pass right through them. In other words, it's a bug in the way the AI is coded. I had a reason for doing it that way as opposed to using the normal visibility functions, but unfortunately it has this result. I'll have to figure something out.

[Plagman]

Can't you check if the wall/sprite hitscan hits is translucent and breakable? (or just translucent, depending on how miserable you want your enemies to act). If it is, start a new hitscan from the previous hitcoords until you find something that's not. Or would that be too much work because of the way your code is designed?

[Danukem]

Plagman, on Jun 26 2009, 09:32 AM, said:

Can't you check if the wall/sprite hitscan hits is translucent and breakable? (or just translucent, depending on how miserable you want your enemies to act). If it is, start a new hitscan from the previous hitcoords until you find something that's not. Or would that be too much work because of the way your code is designed?

That's all possible, but doing lots of hitscans takes a lot of cpu (imagine 30 monsters all doing it in a level with complex geometry). For this particular problem I think what I'll do is have the hitscan on breakable glass count as target confirmation (the hitscans are always straight at the target, so chances are the glass is the only thing blocking it). This will cause the monster to shoot, destroying the glass. On the next check, the glass will be gone.

EDIT: My code has already been doing exactly what I suggested above, so I have no idea what is going on It might be something else, like an ifcanshoottarget in the monster's original code acting as an extra check and coming up negative...unless I have the map and can do some tests I won't worry about it further.

[Spiker]

It happens also in my map. But it's just a single instance of AI stupidity.

[Danukem]

I found something that might account for the monsters acting stupid behind glass sprites bug. Try the latest CONs to test:

http://deeperthought...m/dp/dpcons.rar

[Spiker]

For me it didn't work. It would be also useful if something could prevent flying monster from moving vertically (especially down) when there is a deep sector separating them from the player. I mean they tend to fly down into the hole and don't attack the player then.

[Stabs]

cheers for that deeperthought, works alot better now

sometimes they still walk right upto the glass but they will shoot through it. sometimes a bit
delayed sometimes straight away, but at least they will now

spiker : i had that problem with the commander boss fight in the office in tta2, had to keep changing his respawn placement so he would float in, eventually finding a spot where he would enter correctly
most of the time.

[zchri9]

Can anyone help me to get HRP and DukePlus both working?
Im using the latest EDuke32 Polymer SVN and I can only either have DukePlus or HRP not both.

[Danukem]

 zchri9, on Jun 26 2009, 03:57 PM, said:

Can anyone help me to get HRP and DukePlus both working?
Im using the latest EDuke32 Polymer SVN and I can only either have DukePlus or HRP not both.

I've heard of that being a problem one other time, and that was with a linux user. You are using linux?