[Fauch]

When I started working on unity, I thought I could make like large Doom style maps with little consideration for performance, after all at a time when we have huge photorealistic open worlds, there should be no problem, and I suppose you could get away with it on a good computer, but not really on a toaster, you end up with something running at 15 fps even though it looks simple.

[Hank]

from Taiga-024
https://twitter.com/UnitTAIGA024

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

nice
very mid 90's cg

[Mr. Tibbs]

I haven't seen this mentioned here, but the official Voidpoint Twitter offered this awesome tease of their upcoming projects via a snapshot of their private Discord server:

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

Please let there be a rocket launcher

[MrJohnReviews]

[MrFlibble]

As usual I'm not good at getting references, can someone please tell what the locked room with the pink glass window and Japanese sign in Cultural Divide is supposed to refer to? There's also some music audible in the background if you turn off the level music.

MrFlibble, on 20 July 2020 - 10:47 AM, said:

Alright. I think I finally managed to get to an area I wasn't supposed to reach:
capt0037.png

I revisited this area (it's actually very easy to get there) and there really seems no way out.

Maybe the devs would add a means for the player to get back into the level (e.g. a palettised ladder that blends in with the wall texture, like in some other secrets), and a message along the lines of You're not supposed to be here or How did you get here? from Duke3D?

Also on Cultural Divide, I wanted to point out this little area:
 plate.png (265.94K)
Number of downloads: 28
For a while it seemed to me that the white object was a medikit, but now I'm almost certain that this is just a plate sprite, rather common in this level, and the area is not supposed to be reached by the player either.

JIC, I'm missing two secrets in this level still, but would not like to resort to walkthroughs to find them, so I'm not 100% certain on either location that they are unreachable.

[Morgаn]

Is there a way to change crosshair and remove incendiary bullets for SMG? Those two thing is really bothering me, it's just feels... wrong. No luck digging CON files without actual tips so far.

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

making a new crosshair should be easy

[Hank]

Another excellent weapon for Ion Fury, by YijArt


download link below
https://www.indiedb....dons/ion-ingram

[Hank]

I wish I could edit my posts ... got another update from YijArt
btw I messed up as I was using the public test build and gave no thought to the default game. It's been fixed now.

If running normal Ion Fury (1.02a) then you don’t need to do anything. If running the public test build (1.1 at the time of writing) you’ll need to navigate to the Ion Fury\scripts folder, either delete or change weapons.con to something else, and rename weapons(publicbeta).con to weapons.con.

To make a long story short, just re-download the file, if you have a problem.

[MrFlibble]

No worries!

BTW, why doesn't the cultist on the right on the screenshot above have a shadow?

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

yeah
that kinda has me worried about the next build

[MrFlibble]

Today I reinstalled my NVIDIA driver and apparently, somehow this broke the GOG version's OpenGL mode.

I get no video at all, although it runs as usual in software mode, and I can still play in OpenGL via the SVN release of EDuke32.

Ion Fury was not on the list of programmes in the NVIDIA Control Panel settings, but adding it does not solve the problem, either with integrated video card or NVIDIA GPU set to run it. Probably this will get resolved by deleting some settings and/or reinstalling the whole deal, but I still thought that it was worth mentioning.

UPD: I deleted all texture cache and stuff, but to no effect. I can start the game in software mode and then switch to OpenGL in-game, but once I restart it's all over. Very odd, because IF does detect the NVIDIA card, according to the log.

UPD2: Deleting all cache and cfg files from my user directory solved the problem.

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

Get ready the birthday is coming

[MrFlibble]

So where's the birthday party? Dancing cultists and all?

[Hank]

^ probably on Discord or Twitter?

Happy Birthday Ion Fury.
 images1.jpg (7.52K)
Number of downloads: 3

best wishes to Voidpoint and its entire team

[MrFlibble]

Hank, on 15 August 2020 - 12:31 PM, said:

^ probably on Discord or Twitter?

So it's Discord now, and the forums no longer receive as much attention?

[oasiz]

It's been discord for the past 2-3 years at this point. Most birthday related stuff has been shared on twitter, etc..
Forums are one medium where we also frequent, read and reply, but you will stay much better up to date by following discord.

[Hank]

MrFlibble, on 16 August 2020 - 04:36 AM, said:

So it's Discord now, and the forums no longer receive as much attention?

As Oasiz wrote. Based on my past experience, Voidpoint is still high class. Try it.
It's not for me, at this moment in time. In this current environment of isolation and lack of human contact, and after (now month and month and month) of Zoom and Teamviewer, duke4 is the only media I can stomach.

[Jimmy]

Discord moves way too fucking fast, I'm happy not to have it in my life anymore. Forums are superior for me.

[oasiz]

Yeah, It's not for everyone. Largely a replacement for IRC though (it took some time!)
Since 3DR has no real forums, bulk of support happens on discord. Also while the roots are here, these are Duke forums after all and I don't think people would be too happy if Fury presence took over too much so we just stick with discord.

Having seen this in many communities, it's clear that Forums are on the decline, being replaced by discord and such. In this case it's better to build a specific (new) community on something that is the most accessible as that's frankly in our interest as well. When something is not reposted here, it's mostly that we are lazy. It's not like we have posted any news here to begin with since we are lazy.

[Hank]

MrFlibble, on 15 August 2020 - 10:30 AM, said:

So where's the birthday party? Dancing cultists and all?

Here ya go MrFlibble



From Davox on Twitter, 15 Aug. 2020. Looks like you and he had the same idea
https://twitter.com/...649920935333894

[Hank]

A sprite and sound replacer for the Disperser shotgun/grenade launcher combo in Ion Fury; by YijArt


Download link
https://www.indiedb....ons/ion-shotgun

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

His stuff Always looks like it just belongs in the game
great job

[MrFlibble]

Hank, on 17 August 2020 - 08:02 AM, said:

From Davox on Twitter, 15 Aug. 2020. Looks like you and he had the same idea
https://twitter.com/...649920935333894

I was hoping for some extra dancing animations for them, actually

So this is the new overpaint of Shelly's sprite from v1.1? Very nice! Much better than the old one, and has this retro look.

[Fauch]

so updates break saves?

[Lunick]

Fauch, on 22 August 2020 - 03:53 PM, said:

so updates break saves?

Yup, it should place you at the start of the level with your stuff if you load an old save. This shouldn't be as much of a problem going forward now though.

[NightFright]

My body is ready for the first replay.