[Danukem]

Forge, on 09 April 2017 - 04:34 PM, said:

I haven't used mapster for a couple years. I could try, but it'll probably take me a day or two to remember how to do stuff. -and the map has to be compatible with my 2015 version because I don't know all the new color schemes and features, nor do I care to try to figure them out.

Don't worry about it, then. The current version which does not include this map will remain up for a while longer (probably another week).

[Forge]

Alright. But if you get busy and need me to give it a shot, I'm still willing to try. I'll just have to re-read parts of the info suite to re-learn the tags and SE's. & things like which keyboard keys & combos do what.

[Danukem]

Forge, on 09 April 2017 - 05:45 PM, said:

Alright. But if you get busy and need me to give it a shot, I'm still willing to try. I'll just have to re-read parts of the info suite to re-learn the tags and SE's. & things like which keyboard keys & combos do what.

I'm not a level designer and I know very little of that stuff anyway, so even with your rust, the fact that you are an experienced mapper with some high quality maps under his belt makes you far better at that than me! In other words, go ahead and give it a go if you get the chance. Of course, Loke retains veto power over anything done to his map.

[Forge]

Does Loke have time to make edits?
Or does he at least have time for input before I start - I don't want to mangle his work or do something that he doesn't approve of.

I can try to do some of the architectural stuff you suggested, like the blast walls, moving walkways.
Also remove the timed door closing. Maybe shift some of the assets around a bit and add some more spawns spaced out along the walks back to the hub.
But since I'm using an old version of mapster, you may have to go back and change some of the enemies around so they match the tile # of the SW enemies & maybe some of the texturing on any structuring I add.

[Danukem]

Forge, on 09 April 2017 - 07:34 PM, said:

But since I'm using an old version of mapster, you may have to go back and change some of the enemies around so they match the tile # of the SW enemies & maybe some of the texturing on any structuring I add.

The map is 100% vanilla, it does not contain any SW enemies or SW textures. All conversion happens after my code gets hold of it at run time. When it comes to textures, some Duke textures are converted to SW textures, and some are not (a lot of the high-tech textures are left as-is). With enemies, all Duke enemies have a high chance to convert, but there is a random element. Some liztroops, enforcers and commanders will randomly not convert (by design). Most enemies have more than one possible outcome (for example, pigcops can become either gran or bossk). To take away the random element, you can put SW textures or enemies in the map directly, because those will not be converted, only Duke ones will.

[Forge]

Right.
There is a lack of DTS1 - if these are to be deliberately added, then they will need to be specified.

[Danukem]

Forge, on 09 April 2017 - 08:11 PM, said:

Right.
There is a lack of DTS1 - if these are to be deliberately added, then they will need to be specified.

You can just straight up add them to the map, or you can add newbeast (newbeast always becomes DTS1).

[Fantinaikos]

Maybe it is hard to find maps that completely satisfying us because we still search in vanilla territory, there a good quantity of Dukeplus exclusive maps that can be used, I'm even sure that exist several clean game version of those. It may be necessary change some map triggers to avoid eventually dead ends but for all the rest Dukeplus and Duke Forces share many features each other.

[Forge]

Trooper Dan, on 10 April 2017 - 02:13 AM, said:

You can just straight up add them to the map, or you can add newbeast (newbeast always becomes DTS1).

and what if i want to put a walker patrolling around the room full of crates? what's the equivalent in vanilla?

[Fantinaikos]

Forge, on 10 April 2017 - 06:50 AM, said:

and what if i want to put a walker patrolling around the room full of crates? what's the equivalent in vanilla?

I do not think there is because it uses the empty slots of TILES015 so it could be a custom spawn made for Duke Forces, but try Riot Tank that is also associated with the Recon Vehicles.

[Forge]

I dropped my old copy of mapster into the duke forces folder and it seems to work fine & pick up all the tiles and make them available (though it crashes if I scroll past the last set).

Here's an issue with this map - it's about 4 walls from being maxed out - I can do no sector work to it without removing things to get assets.
So no blast walls, the corridor(s) that do have some sector work to use as a potential moving walk will need a mid-point break in the first section, and the odd sector /wall placement in the second portion would require more sectors and walls to make a walk work.

edit: I went around and removed some of the outdoor items that couldn't be seen from any of the view ports and removed some of the things that could be replaced with sprites - like all those computer screens in the control room where the yellow key is - and I still only came up with about 50 walls. I'm not sure that's going to be enough for everything.

The majority of the walls and sectors are for trimwork - if I start digging into those it will seriously mess with the appearance of the map.

I'm not going to start raping this level haphazardly without some input. What do you want to do Dan?

[Danukem]

Forge, on 10 April 2017 - 07:38 AM, said:

I'm not going to start raping this level haphazardly without some input. What do you want to do Dan?

Don't rape the map. Forget about blast shields. If you want to add a walker in the big crate room, the tile is 3925. To give it a patrol path, you use tile 6398 (which looks exactly like a locator) and you give those babies lotags, starting at zero such that the last of them can loop back to the first (just like a path of regular locators).

If all we had was some spiced up gameplay due to a somewhat different assortment of enemies, and those timed doors became not timed doors, that would be pretty cool. Still a lot better than the other map, and very fine looking.

[Fantinaikos]

Think we can introduce the new but now canonic Shore Troopers into the mod for beach and tropical themed maps later? Not even that hard to spriting, what is it in the end? A beige colored Scout Trooper with a pair of large pants. The only logistic problem I can imagine is how prevent that the game counfuse beach sand with desert sand cuz we have Field Troopers ready for that.

I dunno about the Imperial Intelligence Death Troopers... perhaps as a direct replacement for one Dark Forces enemy instead of an addition.

[Danukem]

Fantinaikos, on 10 April 2017 - 12:07 PM, said:

Think we can introduce the new but now canonic Shore Troopers into the mod for beach and tropical themed maps later? Not even that hard to spriting, what is it in the end? A beige colored Scout Trooper with a pair of large pants. The only logistic problem I can imagine is how prevent that the game counfuse beach sand with desert sand cuz we have Field Troopers ready for that.

I dunno about the Imperial Intelligence Death Troopers... perhaps as a direct replacement for one Dark Forces enemy instead of an addition.

This should go in a different thread. It's not a beta testing question. When it comes to adding more enemy variants, I think that's something that should happen with maps made specifically for Duke Forces, so mappers can put them in manually (which may or may not ever happen in a later version). Otherwise it complicates the code too much without much benefit.

[Fantinaikos]

It's is rare but sometimes it occur that Tusken slowing web effect won't go away, most of the time when you receive more than a web attack. I suppose it is related to a some kind of time resetting thing.

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This should go in a different thread. It's not a beta testing question

It can happen to fall in confusion when there is more than two topic created for talk of the same specific aspects. What did not work in the system "Beta issue in PM, all the rest in public threads"?

[Forge]

Trooper Dan, on 10 April 2017 - 11:23 AM, said:

Don't rape the map. Forget about blast shields. If you want to add a walker in the big crate room, the tile is 3925. To give it a patrol path, you use tile 6398 (which looks exactly like a locator) and you give those babies lotags, starting at zero such that the last of them can loop back to the first (just like a path of regular locators).

If all we had was some spiced up gameplay due to a somewhat different assortment of enemies, and those timed doors became not timed doors, that would be pretty cool. Still a lot better than the other map, and very fine looking.

I'm doing what I can with enemies and assets, but I do run into some aspects that are annoying.
I'll add a DTS1 using its specific picnum, but half the time it still changes into something else when I actually test the map.

[Danukem]

Forge, on 10 April 2017 - 03:38 PM, said:

I'm doing what I can with enemies and assets, but I do run into some aspects that are annoying.
I'll add a DTS1 using its specific picnum, but half the time it still changes into something else when I actually test the map.

I'll look into it. If the DTS1 uses the same picnum that newbeast did, then I could see why that might happen (although even then it shouldn't).

[Forge]

Since it was mostly just adding, deleting, or moving enemies and assets, the editing didn't really tax my memory too much - at most just had to remember how to tag sprites

[Danukem]

Forge, on 10 April 2017 - 07:51 PM, said:

Since it was mostly just adding, deleting, or moving enemies and assets, the editing didn't really tax my memory too much - most just had to remember how to tag sprites

Cool, I'll check it out soon.

[Fantinaikos]

Finished the new custom version of the Baptized by Forge, it is surely more ergonomic than Moonbase and it gives fun challanges and better placed enemies, only flaw is a bunch of switches too near to the elevators causing situation like "Door open-Elevator up".

Slow motion perk should be assigned by a different key combination, double pressing on Interact is quick but often you activate it unintentionally even during simple actions like press a button or open a door. It not consume force energy I know but I want to use when I actually need it.

[Danukem]

Fantinaikos, on 11 April 2017 - 05:28 AM, said:

Slow motion perk should be assigned by a different key combination, double pressing on Interact is quick but often you activate it unintentionally even during simple actions like press a button or open a door. It not consume force energy I know but I want to use when I actually need it.

What if I made the timing more strict, so you had to press the button faster to activate it? EDIT: I changed the number of button taps from 3 to 4, and reduced the time required between presses. It's still easy enough to activate, but much less likely to happen by accident.

[Fantinaikos]

Perhaps it would be more practical to keep press the interact key more than 2 seconds to activate it but I suppose that would conflict with all other force mechanics that require this. Let's try the time strict first.

EDIT:

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I changed the number of button taps from 3 to 4, and reduced the time required between presses. It's still easy enough to activate, but much less likely to happen by accident.

That was fast.

[Danukem]

Fantinaikos, on 11 April 2017 - 09:39 AM, said:

Perhaps it would be more practical to keep press the interact key more than 2 seconds to activate it but I suppose that would conflict with all other force mechanics that require this. Let's try the time strict first.

Yeah, so as it says in edit above, it will now be 4 presses instead of 3 and they must be closer together. Holding the key down for a long time is not practical when getting shot at and it would cause the slow time effect to start when using force choke/pull/lightning

[Forge]

Even when the Sith are blocking force lightning - the player is still gaining health points from using it on them.
Same for the DTS1.

[Dzierzan]

Is this mod being worked on? Or it's canceled? I am asking because this mod could benefit from my Dark Forces Voxel Pack.

[Danukem]

Dzierzan, on 27 September 2020 - 11:48 AM, said:

Is this mod being worked on? Or it's canceled? I am asking because this mod could benefit from my Dark Forces Voxel Pack.

For my sanity and because I have limited free time, I only work on one mod at a time. Currently that mod is WGR Demon Throne, which releases on Oct 15th. After that, it will be Alien Armageddon again for 2021. Duke Forces is not in the rotation at this time. I have to admit my enthusiasm for it diminished a lot when Disney ruined Star Wars.

[MrFlibble]

Danukem, on 27 September 2020 - 11:55 AM, said:

I have to admit my enthusiasm for it diminished a lot when Disney ruined Star Wars.

I feel for ya (having recently watched Episode VIII). But I have to say I really like the mod, even though I did not play a lot. In fact, I was rather sceptical at first, but the brilliant execution and non-trivial gameplay ideas alone do a lot, not to mention that it works so well with the original maps (contrary to my initial expectations I should say). One of the best Duke mods I played, actually.

[Phredreeke]

Perhaps some of the DF voxels would be useful for AA too though (though it might also be my memory being off)

[Danukem]

Phredreeke, on 28 September 2020 - 04:36 AM, said:

Perhaps some of the DF voxels would be useful for AA too though (though it might also be my memory being off)

I think that's true, because we are already using the standard voxels for weapons and ammo, but we have added some new weapons and ammo that still use sprites. Some of those could be switched to the DF voxels (e.g. the laser gun ammo).

[Ninety-Six]

so I know this is bottom priority with Demon throne just coming out, and I admit even I myself am currently playing this more in between DT bursts, but out of nowhere this started fatally hanging eduke. I am using the supplied version and I had no problems playing it through the first three episodes. But now all of a sudden when I start the game it completely locks up at the menu screen.


I tried experimenting with the config files that store map times and unlocked perks, seeing if removing either of them (as they would be the only things that changed) would fix the problem. It didn't.

I then went as far as to find the debug version of the provided build (7140, IIRC) and not only did it hang it didn't output any new real information, save for talking about waiting for a polymost call.


I've provided both anyway.

eduke32.cfg (because I can't attach it for some reason):

Spoiler

[Misc]
Executions = 14

[Setup]
ConfigVersion = 336
ForceSetup = 0
NoAutoLoad = 1
SelectedGRP = "duke3d.grp"
ModDir = "/"
CacheSize = 100663296

[Screen Setup]
Polymer = 0
ScreenBPP = 32
ScreenHeight = 1050
ScreenMode = 1
ScreenWidth = 1680
WindowPositioning = 0
WindowPosX = 0
WindowPosY = 0
MaxRefreshFreq = 0
Out = 0
Password = ""

[Updates]
CheckForUpdates = 1
LastUpdateCheck = 1491198625

[Controls]
MouseButton0 = "Fire"
MouseButton1 = "Jump"
MouseButton2 = "Quick_Kick"
MouseButton4 = "Previous_Weapon"
MouseButton5 = "Next_Weapon"
MouseAnalogAxes0 = "analog_turning"
MouseAnalogAxes1 = "analog_moving"
MouseButton3 = "Quick_Kick"
MouseButton6 = "Quick_Kick"

[Comm Setup]
PlayerName = "Duke"
RTSName = "DUKE.RTS"
CommbatMacro#0 = "An inspiration for birth control."
CommbatMacro#1 = "You're gonna die for that!"
CommbatMacro#2 = "It hurts to be you."
CommbatMacro#3 = "Lucky son of a bitch."
CommbatMacro#4 = "Hmmm... payback time."
CommbatMacro#5 = "You bottom dwelling scum sucker."
CommbatMacro#6 = "Damn, you're ugly."
CommbatMacro#7 = "Ha ha ha... wasted!"
CommbatMacro#8 = "You suck!"
CommbatMacro#9 = "AARRRGHHHHH!!!"

[MapTimes]
MD4_0dd1ad2fdfadd8eadde5bb7dd8a95378 = 16767
MD4_594b59d713c4b2f3a2ad8131c0ba2066 = 20096
MD4_91003239cfe780bf4c1de08e0a2b7cc2 = 12507
MD4_84750baba3564e6c14a81fb284b1b60c = 7033
MD4_65ad8fc00d9618a4e2e4a84c3d035d20 = 32668
MD4_37c1ba00a22baa6d8dfa69e265b964d8 = 28443
MD4_8ea61a32c1af50d8db96e5a230d6d4df = 14667
MD4_72619cedec66b1c90394c6d9b64b1689 = 29514
MD4_c73e4ae560573501b48af273a90c4273 = 18338
MD4_963c036dd2f0f8b32efbe18e69f50f2e = 22738
MD4_1b43f9dac3533089f15defaa76147909 = 22691
MD4_d71f66208b7593232a2c016c3ac72c0b = 20812
MD4_16bb3a55e73c0e647ecc3bcb0131abde = 22703
MD4_8f550a8f9f8c00388b0397faf608508c = 28078
MD4_cea9951c33ea88f95d91639a15c98bb0 = 45278
MD4_d19081afa18bf00c9f151e51104358ee = 15286
MD4_64d059be3e669ea587ec3e43b15ab3a7 = 17911
MD4_bf886fce1a2aa54ae2bcac5e9cdd727b = 27502
MD4_6ac5f13f7bc3a78b2a9e0cdac4c86c42 = 15642
MD4_f6994317c2f91afc02280325c51c2f31 = 21279
MD4_9dc91896bb83d2492293a5903ebd80d1 = 14568
MD4_b2c03269d419574cf1ccd7e0ce08eea5 = 11628
MD4_fedd7a746f8abff289cbbb951ca7357c = 17966
MD4_922eda05305cea173c46a1bdf01d0831 = 18605
MD4_68b553ff6c9dd9b790c19d24e27d14b7 = 26497
MD4_7b0ef73951088703c29b9e3d9145f1c6 = 23032

[GameVars]
savedperks = 1216

EDIT: I just realized. There was one other change that happened after I finished episode 3. Windows had an update.

God damnit Microsoft.

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