a situation where Dark decides to be Dark and gets stuck on some step during an in-engine cutscene softlocking the game surely is less than desirable.
eldrone
Cheers, thanks for that info, I really appreciate it!
With the Squirrel based animation implementation for KexDark, does that make life much easier to port/create in-game scripted sequences, like the "Journey throughout the Many" hallucination, or Shodan's office reveal compared to the old engine? Or was that more a "Cinematic & camera tools for Dark was the real headache for Irrational & Nightdive" problem?
Hopefully Squirrel scripting for level-sequences will greatly benefit future modders and FM authors. Speaking of in-game engine scripted scenes & animations, I've posted about this before as the dumb ideas guy, but is there any possibility of some of the cutscenes being rendered in-engine with the improved tools? I DON'T mean the cheesy "Trioptimum von Braun promo with the fancy 3D ship fly-by" intro, that'd be way, way too fiddly & time-consuming to make! Just the actual "Goggles in his cryo-pod waking up", "Career choice shuttles leaving the station" and the final "Nah/don't you like my new look?" scenes.
Maybe the career choice shuttles could also be video files if Nightdive is really pushed for time, but in-game cryo-pod & ending would be fantastic, as you'd be able to see any graphical tweaks you're running displayed, rather than an awkward transition between engine and video. I've seen a few Let's Play videos of people running SHTUP or other mods, being taken aback at the abrupt quality shifts, as they didn't know about the video files prior.
I did see the screenshot for BotM and I think they should smooth out some of the polygonal map design, I know SS2 is from 1999, but I'm pretty sure none of our insides are that angular.
you'll fit right in.my brain just wouldn't let me rest
I think I actually came up with that NewDark <-> OldDark thing too
Quote by modders_notes.txtjust use the png format for all textures and you will be fine. this will make the weapons incompatible with oldDark, but I wouldn't worry about that too much.The priority order is as follows, where the first has the highest override priority:
.DDS
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.BMP
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.GIF
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In OldDark, water surface textures on only 2 directional faces are rendered correctly, while water surface textures on the other 4 directional faces get stretched & skewed. When axis = 2, only Top & Bottom water surface textures are rendered correctly. When Axis = 1, only North & South water surface textures are rendered correctly. When Axis = 0, only East & West water surface textures are rendered correctly. In NewDark, all water surface textures render correctly and rotate and/or scroll in the direction(s) specified.
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).also, KexDark (or rather, KEXDark) was mentioned for the first time on discord, almost exactly 4 years ago, by yours truly. just in case you'd want to know.
NDA has been signed - set your toasters to 6 months and keep your fingers crossed.
Stupid question: how does the process of making/porting animations for both the Anniversary models, and the vanilla models, work exactly with the two different types in the 25th Anniversary version?
If you make say, a two-handed shotgun hybrid carry animation for the Anniversary models (a la early SS2 screenshots), is making it also for the original models, fairly easy with the updated model tools you've developed? Or do you have to do vastly different rigging, joint bones etc for "25th Anniversary" vs "Original models"? Ditto for weapon model animations.
In Half Life 1, there's the HD pack models, which have different joints compared to the original ones, different animations and infamously, different timings for certain stuff like running: some mods back in the day had their scripted sequences messed up if the player was using the HD pack. Fans had to make custom HD pack models with correct speed/timing to fix this, many years ago.
Additionally, consider this: Aliens (1996) was a huge cultural presence while SS2 was in development. And what did Aliens prominently feature?
for the midwife ass - if they wanted to give her more ass, they would have done so back in 1999. so no extra ass, would you kindly.
What? SS2 textures can use any 24-bit color. Restricted palettes are for software renderers. SS2 is hardware rendering only.Wasn't Irrational forced to use a pretty restricted color palette, as was the standard at the time?
Wasn't Irrational forced to use a pretty restricted color palette, as was the standard at the time?
In my opinion the worst part about the desaturated yellow is that gameplay wise, its gonna create a minor nuisance that didn't use to be there. The higher saturation gives the enemy better visibility, meaning that the player would subconsciously recognize it faster + it would be hard to miss from the corner of your eye (which makes actual "in-world" sense because its a piece of heavy duty machinery!)
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