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Valin Halcyon

God..I can't believe a debate started over this. Aircraft fly based on airspeed, yes? That is, the speed at which air flows over the wings. if the plane is moving forward on a belt which is going the same speed in the opposing direction, THE PLANE IS NOT MOVING AND HAS NO GROUND SPEED. That said, we...

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..and because there's a large number of Descent resources already in OOF format that cannot be converted back to 3ds or we don't have the 3ds original.

Valin Halcyon

I can LEND you mine...I'm in the UK, so not so far to ship it. PM me addy and details.

The things are old and now ultra rare. They connect via a 9 pin serial port. No one will just \"send\" you one.

Valin Halcyon

I dislike the newer Visual Studios for the same general reason. They're easier IF you learned on them..but if you learned on the old stuff..forget it.

I hate .NET too in general, makes porting a pain in the ass.

Valin Halcyon

We love you Deidel.

OOFs in D2!!! YAY!
Who's going to head up the D3 models to D2 project?

Valin Halcyon

Whee! Thanks for appearing SS! I'd been looking for you to get that which you just posted.

Valin Halcyon

Proper OOP programming is easy once you learn the syntax. All a programming language is, is syntax and standard function (or in this case, class) libraries. Going from VB to C aught to be easy.

BTW, I feel your pain on the .NET issue. I use MS Visual Studio 6 for Windows dev.

Valin Halcyon

Yeah, but my inf abyss and vert CDs were the ones I got for sending in my original-original D2 CD and $20 to Interplay.

Valin Halcyon

Umm, though...will someone please tell me why I should be all excited about this? It looks the same as it always has on my PC.

Valin Halcyon

Heh..I have a copy in storage, as well as the original D1 demo which only contained 3 levels, not 7.

Wish I still had my original Infinite abyss and Vertigo CDs though..they got damaged and I got the definitive edition to replace them. Oh well.

Valin Halcyon

I started with the old IHHD and IRC. :P Then I moved off to Descent Online by Interplay. Afterwards, rather than move on to Kali, I went to Kahn. It wasn't until just before the ZOD incident that I moved to Kali. All throughout my time in the early days of Descent, I was on the alt.games.descent boa...

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WinRAR 3.x 4TW.

Valin Halcyon

Eww...I'm with Deidel. Where's the pure C++ option so it can be ported to other platforms? I'm sure the Linux fellows like myself would like a nice Launcher too. C++ is easier than VB by a wide margin anyway. ;) However, nice idea and good job! Now just to get some more commandline handles for you t...

Valin Halcyon

Ok...yeah, sorry Suncho, my main source of source code knowledge is from D1src original, when I was working on Descent.NET. ui.c is very much obsolete. :P In D2X-XL, try looking in game.c for the keyboard shortcuts as well...good for creating a debug menu, of which in fact, there were a few in the o...

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Suncho, look in the ui.c file..you'll find the thread starts from there. You aught to be able to trace most of the menu options from it.

I'd do it myself, but I'm busy with the resource file management code.

Valin Halcyon

...how about simply adding OOF support to D2X-XL? :P From there, it'd be EASY to add new models for various things. As you know, Deidel, I'm occupied with another D2X project atm, but if you could manage it, that'd be awesome. Also, maybe look at adding support to use models instead of animated text...

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Deidel, that D1Demo data is that massive tablefile I've been talking to you about. If my current project suceeds, I'll be able to compile a \"demo\" set of files that would work with, and be distributed with, D2X-XL. As for ideas...is there ANY way you can take a little time off from makin...

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I think it's a checksum issue. If he compiled the code himself, or got a 3rd party compiled version, it's possible that the checksum doesn't match the general distribution version on your website. I know that when I compile D2X-XL on my PC, I use the release build, and I get a nice tiny exe...almost...

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Pallette files. Without them..the game can't render the textures properly.

Valin Halcyon

Using a GeForce2 Ultra, I tried the lightmaps option once, and all it did was make the level go really ugly with lots of white textures all over the level. What exactly was it supposed to do? 0_o

Valin Halcyon

I read at a rate fast enough to be considered the rate of speech. Words flow off the page into my mind, where it is then converted into sound. I DO hear the people talking, though I believe the voices are there own. If the book is especially good at describing the way people speak, my mind is able t...

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Oh well, pardon my hopefulness then.

Valin Halcyon

[sarcasm]You know that nice little tool called POFgen that's used to convert 3ds files to POF files...then on to OOF files? POF IS the original Descent model format. Hmm..lesse..OOF: Outrage Object Format. I wonder if POF..naaww..IT CAN'T BE. :P Parallax Object Format. ;) [/sarcasm] However, with ac...

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:) It's good to see that the work on that ship hasn't gone to waste. At least it's made good fan art all over the community. Any chance of new models in D2X-XL, Diedel? I still have most of what was made for D4. Ships were around 300-500 polys, powerups, around 100 or so. That's just from memory, so...

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Try http://www.5dollarsoftware.com/descentii.html for Descent II.

Valin Halcyon

I am...hmm... Shocked? Surprised? This is actually news to me, and it's years old! :P So Interplay dropped Descent 100%. That means that the only remaining holder is Parallax(possibly Volition). Hmm...that means that good 'ol Matt/Mike could do up D4 on their own and publish through THQ perhaps. Ver...

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Valin Halcyon

*points to Top Gun's comment Yes indeed. FS and FS2 are built on a vastly improved and not to mention expanded DII engine. BTW, it also has a very last minute up to date glide renderer. :) As for talking to someone about copyrights...LOL! They are right, I took it as far as it was possible to go. I ...

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Eliteish I say. Eve see: www.eve-online.com ?

DL it and give it a 14 day tryout. It lacks a bunch of various features that I think it should have, but it takes the space adventure game to a really high level. The sheer economics and social models that have developed are astounding.

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I agree wholeheartedly...so...D4 as a D2 TC anyone? :P j/k Though, with Diedel's work, especially in the realms of more cubes and really high Q textures and higher polycount, it may be possible to eventually...uhh..make a D3 TC of D2. :P We do after all know most/all of the D3 resource file formats....

Valin Halcyon

Who reopened this can of worms? Man, I get a stab of pain through my heart each time... Just did a bit of poking around at the copyright office though. I see no REGISTERED trademarks for Descent, but I found the copyright entries for the Descent materials though. Descent 1 demo and retail are separa...

Valin Halcyon

Remember Kali? Might anyone remember the packet data it used? There ya go. The UDP networking in D2X-XL is the old kali_IPX wrapper. It's basically a UDP transport over an arbitrary port that you can specify or let search the server IP for whatever port responds. After that, It's the same as IPX...s...

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Capm? Kids? Is this legal?

At least you just had one.

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Interplay held the copyrights for the D2 tracks, and I believe those are no longer valid. Parallax did not hold the copyright to the Redbook music nor did they actually own the trademarks on the box and manual designs. ;) In fact, Interplay actually owned the entire thing...EXCEPT...Parallax STILL h...

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Bleh, double post.

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*Stomps on the browser wars topic before it gets otu of hand. BACK! BACK I SAY! There..moving on.... Shader stuff is something I'm learning about now, but in DirectX's HLSL. Question for you Diedel, do you work in MSVC6 because that's what you prefer, or is that the latest you can get D2X-W32 to com...

Valin Halcyon

Just move to Mexico like me and DL to your heart's content. Mexico has NO digital copyright law, and would point and laugh at the RIAA. They'd be stopped at the border in the ISP's network. The only case where Mexico would care, is if you burned the stuff to CD to resell on the black market...which ...

Valin Halcyon

They fire off once, triggering something like a matcen only one time (3 robots). A normal trigger fires a matcen off every time you go through the triggering cube...quickly filling a room with bots.

Valin Halcyon

You know I would not have originally said a word if the "Go to the web site" link on the GameSpy splash screen, ACTUALLY WORKED. I spent about 2 hours that night, in little chunks of 15 minutes clicking on that link, only to get surved up with another splash screen in my face. Quoted for ...

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I got the same effect in windowed mode. Switching while in windowed mode has no effect.

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