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Valin Halcyon

Spidey: I saw enough war for anyone in the former Yugoslavia. Also I doubt you'd give anyone that same advice if you yourself had seen what I have. Go fight the next war indeed...

Valin Halcyon

This is all rather amusing. The US HAD to know Obama would try his best to disarm your military. At any rate, the news media has you Americans so focused on terrorists and terrorism that you forget your traditional adversaries. Remember North Korea? I hope so. They're trying to become the next COMMU...

Valin Halcyon

If you've ever had carpal tunnel and the associated surgery, it's worth it's double weight in gold (It's not very heavy. xD ).

Valin Halcyon

I was a flat KBer back in the day...lemme thing if I can recall my config..hmm LSHIFT - forward keypad 0 - reverse keypad enter - slide down keypad + slide up space - secondary LALT - primary z - bomb drop a - afterburners s - ...was something. I can't recall. d - same deal as s...dammit! f - flares...

Valin Halcyon

Hmm..coldstart level...I guess it depends on difficulty level too, unless you mean at Insane in general. I'd say L11(Insane) is the hardest for me to coldstart. I can't survive the red hulks without some homers or smarts myself.

Valin Halcyon

Yes, the Ghost of Christmas Past or some such...

Nope, not a part of..whatever you said. Just a programmer. I work for CCP Games on EVE Online now.

As for Futurama, I could care less.

Valin Halcyon

You really need to try harder. Symbol replacement ciphers are ridiculously easy to solve. Took me about 30-40 minutes. Fourth word was my key: Keep out of reach of children under the age of five hundred. For best results, sacrifice a small mammal xanroc, then apply evenly to interior of eyeball. Wou...

Valin Halcyon

Well, if you're already that far along, sounds like you already have what I have, you just need to dig into the files a bit more. As for how the client/server application worked, I haven't a clue. All I remember is that when you'd go to connect, you'd click a link on their website, it'd then downloa...

Valin Halcyon

I'm somewhat at a loss as to how to setup a tracker with the tracker.pl file included with D2X-XL.

If it's as simple as adding the script to the default runlevel and starting it as a service, I'll feel like a moron.

Valin Halcyon

I have all of the Descent Online files and information. I also have a copy of the models, tablefile and ship performance data.

I keep meaning to checkout the D2X source from CVS and add multi-ship support, but it's a very low priority these days.

Valin Halcyon

FINALLY. D2X-XL works at last. I found a hackable version of 158.24, and hacked in my device id as supported by the driver. It installed, and it worked. It still will lock and crash at the pilot selection screen, but only 1 in every 5-7 starts at least now. Aside from that, with .217 of D2X-XL, it w...

Valin Halcyon

Driver updated, but for some odd reason it shows it to be OLDER than the one I had. In any case, it still does not work. Same problem.

Valin Halcyon

101.41 Is what I'm using. Newer versions caused many glitches. I'll DL and try that exact version though and see what happens.

UPDATE: 158.24 is not availible for laptop users. Closest is 158.18, close enough you think?

Valin Halcyon

I think you misunderstood me. The speed of the GX is not because it is the GX. It is because it was D1/2. The problem of scale comes with the need to measure speed by the length of the ship itself, refined even further by defining speed in the term of \"cockpit lengths per second\". Why ar...

Valin Halcyon

Cool info Halcyon. I don't suppose there is any chance of resurrecting that project? The powers that be aren't going to suddenly start co-operating I suppose. :( Not likely, not as we originally wanted at least. Perhaps someday I'll have time to get it back together and strip out the extra junk we'...

Valin Halcyon

Since it's been repeatedly proven that the design is aerodynamically sound... someone (with more dough than me) should build a life size Pyro. Probably use twin jet engines (like used on small planes and coptors) for propulsion. Still wouldn't have the up/down, left/right maneuverability, but would...

Valin Halcyon

Since it's been repeatedly proven that the design is aerodynamically sound... someone (with more dough than me) should build a life size Pyro. Probably use twin jet engines (like used on small planes and coptors) for propulsion. Still wouldn't have the up/down, left/right maneuverability, but would...

Valin Halcyon

When developing the scale for Descent IV, we in Orbital did a rather indepth study of scale and speed. I can't find the white paper at this exact moment, but we pretty much had all the numbers written out. First, a \"cube\" in D1/2 is not the same size as a \"cube\" in D3. a Cube...

Valin Halcyon

Ah yes! The infinitely useless Nvidia driver's tool! They don't support the GO series chips at ALL in their driver releases. I have to use a hacked inf file to use the latest drivers. Else the setup program simply tells me that there are no updates for my card. Nvidia wants you to get support for la...

Valin Halcyon

What driver version ARE you using?

Valin Halcyon

It's the same problem with any version of D2X-XL I can get my hands on, with or without d2x.ini. Laptop's video is GeForce 6150 GO, and I've tried drivers from several releases of this year. Using the absolute latest ones with any geforce 6 series updates in it is the only way I've managed to get pa...

Valin Halcyon

They're STILL working on this? Where's the in-game screenshots/trailers? It's been about 2-3 years since they announced themselves. N-Trap was a LOT quicker on the uptake for screens, information and videos.

Valin Halcyon

Thanks Aus, but unfortunately your link does not work. EDIT: Now using .216 and I got it past pilot selection once and into the new game dialog. As it switched dialogs, the D2X-XL window would go white and \"not respond\" for several seconds before it'd load the next dialog. I've tried to ...

Valin Halcyon

I've been trying to get it functioning under Vista, 32-bit. No luck. It just keeps right on crashing right at or after the pilot selection screen. Also, before my driver update, the movies played fine..now they stutter terribly. Running Vista 32 bit with all updates and latest sound/video drivers. C...

Valin Halcyon

You know..if it could be made to be a flying industrial center and launching platform, it could be used to build space structures in the atmosphere using conventional jet propulsion, and a lot less fuel to get it spaceborne once completed. You could even use them as something like a glider field is ...

Valin Halcyon

How exactly is it that you know what ass in a can tastes like? Erm..nm..don't answer.

Valin Halcyon

Just take a break, Diedel. You've worked really hard on D2X-XL, and the shadowing stuff has frustrated you. Rob told me last night that shadowing is very likely the HARDEST thing to get working in game programming, and not to be discouraged. I'm online now at home on my own PC, I will pickup for the...

Valin Halcyon

It's just that I don't think D2X-XL has a dedicated server command switch yet, so a host would have to be a player as well, which limits what you can host a \"server\" on. Thus, people aren't hosting games often at all. Best option is to start a game and invite others to join via Vortex or...

Valin Halcyon

LOL..Chris? He's too busy with Supreme Commander to help at all.

Rob might be of use, I'll ask him when I see him again. I might even get lucky and get him to do it for us...or at least explain it for you.

Valin Halcyon

I no longer have the tools to do so, Diedel. I actually don't remember how. :P The original OOF that went into the level is on my PC, but as it's currently offline and not on hand to scavenge the hard drive from, I can't get at it for awhile. I could get it to you later once my own machine is back o...

Valin Halcyon

Argh...which would be in your device manager under multimedia devices.

Valin Halcyon

erm..there *should* have been..if not, then you got a bad model. Go to pd.com and go into the D$ files section, you aught to find the modified apparition level I made with a polished D4GX in oof format, and I KNOW it has engine glow faces...they glow white.

Valin Halcyon

In the oof model, engine glows are usually a 3 vert face. If you get them flipped backwards..the engine plumes go through the ship and out the front instead. We got that glitch during the D4GX's development.

Valin Halcyon

Hmm..it seems that the unifieds are only for the newer family of sidew3inder devices..and the 3dpro is not \"certified\" as XP compatible.

Perhaps Diedel can add native sidewinder support to D2X-XL with THIS?

Valin Halcyon

Wait a second...you have it setup in WINDOWS as a thrustmaster? Go get the unified sidewinder drivers and reinstall your joystick. If that's the problem, that WILL fix the issue.

Valin Halcyon

Oh, the pof and oof formats use some faces in the model format as gunpoints and engine glows etc...certain you're not trying to render these \"hidden\" faces and that's causing the problem?

Valin Halcyon

Glad you found a possible solution. I figured it'd be either setup a bit of a hack to use the existing mesh data with volumetric shadows, or use shadow maps. It's likely you'll find some of the similar issues with the D4 GX, as I told you yesterday, it wasn't really a final version and contained sev...

Valin Halcyon

The parallel port won't affect the sw3dpro. Go look over on planetdescent.com, Eskar, someone made gameport to USB adaptors for the sw3dpro that will solve your problem and you can use the stick natively. I think they cost just like $15 or something like that.

Valin Halcyon

As I said in my dbb message, I will take a look at the code later today, Deidel. Shadowing is too good to give up.

Valin Halcyon

Thanks! I found my old castle's instructions and sent the link on to my brothers (15 and 16) who have all my old legos. Maybe they'll have a bit of fun trying to see if all the bits are still there to build it.

http://www.peeron.com/scans/6080-1/24

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