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Diedel

Good point, Pumo. :) The \"I dislike D2X-XL because of its extra features\" argument has been pulverized since I have introduced the nostalgia and pure2D styles - which also pulverize the \"it takes ages to turn off all the extra features\" counter argument, because it only takes...

Diedel

Ja, but I did shut up for a long time, and people kept getting at me, and it finally was enough. I also had no other place at that time. And finally is that mentality of just harrassing people for the fun of it so entirely alien to me that it is very hard to understand for me that there are people y...

Diedel

Alternative? Alternative to what? You're talking bullcrap. You can have plain vanilla Descent 2 with D2X-XL as well, and if at some corner there is a flaw, people just have to tell me, and it will be ironed out. D2X-XL has a history of thousands of changes, and lots and lots of them have been made d...

Diedel

Zico, you can stuff your dumb and arrogant comments up your ass. I would love to see D2X-Rebirth gone for three reasons: For the way you have spoken about me ( here is a reminder and here is a link to the entire chat log (*) ) For the way you declined my offer to help with D2X-W32, \"generously...

Diedel

Bubbalou, \"Other D2X projects will add hires texture support\"? Interesting to hear. And which would that be? There is only one coming to my mind, and to be honest: I will do everything I can to prevent stuff made for D2X-XL being ripped by that project, for two reasons: That project's ma...

Diedel

That sounds like a blessing for everybody.

Diedel

Thanks Sirius, that pretty much sums it up.

Diedel

Yes, it always was for everyone - for everyone using D2X-XL, because only D2X-XL allows to use hires textures. Of course you may be able use the textures elsewhere, but they were intended for D2X-XL, and Nova stated that when starting his project. So - apart from him being free to stay whereever he ...

Diedel

\"A means to an end of getting more publicity for a program I made\"? All I want is a really cool Descent mission including the (imvho) really cool stuff D2X-XL offers - for the benefit of the mission, not of D2X-XL. I wrote that - can't you read, or don't you want to read? D2X-XL is popul...

Diedel

Your speaking about D2X-XL levels being \"gimmick oriented\" shows how little you have understood both of D2X-XL's capabilities and of my post. All the features I have listed there are to serve one purpose: Create a dense, exciting atmosphere. They are means to an end, not the essence of a...

Diedel

I would like to play something like Boiling Point, just bigger and better, and not having been built by me. It's so nice to see something fresh. I for my part cannot see the old legacy rendered Descent mines anymore, nor the overly simplistic mission design. With D2X-XL you can determine what robots...

Diedel

That should be feasible, but I am aiming for something different: I would like to see a level set that really exploits all of D2X-XL's features, not a bunch of \"D2 in nutshell\" levels.

Diedel

I must admit that this thread looks like a competition to DarkFlameWolf's, and in some way it is, but not in a personal way. The idea to gather a team for building some great Descent levels is a good one (why didn't I have it myself? Oh, I didn't have time to think about something like that ...), bu...

Diedel

You can't have a lot of cool D2X-XL effects in standard D2 levels, including static smoke (smoke coming from the geometry), and imvho you are pulling a lot of potential in a lackluster direction. There's tons of legacy missions out there, but few D2X-XL missions, and D2X-XL offers so much. Instead o...

Diedel

So you're gonna make the 5000 and first standard D2 style level set with the same old textures. No colored lighting. No static smoke. No lightnings. No skyboxes. No hires custom textures. And and and. Dang boring legacy stuff. I think you can count the single player fans not using D2X-XL with a hand...

Diedel

Pumo, please please keep working on your big mission instead of stretching yourself over too many different projects. :) DFW, what wide audience do you want? Most people use D2X-XL for singleplayer these days anyway, and it's offering so much over D2. Sounds cool... I'd volunteer (albeit not at the ...

Diedel

So this is where CD has gone: From a professionally built cutting edge engine with cutting edge tools (for those who believed it) to a spare time project using a 2nd class budget game engine, where people get erectile about a D2'ish wallpaper while waiting for a pre-alpha tech demo. And Bubba gets c...

Diedel

What user name(s) did you use for your registration attempts? Are you sure the e-mails didn't go to your junk folder unnoticed? That's something that uses to happen with forum registration replies.

Diedel

Go register in the D2X-XL forum on www.descent2.de. We don't bite.

Diedel

Nova,

mind giving the transparent texture areas a black foreground?

Don't you think the official D2X-XL forum is a better place to post about D2X-XL specific stuff than here?

Diedel

Follow exactly the file and folder structure as laid out in the installation guide and be happy.

Diedel

Could not connect to smtp host : 10060 : A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. DEBUG MODE Line : 112 File : smtp.php I am getting this error the whole day...

Diedel

It would still be the same game. Look at what has been done already: New fx, new gfx, new models ... but still true to the original. A new engine would mainly mean perfect execution of these changes instead of some of my kludges, things like proper shadowing, nicer coronas, shader fx for water, and ...

Diedel

The wallpaper is available in my D2 site's downloads area in several resolutions (one is 1680x1050).

Diedel

Some people think that a game is in its exterior appearance, the graphics, but I don't. I think that what makes D2 D2 is its gameplay, and that is mainly made up of ship and weapon properties (physics): How fast is the ship, how does it accelerate, how is its handling (turn speeds), what are the eff...

Diedel

D2X-XL needs a new engine. :/

Diedel

Hafta say that my desktop looks friggin' awesome with that wallpaper.

Diedel

D2X-XL finally has its own, full blown, shiny forum!

If you are into D2X-XL, head over here and register: http://www.descent2.de/forum/index.php

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Zombie, I don't think Supersheep's reply is so bad. I'll translate it for you: ;) My OOF Tool is a crappily coded program I hardly understand myself anymore, written in an amateur programming language because that's all I could handle. I also simply don't have the time to help you a lot with it. Loo...

Diedel

Hm, I forgot to place that one. That was probably above LL in difficulty though, not that I remember LL *very* well any more. Actually Boiling Point is not that hard at all (it's not easy, but not impossibly hard to beat. I mean, I can beat it, and I am by far not the greatest Descent player around...

Diedel

Go finish your level. I want to play it.

Diedel

Zombie has used a brushed metal-effect texture with some blurred reflection over it for the barrels. Don't judge the models from the small images here - grab D2X-XL, load a level, type 'honestbob', select the weapon you want to view and press Shift+F5 to drop it. Switch to the gauss cannon and zoom ...

Diedel

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41858 I was wrong on the game though, just remembered it was an id title. The sprites do not look any richer than the models. They do not have a single extra detail the models don't. But it doesn't matter anyway - when Zombie is done with the weapon models, they w...

Diedel

The model looks already better than the low-res sprite.

Diedel

Oh yeah ... per pixel lighting ... bump maps ... keep dreamin' ... :roll: Well, Intel has shown a raytracing demo using newly developed code from a German egghead whom they took under contract right from Uni. It was running on a single CPU (multi-core of course, Penryn prototype me thinks) and they ...

Diedel

All D2X-XL hires sprites look better than the hires models in terms of shininess and details. But overall I still prefer the models far and wide. They look more authentic. The sprites are just *too* polished. They look unreal, they somehow don't fit in with the rest. And then they still give the imp...

Diedel

Hi Nova,

that's great news - WB! LOL, I had just written kind of an obituary in my worklog about you and the other texture makers that had quit.

What do you think about making some more doors?

Diedel

Imvho the \"D2X-XL\" should be bigger. Not because I think the program is so great, but simply because it would look better. It looks a little pathetic that way. Just compare with the D1 hires wallpaper remake. The \"Descent\" title is huge.

Diedel

Neat.

Diedel

Das sind doch alles an den Haaren herbeigezogene Scheiss-, Pardon, Scheinargumente. Man, I don't know where you have lived in Germany. If you compare crime numbers of the U.S. of A. to Germany, you will see a significant difference in favor of Germany. Btw, the \"Schützenvereine\" is the 2...

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