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Edward's idea sounds cool to me. I'm not sure if it can be done though. I don' know if the screen can be split when the card is in opengl mode. (but it is definitely possible at desktop mode)

Imho this kinda thing really fits descent 1/2, but it would ask a lot from the 3D card...4 screens yay:)

I ...

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.42: Flickering artifact at energy center fixed

Level complete screen, purple font still distorted, which happens at level 1 & 2 (confirmed) so probably at any end level screen.

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Dito Ferno's post.

Energycenter on level 1, go there, you might see some orange flickering artifacts like I did.

Endscreen level 1, possibly other levels too:
somewhat corrupted (distorted, garbled) purple font-texture...same font in other color (gray) were ok.
I have not double checked this yet ...

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Just wondering.

Is it possible to do better lightning for the weapons? I find that the current system is not quite accurate.

This comes obvious when flying backwards while shooting lasers. You can see that de lightning follows the ship in a jerky way without any interpolation...(from not lit, to ...

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Well, as I think about it, I had disabled the shaders in one D2X-W32 versions, but re-enabled them in v1.4.35 as lightmapping didn't work properly w/o them in all cases.
The versions I have tried didn't suffer from very noticable performance-loss until 1.4.35. Possibly I haven't tried the ...

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Just letting you know that lightmapping has slowed down compared to the previous release. (Rendering that is, not calculating)

Not that I mind but it could come in handy finding bugs concerning lightmapping.

My card it a firegl t2 128MB (render card) I'm pretty sure this card is based on the ati ...

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D2_3DFX still looks and plays better at 60 FPS and doesn't aggrivate my epilepsy nearly as often as any other Exe I've used.
I experience the 3dfx version as more laid back and cleaner in a matter of graphics, not nicer per se, but I can't tell why. But D2X has more features I like, so I use D2X ...

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Diedle is apparently doing very well at keeping the documentation current. -and I do not think D2X-WIN is inherently all that hard to understand. It's just that, apparently, some of the finer aspects of using it must be hard to explain to lay people. -That's why you need a manual, not just ...

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I somewhat follow you Thankie. Some settings might be quite confusing to the 'novice' user of d2x. The original version had pretty straight forward options while Diedel's version is a lot more optimized and tweaked.

The default settings should do, though. They should give you the experience most ...

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ati firegl2 on this laptop, gf2 mx on my older pc...runs good though, and the colors/blending actually look better with the gf2mx.

Could be the firegl (render card)

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Nice feature in the new version. :)
Though wide screen mode has no reticle and reticle size varies per camera mode while it shouldn't (it should always be like it is when the reticle is shown in full screen)

When I saw the widescreen option I was wondering if there could not be anything done for ...

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Good to hear that D1 did not use FM synths for soundFX (some games do, think of stunts, lotus3)
I claimed that 'emulation was stupid'(lol you really should take that with a grain of salt, you know :) )

I thought it was encredibly useless to implement emulation code for a single sound effect in the ...

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Thanks for answering. Since it is optional to render the whole map I can live with it, I was just asking.

Thx for the minus key hint.

With soundblaster fm/effects he probably means that D1 used the soundblaster fm-chip to generate some sound effects. (note that i have not played d1, so I'm not ...

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I'll try to keep it short.:)
OpenGL reticle should not change size when switching to full cockpit.
The letterbox hud is still in d2x w32 but i can not set to this mode. Once I have pressed f3 i can only cycle between full screen and full cockpit. Actually it would be nice to cycle between:
full ...

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D2 W32 seems really near perfect to me know! All the "real" bugs (in single player...I don't do multiplayer) seem to be gone and it has probably all the features it should have.

I'll I can come up with are minor bugs now:
-deactivated forcefield still makes a sound. (allready submitted by someone ...

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Aus-RED-5 wrote:You made that video or did you extract it from Descent2? There is a program that can extract those clips. I should know.

Maybe you can just record them while they are playing in the game...not sure if it works though.

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I knew I couldn't post there. That's why I wondered where my bug report was...in the update notification section of course!

Sorry, I didn't meant to do that.

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I do know some vb.net and i used to keep me busy with quickbasic as a kid, tough...but programming in c seems a lot less organised compared to that...

Anyway in the first level at the starting position you should hit the door in front of you (see dos version)
This is only the case in regular view ...

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Hi again, I'll be less ennoying this time because...I solved the sound problem :)

I do not have any experience programming in c but I managed to compile your sources. First thing I thought was the audio buffer...I increased the audiobuffer to 1024: #define SOUND_BUFFER_SIZE 1024 in digi.c

768 ...

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yeah, looks good man.

Allthough its too bright compared to the real movie...actually it's too bright even independant of that...mind that...the model looks better while the original ambient of the movie is maintained, good job.

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Yeah, in my case right laser showed up very rarely...I noticed it showing up only once in the second level while turning.

Anyway, I'm off to test the new version on this computer to see if 22k sound is ok with an sb live.

Thanks in advance.

edit: done testing. resulting hit when firing is still ...

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Coloured light flicker. Dynamic Lights is a term I got from the Doomsday Project. The term stands for any lights that are not static :wink: (vertex shading, pixel shading, this system probably too but I'm not that sure)

Actually there's a dead D2 source project from 2001 based on the Doomsday ...

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1.48:
flickering dynamic lights

Cockpit view, in real descent2 view is moved a bit back and slightly down (possibly the view might be title slightly up/down too), in d2x, I THINK slightly back only(it's like zoomin in and out when switching)

I could be that you are trying it to fix it on sight ...

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Another suggestion.
I know about the other renderer being disabled. To be honest, the current renderer may be sufficient for D2 lightning. Have you tried to decrease the saturation of the lightning colour.

lasers: Purple(not that saturated, same goes for white) lightning looks as good as it gets ...

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I've tried out the non opengl reticle. A partial red sprite with gray edges appeared a few pixels above the reticle when I fired the lasers.

This does noet always happen, it very hard to make it occur on purpose...I was able to make it happen by jumping directly to level 3 from the menu. When I try ...

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Hehe, the perspective had changed allright since the previous version...but it was not -exactly- like in descent II.

Now the reticle is ok I guess...but lol, have you noticed that you shoot from a different angle when you toggle between cockpit and normal view :)

This means, in the very beginning ...

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bolt is ok now.:)

cockpit not quite yet...the viewangle is not exactly like in the original game (screenshots between dos versus d2x cockpit view differ when i load the first level) and the crosshair doesn't change "height" (on the screen, dunno how this is processed in 3D...it's not just shifted ...

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see my previous post.

The purple bolt that flashes as you enter a level doesn't render when:
-the first level is being loaded (you start the game from the menu)
-you load a level from the menu using "enter a level to start from"

Otherwise the bolt IS rendered (when a level is being loaded after ...

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edit:whoops, small bug, when you enter first level in D2 a sound is played caused by a purple "bolt"...which is no longer rendered.

First movieframe prob is solved, cockpit is there, transparency effects look ok...

The viewangle should be altered when using the full cockpit. I noticed this when ...

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No, not at all, it's fine the way it is.

i meant despite that the transparency effect is simple, it makes things look more fancy and affects the gameplay in a positive way for me.

What I was trying to say that fancy pixelshaders aren't always needed for a better feel.

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You mentioned to fix the robotmovies. That's just great. I didn't dare to ask, since I though it might be hard to fix it.

The transparent effects look great in their simplicity, I love it. Thanks!

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Yep, I had allready noticed.
Midi is ok now. Works like a charm...even robot movies work!

Robot movie position only ok at 640*480 but really, I can live with that for now; I'll just play at 640*480 with anti-aliasing on.

Again, one step closer to the original D2 gameplay, thanks a lot :)

Just a ...

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Thanks for the reply, both.

About the midi...when midi volume is changed ingame, and you return the the level, it is no longer the leveltune playing. That one should resumed then.

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I was wondering if you could implement transparent explosions like in the 3dfx version.

For some reason it really has this great feel to it imho.

btw, another bug...when midi is at minimum volume, then back at a not zero volume, playback is restarted instead of resumed.
This probably causes the ...

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