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The Sith engine is too different, I think, and would require another project/engine.
Jon`C already started that. The project was abandoned.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sith2/

Many cheats are in the form of simple mods now. Changing values in text and config files, etc.

Is performance really a concern? I can't imagine any DF level in existence providing any problem in terms of rendering speed. Even if you were rendering all of it.

You died. I really need to get the proper death sequence in. Razz

Oh, hah, I didn't even notice.

Even on hard I am finding DF VERY easy. I don't know if the AI isn't done or it's because mouselook i ...

I still got a hung note on Talay. I also noticed various collision issues, especially on 3DOs. I walked on a moving bridge and got stuck. The bridge disappeared. Also had collision problems in and aro ...

SourceForge sucks, stick with Codeplex or Google code.

Haha wow, I'm with Jon`C on this one. Maybe you should let someone else make the launcher. Wink

Looks like a formal or ceremonial uniform.

He could easily be 30.

Kyle just came out of the Imperial academy. He should be in his 20s. The artwork makes him look like he's in his 50s. Just reduce the wrinkles and everything will be fine.
Yep, agreed.

Wait, can a concussion blast be split between high and low targets by autoaim?

It seems to act just like any other explosive projectile except that sprites are made on each target. DF's autoaim is where the mystery comes from.

WOW, fantastic! You should think about porting it to Jedi Knight, too. Shred18 in the JK community knows a thing or two about that. Not too hard with the 3DO export script for 3dsmax.

Has anyone given thought to working towards establishing knowledge of DarkXL outside of this community? The Dark Forces series always had a small community compared to its counterparts such as Doom an ...

Here's the thing; This is LUCIUS' project, and ultimately his decision whether he wants to open it up to the public.
I never thought otherwise.

I'm getting a little tired of this notion that we ar ...

Making a project open does not automatically generate worthwhile contributions.
Absolutely, but it's better than nothing. I can say I'd at least try to contribute before I got bored of it. Something ...

Not to be a smartass but I recall mentioning something about projects lead by a single individual, stagnation over time and the need for open source...

You guys realize how huge of requests these are, right? Lucius already works on DaggerXL, DarkXL (less and less) and I assume has a full-time job. It's not trivial to just "add games."
Appa ...

You guys realize how huge of requests these are, right? Lucius already works on DaggerXL, DarkXL (less and less) and I assume has a full-time job. It's not trivial to just "add games."

I STRONGLY recommend you learn to use JED and become familiar with its features, especially its grid snapping. It's extraordinarily powerful. A while ago Jon`C demonstrated his own editor on the Massa ...

Just to be clear, the reason that the screenshots are compressed is because when you hit the screenshot key in DarkXL it saves a jpeg.
Oh okay. I thought you were taking them yourself.

Protip: Use lossless compression for UI images. PNG works best.

So my new occlusion system relies on raycasts in order to determine whether part of a portal visible through the current portal can possibly be visible.
Shocked

No, motion has nothing to do with it. I've heard that many times over the years, and it's a cop out. The radii are fine, it's the intensity that is too much. The effect itself looks great, but the usa ...

Perhaps it wouldn't seem to be out of the question to have different reticules for each different weapon.
feature creeeeeeeeep!

I'm just using the constructor of the Bitmap class that takes an IntPtr to the bitmap data. I'm not entirely concerned about speed since any modern computer could tear through hundreds of conversions ...

Woot, I added BM support. I can convert BMs to any format supported by System.Drawing.Bitmap. That includes BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and others.

Here are the ones I've made. Pretty much standard variants. They're 32x32, 32-bit PNGs. You can download them http://etc.mattolenik.net/darkxl/circle-dot-crosshair.png

http://etc.mattolenik.net/dar ...

Wouldn't hurt to take a look.

Didn't you write them in VB though? :barf:

I've started work on a .NET library for working with DF file formats. The goal is to make it easier to write tools that manipulate these files, especially the binary formats.

Thanks to DarkXL, the ...

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Topic: Beta Update and a Surprise
Emon Replies: 28 Views: 8290	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Dec 23, 2010 18:49 Subject: Beta Update and a Surprise
Emon Replies: 28 Views: 8290	The Sith engine is too different, I think, and would require another project/engine. Jon`C already started that. The project was abandoned. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sith2/
Topic: Build 9.01 Released
Emon Replies: 72 Views: 18912	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Feb 22, 2010 00:52 Subject: Build 9.01 Released
Emon Replies: 72 Views: 18912	Many cheats are in the form of simple mods now. Changing values in text and config files, etc.
Topic: Rendering Issues
Emon Replies: 9 Views: 2752	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Feb 14, 2010 21:07 Subject: Rendering Issues
Emon Replies: 9 Views: 2752	Is performance really a concern? I can't imagine any DF level in existence providing any problem in terms of rendering speed. Even if you were rendering all of it.
Topic: Build 9.0 Released
Emon Replies: 54 Views: 16377	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Feb 14, 2010 00:43 Subject: Build 9.0 Released
Emon Replies: 54 Views: 16377	You died. I really need to get the proper death sequence in. Oh, hah, I didn't even notice. Even on hard I am finding DF VERY easy. I don't know if the AI isn't done or it's because mouselook i ...
Topic: Build 9.0 Released
Emon Replies: 54 Views: 16377	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Feb 13, 2010 09:17 Subject: Build 9.0 Released
Emon Replies: 54 Views: 16377	I still got a hung note on Talay. I also noticed various collision issues, especially on 3DOs. I walked on a moving bridge and got stuck. The bridge disappeared. Also had collision problems in and aro ...
Topic: DarkXL Source Code
Emon Replies: 7 Views: 3154	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Jan 31, 2010 08:21 Subject: DarkXL Source Code
Emon Replies: 7 Views: 3154	SourceForge sucks, stick with Codeplex or Google code.
Topic: Still not dead.
Emon Replies: 54 Views: 14017	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Jan 11, 2010 08:02 Subject: Still not dead.
Emon Replies: 54 Views: 14017	Haha wow, I'm with Jon`C on this one. Maybe you should let someone else make the launcher.
Topic: Contribution request: Kyle wax.
Emon Replies: 101 Views: 44316	Forum: DarkXL General Discussion Posted: Nov 03, 2009 18:53 Subject: Contribution request: Kyle wax.
Emon Replies: 101 Views: 44316	Looks like a formal or ceremonial uniform.
Topic: Contribution request: Kyle wax.
Emon Replies: 101 Views: 44316	Forum: DarkXL General Discussion Posted: Oct 23, 2009 04:32 Subject: Contribution request: Kyle wax.
Emon Replies: 101 Views: 44316	He could easily be 30.
Topic: Contribution request: Kyle wax.
Emon Replies: 101 Views: 44316	Forum: DarkXL General Discussion Posted: Oct 22, 2009 19:59 Subject: Contribution request: Kyle wax.
Emon Replies: 101 Views: 44316	Kyle just came out of the Imperial academy. He should be in his 20s. The artwork makes him look like he's in his 50s. Just reduce the wrinkles and everything will be fine. Yep, agreed.
Topic: Concussion Rifle's Targeting System
Emon Replies: 15 Views: 8350	Forum: DarkXL General Discussion Posted: Oct 22, 2009 00:07 Subject: Concussion Rifle's Targeting System
Emon Replies: 15 Views: 8350	Wait, can a concussion blast be split between high and low targets by autoaim?
Topic: Concussion Rifle's Targeting System
Emon Replies: 15 Views: 8350	Forum: DarkXL General Discussion Posted: Oct 21, 2009 22:30 Subject: Concussion Rifle's Targeting System
Emon Replies: 15 Views: 8350	It seems to act just like any other explosive projectile except that sprites are made on each target. DF's autoaim is where the mystery comes from.
Topic: Contribution request: Kyle wax.
Emon Replies: 101 Views: 44316	Forum: DarkXL General Discussion Posted: Oct 16, 2009 02:54 Subject: Contribution request: Kyle wax.
Emon Replies: 101 Views: 44316	WOW, fantastic! You should think about porting it to Jedi Knight, too. Shred18 in the JK community knows a thing or two about that. Not too hard with the 3DO export script for 3dsmax.
Topic: PR campaign
Emon Replies: 24 Views: 12501	Forum: DarkXL General Discussion Posted: Sep 01, 2009 19:21 Subject: PR campaign
Emon Replies: 24 Views: 12501	Has anyone given thought to working towards establishing knowledge of DarkXL outside of this community? The Dark Forces series always had a small community compared to its counterparts such as Doom an ...
Topic: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Aug 26, 2009 01:59 Subject: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Here's the thing; This is LUCIUS' project, and ultimately his decision whether he wants to open it up to the public. I never thought otherwise. I'm getting a little tired of this notion that we ar ...
Topic: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Aug 25, 2009 20:53 Subject: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Making a project open does not automatically generate worthwhile contributions. Absolutely, but it's better than nothing. I can say I'd at least try to contribute before I got bored of it. Something ...
Topic: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Aug 25, 2009 14:23 Subject: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Not to be a smartass but I recall mentioning something about projects lead by a single individual, stagnation over time and the need for open source...
Topic: PongXL: swamping with requests and the ethics thereof
Emon Replies: 18 Views: 6769	Forum: Feature Suggestions Posted: Jul 19, 2009 20:02 Subject: PongXL: swamping with requests and the ethics thereof
Emon Replies: 18 Views: 6769	You guys realize how huge of requests these are, right? Lucius already works on DaggerXL, DarkXL (less and less) and I assume has a full-time job. It's not trivial to just "add games." Appa ...
Topic: PongXL: swamping with requests and the ethics thereof
Emon Replies: 18 Views: 6769	Forum: Feature Suggestions Posted: Jul 18, 2009 18:23 Subject: PongXL: swamping with requests and the ethics thereof
Emon Replies: 18 Views: 6769	You guys realize how huge of requests these are, right? Lucius already works on DaggerXL, DarkXL (less and less) and I assume has a full-time job. It's not trivial to just "add games."
Topic: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: May 05, 2009 18:03 Subject: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	I STRONGLY recommend you learn to use JED and become familiar with its features, especially its grid snapping. It's extraordinarily powerful. A while ago Jon`C demonstrated his own editor on the Massa ...
Topic: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Apr 10, 2009 01:43 Subject: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Just to be clear, the reason that the screenshots are compressed is because when you hit the screenshot key in DarkXL it saves a jpeg. Oh okay. I thought you were taking them yourself.
Topic: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Apr 09, 2009 09:23 Subject: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Protip: Use lossless compression for UI images. PNG works best.
Topic: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Apr 02, 2009 15:42 Subject: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	So my new occlusion system relies on raycasts in order to determine whether part of a portal visible through the current portal can possibly be visible.
Topic: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	Forum: DarkXL News Posted: Mar 31, 2009 00:28 Subject: DarkXL Update 10 - Current near term plans for DarkXL.
Emon Replies: 450 Views: 108085	No, motion has nothing to do with it. I've heard that many times over the years, and it's a cop out. The radii are fine, it's the intensity that is too much. The effect itself looks great, but the usa ...
Topic: Reticle Images for DarkXL
Emon Replies: 42 Views: 22804	Forum: DarkXL General Discussion Posted: Mar 24, 2009 22:03 Subject: Reticle Images for DarkXL
Emon Replies: 42 Views: 22804	Perhaps it wouldn't seem to be out of the question to have different reticules for each different weapon. feature creeeeeeeeep!
Topic: .NET library for working with Dark Forces file formats
Emon Replies: 6 Views: 2555	Forum: Dark Forces Levels & Editing Posted: Mar 23, 2009 15:37 Subject: .NET library for working with Dark Forces file formats
Emon Replies: 6 Views: 2555	I'm just using the constructor of the Bitmap class that takes an IntPtr to the bitmap data. I'm not entirely concerned about speed since any modern computer could tear through hundreds of conversions ...
Topic: .NET library for working with Dark Forces file formats
Emon Replies: 6 Views: 2555	Forum: Dark Forces Levels & Editing Posted: Mar 20, 2009 11:54 Subject: .NET library for working with Dark Forces file formats
Emon Replies: 6 Views: 2555	Woot, I added BM support. I can convert BMs to any format supported by System.Drawing.Bitmap. That includes BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and others.
Topic: Reticle Images for DarkXL
Emon Replies: 42 Views: 22804	Forum: DarkXL General Discussion Posted: Mar 20, 2009 05:35 Subject: Reticle Images for DarkXL
Emon Replies: 42 Views: 22804	Here are the ones I've made. Pretty much standard variants. They're 32x32, 32-bit PNGs. You can download them http://etc.mattolenik.net/darkxl/circle-dot-crosshair.png http://etc.mattolenik.net/dar ...
Topic: .NET library for working with Dark Forces file formats
Emon Replies: 6 Views: 2555	Forum: Dark Forces Levels & Editing Posted: Mar 19, 2009 08:00 Subject: .NET library for working with Dark Forces file formats
Emon Replies: 6 Views: 2555	Wouldn't hurt to take a look. Didn't you write them in VB though? :barf:
Topic: .NET library for working with Dark Forces file formats
Emon Replies: 6 Views: 2555	Forum: Dark Forces Levels & Editing Posted: Mar 17, 2009 22:55 Subject: .NET library for working with Dark Forces file formats
Emon Replies: 6 Views: 2555	I've started work on a .NET library for working with DF file formats. The goal is to make it easier to write tools that manipulate these files, especially the binary formats. Thanks to DarkXL, the ...