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[lucius]

The 2D and 3D sound system is now "finished." The player makes the jumping/landing sounds, shooting (and hitting) make sounds, punching makes sounds (with hit and miss sounds), picking up items makes sounds, hitting/killing enemies, etc. This, of course, includes playing sounds from logic scripts. Also all the elevator sounds and pages are implemented.

In addition switches now change properly when hit.
Since I can't show screenshots of sounds, I instead put up shots of a switch changing and of various working elevators and doors since I didn't show off that functionality when it was complete.

Note that the screenshots are JPG. Unfortunately PhotoBucket seems to have resampled/compressed them so there are a little more compressed then I originally intended but still look decent. If you want better quality next time then I'll use compressed PNG but I wanted them to be small since their size seems to be an issue.

Like I said previously this is my last update before the alpha demo, see the main thread for a discussion about what will be in the demo.

Anyway here are the screenshots:







By the way this is a serious update, having nothing to do with the date

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[The MAZZTer]

APRIL FOOLS

Get a short video of it. Upload it to YouTube if you don't wanna care about encoding it etc. Last I checked Fraps has a free 30 second watermark version.

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[CoinCollector]

Oooh, yeah; a video would be really nice!

[The MAZZTer]

The switch in that screenshot isn't aligned.

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[klasodeth]

I dunno. Considering how close the alpha demo release appears to be, I'd rather wait a few days for the actual demo, than have the demo release get pushed back an extra day because lucius spent time recording and uploading video instead of programming.

[Darth Oosha]

I don't have a preference, but it might be a good idea to install fraps and get a youtube account anyway for future updates, if you don't already have both.

[lucius]

[lucius]

Ok I've decided to upload some videos to youtube. Some caveats before you watch:
1. I'm working on fine tuning the AI right now for the demo, it's temporarily broken. Enemies will die and leave weapons/ammo/items and occasionally speak alert phrases. This will be finished for the demo.
2. Fraps slowed my framerate down which causes the game to look slower then it really is. Yes the character appears to move too slow but it's much better when actually running the game.
3. There are various other issues that you may see but these are the very things I'm working on for the release. This includes the lack of weapon/camera movement while moving.
4. It's on youtube, so it's pretty low quality video. Later I'll look into uploading the higher quality Divx versions.

I would have prefered to wait for the demo, but there is enough of a desire for the videos so here it goes... just remember that the demo will be much better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fIjMeze2oQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY21dGyFe94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHpcCF8ZyPU

*New*
Higher quality videos, hosted right here at DF-21:
http://darkxl.df-21.net/Movies/DarkXL_PreAlpha_1.avi
http://darkxl.df-21.net/Movies/DarkXL_PreAlpha_2.avi
http://darkxl.df-21.net/Movies/DarkXL_PreAlpha_3.avi

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[BlazingPhoenix]

Yay for it being OpenGL. :p

[Fenwar]

Impressive.

[ZOmegaZ]

Most impressive.

[The MAZZTer]

Not bad. Physics need some work. Player seems to float instead of falling, moves a bit slowly, stops immediately instead of sliding to a stop. Needs head wave too, and enemy collision... and I don't think enemies are moving with the elevators... and do I see you collecting powerups that aren't there (maybe a different Z level?). Also no powerup flash. Elevators seem to move a bit slowly too... at least some of the doors did. Gun fires a bit late, enemy damage/death seems delayed.

But all these flaws only cement that it's real... and it's also a surprisingly short list actually. Good job!

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[lucius]

Thanks for the compliments.

[Ryuichi91]

I am seriously amazed at how this working out. keep up with the good work

[lucius]

I posted the original DivX version of the videos above along with the youtube versions. It's the exact same videos as before but much higher quality. All future videos will be in the higher quality (they're still only 10MB thanks to DivX). Later I'll make a new video of the AI in action

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[Burning Gundam]

Quick question: Are you still going to be using the windows sound mixer for midi playback or something completely different? I remember playing DF on mac and the music was fine. But when I played it on windows, the music seemed a bit hollow, like it was missing about half of what it really was.

I dunno, I think that's how I understand it.

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[lucius]

I will keep the midi-mixer layer seperate from the iMuse layer, which means I can use the Windows mixer at first but change it without effecting the iMuse code. I will be doing this right after the first demo is released.

Once midi is working through Windows, I will probably look into using TiMidi or some other software mixer to generate more faithful (better sounding) midi. I think I'll set it up so you can choose to use different midi players (Windows, software), so others can be added in the future.

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[Burning Gundam]

Cool. I must admit the lack of hi res textures and horrible sound kind of killed DF on windows for me. Fortunately that will all change in due time

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[Magic_Al]

This is very exciting.

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[The MAZZTer]

Windows' MIDI mixer doesn't handle DOS games. In fact Windows' native DOS emulator has very bad sound emulation. Most games won't even have sound.

There are third-party tools but they usually offer different choices for which MIDI mixer to use... not sure if it matters on the Windows platform (such choices usually only mean something on Linux). I imagine some use the Windows MIDI mixer and some just do the mixing work themselves.

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[Magic_Al]

[lucius]

[The MAZZTer]

You better have mp3/wav playback support too. Then we can drop one of the Dark Forces soundtracks (there's the CD tracks to the PSX version, for example).

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[Magic_Al]

[Emon]

I probably mentioned this already, but Lucius, you might considering using FMOD for the sound. It's very well written and easy to use. It provides support for nearly every sound format. It also does 3D sound, including occlusion I believe. Further, plugins can be written for it for anything that isn't supported, such as DF's VOC format.

[The MAZZTer]

[Burning Gundam]

There was also a cool unofficial soundtrack made by someone too. I think it's still available for download at the same site the DF for Jedi Academy is available. Cool stuff and I listen to it fairly frequently.

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[Tsophika]

The Playstation soundtrack is available right here on the forums.

Lundquist's unofficial score is still on the DFmod site. -Oops. Thanks Gez.

[Gez]