Scale normal Hud in HiRes

Raithe · Post by **Raithe** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:29

Just a minor nitpick here. The alternate hud does not display when the automap overlay is on, but it does scale. The default hud does show when the overlay is on, but it won't scale. Any chance of a consolidation here? I don't really care which, maybe both?

Great work by the way, Heck the OpenGL engine even runs on my voodoo3 & V5. That alone is pretty impressive for something that wasn't written 5 years ago.

(bloody stencil shading, per pixel, lens flaring HW T&L grumble grumble
Game Programmer
"Home PC's as powerful as old mainframes pushed to the max by our newest game!"
Gamer
"Why is that enemy running in circles?"
Game Programmer
"Umm..... Oh Look a Lens Flare!")

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:29

Raithe wrote: (bloody stencil shading, per pixel, lens flaring HW T&L grumble grumble
Game Programmer
"Home PC's as powerful as old mainframes pushed to the max by our newest game!"
Gamer
"Why is that enemy running in circles?"
Game Programmer
"Umm..... Oh Look a Lens Flare!")

Sad but true...

Snarboo · Post by **Snarboo** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:01

Very, very true. There are very few games that push a computer to its limits with good programming and amazing gameplay alone.

Raithe · Post by **Raithe** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:24

Yep but that's the way of tech people think about the latest harware advancements and how to use them, not if its needed. Invent a run of onboard AI chips, hire a good PR man and the next gen of games would tweak nothing but AI and graphics would come to a standstill, meh.

While I'm thinking of the Automap, would it be possible to have a flag in the menu where I could choose overlay only? Usually if I have it on and need it off; its because its in my way. Hence going through the full map is kinda odd. Or maybe just a seperate key bind for the overlay and full maps.

Just a curious aside, but why was it so hard to have midi support in the old dos ports? I've only found three that do. none zdoom compatible

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:31

Raithe wrote: Just a curious aside, but why was it so hard to have midi support in the old dos ports? I've only found three that do. none zdoom compatible

Dos had no system drivers to abstract such stuff. As a result the hardware had to be accessed directly and that's not something many people would like to do.

Raithe · Post by **Raithe** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 20:31

Yeah I know dos is all direct no drivers till the windows era, but... if they had the original source code for the sound, why not just re-use it?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 21:08

Doom's sound code was a copyrighted third party library that couldn't be released. That's why only the Linux source was released

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Scale normal Hud in HiRes

Scale normal Hud in HiRes

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