DRD Team

1.- Can we get support for Voxels?

2.- Is there any way to implement coronas for torches, lamps and any other light source?

3.- Is it possible to combine 3D Transparent floor (water, lava, ...) with reflective surface, to build "reflective water surface"?

4.- Is there any way to implement a bloom kindy effect, or simulate it (using any scripting "cheat" or something)?

5.- I have rendered some high quality textures and skyboxes (PNG, 1280x1024 and 1024x768, 32Bit color), but when used in-game, textures change to the Doom palette. How can i make them to use the real colors?

6.- Can we get in a future version (if not now), support for Specular, Local and Difuse map for HR Textures?

7.- What program is recommended to modify Doom palette, under Windows? No answer XWE, Wintex or similar, please. I need the program to support Hexadecimal input values.

Ok, those questions are ok... for now.
Tomorrow maybe more
Thanks.

1 - no.
2 - Currently not. Unfortunately I don't know how to handle this properly
3 - no.
4 - What do you mean?
5 - Import them properly. XWE by default converts them to the Doom palette. You have to import them as raw data.
6 - I have no plans about this
7 - I'm sorry but I don't know of anything that might help you here.

Graf Zahl wrote:2 - Currently not. Unfortunately I don't know how to handle this properly

Is Doom Legacy source code useless for GzDoom implement Legacy effects?

Graf Zahl wrote:[...]
4 - What do you mean?

Bloom is the "shiny" effect produced over a surface, caused by strong incident lightning over.

For example:
(click to enlarge, 30Kb approx)
Original Image:


Bloom effect added:


Look the "shiny" arround the objects and the table. That shiny is "bloom".
Those images have too exagerated bloom, but i made them on this way to show bloom effect clearly.

Graf Zahl wrote:5 - Import them properly. XWE by default converts them to the Doom palette. You have to import them as raw data.

Ok, thanks for the tip.

Graf Zahl wrote:6 - I have no plans about this

Maybe you would think to offer support if someone makes a texture pack including all those textures and layers?

Graf Zahl wrote:7 - I'm sorry but I don't know of anything that might help you here.

Ok, i will keep looking for. Thanks anyway.

Salutes.

About 4 and 6: I seriously believe that such effects have no place in an old game like Doom. I think that should be reserved for modern engines that have built in functionality for it. In other words: Better don't expect anything in these areas.

Throw away that piece of crap XWE editor and use SLumpEd! http://slumped.mancubus.net/

Does SlumpEd have a quick search function? I couldn't find it. You know, the kind of thing where you start typing a lump name and the program jumps to the first item in the list that matches the characters that you have typed.

Personally, I really like XWE and it has never given me any problems. I do most of my lump editing with DeePsea though.

Yes, if you don't mind not having any feedback on what you're typing. Just type the lump name and SLumpEd will highlight it.

(I'd appreciate a visible text box though...)

Nash wrote:Throw away that piece of crap XWE editor and use SLumpEd! http://slumped.mancubus.net/

I never used other GUI WAD editor.
I used to XWadTools, but since DoomBuilder cant be emulated (Wine) under Linux, i have to resign to use Windows; and XWE offers me all i need: Import/ export entries, Decorate "editor", Simple Palette editor...

For ACS Compiling/DeCompiling, i prefer to use command line.
I'm an old school Linux user.

New technologies and tendences sux.

Salutes.

Alberto wrote:New technologies and tendences sux.

Says the guy who just asked for a whole bunch to be included in GZdoom.

BTW, I think this explains what bloom is all too often about in games:

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=224

Enjay wrote:

Alberto wrote:New technologies and tendences sux.

Says the guy who just asked for a whole bunch to be included in GZdoom.

I have no interest on Bloom. That is only curiosity.

That remembers me I need to go playing Pong all night on my Black&White 12'' TV.

Enjay wrote:BTW, I think this explains what bloom is all too often about in games:

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=224

Nice.