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Sirius

Well, apart from not being able to see much apart from the sky...

Sirius

Those were my thoughts as well... if you do it well enough, you can create a terrain out of polygons that looks reasonably realistic and can do a little more than a simple heightmap.

Edit - although you do have lighting to worry about still.

Sirius

It's not too bad, although I think the bump mapping could be reduced... it doesn't need to be quite THAT dramatic.

Sirius

Probably is still the most tight-assed forum on the planet. But you kind of get used to it. :]

Sirius

Some e-mail providers are faster than others... mine typically falls on the slower side.

Sirius

You're missing out dude.

Sirius

I found it funny how frequently they were reminding people to vote during the MTV video awards. (Yes, I was. Don't ask.) Complete with all these patriotic flag-colours everywhere, if I remember rightly. Are things in America really getting that bad these days, that people need to be reminded to figu...

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I'm sure most of us wouldn't mind just one game. It's been a few years.

Sirius

Firstly, it appears you need to have Vertigo installed on your system.

Secondly, you have to make sure the 'missions:' 'folder' under Preferences is pointing to your Descent 2 HOG file.

You will need to click 'Apply' then restart DLE-XP for the Vertigo option to become available.

Sirius

Being easy to use isn't inherently a bad thing, of course. Even decent level designers often shy away from tools like D3Edit because they're just so laborious. It'd probably be easier to build them in 3DS Max and import them than do every single polygon in D3Edit. But it shouldn't cater to the lowes...

Sirius

It shouldn't mean problems with collision detection unless your algorithm is dodgy.

It will mean more clutter though.

But hey, look at Descent 3 level 4... and that was 1999.

Edit: Plus, they were all alive once. You're not exactly adding to the load on memory... so it could be done.

Sirius

Works so far as my test indicates... managed to change the weapons of a couple of Vertigo bots just fine.

Sirius

Uhm... yes, custom strings can be used... but they only require some scripting, not special tools.

Sirius

Well, considering the only difference is some programming, I wouldn't be so sure. A total mod is quite a lot of work in itself; it just doesn't require the same area of expertise.

Sirius

Support the Infinite Abyss how? You mean the Vertigo expansion or...?

Sirius

Which doesn't really explain why you want DMB2.

DLE-XP does D1 levels as well.

Sirius

DMB2 will hardly do anything DLE-XP won't; there isn't too much reason to be using it.

The -one- thing I've found it supports that DLE-XP doesn't is floating-point move rates.

Sirius

Um... is there a 'you win'? Ever?

Sirius

Which is one of the reasons I'm hoping CD does go somewhere... duel mode would be nice.

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Of course, I could write a program in ANSI C in about ten minutes that would do precisely the same thing as the batch file, but people are wary of .exe files...

(DFW knows about afpatch.exe, and doesn't like it one bit... hehe...)

Sirius

Ah. Of course.

Sirius

Xena isn't around at the moment and won't be then either. She's coming down here in late November most likely, although she hasn't played Descent in quite a long time.

I will try to make it personally, although I need to get a proxy organised or I can't play in games.

Sirius

um... here's how to do it.

(lol)

Sirius

No Krom, it's "lol, yup".

Sirius

It is interesting, but regarding the Infinite Abyss collection they screwed it up a bit. I have that set, and it doesn't contain D1. It only contains the original D2, the Win95 version, the Vertigo expansion, and DMB2 version 2.3. The Definitive Collection, on the other hand, does contain D1. I'd gu...

Sirius

This might be quite fun actually.

Sirius

Hmm. First kills... interesting topic. I don't remember my first kill in D3, but I'm pretty sure it was in the first demo, and in Polaris. I don't remember my first kill in D2 either, but it was probably in Minerva when I was getting absolutely trashed. Unless (perhaps) I got an accidental kill in a...

Sirius

If you can find D1 out there, it should be possible to get it to work at least -marginally- using the D1x Win32 builds (version 1.43). That'll at least give you an idea of the gameplay and flow, even if the sounds suck or the joystick doesn't work. The main differences in D1 compared to D2 are - Bet...

Sirius

Haven't heard of those three missions, but they sound interesting... might have to try to find them when I have a little time for it. Top Gun: Means that the installation .bat won't work on your DOS shell. It apparently doesn't support some of the features the batch file has... You could crack it op...

Sirius

Yeah, that's not bad work at all. Not really 'high-polygon' these days, but still. Descent 2 has problems with them past a certain point, as I'm sure you are aware. :) Incidentally, my level 'Moss Clutch' (which is on Stealth's website... http://www.stealthshangar.com/hotspot.html ) also has a custo...

Sirius

Fusion pimp - Descent did once have a huge community. But it was a long time ago. I think you'd have to go back to about 1996, when Descent 2 was released, and Kali was probably at about its peak... there were literally hundreds of people playing at any one time then. I never really got to see any m...

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18 myself. Funny considering how long I've been around here, really. :) I don't consider maturity to be relative to other people of the age group... even if all 20-year-olds go tagging fences (which, thankfully, they don't), that would just mean all 20-year-olds are immature. In a way I agree with L...

Sirius

I'm glad she's female, or else you shouldn't be using that pronoun.

Sirius

Sites you have to pay for are often better than buying them physically... you don't get the filler songs on CDs if you don't want them, and you have more choice and cheaper prices than singles. Of course, when you live in New Zealand like I do you can't use them anyway since they don't take members ...

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Indeed... SD3 had some pretty neat graphics, and it was a 2D RPG running on the SNES, which had a 3.6 MHz processor if I remember...

Sirius

Uh... I assume he means HUD message kinda like 'Energy boosted to <number>' is.

To that, I can't say I know. I don't remember anything in the D3 SDK that dealt with multiplayer player names.

Sirius

Because it doesn't check for that Ace.

I would think it's quite rare you could have a red square completely obscured by a black square though...

Sirius

Wouldn't be too surprised.

Hope it's not too hard for you guys.

Sirius

If you want to use more tricky tools or make the script more efficient, it's also possible to edit the script source file by hand as long as you have a decent grip of C++.

Sirius

And now 19932, 157 squares... picked up an invincibility thing late in the game...

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