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HL2 took me forever because I played it on Hard the first time. Damn Combine; they're like roaches. Halo took me a week of non-stop playing just to beat because I chose to do so on Legendary. I recommend doing the following: trying to never get shot in HL2. Ever . Of course, the Reload Quicksave Gam...

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like the calls that start out with: "this call may be recorded". if you don't want to be recorded, you have the option of either telling them you don't want to be recorded or hanging up. A teacher on the other hand, can either tell the person recording they don't want to be recorded, end ...

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what i'm wondering is: what reason did that kid have to record the teacher's speech? and secretly no less. because last i checked, you are supposed to inform someone that they're being recorded. Says who? No one can (or should) make you do anything you don't want to do. To say otherwise means you'r...

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I'm apparently some kind of master at killing not just threads, but forums as well.

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Yes it can. We try to use non layered textures as we can to increase performance, but add layered textured where it is needed. Currently there are no 'playerclip' and 'nodraw' textures. zomgw00t! Arigatou! Yes you will be allowed to drop weapons for other players to pick up. Even in other multiplay...

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Ya. I guess it doesn't help that most of the questions are development-specific... :\\ But that's what counts to me, though. This isn't a suggestion thread, but I have one: if there are missiles in 4-packs, and the player can only fit 2 more of those missiles, then picking up that 4-pack should only...

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More questions. 1. Does Core Decision use Halo-like (Direct X) overlapping of textures: a base texture (the standard) and a detail texture that's rendered over it at a far smaller scale? 2. Does Core Decision use Halo-like draw-your-terrain (well, in this case, walls) texture method? 3. Are there 'p...

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Right : anything that which does not require permission to perform. These come from owning property; no property, no rights. By owning something, you are the highest authority on that something, with no one to ask but yourself. Privilege : anything that requires a permit, license, or any other form...

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Watch me find a way to get outside...
...and hear me complain when I find that the backside of everything is covered with damnable 'nodraw' textures.

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zbriggs wrote:The engine doesn't restrict your level size but your system resources do. You can't build a level larger than your system resources can handle.

Groovy; a great answer.

The news about there being an outdoors is kickass, too.

...Two other questions are still here.

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Another question. \"Free from BSP/CSG Limitations\". Since I asked in another other thread and saw no answer, I'll ask...again. Will there be map size limitations or could one build a level stretching to infinity? I'd assume from the quote from the engine specs picture that the answer is \...

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Why would detail textures be necessary with bump-mapping? Without bump mapping, the geometric grooves would be "flat" and without the detail map, the metal would just be plain grey or a mottled variation of it . (That is, unless they tripled the texture resolution) And I am not sure on th...

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A question about textures: While undoubtedly there will be bump-mapping, specular, and modern-day water, 1. do you use Halo-style (Direct X) overlapping of textures: a base texture (the standard) and a detail texture that's rendered over it at a far smaller scale? It was a pain in the fps department...

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In the vast pantheon of Descent 3 levels, only 1% have ever come close. :P Besides, if you are, you're probably overbuilding anyway. True. And while such limits like 3000 faces are tolerable, what I don't find tolerable is a grid or overall size limit. Some people may want to build very large but k...

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At the moment all I'm wondering is whether or not there are level development limits. Examples: you cannot have more than 200 separate faces for a designated room (Descent 3); you cannot have more than 3000 faces in a room total (Descent 3); cannot have more than 400 rooms (Descent 3); you cannot go...

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A couple of bugs I've noticed. 1. If there are around 95+ robots on screen, the game crashes without warning. This occurs when I blow up a robot that has 99 robots within. "Render Full Mine" being on/off has no effect on this. 2. After destroying a robot flagged as a boss that contains cop...

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My bosses do teleport, but not in the traditional boss sense, and they have free reign to go anywhere in the mine despite their size. Setting them to "Sniper" will cause them to follow you around the entire level. Relentlessly. Nothing like being silently stalked by multiple modified Alien...

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Ah, that fixed it. Thanks.

I prefer to not use defaults, though. I like D2X pixelated, not blurred, and such similar things. Keeps the original Descent 2 feel.

Eventually I'll glance at the .exe in Notepad to see how many command lines there actually are.

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Ah, not quite, yet. 1.4.87. Here's a picture. [image] Please do not quote the image. -automap1600x1200 -cockpit 3 -fps -fullscreen -gl_16bittextures -gl_alttexmerge -gl_reticle 0 -gl_stdtexmerge -hud 0 -ini d2x.ini -maxfps 60.0 -missiondir missions -pingstats -playermessages -pps 20 -msgcolorlevel 3...

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A note to D2 level designers: D2X-W32 now supports more than one boss robot per level, where you will have to kill all of them to end the level. Previously, the level was ended if you killed just one of them. I think that's a nice enhancement especially for coop geared missions. Toggle it in the ga...

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In 1.4.86 I am seeing broken textures. Doors are not textured as they should be, as are walls. Seems to mainly effect cube walls that have a second texture overlay on it, everything from lights to doors. In some cases the textures are improperly colored, like they were turned into static pixels. Che...

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I don't remember any. Not one.

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I said to add Option 4,

I wrote:Don't forget to do "Add Option" for the fourth option, otherwise the poll will just display three.

otherwise it wouldn't show up. I see only three options.

Given only three choices instead of the four we should have, I voted for #1.

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The organizational nutcase in me would vote for Option 4, then. Still, add the poll. Those that haven't made their posts here will undoubtedly vote in the poll, meaning far more responses. Either #1 or #4 would win with the most votes. Don't forget to do "Add Option" for the fourth option,...

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PNGs are awesome. I'd save everything in them if it wasn't for the fact that it takes up to a minute for my slow 2Ghz CPU to process a 1792x1344 image into PNG-24, so it's off to JPG 100% instead. Slight quality loss (viewable by doing an Equalize on the image) but oh well.

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KoolBear wrote:So a version of #3

Add a poll to this thread by editing your first post. Have there be three poll options: "Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3". I'm interested in seeing what the outcome of the vote by The People of the DescentBB is.

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1) Do nothing, allow all forums to lapse into chaos allow things to continue fine the way they are. ----- The E&C, I recall correctly, was opened up to what it is today because it had otherwise become a dead forum where people had discussed Descent [3] ethics to the point where it had become ab...

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I do.

E&C is tame in itself, disregarding any comparison to the rest of the political forums to the internet (except the hardcore censorship ones where you can't say anything except what is pre-approved). There is no need to hide it.

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$1 1913 = $1 1913
$1 1913 = $20 2005

Inflation = Brilliance

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