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Your tech... would you consider offering it up to RD?Enigma wrote:Personally I'd rather see the BfNP maps released in all their originally envisioned glory using the tech I started developing, rather than being cut down, but obviously the mappers in question should have the final say.
I didn't mean to sound condescending / dismissive... sorry if that's how it sounded. I wouldn't dream of undervaluing such nifty code!Enigma wrote:In principle I don't mind offering the "my tech" (if that's what we're going to call it)
Hi Enigma, glad to hear from you. This would depend entirely on Raven (our current RD coder) and how this content might compare to the content already done (there's quite a lot of engine expansions for RD already and the poor guy is wearing himself thin with the amount of stuff he's cramming into it allEnigma wrote:In principle I don't mind offering the "my tech" (if that's what we're going to call it) to RD, but there is considerable work required to complete any of it to a useable state so available time and any deadlines for RD are a factor. The various bits of tech I was thinking about were the renderer, the node/verts/size limit work and the improved bsp generation I touched on briefly.
Everytime I speak to him he's got something else added to the game, like just today we have a functional method to build level out of solids only in UED that matches the one in UT3's editor). The best way to see about this would be to get Raven a version of your renderer for BFNP and everything else, if that's fine, just so he can see for himself the differences and what we could use/finish from the BFNP side. I'll turn him on to the thread.It's not dumb ideaHellscrag wrote:Prophet - It seems that the obvious thing to do next is for me to get all this content to you somehow, so that you can check it all out. I would suggest the team FTP, but IIRC you can't access that.
There are file size issues. Uncompressed, I have about 205MB of maps, 591MB of textures and 95MB of music. Surprised
Perhaps I should post you a CD, lol...
EDIT: Actually, that's not such a dumb idea...
, though I think we could hear from a few more people before we see about getting it all to me. I could at least take a look at the stuff approved already, such as your maps for instance. In particular the coastal fortress is something I'd be curious to see (as I've never actually seen it beyond a screenshot or two). That would be a smaller sized load that you could upload or email to me even. I'd even suggest an irc session some day this week where we could transer files. I do not have access to the old-FTP. 
It's a bit early to expect answers to that don't you think? Give the guys an opportunity to actually see what's available first.diamond wrote:Looks like Prophet is about to adapt RD storyline to engage new maps. Can you and Scrag make RD storyline intersecting with BfNP? Doing so you can save maps for BfNP without gifting them to RD completely.
There are some elaborate torches that could certainly be converted, but then they wouldn't cast the right kind of shadows. It's certainly an option and might help to some extent (but a lot of the nodes come from stuff that can't really be resolved satisfactorily with a mesh, whether that be for reasons of collision, clipping or lighting).diamond wrote:About Coastal Fortress and other maps with poly overrun - how many props can be converted to meshes? I suppose there are a lot of unreachable small stuff like lanterns and torches which are the first candidates for conversion. Even being small, such props might hold a substantial portion of nodes and polys.
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