UT99 SDK

Shadow · Post **Posted:** 18 Nov 2007, 12:21

I thought it would be good to start over a new thread for my SDK beginning with already common information and.. some news as an overview.

Name: UT99 Software Development Kit
Authors: Shadow (nearly everything), Moonangel (additional renderer assistance), Creavion (overall help, suggestions, some testing)
Release: January/February 2008
Official Moddb Site: http://www.moddb.com/mods/9974/ut99-extension-pack
Demo/Preview:yes
Expected Filesize: ~ 100 MB

Content (not Features):

Requirements (min/max):

Overall Progress: 67 %

Pictures: click

Actually I can't give a proper full feature list because the features are changing nearly every day (one gots senseless and implemented in other classes, one changes it's name, one changes it's functionality, one gots completely deleted..)

The SDK will always be shipped with the Core Files AND the Content Files, There might be a version without the Content Files (for Modem Users, ~ 20 MB) but than you'll have the blank SDK without Content and Examples.

You'll get a complete Pack for improving UT and developing fresh stuff, maps and mods on the old UT for free. It has many maps to play around with, tons of new graphics stuff, all creatures with new graphic extensions and AI, a detailed documentation and so on..

Well I'm open for every suggestion you have for the Final Version, any advice for new features? What was bad on the features/content in the Beta? Any bugs you recognized I didn't? ..

GTD-Carthage · Post **Posted:** 20 Dec 2007, 11:14

Do you have any Distance Fog actor?

wael · Post **Posted:** 20 Dec 2007, 11:55

Looks good, be sure to release betas for us eager mappers.
@GTD
If you want to use distance fog there's raven's distance fog hax of d3d and opengl.

Post **Posted:** 20 Dec 2007, 14:22

Beta as UT or Unreal beta?

Post **Posted:** 20 Dec 2007, 15:38

Betas of this pack.

Post **Posted:** 20 Dec 2007, 15:53

Ah lol, me stupid, I didn't read the whole post anyway.

Shadow · Post **Posted:** 20 Dec 2007, 18:21

GTD-Carthage wrote:Do you have any Distance Fog actor?

umm yes.. we had distance fog since 2 years with LSoNP.. now it'll be bundled inside the SDK

Wail · Post **Posted:** 26 Dec 2007, 16:07

Definitely looking forward to this for the next version of Marathon: Resurrection.

Shadow · Post **Posted:** 26 Dec 2007, 20:28

Wail wrote:Definitely looking forward to this for the next version of Marathon: Resurrection.

so you're in the team of M:R ? didn't know about that before.. I just wrote a comment relating my offer to help M:R with my Extension pack. Maybe I'll try to contact Tycho via mail and do it in a more official way.

Wail · Post **Posted:** 26 Dec 2007, 20:47

Shadow wrote:
Wail wrote:Definitely looking forward to this for the next version of Marathon: Resurrection.

so you're in the team of M:R ? didn't know about that before.. I just wrote a comment relating my offer to help M:R with my Extension pack. Maybe I'll try to contact Tycho via mail and do it in a more official way.

Yup. He mentioned your post on ModDB to me last night, although I've actually been awaiting the release of this SDK for awhile now. I remember getting the beta off of the old UnrealSP forums and being pretty excited at the prospects these features could do for improving MR.

Shadow · Post **Posted:** 26 Dec 2007, 21:44

great! well I contacted your leader Tycho and I hope he'll acknowledge my offer as you did here and at IRC, maybe a customized version adapted on M:R wouldn't be that wrong^^

Shadow · Post **Posted:** 10 Jan 2008, 00:13

*small update*

I just thought about showing what I'm working on now (well already finished 2 days ago)...
I finally managed to get dynamic Sprites working. Sprites that have stretchable U/V Size, Tiling, Panning, AutoPanning, Combiners, Dynamic Color and Blending and so on... That also means much better particles. Imagine fireparticles fading from one color to another or particles whose VScale is increasing stretching it into the height or particles that have a combiner applied on multiplying output color to appear more brighten..

Here are some examples with descriptions..

UScaling

Used Base Texture

Modifier Properties:
- UStretching
- Cyan Color
- Translucent Blending

Result:

VScaling

Used Base Texture

Modifier Properties:
- VStretching
- Cyan Color
- Translucent Blending

Result:

Relative Tiling

Used Base Texture

Modifier Properties:
- Relative 4x4 Tiling
- Cyan Color
- Translucent Blending

Result:

U Tiling

Used Base Texture

Modifier Properties:
- UTiling 1x4
- Cyan Color
- Translucent Blending

Result:

V Tiling

Used Base Texture

Modifier Properties:
- VTiling 1x4
- Cyan Color
- Translucent Blending

Result:

U Panning

Used Base Texture

Modifier Properties:
- Static UPan (U +- 64 to move it partially to the left/right)
- Cyan Color
- Translucent Blending

Result:

Instead of just placing it to the left/right it can actually move automaticly to the left right in a loop or switching between left/right using AutoUPan.

V Panning

Used Base Texture

Modifier Properties:
- Static VPan (V +64 to move it slightly upwards )
- Cyan Color
- Translucent Blending

Result:

Instead of just placing it up/downwards it can actually move automaticly up/downwards in a loop or switching between up/down using AutoVPan.

Simple Combiner

Used Base Texture

Modifier Properties:
- Texture Color

Used Combiner

Modifier Properties:
- Texture Color
- Modulated Blending

Result:

The base material is now a stone texture with no blending. The combiner is now the test texture with a modulated blending. It brightens up the stone texture and only the black part (the text) is completely overlaying.

Auto VPanning Variant 1 (Texture Based)

Used Base Texture

Modifier Properties:
- Texture Color

Used Combiner

Modifier Properties:
- Texture Based VPanning (Looped)
- Texture Color
- Modulated Blending

Result:

Auto VPanning Variant 2 (Texture Based)

Used Base Texture

Modifier Properties:
- Texture Color
- Translucent Blending

Used Combiner

Modifier Properties:
- Texture Based VPanning
- Texture Color
- Modulated Blending

Result:

Other blending.. other result, here the panning texture only affects the black part of the texture, because the base texture is translucent and the text is black thus this part is completely translucent only letting through the combiner where the text stands.

Complex Combiner

Used Base Texture

Modifier Properties:
- Texture Color

Used Combiner (1) Specularity

Modifier Properties:
- Texture Color
- Modulated Blending

Used Combiner (2) AutoUPan

Modifier Properties:
- UPanning (Looped)
- Texture Color
- Translucent Blending

Used Combiner (3) AutoVPan (Texture based)

Modifier Properties:
- VPanning (Looped)
- Texture Color
- Translucent Blending

Result:

This is an example of a complex combiner sprite. As base texture the stone texture was used again. The first combiner is a specularity map making the sprite appear shiny and more brighten on certain areas defined through the specularity map. The second combiner is self UPanning red texture. It pans from left to right. The third combiner is the already seen VPan texture. As the panning combiners move the specularity map is influenced by them making the final sprite appear bright and shiny when the panning allows to let brighter color shine through.

I was also working on finally getting RenderToTexture working. The result of the partially successful work was a ManagerClass that is able to render a scene on a sprite, corona or the screen using an Advanced Portal Function and a custom "camera" class.
However this is unfortunatly not full RenderToTexture maybe I'm going to hardcode this feature for my D3D8 and OpenGL Drivers thus rendering a scene directly on a texture to allow monitors or something on BSP and not on sprites, screens and coronas only.

Continuing work on hardcoded features starts after finishing UScript-side visual features, physics features and gameplay/ai features. I'm looking forward on implementing real RenderToTexture (as described above), Texture-based Shaders (rather than using Combiners/Overlayers), real Texture Projection and maybe Dynamic Shadows (using RenderToTexture/Projectors then or StencilBuffer), but that's all still utopic.. It is possible of course, but me alone working on this makes it hard to implement... I hope to make it available both for D3D8 and OpenGL Drivers.

Overall progress of the pack is just fine. The UScript-side Visual Features are nearing completion (just need to rewrite the ParticleSystem, improving WeaponCombiners, improving/testing Vegetation Generators). Physics Features are progressing well, still much to do on AI/Gameplay Features and the hardcoded Extensions.

Frieza · Post **Posted:** 10 Jan 2008, 00:52

Holy shit that's awesome

GTD-Carthage · Post **Posted:** 10 Jan 2008, 04:18

That specularity thing is the shiznit! :0 :tup:

XepptizZ · Post **Posted:** 10 Jan 2008, 05:09

Aaaaaah, they were sprites

, now I know what the fuss is about. With that in regard...Awesome! This will do miracles for weaponFX

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