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by GSH
Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:04 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 Mod Playing
Topic: AI in instant and multiplayer query:
Replies: 12
Views: 7871

Re: AI in instant and multiplayer query:

Pilot mode for 1.3 IA games was yanked when IA maps were made race-agnostic. In 1.0-1.2, IA maps restricted the human and CPU races to whatever the mapmaker set. 1.3 allows any installed race to be selected for IA and CPU. There are AIPs for the 4 combinations of default races from the CPU's perspec...
by GSH
Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:46 pm
Forum: Forum News
Topic: Re-enabled registration via email
Replies: 0
Views: 7190

Re-enabled registration via email

I've re-enabled board registration requiring an email to be sent to the email address used when signing up, and clicking on a link in that. Previously, some of these emails seemed to never be sent. If there are problems like this again, please ping me via email. That email is on the bottom of the la...
by GSH
Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:57 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 Mod Making
Topic: is it possible for .dll to raise water levels on the fly?
Replies: 10
Views: 6320

Re: is it possible for .dll to raise water levels on the fly

BZ1/2 do not use path node based pathing, or navmeshes or anything "new." Instead it tries to dynamically divvy up the terrain into strips and do an A* on them. After significantly modifying pathing, should call calc cliffs or similar to cause the strips to be re-examined.

-- GSH
by GSH
Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:43 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 Mod Making
Topic: Video Tutorials?
Replies: 13
Views: 4714

Re: Video Tutorials?

There are a lot of BZ2 text tutorials out there. Not many video ones. That's partly because BZ2 predates youtube and similar.

-- GSH
by GSH
Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:36 pm
Forum: Off Topic Board
Topic: Re: [DELETED SPAMMER POST, not going to keep their title]
Replies: 9
Views: 4938

Re: paleo diet for vegetarians james dietz print

Don't respond to spammers trying to promote products/websites. Just ping an admin, preferably me about banning spammers. I've banned two such spammers in the last 24 hours. I have zero tolerance for such types, and will hand out bans for such things. The spammers seem to recognize that 'off topic' i...
by GSH
Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:11 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 Mod Making
Topic: is it possible for .dll to raise water levels on the fly?
Replies: 10
Views: 6320

Re: is it possible for .dll to raise water levels on the fly

DLLs can execute console commands just fine in 1.3. Look for this callback in ScriptUtils.h, which includes a sample bit of code: // Feeds a command to the command console, as if it'd been typed by the user. // // DLL authors - just sprintf_s your own strings to pass in, e.g. : // // char ExecCmd[25...
by GSH
Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:17 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 1.3 Public Betas Forum
Topic: Is there a cap on how many .ogg files can play at once?
Replies: 9
Views: 5543

Re: Is there a cap on how many .ogg files can play at once?

There are libraries of royalty free sound effects out there. That doesn't mean completely free -- sound designers usually pay once for the samples, then they can use them as many times as desired after that. Google around.

-- GSH
by GSH
Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:57 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 1.3 Public Betas Forum
Topic: Is there a cap on how many .ogg files can play at once?
Replies: 9
Views: 5543

Re: Is there a cap on how many .ogg files can play at once?

Carey only did music. He didn't do sfx. We outsourced that.

-- GSH
by GSH
Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:56 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 1.3 Public Betas Forum
Topic: Is there a cap on how many .ogg files can play at once?
Replies: 9
Views: 5543

Re: Is there a cap on how many .ogg files can play at once?

Nope. I did update the BZ2 audio system to DirectSound8 and added .ogg playback, but haven't had anything to do with the recordings of any sfx/music/whatever. Same w/ updating to DirectX9 gfx -- only code, nothing to do w/ any art creation.

-- GSH
by GSH
Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:43 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 Mod Making
Topic: Removing pilots on death instantly from the world?
Replies: 17
Views: 10828

Re: Removing pilots on death instantly from the world?

TJ - you know where to request bugs/features.

-- GSH
by GSH
Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:13 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 Mod Making
Topic: Removing pilots on death instantly from the world?
Replies: 17
Views: 10828

Re: Removing pilots on death instantly from the world?

Code has a 3 second delay on death for animations. Not adjustable, so far.

-- GSH
by GSH
Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:10 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 1.3 Public Betas Forum
Topic: Is there a cap on how many .ogg files can play at once?
Replies: 9
Views: 5543

Re: Is there a cap on how many .ogg files can play at once?

Limit is 8 simultaneous .ogg files being played. Also, stereo oggs don't really work as 3D sounds. Also, given the overhead of starting/stopping the ogg decompresser, I'd recommend that .ogg sounds played by BZ2 be at least 3-4 seconds long. Using .oggs for weapon firing sounds (e.g. the kachunk of ...
by GSH
Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:44 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 Mod Making
Topic: Optimizations (was la fae)
Replies: 18
Views: 9657

Re: La Fae (Warning: Many Images)

Local fog is 95+% GPU (graphics card) dependent. It's drawing a bunch of slices of a 3D texture, which leans very heavily on your GPU's fill rate. Basically, opaque things can be drawn faster with basically just a write, than transparent items, which require a read-modify-write cycle. What graphics ...
by GSH
Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:31 pm
Forum: Battlezone 2 Mod Making
Topic: Optimizations (was la fae)
Replies: 18
Views: 9657

Re: La Fae (Warning: Many Images)

Well, BZ2 (even pb5+) still does skinning on the CPU, not the GPU. Modern games use shaders to do more work on the GPU. So, throwing lots of verts thru the CPU on BZ2 isn't necessarily the best idea. Do test before releasing. 1.3pb6.1 has a bunch of optimizations to make skinning on the CPU a bit fa...
by GSH
Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:51 pm
Forum: Off Topic Board
Topic: Computer won't boot...
Replies: 14
Views: 7267

Re: Computer won't boot...

Chkdsk merely checks that the files on disk are where the table of contents say they are, and that the files don't overlap, and a few other basic sanity checks of the table of contents. It doesn't dig into the files to make sure they have valid contents at all. In other words, if bzone.exe was repla...