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  1. duzenko

    Oops, I hope commit 16666 opened no gateways to Hell

    1. demagogue

      demagogue

      If it didn't the first 15 times, I think it's okay for the 16th time.

    2. stgatilov

      stgatilov

      Committing the changes to TDM gameplay code is like playing with devil: one wrong step, and it takes your soul 😉

    3. duzenko

      duzenko

      @demagogue It's like - if the first 15 nuclear reactor experiments were successful, then it's safe from now on LOL

  2. duzenko

    Please, can we finally group the missions by year in the game menu?

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    2. Xolvix

      Xolvix

      You'd need to have that metadata present somewhere in the downloaded files or the mission database backend. Right now I don't think enough of that info is there, except maybe by guessing the date due to the age of the files in each missions's .pk4.

      Odds are if you want such info, best to use outside sources until/unless the in-game mission downloade is extended to somehow access the info in these links:

      https://www.thedarkmod.com/missions/

      https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Fan_Missions_for_The_Dark_Mod

       

    3. STiFU

      STiFU

      I'd love it!

    4. Geep

      Geep

      I like the idea of having a way to choose the sort order. Wouldn't mind sort-by-author too.

      As to the data, this looks like one of these cases where you could spend a week programming it for auto updates, or a couple of hours of manual entry. Probably only a dozen data points change per year thereafter.

  3. duzenko

    I vaguely recall someone recently complained about two-sided materials (curtains?) not getting lighting from both sides

    I just found a piece of code that's supposed to do just that

    Where was that discussed? (@nbohr1more?)

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    2. duzenko

      duzenko

      I don't understand

      Does it only work with inverted blue channel? Because there's another way to achieve it.

    3. kingsal

      kingsal

      Im not sure, like I said I didn't test this myself because it wasn't critical to my mission. @Spooksmight know more.

    4. stgatilov

      stgatilov

      Yes, it only works with negative Z channel, so it is incompatible with RGTC compression.

      So it requires forceHighQuality (i.e. disable texture compression) but was still broken. Supposedly, I fixed it for 2.10: https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=5862

  4. duzenko

    Do we want fur in TDM? Like https://duzenko.github.io/webgl/

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    2. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      I get 240fps which is monitor cap. Looks nice.

    3. duzenko

      duzenko

      My integrated graphics can barely do 60

    4. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      Well, integrated graphics...

  5. duzenko

    My Uber rating (as a passenger) is 4.71. Is there still hope or should I just kill myself? What's yours?

    1. Epifire

      Epifire

      That's outta 5 (highest possible) right? That doesn't sound terrible tbh. I've never ridden in any kind of taxi in my life but just from a quick search 4.6 is a sorta passenger average. So if that's true, you're .11 above average! :P

    2. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      I strive for closest to 0 as possible. I leave shits in the backseat, smoke, and drink and vomit all over the car.

      Make sexual passes at the driver whether they're male or female.

      Haven't been banned yet.

    3. Nort

      Nort

      I've always wondered if I'm expected to talk during taxi rides. The driver always attempts to make smalltalk with me, about some sporting event, and so I have to awkwardly tell him that I don't talk to strangers, and that I'm honestly just paying for professional transportation. I'm sorry, taxi drivers out there.

  6. duzenko

    Which should be the default?

    https://ibb.co/FbcCjP7

    image.png

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    2. Epifire

      Epifire

      I like how it stands out but I probably wouldn't do so at the expense of how choppy it makes the smooth menu/font elements. EDIT: This was me assuming the left one was getting a sharpening pass.

    3. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      Filtered looks better to me anyways. Though I like the old style pixels of the left image too, it looks out of place with the quality of the mod.

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      Right-hand side for sure.

  7. duzenko

    The final solution for low-end GPUs: 

    r_skibSubviews 1

r_skipInteractions 1

r_shadows 0

r_ambientMinLevel 0.6

    tdm_lg_interleave  0

    If you don't get 60 fps after this then either your CPU is really slow or it's a map bug

    EDIT. tdm_lg_interleave is probably not required since r_skibSubviews supersedes it.

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    2. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      r_shadows 1 ( stencil shadows ) is more CPU impacting than GPU impacting but it still relies on GPU "fillrate". Fillrate is really resolution sensitives so be careful with resolution and AA

    3. STiFU

      STiFU

      @nbohr1more those screens are amazing. Playstation 1 style TDM. 😄

    4. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      WOO!!! @duzenko just fixed the GUI scaling. Now you can set FBO resolution to 0.05 and still read the console, readables, lightgem, etc :)

  8. duzenko

    CPU benchmark time - compiling DarkRadiant (2nd run)

    i5 8600K 6C/6T@4.4GHz DDR4 2x2133MHz 9MB cache

    • Parallel builds: 1. 3:57
    • Parallel builds: 6 (default). 2:28

    r5 1600AF 6C/12T@3.3GHz DDR4 1x2666MHz 16 MB cache, temp folder on HDD

    • Parallel builds: 1. 5:05
    • Parallel builds: 4. 2:47
    • Parallel builds: 6. 2:55
    • Parallel builds: 12 (default). 2:57
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    2. jaxa

      jaxa

      You changed the RAM speed and now I must REEEEEE

      Well, you're probably not going to squeeze much more out of a Gen 1.5 Ryzen.

    3. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      Try your memory (if it can) at 2666Mhz, which should match the infinity fabric and get the best performance.

    4. duzenko

      duzenko

      My ram is mixed xmp and non-xmp and tends to hang the pc on high speeds

  9. duzenko

    After I added one more CVar today, we now have exactly 1,000 (one thousand) cvars in total

    This is an important landmark in the history of cvar creation 🤣

    Use the listCvars command in game console to check

    image.thumb.png.c12c7fe390418f2b40600dd4f5b28f23.png

    1. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      Please correct it to the more pleasing 1024

  10. duzenko

    R.I.P.

  11. duzenko

    Is there a console command to end the mission, won or lost?

    1. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      tdm_end_mission

  12. duzenko

    This weekend I've had a unique opportunity to compare not two, and not even three, but four 2-1 transformers

    • 2016 HP Spectre 13
    • 2017 HP Envy 15
    • 2019 Yoga 720-15
    • 2020 LG Gram 13

    Among other things I tested sustained 3D performance with TDM.

    TL;DR Intel Iris does not make sense in 15W chips (well, it did not on 14nm)

    image.thumb.png.f774ab153bc8792cab87c39ee40f23b7.png

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ujhtjCu477khi6LeeztGt_1sX2YC6LI-kUgk3lpLaMI/edit?usp=sharing

     

  13. duzenko

    I'm going dark

    Feel free to reassign all my tickets and delete unfinished work (multi-light shaders, x-ray view, etc) in trunk

    Special thanks to @nbohr1more and @stgatilov for putting up with my countless bugs and making great company

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    2. JackFarmer

      JackFarmer

      You've been of great help during testing of my first two releases.

      Thank you for your help and stay healthy!

      Jack

    3. stgatilov

      stgatilov

      Sad to hear.
      I hope you are OK, and it's just real life that needs attention.

      Thank you for working on the game!
      Despite my complaints, you have improved TDM a lot. Without you, rendering would have been near Doom 3 level still.

       

    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Duzhenko, whatever it is, I hope everything will go well for you. Thank you for all the hard work so far for the community. Come back anytime you'd want. As far as I'm concerned, the door will be always open and the light always on for you. Best wishes, P.

  14. duzenko

    Could you get back to @Bikerdude on steam? He could use some guidance with rotation hack in the shadowhide map

  15. duzenko

    Did you know all new Radeon cards now require at least an 8-pin power supply line?

    I was looking for a replacement for my desktop RX 570 and originally wanted an AMD card to test TDM on.

    Now I have to resort to buying an Nvidia because none of my 3 PSU's has an 8 pin output.

    I'm full Nvidia now.

  16. duzenko

    New laptop. So long, Intel. No more head bumping.

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    2. jaxa

      jaxa

      https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/intel-xe-graphics-card-ice-lake-gpu
    3. duzenko

      duzenko

      I can see a lot of powerpoint slides but nothing convincing

      IMHO Intel is moving in the wrong direction. They have Iris 655 but you can only find it in Macbooks. They should have pushed it to major laptop producers so that there was a $600 laptop with it. Then, I want to be able to switch between TDP levels, at least when plugged in. And of course 128MB edram is NOT enough.

      AMD is even worse with their IGPs ATM.

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      Speaking of which, I ran Darkmod on my new laptop with a GTX 1060, and it got 16 fps. Then I realized it was running Intel graphics by default and I had to go into the settings to have the GTX run it. Then the fps instantly shot up to 150. So watch out for that.

  17. duzenko

    Consider buying a new (used) laptop. It has about the same horsepower as mine, but better screen and battery. (and more expensive as well). Makes sense or it's just consumer rabies?

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    2. teh_saccade

      teh_saccade

      Don't forget to check speakers - I received an insurance "upgrade" when my laptop charging port came too loose - they didn't repair, replace instead - and the sound is terrible. Can't hear a thing without headphones. Screen is better, though AMD burns hot.

       

      Ultimately - this "upgrade" was a "downgrade" and I wish I had simple soldered the jack instead of thinking a 5 year newer laptop would be better - because it's not.

       

      It's wh...

    3. teh_saccade

      teh_saccade

      It's why its name is "craptop".

    4. duzenko

      duzenko

      I ended up buying a new (possibly refurbished) on black market. Bigger battery and more horsepower, roughly the same price.

  18. duzenko

    Put an nVidia 1060 and an AMD 570 into my work PC. Vendor-specific issues should get resolved faster.

    1. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Thank you!

    2. stgatilov

      stgatilov

      Wow!

      And I have not yet got to the shop to get AMD part...

      Hope to catch up soon =)

  19. duzenko

    WTF Intel? The cheapest laptop with Iris and 4 cpu cores is a MacBook Pro? For that price I can get TWO hp's with a similar Ryzen APU. Or even TWO asus's with quad code Intel and a dedicated nVidia. Stupidest pricing ever!

    1. chakkman

      chakkman

      Question is... what has Intel to do with that?

    2. kano

      kano

      Really thankful for Ryzen myself. Yes there were stability issues at first, but they're ironed out now. And now we have processors with integrated graphics that aren't useless. TDM runs great on a Ryzen 2400G.

    3. jaxa

      jaxa

      Do not get Ryzen Mobile until next year when 7nm version comes out. It could very well blow this year's 12nm version out of the water.

  20. duzenko

    [DUMB] I can't get stencil SS to work. Went as far as Dec 208 in svn.What cvar could it be?

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      Dec 2018 that is

    2. duzenko

      duzenko

      Just toggled separatstencil back and forth and it works now. Crazy. Intel driver at work?

    3. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      Probably, I was using stencil SS last night on SVN and they worked fine.

  21. duzenko

    "WARNING: 0:3: '#extension' : 'ARB_explicit_uniform_location' is not supported"?? Intel, you suck.

    1. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Things muttered by game devs annualy... :)

  22. duzenko

    New stuff is cool... not

    1. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Gotta fix the old breakage before making new breakage ya known? (Old developer fortune cookie.)

       

      I think we can still get a little coolness going though...

       

      Let's not get too pessimistic.

  23. duzenko

    New laptop. 22 -> 48 fps. Intel 530 (vs 5500).

    1. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Oh no! Now you wont have any incentive to optimize. ;) (congrats)

    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      nice.

    3. duzenko

      duzenko

      It's 540 actually. Getting old...

  24. duzenko

    Shadow maps are here for testing

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    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Just tested s-shadows with my one of my WIPs and they are completely broken.

    3. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Probably needs a new executable compile. I'll do so tonight if nobody beats me to it.

    4. duzenko

      duzenko

      > completely broken

      Can you access http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18818-soft-shadow-progress/ ?

  25. duzenko

    Test the new GLSL interaction shader: "r_ignore2 1" in the svn .exe

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    2. New Horizon

      New Horizon

      Indeed. It crashes for me as well. Any progress on this?

    3. duzenko

      duzenko

      Try now

    4. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      GLSL is alive!

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