1.3 Patch

[Demigod]

http://www.iddevnet.com/doom3/

 

But apparently no sky portals

[Ishtvan]

Hmm, will have to see how this "room reverb" data is entered. If they have another way of detecting rooms other than sectioning them off by portals, that would be... interesting for our sound prop system.

[Ishtvan]

Update: From discussion on D3World, it looks like it might be possible to merge the sky portals into vanilla D3, although it keeps going back and forth between possible and impossible so can't say for sure. There was some concern that it wouldn't work because it needed a vertex program, but then someone pointed out that the vertex program wasn't actually used in the RoE code, so it should still work. Should have a better answer tomorrow.

Edited May 25, 2005 by Ishtvan

[BlackThief]

ATM I'm downloading the patch, but the id-ftp is pretty slow - only about 30kb/s.

A question to you programming guys - will the mod definitely still work, when I patch D3, or should make a backup first?

[Ishtvan]

The mod will definitely NOT work if you install the patch.

 

Make a backup or do not patch if you still want to be able to run the mod

 

Us programmers have to merge all the stuff in the 1.3 SDK with our source which is currently based on the 1.2 SDK. So until that happens, do not patch if you still want to be able to play the mod.

 

The reason is: the mod only replaces stuff in gamex86.dll, whereas the patch changes the engine code we don't have access to. If we tried to run the mod code in src/game, it would make calls using the old syntax for the new engine stuff like the sound engine, and I'm pretty sure the game would not like that.

 

You don't have to backup all of D3, but backup all the files in your D3 directory (doom3.exe, doom3ded.exe, version,

 

Then in D3/base, backup the following: config.spec, doom.qe4, DoomConfig.cfg, editor.cfg, game00.pk4 ... I think that's it, but haven't tried this so something could still conceivably go wrong.

Edited May 25, 2005 by Ishtvan

[Ishtvan]

Okay it looks pretty official now. It's possible to merge in Skyportals, Brian said it is not illegal to do so, and someone has done it and was generous enough to make the vanilla d3 SDK with skyportals merged in available. See this thread on D3World: http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic...=10684&start=60

[Demigod]

Great. Ill leave it to you guys to decide if you want to include them and carry on modding

Edited May 26, 2005 by Demigod

[Ishtvan]

We'll probably include the skyportals since it looks like an easy hack. As to the other additonal stuff that's in the RoE codebase but not the vanilla, we'll have to think about it carefully.