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Hello thieves,  the other day I realized my last Volta release was in 2017! Time really flies.  After years of fiddling with this project, I'm ready to announce the remaining missions in the Volt

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Added some temporary lights to FM that is just entering beta - I guess there is not much to show if all lights are off in your mission...   http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19886-fm-marsh-of-rahena-

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Got back to DR and added a few rooms to my WIP ...          

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I need some visually noisy control room, let mimic this...

 

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Close enough, lets move on. Now some random heavy machinery in ship workshop.

 

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An electric arc furnace - on submarine? Couldn't be more random... I guess I have mobile iron foundry now. I think I will widen door, and add an transportation line, and -no no no!- just focus, it is just a furnace in a room behind dozen corridors, just relax and get over it.

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Don't worry, nobody thinks about the logics of machineries. Especially considering it's Steampunk!

 

And they look fantastic. Far too grand to think about trivial mechanics or architecture.

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Don't worry, nobody thinks about the logics of machineries. Especially considering it's Steampunk!

 

I do! But then again I don't think I've ever made one machine for TDM that didn't have a lot of thought put into it. :P

 

Man those would be fun to model though.

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https://youtu.be/Vww7V8RdriY

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FM's: Builder Roads, Old Habits, Old Habits Rebuild

Mapping and Scripting: Apples and Peaches

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That reminds me about importance of default AI-add-any-model, sort of fire elemental being that thinks like AI but don't have any animations -maybe just empty slots to trigger i.e. sounds when normal AI would play "I see you!" response. That would be handy for custom drones, you could just add any models, one rotating around other, maybe joint for "antenna" instead of head.

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A while back I was contemplating a little scurry bot that would resemble a roomba: I was thinking of binding it to a rat scurrying around on a hidden storey, though for really simple wandering scripting should also be an option.

 

func_securitycamera can spot the player... but even when nothing else can.

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Some things I'm repeatedly thinking about...

 

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"movetype" "FLY", I'm guessing? (Zombies being a rare case of a humanoid that won't suffer the detaching head bug.)

That's one part of the answer. I had to change the aas definition, too. I stumbled over it by accident and the result was quiet funny.

 

And yeah, if you do this with other ai the attached head keeps flying away. Funnely the sword stays properly attached (tested it with a citywatch guard first). Very odd, but sufficient for elementals and drones me thinks.

FM's: Builder Roads, Old Habits, Old Habits Rebuild

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Random DR fun...

I like it. What strange things will one find within, I wonder. It's quite mysterious. Also, the snow theme is a good fit.

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@Deadlove reminds a bit the Great Wall of China.

 

I don't know if it was pointed out somewhere but summing all shadows in one place is deadly for performance - there is a huge difference between light placed in centre of room, where shadows disperse and you can't see all of them simultaneously, and putting light in very corner so all complex geometry projecting itself onto single spot. As on video below on sunny side I have firm 60fps and looking from opposite direction 30 fps.

 

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It's not snow, I just hollow a giant box with white texture tiled, with one ambient light set really bright, then do all the brush work before anything else.

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Have you tried the same machine testmap in Doom 3? I don't know much about the engine, but would be curious to know if the FPS drop is caused by multiple light gem calculations where the POV is at or beyond the machine's distance to the light/or if it's just an inherent limitation. (Apologies if I've completely misunderstood how lighting works)

 

Is that machine optimised with a shadowmodel at all?

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Have you tried the same machine testmap in Doom 3? I don't know much about the engine, but would be curious to know if the FPS drop is caused by multiple light gem calculations where the POV is at or beyond the machine's distance to the light/or if it's just an inherent limitation. (Apologies if I've completely misunderstood how lighting works)

 

Is that machine optimised with a shadowmodel at all?

No, models don't have shadow mesh, they cast shadows as complex as visible model itself. FPS is better if I keep lower part of machine out of POV.

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Yes, a shadow mesh would help. The performance change is because it's far more difficult to determine

shadow cull when you are inside the shadow. That was why "Carkmack's reverse" was devised. The trick

only activates once you're inside the shadow.

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