So, what are you working on right now?

[AluminumHaste]

They are fantastic! Take a pic again this time with a guard coming down the stairs. The shadows thrown the by the guard will look

[Goldwell]

29 minutes ago, AluminumHaste said:

They are fantastic! Take a pic again this time with a guard coming down the stairs. The shadows thrown the by the guard will look

 

You're right, it does look quite epic!

[Amadeus]

That's like a scene out of a film noir, nice!

[Filizitas]

All missions need to be updated now? Because of the volumetric light. Man thats so sick.

[AluminumHaste]

It's so awesome!!!!!!!

That screenshot turned out awesome!!!

But, quality could be better, try this if you can.

Add this to your darkmod.cfg

 

bind "F12" "g_stopTime 1; g_showHud 0; r_volumetricSamples 64; r_multisamples 8; wait; wait; screenshot 1920 1080 32; r_multisamples 0; r_volumetricSamples 8; g_showHud 1; g_stopTime 0"

Make sure you don't move your mouse while it's doing the screenshot.

[New Horizon]

Should be shared over on TTLG.

[STRUNK]

Edited January 17 by STRUNK

[Amadeus]

bats, owls, soon Corbin will be breaking into a zoo! Great work @STRUNK. I am very excited for your bats 2.0

[demagogue]

I'm late to the party, but that volumetric lighting looks really cool! I can imagine it adding a lot of atmosphere to levels in a lot of different ways. Good work, team!

[kin]

How volumetric lighting affects playing performance?

[AluminumHaste]

It varies quite a bit. Depends a lot on your hardware but also game settings.

Using 8 samples looks ok and performs well,  but changing that to 32 or 64 can have a huge performance hit.

[kin]

On 1/19/2022 at 2:54 PM, AluminumHaste said:

It varies quite a bit. Depends a lot on your hardware but also game settings.

Using 8 samples looks ok and performs well,  but changing that to 32 or 64 can have a huge performance hit.

I hope my old gtx760 can handle it (it works fine with soft shadows maxed)

[Goldwell]

[kin]

I must be dreaming

 

[AluminumHaste]

I love it that mission authors are leaning more on coloured lights, very reminiscent of thief.

[stgatilov]

On 1/19/2022 at 7:54 PM, AluminumHaste said:

Using 8 samples looks ok and performs well,  but changing that to 32 or 64 can have a huge performance hit.

That's one reason why there is no menu setting for this

On default settings, volumetric lights should not cause much more trouble if you can play with shadow maps well (especially if you can play with maxed soft shadows quality).
But in some cases (especially with sharp shadows) the effect might look "noisy" due to dithering. We hope to fix it for 2.11 without harming performance.

[STRUNK]

environmental

On 1/17/2022 at 4:28 PM, Amadeus said:

bats, owls, soon Corbin will be breaking into a zoo!

After that there wil be giraffess ... lol. No there won't be : P
Dragofer made a change in the AnimalPatrolTask.cpp that is already available in the latest source code, but not yet as a normal upate via the installer, as far as I understand. It will be a new feature in 2.10, where the wait time between destination reached and going to a new destination, in animal patrol mode, can be altert. The bats 2.0 (Bat AI) need this feature "animal_patrol_wait" set to "0" otherwise they go into a pause in mid air. When this update is available for everyone the bats will go into beta. 
For the owl I need to make different wings because they need to be able to be folded and unfolded like (real) bird wings, so owls can idle on rooftops and such, but can also fly away, and land. Owls should be just idle or "patrol"  via paths, unlike bats (so not in animal patrol).
Also the texturing/texture map/UV map for the owl will be quite a challenge, for I have never really done that before and it should look fairly detailed, unlike bats, because people will take their monoculars to look at them, and maybe mappers want to have owls deliver messages or use them in intro/cut/outro scenes. so they must look good upclose.
That said, I also have an idea for a flying AI, mainly targeted at flying animal patrol, that is a simple as can be, and has no visual aspects but wil be an AI/bone where you van bind an entity to. This can be used for just environmental "decoration", like fireflies and moths and whatever one can think of, that doesn't need to engage in fighting and searching and such, but basically just flies around as slow or fast, as nervous or relaxed, as you want, set by spawnargs.
Bat 1 was just a func_static with 2 flapping "doors"  bound to it, and could theoretically fly around like bat 2.0 when bound to that AI ... at least, when it all works as I think (hope) it does ...
 

Edited January 26 by STRUNK

[Dragofer]

33 minutes ago, STRUNK said:

Dragofer made a change in the AnimalPatrolTask.cpp that is already available in the latest source code, but not yet as a normal upate via the installer, as far as I understand.

It should definitely be in 2.10b5, which came out quite recently and is available from the installer like all other beta builds.

[STRUNK]

Beta testing Bat2.0:

 

[Filizitas]

I have made cake, can someone come and help me convert it to TDM. I want to make more assets that tdm and delightfyl can share.  

[Geep]

I can't help you create the .lwo or .ase models and related textures, but once that's done, 3 entityDefs would be needed, for the whole cake, cake with slice out, and the slice itself. Suggestions for that next.

Spoiler

There's an existing "cake" entityDef (with a texture really more like a round bread loaf) that could copied and renamed (say, as "iced_cake") to create your own for the whole cake. And "cheese_wedge", "cheese_wheel" as useful examples too.

Note that the existing bread-like cake model does not include a plate under it. A drippy iced cake like yours would always have a platter or plate. Whether that's builtin to the model or left separate for the mapper to supply should be considered.

// In tdm_defs01.pk4\def\tdm_moveable_food.def:

entityDef atdm:moveable_food_cake
{
    "inherit"            "atdm:moveable_food_healthy_base" // grayman #4166
    "model"                "models/darkmod/kitchen/food/cake.lwo"
    "editor_usage"        "This food heals 3 HP when eaten."
    "mass"                "0.6"
    "snd_bounce"        "tdm_impact_fruit_small"
    "snd_eaten"            "tdm_player_bread_crunch"
    "heal_amount"        "3" // grayman #4166
}

entityDef atdm:moveable_food_cheese_wedge
{
    "inherit"            "atdm:moveable_food_healthy_base" // grayman #4166
    "model"                "models/darkmod/kitchen/food/cheese_wedge.lwo"
    "editor_usage"        "This food heals 3 HP when eaten."
    "mass"                "0.7"
    "bouncyness"        "0.06"
    "snd_eaten"            "tdm_player_bread_crunch"
    "heal_amount"        "3" // grayman #4166
}

entityDef atdm:moveable_food_cheese_wheel
{
    "inherit"            "atdm:moveable_food_healthy_base" // grayman #4166
    "model"                "models/darkmod/kitchen/food/cheese_wheel.lwo"
    "editor_usage"        "This food heals 6 HP when eaten."
    "mass"                "4.2"
    "bouncyness"        "0.06"
    "snd_eaten"            "tdm_player_bread_crunch"
    "heal_amount"        "6" // grayman #4166
}

// In TDM, it is possible to ask for a random distribution of food items on a counter, and the TDM SEED system will handle that.
// The existing "cake" is one of the items (defined as template_5 in tdm_defs01.pk4\def\tdm_seed_random.def)
// You could add your cake, or a slice of it, to that too... but the plate underneath is an issue then.

Going beyond that, with some extra effort, you could make your cake model "skinnable", with separate named texture regions. Say at least 3 (topping, icing, sponge) with default textures strawberries, chocolate_glaze, chocolate_sponge.

Or 5 (topping, frosting, filling, skin_sponge, slice_sponge).

Then you and/or someone else could provide multiple flavors and toppings. For example, the conical shapes on top (and in the filling layer) could be not just strawberries, but piped whipped cream or chocolate, browned meringue, large gumdrops, or candy Halloween ghosts.

[thebigh]

Mmmmm... cake....

[MirceaKitsune]

Is that cake an interactive food type you can grab and consume? If that would be possible I'd do it just for fun

[Amadeus]

Everyone's talking about the cake, but those plates are really good too 

Edited February 13 by Amadeus

[Geep]

1 hour ago, MirceaKitsune said:

Is that cake an interactive food type you can grab and consume? If that would be possible I'd do it just for fun

I sorta recall the existing cake, when eaten, was just one big gulp. Turnips, apples, carrots of course let have additional models with bites out.