News post and POTW

Post by **R.Flagg** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:01 am

Sorry, forgot to mention it when I posted.

But new post went up on the web site yesterday:

http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~chaotic/index.php

And new POTW, Hammerman's upcoming VCTF-CE-Submagma:

Relics are coming. The relics and effects are currently still early WIP stuff, so no pics of those were posted yet. But they are coming.

Mætlöaff · Post by **Mætlöaff** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 3:24 am

Yay! Realtime Shadows!
What's the diff. between low and medium shadows?

AA/unreality · Post by **AA/unreality** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:13 am

i'm looking forward to the relics

Unhøly Clåm · Post by **Unhøly Clåm** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:27 am

this patch looks great, im looking forward to it being released!

Post by **R.Flagg** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:50 am

Cool, thanks.

And here's a bit of possible good news; Jb said in IRC tonight that it looks like we may be able to have animated relics (edit: you know, the pickups themselves). That would be cool.

halprin · Post by **halprin** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:19 am

And relics are not even the end of it!

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:32 am

yup halprin...i dont think they are

animated textures sound nice,would like to have a skull flash on damage rune

Zachariah · Post by **Zachariah** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:39 pm

TKATK wrote:yup halprin...i dont think they are

animated textures sound nice,would like to have a skull flash on damage rune

Not Animated textures . Animated meshes.

jb · Post by jb » Sat Jul 31, 2004 3:22 pm

Mætlöaff wrote:Yay! Realtime Shadows!
What's the diff. between low and medium shadows?

Low only uses one light source and a smaller texture for the shadow. Medium uses two and a bigger texture file. However shadows are hard for graphics cards to handle. So the higher the detail you go, the slower it could get on your hardware. Due to this we probably wont have a high setting. However if there is enough demain, it would be easy to add a high setting (as its already in the system, just not activated).

Iceboy · Post by **Iceboy** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:37 pm

Are the real-time shadows based on that tech demo that was news a few weeks ago (i don't remember the author)

Return of Relic *swoon*

Oh. and jb, where's teh dev update posting?

jb · Post by jb » Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:06 pm

Iceboy wrote:Oh. and jb, where's teh dev update posting?

Sorry will get back on it. My bad