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I HATE THIS MOD
Its the SOA mod v95. i have a really strange screenshot which also leads to a strange game. I shall post a screenie.
Well i cant post a screenshot but i will describe it. It makes the weapons go 'funny' eg all streaked textures. so can anyone help?
Gah take a scrreenie and upload to www.imageshack.de
#3
That is good old-fashioned texture corruption.We never did manage to get a version out that fixed that...
Try playing with less players in the game. That makes texture corruption go away sometimes.
-Zabaron
or youve got something there tha shouldnt be, like in the star wars mod, were there derelicts or other things on that map that arent on a normal map (i.e. hyperspace arena?)
Wait is it the bug where is you zoom out they go fuzzy but go in they go fine? i only got that problem with my motherships so i changed them to custom ones.
but if you like the old ones try copying the lod0 files to the other 4.
The problem he's describing is deffinatly texture corruption. Basicly the HW engine can only load x ammount of textures (I've forgotten the exact number) into memory, and if a mod exceeds that ammount, all the bullets, navlights, damage effects, and engine glows get all garbled up. I think someone also figured out that the corruption will occur even if the texture limit is not exceeded if a mod has lots of textures that are not the same using the same name. But, yeah, that problem plagued SoA.
-Zabaron
Why not increase the number it can hold?
#9
/me inserts the stock response about the improbabilities of source code modding
Gah nothings impossible. Just improbable. It just takes a very. very. very. long time.
#11
You'll note that I said "improbabilities," not "impossibilities."
I hate you.
why are you two so damn argmentative.
pierce, stop being a smartass
viral, if you want to learn how to create souce code and then mod this thats fine by me..........
Cabby, we all have to live with that damn barrier of source-code modding. It's just a fact.
-Stefan-
* Viral cries
Dammit why can't we get a all in one editor!
#16
Not that it has anything to do with this thread, but because the ones we have work just fine if you're willing to take the time to learn to use them.
Time?!? I Want mods and now! Not time consuming tools!
Getting back to the thread Texture corruption only affects me at long distances
I think you are right. Darn the inferior game engine. Oh well.
you're talking about THE first ever 3D space sim stratedgy game engine there.
and wtf viril, grow up.
Last edited by Iostream; 13th Mar 06 at 3:05 AM.
Sorry Viral, things just don't work like that. You wanna make something good you're gonna have to put some time and effort into it.Originally Posted by ViralHatred
-Zabaron
All in one editor - HWSE. 'Bout as close as you'll ever get.
Inferior game engine? I don't frikkin' think so.
-Stefan-
#23
Sierra has absolutely nothing to do with it. They released the game, but other than that really didn't influence the process on HW1, AFAIK.
As for the alleged inferiority of the HW engine... well, by today's graphics standards, sure. OTOH, we are talking about an 8-year-old game, here. Compare the ships in HW to one of its contemporaries (say the first StarFleet Command game, which might even be a year younger) and you're going to see some fairly comparable art--and the SFC engine, while it can take higher poly counts and texture sizes, can't render nearly as many ships at once. For that matter, there still isn't (to the best of my knowledge, anyway) a space RTS out there that's been designed to handle as many ships as HW can. What did Nexus top out at? 20 ships in-game at one time or something like that? (That's just what I heard from a friend who was thinking about modding it, I've never actually played the thing...) To have the size of fleets they wanted, the HW developers had to make some compromises, and unfortunately they were constrained by the hardware of the day (I first played HW with a 4MB video card)...
Last edited by Captain Pierce; 13th Mar 06 at 5:06 PM.
Say what!?! if sierra released it n relic did the work then sierra gets truckloads of cash for doing nothing!
#25
Do you have any idea at all how the game industry works? Developers like Relic make games, and publishers like Sierra release them. That's not the only way games are made, admittedly; many publishers have their own in-house developers (much like Relic is now for THQ), but it's a very common situation.
Gah not fair not fair!
im not sure about what pierce said in that loong winded speach of his but im guessing that if you run a modern space 3d RTS with ships of the level of quality of those in HW then you could probably double or even triple the number o ships that HW could handle
Modern yes. Pierce's point is that Homeworld's engine was at the very edge of state-of-the-art when it was designed waaaaay back in 1999 (well probably before since it was released then).
And plus, modern engines have bunch more special purdies to put on their ships, so the count of ships onscreen often may go down instead of up. I've seen solid globs of sensor dots in some games of Homeworld, there are just *that* many ships onscreen.
-Stefan-
#29
I remember a game on that computer with the 4MB video card (well, actually it was 4MB of shared memory, robbing from the whopping 32MB of system memory that rig had
oh that sounds funny, someone should do that on WON
Ahem, *coughs* OFF TOPIC! ahem
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