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There was actually a reasonable description in the related commit comment - gave the following known issues with some examples: - Visual Studio 2017's C99 preprocessor support, like those of predecessor versions, is deficient regarding variadic macros, causing it to reject valid constructs with conf...

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The player weapons are in descent.pig in D1. They're in descent2.ham in D2... but HXMs can't touch weapon types, so I presume you wouldn't be able to adjust them with a .HX1. You'd need a more sophisticated .PIG hack, which... I'm not sure off the top of my head if there are any tools to edit that. ...

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Both have advantages and disadvantages. Joystick is easier to keep up a constant turn with, and gives you somewhat more freedom of movement in a dogfight. Mouse gives you better aiming accuracy, although you probably need a high-DPI mouse and/or a large mousepad to get that without sacrificing turni...

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Bet that's * Delete last modified robot, now nothing is modified * Save -> any modified robots? No -> don't write HXM * Catch: not writing the HXM means we don't delete it either, so most recently saved version persists I'll take a look at that, shouldn't be that hard to fix if that's the cause.

Sirius

Umm... yeah, if they're doing "incredible" damage, something got broken. That transition is probably the toughest part of the level, so if you can't get to it without full or mostly-full energy you're nearly guaranteed a respawn.

Sirius

There are things about C++11/14 I see the use for, e.g. auto comes in handy for iterators for complex types, and some things like that. But even then, MSVC supports all of that now. The things it doesn't support typically amount to edge cases, which usually have viable workarounds. (Much later) Edit...

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The C++11/14 stuff rubs me the wrong way, since I've looked at the 0.60 Rebirth code and as far as I could see 90%+ of it was just procedural C in .cpp files. I couldn't see anything that used modern C++, never mind esoteric compiler features. Now that doesn't mean they're not there, or that it's an...

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Right, it's all HXMs and POGs. POGs can replace practically anything you want - they just can't add textures. TEW is supposed to be able to run in DOS, and mostly does, but there are some glitches we never really figured out.

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1. Just those pixels aren't transparent, or the whole texture? 2. Image/photo editing software will do this... the most famous one is Photoshop, but it's probably still expensive. The most powerful free alternative is probably GIMP, though its interface is challenging to learn (seems to be a common ...

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Retro mod and I think Rebirth 0.60 beta adjusted the D2 homers again, they at least try to track after that. Still slightly easier to dodge than in D1 without afterburner... except you're also slightly slower, so I'm not sure where it winds up on balance.

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There is currently no Visual Studio-based method for compiling Rebirth that I know of (if you find one let me know - there's something I would really like to debug). CMake could probably fix that, but Rebirth doesn't use it, and I'm not sure one way or the other whether VS's support for Linux is clo...

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Correct. Yes, you are pretty limited. Well, kind of - the most common thing you'd actually want to change but can't is the weapons.

Sirius

Not familiar with DXA, but loading HAM files from the mission HOG is a Rebirth-only feature, yeah. Except for Vertigo-format HAMs, which only replace the Vertigo stuff.

Sirius

Hmmm... I think I know what part that is... in retrospect it would have been better to make it actually difficult to get into that section, since people don't necessarily take the "these robots are too tough let's come back later" approach.

Sirius

Still I'd like to play Anthology, do you think there is any way to do it now without constantly feeling pain in the ass? Because I still think the level design is very good and is worth to be played. I mean on Ace or Insane difficulty at least, and somehow avoid the worst game breaking bugs. Maybe ...

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Yeah, I definitely do feel like it. I've had issues with project overload

I'm not holding up the project at this stage, am I? It's just a "how long can it possibly take" issue?

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Thanks TC :) NiMH is, to my knowledge, newer than NiCd... not as high-performance as Lithium-ion I presume but I don't tend to see those sold in AA format. Only catch is I've been using them pretty heavily for wireless controllers, which I don't always use consistently, and I'm not sure they hold th...

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It's complicated... I can't really pick an option out of a poll like this because it depends on too many things. I think the most obvious difference for most people is the graphics, and your experience will vary depending on what you turn on or off. Some people will turn off more than others. There ...

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Also, there's back-and-forth flickering in the cavernous area of The Cauldron, and that's even in Rebirth. Black flickers appear on the walls, generally when viewed from afar (they disappear when you're up close). Probably has something to do with the ungodly cube count in that area. Yeah, you're p...

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If your question is what I think it is - the number of frames in an animated texture is governed by... descent2.ham I think. You can't add or remove them with a .POG (which is what DLE is working with) - only replace the frames that already exist. So you will probably need to look for a texture with...

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One little warning with asymmetric stretching like that: if you care about the DOS version, its (less robust) texture mapping technique tends to cause textures aligned in that way to "twitch". If you don't care about the DOS version, carry on.

Sirius

Errr... that's a mistake on the website, apparently. Try http://www.descent2.de/files/dle-1.12.28.7z

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Hmm. What are the best practices for NiMH batteries?

Sirius

I'm using DLE 1.11.90, and I want to edit some screens (animated textures) with the pixil editor (if you click "edit" under the texture tab). The problem is that I can't find all of the frames for the screen. I tried checking "show frames," but it only works for door textures. I...

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Re: palette, it depends what look you want the level to have. For D1 textures (which show up a lot in the level), they look more "classic"/"D1" if you use the original palette. Many aren't appreciably different in ice but I noticed a few that seemed more washed-out or monochromat...

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Hmm... that probably means see-through/transparent are always 254 and 255... which is specific enough to work with.

Sirius

I don't know. That's not particularly easy since you'd have to guess which color is supposed to be transparent, and guessing introduces the possibility of getting it wrong.

Though if I made it try to identify the source palette, it could get more reliable.

Sirius

That is pretty cool, yeah. Up here we got - I think I heard 94% totality, which was good enough for "crescent sun" and it was obviously dimmer and cooler than it normally would have been at that time of day, but it was still just a matter of degrees. Funny enough, seeing Corvallis in the p...

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DLE can sure handle it, but it doesn't handle PIG integration. If using a POG were a wieldy solution, I'd have gone with that - sure enough texture replacement worked like a charm. But I wanted a more autonomous solution, and as far as I know, only DTX can do that. Ah. Right. I forgot DTX could edi...

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It's hard to say - Descent has a lot of motion in it. It's probably worth some trial-and-error though, since most of the time taken will probably be in uploading the thing... depending on your connection speed anyway. At 640x480, though, I think you have a reasonable chance of it being watchable, I ...

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Yes, it's cycles.
For memory, find the dosbox-0.74.conf file (I'm assuming that's still the current version) and look for the "memsize" setting.

Sirius

DLE should, in theory, be able to handle that now - assuming I didn't screw something up still. If I did, I would appreciate a heads-up so I can try to fix it... there is an issue with bitmaps that don't quite match the palette not getting properly transparent-ized, which I am planning to improve so...

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Memory is probably configurable through its .ini file. Framerate, yeah, you have to adjust CPU frequency until it looks about right.

The DOS version of D1x allowed framecap, but it doesn't run easily in DOSBox for some reason.

Sirius

OK, the new version of DLE went out this morning (it also has a few bugfixes which may be of interest). I posted a more detailed how-to guide on the config stuff on the D2X-XL forums here: http://www.descent2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3390 GL/HF, and feedback is always welcome if you find so...

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Sadly, there isn't. In the DOS versions of Descent, you just have to make sure your framerate ("frametime" cheat code shows you this in D2 - it's not a "real" cheat code though and doesn't reset your score to zero) doesn't go too high. Somewhere around 200 seems to be the breakin...

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It has another bug in co-op, where you can get multiple kill shots on it - I've sometimes been awarded points three times for one thief kill.

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I don't know if anyone here was among their number, but I got a few requests to be able to rebind controls for DLE. I've recently completed work on a beta version that has this feature, which you can get here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l942q02yswm6i3t/DLE.exe?dl=0 I wrote up a description of how to ...

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Wrong, they do that in Rebirth too. In Descent 2 only, of course. They expect you to pop out of cover at any time, so they fire in hopes their projectiles will zap you when that happens. It's not the same thing... they shoot a few shots after you disappear, but give up more quickly, and also don't ...

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The AI is most definitely different - in XL robots will keep shooting at you even when you're behind a wall. They would never do that in other versions of D2. The Agent Smith lifters, on the other hand, are not something I've personally seen (though I haven't had the chance to play XL much lately). ...

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DOS is the original D2 EXE, so where Rebirth differs in any substantial way, it can be assumed to be incorrect.

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