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Sirius

AF was built with DMB2, so that would probably be the authoritative one I guess.
The other problem sounds like yet another DLE bug. Still working on the input thing for now though. It's complicated.

Sirius

If someone did it in Dark Souls, they can do it in Descent... provided of course all the levels are possible (which I think they are?).

Sirius

There wouldn't be a save game feature if they didn't want you to use it, but it's probably reasonable to assume Parallax was designing principally for the scenario where you would be using save games to be able to stop playing the game and resume later, rather than to undo mistakes. Not that the lat...

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Descent is single-threaded so you might be able to get similar results just overclocking an i5. High-end chips mostly add more cores lately...

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It sounds perfectly reasonable... I'd be worried about getting papercuts but I guess you have that figured out

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I don't think the ports changed the AI much, so there would probably not be that much difference. Higher difficulties appear to result in robots being willing to move around more, though.

Sirius

Main reason I use a mousepad is to control the level of friction and avoid wearing out the desk. Which may not be that much of a concern, but it wasn't THAT expensive a mousepad and will probably last at least another 10 years. Running out of movement space (even without a mousepad or things in the ...

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OK, I get the drag-deselect one, it's slightly different from the other issue which seemed like a stuck key. That one is due to what feels like a design deficiency where there are certain states that won't transition to others. I'll probably need to rework input state transition since this is quite ...

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I think most people who seriously played with one joystick supplemented it with keyboard - there usually aren't enough controls on a joystick base (some exceptions exist). I used to do that myself before I switched to mouse.

Sirius

What version was that? There was a nasty bug where you could select preview cubes from the generator which I fixed in 1.12.30. Umm... on the flashing thing. Can we get a poll of who sees it, who doesn't, and * what version of DLE * what version of Windows * what video card manufacturer, if you know ...

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In more detail:
Pitch/yaw mouse (Y inverted to match most FPS games)
Primary/secondary fire on mouse buttons
Sliding E/S/D/F
Banking W/R
Forward Spacebar, backward A, burner Z
Bombs on B (I don't use them as much as some people)

Sirius

Hmm... maybe there's a stuck key. I should probably have it recheck them outside of WM_KEYUP/KEYDOWN...

Sirius

Does "two-button slide" mean the "slide on" control?

Sirius

I've also heard of/seen the window flashing for a while but haven't been able to reliably reproduce it once I started looking for it... go figure. The only theory I have that still seems plausible is that it has something to do with InvalidateRect and system-specific behavior - maybe it's particular...

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Hmm. Needs more # before the name :) You're using more tools than before; if you're interested in progressing further, the next step would probably be on the creative side. Lots of tunnels with a few geometric tweaks can only get so interesting; great levels are usually developed from ideas, which c...

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Yeah, it's designed to allow multiple types. Descent levels often make use of that, although they seldom use anywhere near the number of slots allowed, so e.g. a series of eight 8-bit IDs (where FF is "empty") would use the same amount of space, probably have enough slots for all the level...

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OK, on further investigation this is from D2 and not DLE. Matcens' robot lists are encoded in the RDL/RL2 format using a 64-bit bitmask; if a bit is enabled, the corresponding robot type will be produced by the matcen. That's a one-to-one mapping, though, and there happen to be 66 robot types in bas...

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Yeah, that's a bug I've known about for quite a while. It's fixed in 1.12.30 but I'm still waiting for the link to go up on the page. In the meantime I have a copy on Dropbox. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hl532jlbbn0ah1u/dle-1.12.30.7z?dl=0 I've been told it trips up Kaspersky and... one other AV progr...

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Hmm. Remind me to investigate that... unless someone has already proven D2 won't support that, it seems possible that DLE just doesn't expose the feature. Reactor strength was already an example of such a feature...

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If you have a copy of the crashing mission I might be able to investigate what the cause is... though it's impossible to guarantee the mission is recoverable.

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I was asked about this recently - it's a spare flag that was unused in D1, but is used by D2X-XL when running D1 levels.

Sirius

Yeah they're supposed to be repurposed utility ships or something like that.

No word on the beta yet.

Sirius

For the template POG, you would * Open the .HOG file from the DMB2 "File" menu * At the HOG manager dialog before you pick what level to open (assuming it shows it; if not you'll need a separate HOG manager app other than DMB2) it should have an "import" or "add file" b...

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Phozon wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2018 8:59 pm1 more thing. Not sure if this editor does automatic cube object lighting %, so a lot of robots might be too bright in darker areas.

Oh. Yeah, you're correct, it doesn't - you'd have to do that manually.

Sirius

OK, updated again. There is still heavy resistance in some parts (mostly thanks to matcens) but it should be less insane. I'm not totally sure about the main room in the yellow door in the new version - I set a whole bunch of robots to "still" to avoid them all rushing the entrance at once...

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Yeah it's hard to claim that a resemblance to AF levels is a coincidence given I built several of them... the goal is more like Limefrost Spiral though, just need to look closer at what they did than just the numbers.

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I generally haven't, but I rarely play with the music on anyway since it's not managed very well for multiplayer. This material does sound fairly suitable though. Unfortunately, MW2 is one of those games I missed out on. I played 4 and its expansions several years later, but it's hard to tell how we...

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Ugh. I know exactly how I did it; I was running so close to the object limit I had to start cutting things out to fit them all in. And still forgot that even staying close to the limit causes exactly the problem you're seeing. I'll have to take another look. Probably need to delete some less-essenti...

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Hmm. Not that I can think of. I wonder what it's picking up that makes it flag it that way. The "HEUR" indicates it's looking for patterns that look suspicious, rather than comparing against known malware... but I'm not sure whether it has anything that would help figure out what. P.S. Str...

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Since finding a working link for DLE is a problem lately, the currently most-fixed-up version is here, if you need it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hl532jlbbn0ah ... 30.7z?dl=0

Sirius

Just added robots to level 27, which should put it in a quasi-complete state. I haven't actually tested it so I can't vouch for its non-horribility, but it doesn't do any good to rebalance it until the context (i.e. surrounding levels) is in place anyway, so this'll be the last update I make unless ...

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.POG files are used in a different place from .PIG files - they'll show up in the HOG management dialog, though unfortunately DMB2 is somewhat reluctant to actually show you that dialog. You can also import textures one-by-one and it will create that .POG for you and place it in the .HOG file. Xfing...

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Updated level 27 with items, a few robots (mostly still empty but I set up the ambushes and robot generators) and a handful of fixes for things that weren't working/looking as intended. Some of that might have to change in a balance pass in future but still, it's something to work with. P.S. There's...

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Best resource I know of is this video series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 0zEhEZu_5n

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Yeah the link's broken. It should point to: http://www.descent2.de/files/dle-1.12.28.7z
I'm currently waiting on the webmaster to upload a newer version which will hopefully come with a fixed download link, but my guess is he's been busy and hasn't gotten back to it yet.

Sirius

I think my problem is Diamond Claws on Insane are hyper-aggressive and attack like E-Bandits. At least one of them is flagged "get behind", which causes much the same effect. It was either that or I was thinking of Puuma Sphere, or Omegas which can also be a nuisance, but at least not of t...

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E-bandits kinda break the theme I think tho :( They showed up pretty regularly in D2's Limefrost Spiral levels. But, since we're already not doing the exact same thing in the addition of D1 robots, is the idea to keep to more icy-looking robots and not focus too much on what D2 did? Diamond Claws m...

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Just Limefrost Spiral stuff... though there are a few traps I should put robots in - was thinking Lou Guards and E-Bandits, though if some D1 mix-ins are encouraged I could put a driller in one or two... Anyway, yeah, I'll do an items/robots pass as well so it's clearer what I was thinking about wit...

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Level 27 on Dropbox... basically no items/robots included in the level but I can add placeholders if they'd be helpful.

Sirius

Most likely time is somewhere around 2 pm local time (in about 3 hours from this post)... there is a Rangers event at noon which I'll probably be participating in. I might do a bit of work before then but hard to predict how much. The Discord server that most of the Overload watchers seem to congreg...

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