Lucas himself classified it as fantasy, and I have to agree. Dune is more my picture of science fiction, where fantastical elements are woven into a relatively believable story, and slightly more subtly than in Star Wars.

Ah, shoot. Too bad. I assume you are using a software synthesizer for creating the MP3s. I don't think that these files sound as good as those MP3s which were created with the hardware synthesizer of the sound card. The above MP3s were produced by using my soundfont and the synthesizer of my Creativ...

I'll dig out my SB Live! CD so I can check out the SoundFonts; your sample MP3 I listened to sounded great. If anyone still wants an MP3 conversion of the D1 midis, I have a high-quality rendering I did using Cakewalk + Edirol VSC Synth. I should be able to get you a total package size of less than ...

I was going to say they fudged it, but the color picker says otherwise.

That's assuming that you want the fog to work like real-life and obscure vision through the fog increasingly as the amount of fog increases, revealing more as you get further through the fog. If you don't want that, though, then you could apply fog on a per-pixel basis as part of the render pipeline...

Click to view full size. I took this from the airplane going into California (where I was for the last two weeks).

Making fog a segment (cube) property. Problem: I don't know how that would 'stack up'. For some amount of control over that, you could allow the fog to stack up, but then divide each fog cube's fog intensity (assuming that would be adjustable) based on how many neighboring cubes in a row had fog. i...

Just a note. I haven't been active much and won't be for two weeks since I'll be away during that time. When I come back, I'll be able to actually put time in here, and I've already got D2X-XL installed in preparation for then.

Ah, history meaning historical for real life, not historical for gaming. Got it.

Hmm, I've never played any of those. Descent is my favorite and only historic FPS.

Thank you all! *guards keys, bottle, and blonde*

Hello fellow Descenters, you've got yourself a new member! I've loved Descent avidly for as long as I can remember, and somehow I never realized there was a Descent forum still active. Needless to say, that made my day. I'm still building D1/D2 levels, which I'll have up in the new mission database ...

I'm 18 now, and started at 5 on the D1 shareware. Wow... for 72% of my life I've played Descent.