HEXEN II community work and discussion

[WhiteMagicRaven]

Spike, can you write guide how to fix z buffer fight (texture flickering) in Quake or HeXen II?
If two brushes have same coords and various textures they start conflicting, textures flickering between each other we see couple of lines, etc. I think you understand what i mean?
In FTEQW its fixed.

[Spike]

When drawing bsp ents:
glEnable(GL_POLYGON_OFFSET_FILL);
When drawing the world itself:
glDisable(GL_POLYGON_OFFSET_FILL);
At gl init:
glPolygonOffset(0.05, 25);

(basically just enable it when drawing submodels and disable it straight after, in the same function)

Result:
bsp submodels are pushed a few units away from the camera, so doors etc that are coplaner with a world surface are always firmly behind the world surface.

This is of course a hack. Maps should never be made in a way that would require this. But for the sake of maps designed for the sw renderer which never had this issue... Well, you _usually_ get the same result as sw.

[jeank]

Spike - thank, is useful help!

[inkub0]

Yes, but not in other engines... and i still cant repack my textures in PK3...

pk3 works in FTE at least, and has for a looong time.

[WhiteMagicRaven]

Spike, Thank You.
Coders Quake with Overbright Lightning (lights looks like in software version, better).
I think it can be ported to hexen2 too.
Inside3d Forums :: View topic - How can I add overbright lighting to Quake engine?
And model and transformation interpolation guide.
QER: TUTORIAL 4 - Motion and Animation Interpolation
I recommend to use "cl.time" instead "realtime" and frame interval is 0.05 instead 0.1 - looks more smoothly.
Transformation time is too 0.05 instead 0.1 look more smoothed.
and this guides helps me to add all interpolations and they looks awesome.
Jeank - note: use frame interval 0.05

mh, can yo provide guide for water warp and/or underwaterwarp like in your DirectQ but for OpenGL? or even better for HeXenII, your water effects looks like in original software rendered quake. (awesome effects)

[MH]

Check your PMs.

The water warp code is basically DirectQ's ported to OpenGL in a Hexen II engine I was fooling around with a while back. Take what you want from that (it's also got sky warps done right). This needs GLSL to work. An alternative is to use the code from FitzQuake for gl_subdivide_size less than 48. It's not as good though, but it works well enough where GLSL is not available. Personally I'd just say "you need GLSL and if you don't have it, you need to spend the $5 or so for a second-hand card that can support it".

The underwater code is likewise DirectQ's ported to OpenGL, but I'm less happy with it. This one uses glCopyTexSubImage2D and no shaders so it should work on anything. There's an alternative underwater warp there using projection matrix tricks that I personally think is more robust, cleaner and higher quality. Take your pick.

[WhiteMagicRaven]

Thank You.
http://heretics-hexens.ucoz.com/MH/Hexen_II.zip
Unreleased RMQ code, but I think it contains everything you need for the underwater warp.
http://heretics-hexens.ucoz.com/MH/gl_rmain.zip

[BoylerBoi]

Hi. I've got a Mac and I am using HoT for playing H2. Is there a texture pack for HoT, too?

[inkub0]

Hi. I've got a Mac and I am using HoT for playing H2. Is there a texture pack for HoT, too?

HoT people is still working... maybe will have external texture soon =)

[webangel]

jeanks new jshexen build supports conback and conchars

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[inkub0]

Greaaat!

Does the "Hexen2" font exists?

the conback is great!

[webangel]

sorry! i donīt find a h2 font.

[BoylerBoi]

Is there a overview over all the H2-clients, like on quakeone.com for Quake? I dont know which one is the best (for Mac OS X). I think it's Hammer of Therion, is it?

Greetz

[WhiteMagicRaven]

BoylerBoi, i can only suggest this -> http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-tal...more-post.html
But there is no overview, you must try each, and find what is works for you.
So it will be good if you can find ime to do overview.

[WhiteMagicRaven]

Here i am uploaded source code modified by me
Inside3d Forums :: View topic - Ned help: buggy textures positioning or textures offsets?
You can help with this problem?