HEXEN II community work and discussion

[inkub0]

Het Guys!
WOW! Korax did a great work!!!
I stopped working for 2 days, cause of my girlfriend
The news are good! UQE begins to be a powerful engine!

I'm very happy to see people sharing sourcecode on this thread! it's a big goal for all of us.

Free source code for a free world!

@ Korax
I like very much the animated texture applied on underwater surfaces in Jshexen2: it makes the underwater scenes more "underwater" In Jshexen2 the effect is very heavy, according to Jshexen2 "philosophy", but i think that can be implemented in your engine, with a lesser opacity...

[red-hexen]

I have a question about Hexen, but first I want thank to All who working on this old brilliant game, I'm not playing in Hexen for long time, now I have a rebuilded old game for second chance Recently I see that many good old" games have found a new life with new engine and retexturing projects. That's realy good.
I want to translate Hexen II (js/ Hammer of Thyrion), but I do not know how to start. I need cyrillic support, it support unicode? maybe I need somehow to dump files to localization? If have specific in localization for Linux version, I want to know about it. I hope if have someway to translate this game someone can help me...

[inkub0]

Try to contact Jeank, he is Russian, ^^

@coders
pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee start working on pk3 support... XD

[WhiteMagicRaven]

Here is thread with russification of Hexen II Hexen II ??????? ?? ??????? - Hexen 2 - ??????? ????? - ?????
And much more there exist Hexen II by Fargus (translated to rus)
Look everything on hexen.clan.su i am sure you find what you want.
Or Look at Torrents like Áèòòîððåíò òðåêåð RuTracker.org

[WhiteMagicRaven]

with a lesser opacity...

I like for tranclucency using:
if (currententity->drawflags & DRF_TRANSLUCENT)
{
glBlendFunc (GL_SRC_COLOR, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_COLOR);
glEnable( GL_BLEND );
glColor4f (1,1,1,1);//r_wateralpha.value); -> dont need to use R-wateraplha and tranclucency looks closer to vanilla software rendered hexen2, looks way better
}

[red-hexen]

WhiteMagicRaven
hexen.clan.su - won't open, gray page and nothing more
I dont need "russify", I want to make new localization from null
inkub0

Try to contact Jeank, he is Russian, ^^

I'm tried, but without success

[WhiteMagicRaven]

He looking this thread often, wait he can answer =)
hexen.clan.su sometime long responce. just need to try everytime, if you want.

[jeank]

red-hexen: you can just take files from WhiteMagicRavens links, they work with hexen2 and PoP, just edit file strings.txt for correct lines for PoP and all be ok.

For create new quality multilanguage versions we need recreate font textures, but there a lot of work.

[red-hexen]

jeank

red-hexen: you can just take files from WhiteMagicRavens links, they work with hexen2 and PoP, just edit file strings.txt for correct lines for PoP and all be ok.

damn, I open that site (.su) with lynx browser, but can't login at last. Random try with disable adblock plus and it was successfull shame on me

For create new quality multilanguage versions we need recreate font textures, but there a lot of work.

I can help, I think. Need to generate grid for cyr. fonts?
and jeank, have you use jabber/icq/skype? Much easier to communicate through these proto

[jeank]

red-hexen: Hi! Here files for Russian Hexen2. Extract zip and put pak and txt files into gamedir "data1" or "portals" (for use in portal you must rename it from pak2 to pak4 and add needed lines into strings.txt, or game be crashed)

About i jabber/icq/skype/ect - i not use them, if i run it my work be suspended

[Korax]

@Baker
I'll do what you suggested and see if theres a better way. I'll also be chatting to the HoT guys and see what they suggest.


I've been implementing the bloom I found in FTE, its not much different than what I have in UQE. I'm also thinking about rewriting bloom in totality. Then another thing I've got on my mind is relooking the resolution list. Not all of the wide resolutions are avilable. Maybe to add some space in the list I'm thinking of skipping all the 16-bit resolutions... good idea bad idea?

In my mind: "Whos still running (wanting to) 16bit?"

[Korax]

@red-hexen
I totally love your avatar!
Would you mind if I use it for UQE's icon?

I'd like it if you could change it a little... transparent background and making the II also red.
Still keeping it a PNG.

[inkub0]

@ Korax

Why you dont look at Quake2 based engines or quake 3 based engines for bloom? Maybe you'll find something interesting...

[Korax]

I could look at that too.
At the moment I'm busy re-building the UQE website, hopefully I can finish it before October. I'm trying to time the new site with the new release.

I'm going to add a permanent link to your retexturing site if you don't mind?

[inkub0]

I'm going to add a permanent link to your retexturing site if you don't mind?

I'm honored! You see, i started to retexturize Hexen2 with your engine