In-Game Video Mode Changing in Unofficial ProQuake 3.81

[Baker]

I've looked at the implementation of in-game video mode changing in Qrack and FitzQuake and actually have it working in ProQuake.

It wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be.

Well, it's not done yet but 2 or 3 outstanding issues remain, but only 1 that will be challenging (or maybe not).

[Paradi$e]

great. what new features is this version going to contain over glpro3.5, by the way is it glpro included there? thanks for your work.

[R00k]

Switching BPP on the fly requires reloading all the current textures. Which can be a bit of a pain. I left it out as most would use 32bit.

[Baker]

Switching BPP on the fly requires reloading all the current textures. Which can be a bit of a pain. I left it out as most would use 32bit.

Yeah, that's the 1 challenge.

At first I thought about avoid that issue, but decided I'm going to confront it head on.

great. what new features is this version going to contain over glpro3.5, by the way is it glpro included there? thanks for your work.

There is a thread on it and the download has a changelog you can read:

http://www.quakeone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2880

[Baker]

Switching BPP on the fly requires reloading all the current textures. Which can be a bit of a pain. I left it out as most would use 32bit.

Based on looking thru the code FitzQuake uses, it looks to me like in FitzQuake 0.70 all of the texture loading was centralized around TexMgr_LoadImage (and remove GL_LoadTexture) and FitzQuake basically can flush textures as a result and reload them.

What I am going to try is implement just the new texture loading/unloading aspect of FitzQuake, since I don't want any rendering/lighting changes whatsoever.

If this works, I should also be able to effectively change gamma in a way that looks identical to the ProQuake -gamma command parameter.

[Baker]

Which can be a bit of a pain..

Yes, this is proving to be a bit of a pain ...

Textures, player skins, lightmaps, particles, skytextures, ...

Heheheheh

But once it's done, it doesn't need to be done again. But definitely a pain! (scale of 1 to 10, where 5 is difficult: 6.5)

[Perochi]

The proquake gamma does differ from the glproquakes , I always wondered if that could be done thanks for the work Baker.