Shambler's Castle Doom 3 mod

[golden_boy]

Might be an idea for Quake; it shouldn't be too difficult to integrate a version of QCC into the engine (FTE already has it, I think). I wonder how long it takes to compile a typical progs.dat these days? You could get clever with caching too - just store the compiled version in memory until the game changes.

[email protected] ~/RemakeQuake/src $ time ~/quake/tools/fteqcc/fteqcc.bin 
Source file: progs.src
Outputfile: ../progs.dat
in function weapon_range (line 240),
bot_fight.qc:260: warning: weapon_range: not all control paths return a value
in function BotName (line 251),
bot_misc.qc:169: warning: BotName: not all control paths return a value
in function Gyro_Force_Solver_Falloff (line 925),
gyro_forces.qc:963: warning: Gyro_Force_Solver_Falloff: not all control paths return a value
Recognised progs as NetQuake server gamecode
Progs should run on any Quake executor
at global scope,
warning: Model lavaball.mdl was used but not precached
282012 strofs (of 1000000)
 86982 numstatements (of 524288)
  5718 numfunctions (of 16384)
 13777 numglobaldefs (of 32768)
   761 numfielddefs (688 unique) (of 2048)
 13488 numpr_globals (of 65536)
Writing ../progs.dat
1354160 TOTAL SIZE
Writing ../progs.lno
386 unique precache_sounds
178 unique precache_models
Compile Complete

optres_shortenifnots 581
optres_overlaptemps 38069
optres_constantarithmatic 30
optres_nonvec_parms 14135
optres_assignments 2673
optres_unreferenced 121
optres_dupconstdefs 473
numtemps 455
4 warnings

real    0m2.533s
user    0m1.143s
sys     0m0.106s

I'm looking forward to getting my hands on that one! I've already run Doom3 through GLIntercept and had a look at the kind of stuff it's renderer does, and have some plans for it.

DirectD3?



oh by the way, JPL's Quake map "Five Rivers Land" was supposedly a "remake" of Doom3's Hell level.

http://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/5rivers.html

Distrans' "Ruined Nation" resembles some things from Doom3 pretty closely, especially the use of scary sounds, airducts and weird pipes and machines... and gimmicky unfolding bridges.

http://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/dis_sp6.html

Of course you can't duplicate the lighting in Quake.

[MH]

2.5 seconds for what I suspect might be one of the larger QC codebases around? Not bad, not bad at all....

Being able to hop into a text file, change some stuff, recompile on the fly without leaving the engine, and so on would be a very fine thing indeed. Doing it while the map is still running might be stretching things though, although it wouldn't be too difficult to save/recompile/load. The engine could even do that automatically for you without you needing to do anything except issue a recompile command. Hmmmmm. Brain cogs moving.

DirectD3. I see what you did there.

I'm thinking more along the lines of a "low spec machine" version actually. That might or might not involve D3D (it's vertex buffers are vastly superior to OpenGL's, but with D3 the work is already done for you) (although from what I saw behind the scenes an optional D3D backend would be quite easy) but it probably will involve baking normal maps onto regular textures, possibly removing a lot of the cruddy old vendor-specific codepaths, and some other things to get it running well on low powered Gfx hardware while keeping a lot more quality than it's current options allow for.

[golden_boy]

Well. It's pretty simple compiling qc code already, tbh.

Maybe for users, ie players, it would make sense to have something like that if they want to quickly increase the rocket damage or something like that.

Then again, how many people want to do things like that?

... Built-in map compiler - now we're talking (only half kidding here, wouldn't it be natural?)

[LambentHammerBurst]

Someone should port the Vore, Wizard (Scrag) and Zombie from this.
Actually think I might - I am assuming doing the md3's for Darkplaces is exactly like Quake 3's.

[golden_boy]

Seor Casaroja's Engineering Oasis

This might help, or not.

[LambentHammerBurst]

oh know how to do editing, ported the Doom 3 Marine into Q3 and vise versa.
Just wondering if the md3 format in Darkplaces is identical to Q3's (kinda like HL's mdl and quakes mdl - very similar but different)

[R00k]

Try importing the MD5 into Darkplaces tools then convert to md3??

Source file: progs.src
outputfile: ./progs.dat
...
Recognised progs as regular Quake
Progs should run on any Quake executor
144656 strofs (of 1000000 )
40998 numstatements (of 524288 )
1074 numfunctions (of 16384 )
6492 numglobaldefs (of 32768 )
287 numfielddefs (260 unique) (of 2048 )
6456 numpr_globals (of 65536 )
Writing ./progs.dat
591548 TOTAL SIZE
Writing ./progs.lno
162 unique precache_sounds
66 unique precache_models
Compile Complete

optres_shortenifnots 279
optres_overlaptemps 17073
optres_constantarithmatic 112
optres_nonvec_parms 8364
optres_assignments 1217
optres_unreferenced 56
optres_dupconstdefs 251
numtemps 149
0 warnings

Cant find the button to show compile times, but that above output prints in less than 2 seconds. Even faster if I hit it again.

I think it would be cool to have a built in Mapping tool, QuakeC editor, pakX explorer, bitmap editor, and Quake Engine all in one!

[LambentHammerBurst]

Been getting him working overall but have encountered a glitch
the idle animation will quickly flash to the "reference" position (arms out/rigging)

From my dpmodel config file:

# save the model as soldier.dpm
model demon
# move the model this much before saving
origin 0 0 0
# rotate the model -90 degrees around vertical
rotate 0
# scale the model by this amount, 0.5 would be half size and 2.0 would be doule size
scale 1
# load the mesh file, this is stored into the dpm as frame 0
scene demon.smd
scene stand.smd
scene walk.smd
scene run.smd
scene leap.smd
scene pain.smd
scene death.smd
scene attacka.smd

animations are all the same at present but are equal length to the orig (same frames). Any way to fix that?

[golden_boy]

With this question, you might have more luck at inside3d.com or on IRC.

irc.anynet.org #darkplaces

[LambentHammerBurst]

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/8233/demond.jpg

[golden_boy]

Nice.

Too bad Shambler's Castle doesn't have all of the Quake monsters.

Someone needs to sit down and model the rest.

[LambentHammerBurst]

Had to use the "framegroups" to fix it. Sadly if I used longer animations than the default the same glitches would happen again. So he has the 6-20 frame animations
Ah well better than the 1996 model lol
Doing the others now too - Vore and Scrag. I'm not going to bother with the Shambler as there's already a much better one out that's more faithful to the original. I felt stupid looking through the pk4's of the mod looking for the zombie and finally relized it uses the default "boney" zombie from Doom 3. May port that but sadly that would be a no-release.

I would love to see a better Shub-Niggurath as IMO that was the worst model in the entire game.

[LambentHammerBurst]

Finally done it, animations bit shoddy due to how little frames you get to work with, but better than the original lol.

Download:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/cv6a0m

It includes the 2 and the Scrag/Wizard previewed on the next page. They are Obi-Wan's model from Shamblers Castle (Doom 3 Mod) ported over by me to Q1.

[Seven]

That is an impressive work you did ooppee !

Very nice indeed. Keep it up.

Regards,
Seven

[LambentHammerBurst]

Henk "Obi-Wan" Bernhardt is the modeler, I'm just porting them as new models for monsters is VERY slow coming - I've only found a Shambler (won't port Shambler's Castle version unless requested as there is a more "faithful" one out now). Understandable due to people are mainly playing multiplayer.

All that's left really is the Scrag (wizard) and the 2 Shamblers (normal and boss).