SCREENSHOTS "I use Tenebrae" (Seriously)

[le_dartagnan]

Sorry for the popups guys, but when I went through the process of using that host they specifically said that any ads would be completely safe and non pornographic. I would never intentionally use a nsfw host.

Glad some of you liked the shots. I understand all your other points about being too shiny, plastic or over bump mapped.. but it really boils down to personal taste I guess.

The green moss covered walls of the necropolis and gloom keep look great in my eyes, as do most of the stone/metal textures. Sadly, things like grass areas ect suffer from plastic/glue syndrome. Astro turf anyone?

As you said, it's all a personal taste. Some will love it, others won't. Personally I love it.

I have a question, I've managed to add new skins in Tenebrae, however, upon trying to add Rygel's texture's pack for Darkplaces, it doesn't work. Keep getting the message it only accepts Targa 1 or 3 files. How did you manage ? Which textures did you use ?

[Mancubus]

Here's what I've did











This is made with the modified Tenebrae engine, which was kindly made by MHQuake, Rygel's texture pack, Reforged and Fragger's monsters textures and n30g3n3s1s' models, and also enhanced sounds by mingrid.

I had to remove all the 'gloss' textures, because Tenebrae complains about invalid TGA format, and I don't know how to fix it. I couldn't use more advanced models that I use in Darkplaces, because it complains about too many something in several of the model files. And I couldn't use music, because it doesn't support it in wav or mp3 or else, as far as I understand. Fix me if I am wrong.

Still I like what I see. I would also like to fix the menu images and font, but I failed to do it until now.

You can download it by Torrent: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/945715/Tenebrae.7z.torrent

[QUAKE_ADDICT]

well those look like some pretty good graphics!! i will try it out

[Mancubus]

Guys, I have a problem.

I am trying to create the new Tenebrae pack to exceed the graphical beauty of my previous one posted above.

The problem is: I can't make powerups/keys/runes models look the way they should. I have tried everything: converting skins into png, naming them with DP standards (*.mdl_0.tga etc), putting them into 'override' folder - nothing helps :-(

They still look like this:

http://iceimg.com/i/66/ac/705f83cb23.jpg
http://iceimg.com/i/a5/8c/939a3c9edf.jpg
http://iceimg.com/i/db/26/77fcfd7341.jpg
http://iceimg.com/i/34/13/ffdbb410e6.jpg

I have put the engine and the pack of models/skins I have problems with here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/945715/Tenebrae.7z (it's 24 MB).

Maybe someone will be able to quiclky look into it and point me where the problem roots are?

Thanks in advance!

[R00k]

Just use Darkplaces.

[Mancubus]

Just use Darkplaces.

Not funny.

[LambentHammerBurst]

Those models don't use the same format as a mdl model - they are actually md3 models and their textures are in a "textures" folder. Leave the default texture names as they are and try putting them in the override/textures

[Mancubus]

Thanks for the tips, ooppee. Unfortunately, an attempt failed :-(

I tried to put textures into tenebrae\progs\textures, into tenebrae\override\textures, even tried to name them according to Tenebare\DP standards - nothing works. Maybe something has to be changed in models themselves?

[LambentHammerBurst]

Could you provide me with any error messages that appear in the console? One should come up about not being able to load a texture. May have to pgup to find it.

Also am I the only one that wants Tenebrae's weather effects in Darkplaces? It's fog (that I play with by default) is nothing compared to Tene's.

[Mancubus]

I have achieved success for several models: high-poly Shambler, Invulnerability and Quad damage.

Runes, keys and invisibility still are shown without textures.

What I have tried with both original names and with .mdl_0:

1. Putting into override\ (this worked for Shambler)
2. Putting into override\progs (this worked for Invulner and Quad)
3. Putting into progs\
4. Putting into progs\textures
5. Putting into override\progs\textures

I have put final result into archive, qconsole.log is also there, though it doesn't contain any errors: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/945715/tenebrae_models.7z

Console initialized.
Winsock TCP/IP Initialized
WIPX_Init: Unable to open control socket
Exe: 21:00:08 Apr  7 2010
Modified by Charles 'Pentagram' Hollemeersch
288.0 megabyte heap
Video mode 1920x1080x32 initialized.
GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
GL_RENDERER: GeForce GTX 260/PCI/SSE2
GL_VERSION: 3.3.0
GeForce GTX 260/PCI/SSE2 3.3.0
Checking paletted texture
Checking multitexture
Checking diffuse bumpmap extensions
Checking ARB extensions
Checking GeForce 1/2/4-MX
Checking GeForce 3/4
Checking Radeon 8500+
Checking Parhelia
Checking VAR
Checking AF
Checking TC
Texture compression available
Checking DB
Using GeForce 3/4 path
4 texture units
VertexProgram loaded
Loading particle effects from: particles/main.particle

Sound Initialization
Set primary sound buffer format: yes
Using secondary sound buffer
   2 channel(s)
   16 bits/sample
   22050 bytes/sec
DirectSound initialized
Sound sampling rate: 22050
CDAudio_Init: No CD in player.
CD Audio Initialized
Missing RIFF/WAVE chunks
wizard/hit.wav is a stereo sample

joystick not found -- no valid joysticks (a5)

execing quake.rc
execing default.cfg
execing config.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Loading entities from edo file
2 demo(s) in loop

VERSION 1.09 SERVER (23814 CRC)


Azure Agony | Tenebrae
Connectivity calculated
Copied 33606 vertices to hunk
couldn't exec profiles/player.cfg
276.2 megabyte data cache
Lightmap brightness set to 0.300000
]notarget 
notarget ON
]noclip 
noclip ON
You receive 100 health

The command line I use to quickly verify results is:

Tenebrae.exe -width 1920 -height 1080 -bpp 32 -heapsize 500000 -condebug +map e4m7

Hope it helps. Thanks in advance!

[Mancubus]

Finally, I managed to solve all the problems and make all the models I wanted to work in Tenebrae as intended.

Here's the final result: Picasa Web Albums - Maxim Polulyakh - Tenebrae 11-0...

Well, upload to http://www.filedropper.com/ takes longer than I expected, so if you wish, you may download it from russian narod.ru: http://narod.ru/disk/4610600001/tene...10130.exe.html , just enter the captcha and press "Скачать".

I've got an idea. Industri is the next version of Tenebrae and it's first version seems to support Quake's maps - I was able to successfully start game and play a couple of minutes. The problem is that it's also, as Tenebrae before, doesn't run on x64 systems.

I guess, I will ask MH to try and fix this also if the source code is still available.

[LambentHammerBurst]

What did you do to fix them? Would be interested in knowing (I use Tenebrae time to time)

[Mancubus]

In fact, as I am completely lame in such things and didn't know what I was doing exactly, it was more, as we say, the shaman's dance with the tambourine.

So all written below will make any professional laugh his ass off. :-)

I opened the models in Misfit Model 3D. The first thing I noticed was the MD3_PATH variable in Ruohis models, pointing to what was his desktop. I didn't know either it matters, but as anyone except Ruohis don't have that path, I simply deleted it. Then I reassigned the texture and saved model. AFAIR, that's all.

Also, I have to mention, that I had to do it with those models you have published for the mission packs, because they were also shown without textures. I don't know, either I lost or broken something as result, but they have started to look textured in thу game, so this alone made me happy

[Mancubus]

I have several updates.

1. Several issues are found: a) player is drowned into the floor on e3m3. This is known Tenebrae bug; b) game crashes at e2m7. This is caused by textures memory overflow. I had to downscale those e2m7 uses to 512*512. You can download this fix from here (russian file hosting, enter Captcha and press "Скачать") or here (this is my uTorrent seeding). It's 47 MB in size.

2. I have set my uTorrent to seed.

So, here are the links for Tenebrae: pack and fix.

[R00k]

It is sad with your quality gfx card you are getting below 50fps.
DarkPlaces can handle all the media you are using at > 200fps.