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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Turnsky on March 03, 2004, 11:44:30 pm

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Turnsky on March 03, 2004, 11:44:30 pm

okay, as some of you may be aware, i have problems with HTL, and shine mapping..
namely.. with HTL, shinemaps don't work.. (i've tried every possible flag)
without.. no probs but ****ty framerate..
i have a Radeon 9000 pro (128mb) with 4.2 catalyst drivers..
Athlon 1.8ghz
256mb ddr
Direct X 9b, and the whole shebang..

and if this helps.. here.. the d3d caps thingy as saved from the launcher (4.x)
http://nodewar.penguinbomb.com/aotd/Turnsky/D3D8%20CAPS%20Turnsky.txt


if you need my dxdiag stats, please PM me..

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Turnsky on March 04, 2004, 12:11:28 am

oh, it would be a help if somebody could recreate this error.. anybody got a spare 9000 lurking about?

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: ChronoReverse on March 04, 2004, 12:15:09 am

Hmmm, IIRC the Radeon 9000 has a bug where FS2_open seems to have problems with it.

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Kazan on March 04, 2004, 12:19:18 am

are you using the 2/12 catalysts

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Turnsky on March 04, 2004, 12:36:15 am

i'm using the very latest Catalyst driver set..

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: RandomTiger on March 04, 2004, 02:49:12 am

I have a R7000 now, specular lighting doesnt work so shinemaps might not work either. I'll take a look when I can, Im very busy though, please be patient :)

However if you do learn anything report it in mantis.
One question does D3D fogging work for you?

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Turnsky on March 04, 2004, 03:09:12 am

D3D fogging?

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: RandomTiger on March 04, 2004, 03:17:21 am

In nebula missions ships should fade into the fog,
Actually dont bother, you dont have an upto date version that supports vertex fog. I might post you an exe.

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Turnsky on March 04, 2004, 03:30:12 am

oh, the ships do fade..

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Turnsky on March 04, 2004, 04:34:20 am

Quote

Originally posted by RandomTiger
In nebula missions ships should fade into the fog,
Actually dont bother, you dont have an upto date version that supports vertex fog. I might post you an exe.

ah, cool.. thanks a bunch..

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: kasperl on March 04, 2004, 06:19:50 am

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Originally posted by RandomTiger
I have a R7000 now, specular lighting doesnt work so shinemaps might not work either. I'll take a look when I can, Im very busy though, please be patient :)

However if you do learn anything report it in mantis.
One question does D3D fogging work for you?

huh?

last time i tried it, on my R7k, it did seem to work.

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Turnsky on March 04, 2004, 07:00:07 am

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Originally posted by kasperl



huh?

last time i tried it, on my R7k, it did seem to work.

well, i dunno what's up with that.. but at least somebody's emulated the same error i had...
:)

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: kasperl on March 04, 2004, 07:15:35 am

huh.

time for an eye check perhaps.

really, i thought i saw spec working in at least on build.
i'll check.

edit: well  i'll be damned, it doesn't work on my system after all.

R7k, PIII 800, 192MB sdram, win98SE, 20-01-04r, D3D, latest drivers AFAIK.

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Turnsky on March 04, 2004, 10:48:45 pm

well, there's something for the bug-hunters to track down and kill..

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Bobboau on March 04, 2004, 11:05:46 pm

hey, download the version of Aurora in my sig and try to load something, it uses a very similar specmapping effect.

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Drew on March 04, 2004, 11:09:18 pm

iv been *****ing about this for a long time lol.
Phreak has the problem along with a couple other ppl. Im supprised this went unnoticed for so long.

It dosnt work on a radeon 9200 either.
bobs env build makes it more obvious; its almost like the whole shine code: lighing, *and* mapping, dosnt even er... happen

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Bobboau on March 04, 2004, 11:18:31 pm

in the env, build does it seem like it's being mapped?

Title: Very strange indeed..
Post by: Turnsky on March 05, 2004, 03:24:01 am

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Originally posted by Bobboau
hey, download the version of Aurora in my sig and try to load something, it uses a very similar specmapping effect.

it *****es me out for no textures.. 'sides i don't have any POF's handy..:blah: