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woot to Supreme Commander!! if I wasn't completely broke trying to almost replace every single part on my PC that originally cost me around 2 grand I would definitely get that game :P Also I'm no diedel here :lol: but I do know that saving texture memory to system memory is an ABSOLUTE NO NO. Heh, I ...

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Valin, Do you have SLI GPU's, Nvidia and Vista are working on more compatible drivers for that but if you are using that type of setup you might want to turn it off for D2X. Also, I have had problems with Nvidias latest drivers as well and they are working on it now actually :) let's just hope that ...

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lol...looks like an oops there =D

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good lord diedel was right you guys are trolls!

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stop inciting this....everybody and let it blow over omg. Everyone is acting like little kids here. And DONT call me wrong read it all back....it's kinda funny in a twisted sort of way.

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yea well it's not so that I can't live with it, I put the D2X-Xl data on my RAID striped array and so far it's cut load time by like 10x....or so it seems

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Hmm call me slow here but I really didn't know that D2X-XL was totally CPU dependent. I thought the graphics card had SOMETHING to do with it. Either way I have 2 7900GTX's in SLI my anitaliasing is crankd to about... 8x AA 16xAF v-sync: on image settings: high quality mipmaps: trilinear ...

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sorry bout that, didn't have much time to play as i was sick for most of the testings duration. As a level set it feels great, and plays solid. good work diedel.

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lol yea i thought that res was too high i'll scale it down in the future. All settings are maxed out except for Open-GL lighting (which is what you said to leave off). This didn't happen before with high-rez textures or powerups enabled but when i turned them off nothing really happened. I wish I ...

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http://upload6.postimage.org/344897/untitled.jpg this is what I'm seeing....parts of the level that I shouldn't be seeing. I don't know whats going on but I thought you might like to see it. Yes the image is bigg too I play at like 1680x1050. I can scale it down if you need me to. No bugs yet so ...

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gotcha and yes i got through them (on my own lol not with DLE-XP). I see what you mean and as it stands with that point it is a very well thought out level and very good. I'm having fun playing it many times! having a tough time with this boss on first lvl but nothing to major...still very fun. EDIT ...

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lmao...the first boss room in the first level i didn't realize it WAS a boss room......so I ate a smart missle in the face haha. Awesome room for the boss however. Lots and i mean lots of places to duck and evade those $!#& smart missles and their spawn. The level design is very fluent and very ...

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sorry diedel, lol im trying to get past the first part in the first level (i can't figure out where the trigger is to unlock the doors :oops: . So far the amount and configuration of robots is awesome, no real change needed there. The lighting issue that you fixed works better and the other minor ...

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sorry diedel the aformentioned post was refering to the first level.

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ok from what I see there is a grave inconsistency of energy. The first main room has lighting bugs of some kind (it was rendering really weird). This is having everything and i mean EVERYTHING maxed out. OpenGL lighting enabled shadows and smoke maxed out range on everything maxed out. The amount ...

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yea lol I should have a computer that can run D2X-XL. A dual core AMD 4GHZ combined with 2 7900GTX's and 2GB overclocked corsair RAM....Where's the level lol. On the other hand e-mail sent.

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ill do it!! i love new levels. not to mention testing new stuff

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I'd say that either your video card doesn't support the required OpenGL needed by D2X-XL. Or that you don't have the newest version (2.0 i think) installed. Don't take my word for it though as I'm not a mac user and don't fully know how it works. It's just a thought.

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lawl!!!

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Please use PM instead.

Thank you.

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I see what you mean but what I'm saying is...Ok for a scenario. I'm loading a level made by someone that has a custom robot. That's fine but Diedel if you put it into the level data (mn2) a table of any custom bots and any other data needed to load them into memory for use you really wouldn't have ...

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Going into what Chaos was asking about incorporating custom models into d2x-xl, wouldn't it be possible to have, a routine that, say searched for custom bots in the bot folder and load them up with d2x-xl upon startup? That way if the person wanted to play a level with them they'd already be loaded ...

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Nice....what else is there to say

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a poly reduction scheme allowed for the crunching of 250 polys to about 190!! Yay. Starting on the P.I.G.

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here's the model with dizzy's helpful hints I believe it looks far better. But for some reason the edges on the gun don't want to fillet at all! :x I come up with a non-manifold vertex error :? and i have No clue as to to solution to get it fixed. Other than that a few little tweaks and it'll be ...

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besides microsoft has been planning a service pack to make the massive DRM hit and the annoying security advisor much easier to deal with and not such a PITA. Give it some time man I don't believe they're going to keep it like it is forever.

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google vista beta version (fill in blank) and openGl drivers. I found em on a forum and they work awesome! They aren't even that hard to install.

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Actually Vista supports OpenGL like its native D3D. In fact, Microsoft has said that in vista openGl will run better than its own API. It has full support I was a beta tester for that. The drivers are, mind you, hard to install and/or find but once they're in it works just like XP....BTW yes i have ...

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Ok I over-reacted....it's not the first time lol. I scaled down the hull but as for edgy with the hull I'll pretty much have to re-do the poly's around it by hand. Also because this robot is frustrating the heck outta me I've started on the guidebot.

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Well I see what you mean. However you do Not have to be as blunt as you were :x ! I realized that yes the proportions were outta whack and needed to be fixed and as for your comments Chaos....I'm doing this on my own free will. I love this game and want to see it be bettered, however if you just ...

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those ideas sparked a new question....is it possible for me to (after I create most if not all of the original robots, to create some brand new ones for like an \"expansion pack\" type thing?) i have ome cool robot designs but I can't utilize them because they look nothing like the original bots ...

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will do....and thanks for the ideas!

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took your smoothing idea into play diedel and it turned out great. This shot shows it. http://upload5.postimage.org/365336/gunwithbody.jpg The above pic shows the smoothing I applied to the body as well as the gun, which IMHO is awesome....feel free to tell me anything that could use changes or any ...

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smoothing is an option but increases polys almost ten-fold at points...also yes I got some really great tuts (from the modelers that made UT2003!) that showed me how to take an ordinary cube and morph it into a person with armor. With this I'm hoping to be able to include rivets from scarring etc ...

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Here is the latest model I'm working on....it took me about 30 minutes to make instead of the hours it took me to do the other junk I was working on so these tutorials helped immensely! 8) I'm sure you all will probably say that looks really cartoony and/or blocky but give it time....(Rome wasn't ...

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Just wonering but is there a way to select what pat of the model gets the poly cuts? What I'm pretty much saying is....can you take a falt faced part of a gun that might consist of...say.....5 faces and make it into maybe 1-3 faces? Also for the rounded cylindrical like surfaces....are they NURBS ...

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ok....there's good news and bad news... the good news is that I got my grubby paws on 3ds max. This should be a boon for dizzy as we don't have to worry about conversion anymore. Yay! Also 3ds max is, for me far easier to use than maya which was a royal PITA! This will result in more detailed and ...

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well diedel i converted the models over to 3ds like dizzy requested and id give them to him...after i scaled down the number of polys...which btw i was looking at the edges and not the actual faces lol..its more like 2000-5000 without any messing around with em. I can do 1000 i thnk but massive ...

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Conversion Complete!

however, I am unable to upload the file. How exactly do I go about doing this?

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dizzy....maya can read the .obj files...however, the models are Extremely small :!: i'll post the vulcan screenie here... http://upload5.postimage.org/265906/vulcan.jpg this is zoomed in about 250% possibly more. just thought i'd let you know....conversion in progress......... :) EDIT: to everyone ...

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