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Generic-y Wallpaper Engine wallpaper.

I thought my desktop was pretty bad, but when I see other peoples' desktops, mine actually looks pretty decent when compared.

Don't know how you live with that @Admer.

Oh no not this..

^

It might be a problem if this site had thousands of daily users, but it doesn't.

Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJVdcEmmPo8.

Just got the opportunity to play HL:R, really impressed by it. I just arrived into Emerson. I love the gloomy mood and tone of the game, the voice acting is pretty great, even with it's mistakes, it just makes it all the more better.

Most of my problems are really minor actually, they just go down to level details mostly. And on that makes it sometimes quite hard to find keys and such, since there is actually too much detail.

Really solid game you guys got done.

Pretty excited to see how it’ll turn out.

I think your first mistake is using VHE.

Just let it compile for a while, take a walk or go grab something to eat. If no errors appear, let it go on, your computer could be slow. Some compiles take hours, if not days.

Well TIL, I wast just being a dick.

That’s a pretty neat tutorial. Might have to give my student edition another go.

Now a Pokémon port for GoldSrc! ._.

First off, ARRANGEMENT is a mod, not an engine. Just an overhaul of Half-Life. And it’s not similar to Xash, since Xash is an engine, it’s just Quake with Half-Life support shoehorned in.

Also, the Xash team wouldn’t sell it, for one thing, they live off donations, and making the source code private would kinda defeat the whole purpose of their project. And selling it will get the attention of Valve and their lawyers and probably the FBI if they’re persistent.

But then again, copyright prosecution in Russia (by the U.S.) is a joke. They’re safe for the most part. And most developers for the base engine proudly tout it alongside with their real names (with sometimes locations) so I feel that’s a tad irrelevant.

Also I don’t know how being deaf is related to reading, just what I’m ‘sayin.

@SSB I know learning another language is difficult, but do you even know what you write? I think that last paragraph you wrote was gibberish.

I don’t even think glue is that strong.

Outdated, it was a project of its time made to get things done, not efficiently. It’s all a hack. Newer version last 1.2 (IIRC) were not made by the developer, and add on even more spaghetti code.

Plus my own personal qualms with it.

Hey man, I’m not judging. Just saying there’s alternatives.

Well, for one thing, they’re poorly formatted, and somewhat outdated.

There needs to be updated and improved versions.

Oh Valve.

Is there some sort of check in the engine to see if it’s the ‘valve’ folder? Or the ‘gameui.dll’ doing that?

And SOHL, much less 1.5, yeesh.

Yeah I’d be interested in editorial roles of a programming related website, for engine documentation.

... You kinda have to have them programmed?

And spam.

;__; It’s like whatever we say can’t help you change your mind, much less settle on something.

And here we go on about C# again.

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Which is even more difficult than developing a PC game; take it from a seasoned GBA developer.

Albeit I haven’t released anything in years, I’d consider myself quite knowledgeable in GBA programming; and the 3DS is only a decade after the GBA, things haven’t changed too much at the core.. Look at your goddamn hardware limits for the GBA/3DS, PC beats everything in that regard.

You have to know C and ASM, very well. Incredibly well. I made that mistake when I thought I could do anything and jumped into GBA programming, it took me weeks to display pixels on the screen. People didn’t write documentation on it back then, much less now. (Which reminds me of another project of mine I need to get started on.)

You have to know the hardware and software register values. That is a must.

Also let’s go here, where do you begin? Do you use the raw ARM4 (IIRC) compilers and do everything yourself—your way? Do you use devkitAdv? A blend? How do you setup your Makefile, you have to know the build rules. You also need the MinGW msys for ‘make’.

Know how to structure functions…
How do you compress/decompress LZ data?
What was the register for setting mosaic mode?
What resolution should I run my game at?
Do I use the GCC inline ASM or have seperate files for ASM functions that interface with the GBA itself?
How do you write to files?
Display pixels? Sprites?
Do you do ‘void AgbMain(‘ or ‘int main(‘.
What’s the software interrupt for square roots? Is there even one? How many arguments does the function take? What does it return as? An integer? Maybe an unsigned 8-integer? Maybe even a double? Should you handle square roots yourself instead?

And the official documentation on sheds a sliver of light on these things.

The same can be applied to the 3DS, but it also has built in OpenGL capabilities, how do you start an OpenGL context? Is it already applied for you? How many stencil bits do you have? If any? How many functions does the 3DS OpenGL have?
(Upon further research, I was kinda wrong about this, Citrus has OpenGL-esque functions, which is the most common 3DS library you will use.)

I know I’m coming off as a complete asshole, and I know this is exaggerated, but people keep on telling you to start small and you never listen, look at all the stuff you have to know to even get started.

Do you use headers made by someone else, or define common values and functions yourself? Even know how to setup a V-Blank interrupt?

The list can go on for days, I can rant how fucking stupid some decisions Nintendo made.

But you keep biting off more than you can chew. And you never listen. And I feel it’s a recurring problem; not even with you, this website. I notice it. I’m sure others had too. /rant

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Holy hell man, you want people to make you stuff too?

;__;

Now I feel bad.

“2DS test unit”. Do you mean just a regular 2DS? What’s the point of the 2DS? Trying to home brew?.

Why are you always so over the place?…I’m gonna do this, oh wait, to hard, I’m gonna back down, oh yeah this thing too—just too hard for me. You literally just started an entire forum for your mod, seriously?

Probably doesn’t realize the importance of 1/1/70 anyways.

I see it a lot in Steam DLCs though, Valve might wanna look into that.

Honestly, I only ever looked up documentation for C++, aside from the occasional "this is the good mmethod to do this", or my first "int main( …)". I Just jumped into my first project and started looking at how things were done.

I seem to be doing fine myself, but I did have several hours to spend on end back then. Maybe somewhere there's some good tutorials I probably should've looked at.

I'm kinda interested too if good tutorials exist for C & C++. I only know so much, maybe like a good coding habits and advanced calls for me, I wanna know C++.

You mention HL2 and BM:S, is this for the Source engine or for GoldSource? But this topic is in the GoldSource forum.

IIRC, (at least in GoldSource); entities are transferred through levels, I dunno if theres an option or another entity that can get rid of them, I'm not a mapper.

What?

Maybe I don't entirely realize what you want to do—but can you not set any goals for yourself?

I'm right in the path to see it completely, (in Missouri). Literally the only good thing I can think of this place.

Can you give us a link to download your skybox files?

Maybe that could help.

You don't have to use Terragen for making skyboxes, any tool like Photoshop will suffice, as long as it supports exporting compressed .bmp and .tga files.

Don't forget the naming conventions and where your textures go. Also don't forget to set the name in worldspawn.

<mod directory>\gfx\env\<skyname><suffix>.bmp/.tga

Names go like <skyname>lf for example. You can do: lf, rt, up, dn, bk, ft. Left, right, up, down, back, and front; respectively.

I don't feel like many people know how to do that.

Adobe Audition?

@vodka95-ICR I wouldn't trust converting your files online, especially if you have to batch convert them.

I'd say Audacity is a damn fine tool. Can't say the same for GoldWave though.

Also, Audacity is FREE.

Dimbeak's method is just fine.

???... Are you implying Dropbox is an illegal file sharing site? Because Dropbox is not responsible for what their users upload. That's with the copyright holders.

I have a feeling you did something on Dropbox that would get you banned that you aren't mentioning.

I'm just saying, Mega.NZ is not recommended. Neither are uploading sites that give money out from ad revenue.

That won't affect your decision. I'm just pointing something out. You seem to be misunderstanding, Dropbox works just fine for me IMO.

Now can we please get back on topic?

Mediafire master-race.

Anyways, it doesn't really matter what you host it on as long as it isn't region-specific or makes you go through several pages to get to the download, so the uploader can make a few cents from the ads.

Dropbox is also good. Not Mega.nz though.

Well I'm stupid. Thanks for clarifying that Solokiller.

Glad the problem was solved.

That should do anything IIRC? Thats just putting the world in a FBO.

What is your graphics card/specs?

Only if I could catch a word of what you're saying.

Perhaps you misunderstand what additive is? It doesn't "throw" light.

Can you provide us a picture of the failed attempt in-game?

You forgot a 0 there. /s

It's gonna be 2057 while men colonize Mars and we have flying cars, we still won't have The Core; or even AM for that matter.

for( every year passed )
{
self.iterateCode( );
team.delay( 10000 );
Makepost( "%s has been delayed by %d %s. Sorry, doing reiterating of the source code.", mod.name, delayed.amount, delayed.dayormonthoryearsorforever );
}

It's overlapping textures from what the editor looks like. No need for that page at all.

You know, it's easy to fix, just resize the centre brush to fit in the outer edge.

To each their own.

Won't even try.

Hey SSB, why are you always trying to push C# stuff in everything you say? I mean, it's your own opinion it's better, it doesn't actually mean it's better in reality.

It's not like they pay you to promote C#/OpenTK/Unknown project thing. Just add the support yourself if that's what you're trying to achieve, instead of pressuring other people to implement it for you. Windows is good enough for just about anything, use a virtual machine if OSX/Linux is a must.

And your loader thing isn't legal nor would realistically be possible. Or whatever else you're trying to talk about, I can't really keep up with it.

/topic

And honestly, I'm hoping for new versions of Sledge, it's about time I put J.A.C.K to rest. I don't believe a map editor should be payed for. :/