ZDoom Portal Gun / ZPortal - (old topic)

[Ryan Cordell]

Just put it on hold and let it rot (It could end up becoming ZZombiePortal.. ) until you calm down and find ideas again.

[Sticky]

@ Cutman,
Hey, bumping this thread is MY job!?!? Get off of my turf!!!

Just take your time... or "leak" a pre-release and let us give you feedback.

[Cutmanmike]

Err... hmm... well... maybe... why not? It's been so long... Let's do what I did when I needed ghoul 3 advice shall we?

I'll hand pick a few of you to test what I have so far and see if you can give me any ideas, and some feedback. I'll post again when i've sent some PMs

[Sticky]

This is gonna be cruel when he doesn't pick me.....

Edit: YAY!

[Cutmanmike]

Sticky,
Zippy,
Vader,
HotWax,
Wills,
DoomRater,
Nash,
Project Dark Fox,
Phobus,
Bouncy,
TheDarkArchon...

It's your lucky day! Check yer inbox (forum)

Edit: Crap I forgot to add bouncy

Edit2: There

[Chris Neilson]

cutmanmike, all level finish?

[Sticky]

Ok, I need help with some GZdoom settings. I'm playing on a computer other than my own and so I haven't got everything tweaked out. And I'm such a GZdoom noob that I can't find which settings to adjust.....

First question: Why so foggy (this is in the ping pong part before the volcano)?

It's too foggy here. It's not supposed to look this crappy, is it?

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And then, why so dark

And looking down into the volcano is dark as hell!

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? It should look something more like this

Should look like this (I adjusted the gamma in Irfan)

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(Ok, it shouldn't actually be THIS bright, but I just wanted you to be able to see where I was talking about. It can be dark, just not this dark.... (it didn't used to be this dark).

[Sticky]

Furthermore....

Is this supposed to be white like this??

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and finally.... I'm stuck here:

I've pushed both switches, but I don't know where to go.... Needed a break anyway.

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Edit: I should add that so far this is sweet as hell. The first time I saw a droid I almost screamed. They're not that scary, really, but the first one definitely freaked me out. The new section is really good so far.

[Cutmanmike]

Yeah the volcano should be dark (maybe i'll make it a bit brighter) but I dunno what's going on with that fog. Just to make sure, where are you on that map exactly?

Yeah it's supposed to be white because the skybox is white at the bottom (as you can see in screenshot 2!). Anyway after you've hit the switches you have to backtrack until you find an area which you can pass now that you couldn't before.

[Sticky]

Ok, the white doesn't bother me. I just wanted to make sure it was displaying correctly. The volcano on my machine is just way too dark. Even with the ambient lighting (which is turned up pretty high) of the portals, I can't see the platforms--I've been cheating by pushing escape...something about activating the menu makes the background ligher--light enough to see the platforms. The foggy part is right before the volcano, where you have to sticky portal from pillar to pillar to get across the "ocean". That's my least favorite part of the map, although it's probably just because I can't see what I'm shooting at....

Edit: Ahh, ok. I didn't realize you could reopen those four walls that had shut. I had tried backtracking, but gotten stuck there and hadn't tried to "open" them.... Ok, back on track now.

[Cutmanmike]

Chaning the gamma might help. Try typing on the console "gamma 1.6" or something. If all else fails you can turn the depth fog off in the gzdoom options, but things will look a bit weird on map03 and map04 (only maps using fog so far)

[Sticky]

Gamma seems to have no effect on this machine. That's why I'm wondering what's wrong with my settings.... I've been pushing F11 and scrolling through all the gamma settings with no change....

Edit: Ok, I'll screw around with them then. I'm stuck again, but that's probably a good thing cause I need to get ready to go. Will report back later...

[Cutmanmike]

Weird. The only thing I can advise is try screwing around with the settings.

[Chris Neilson]

See sky are ok all lighting on floor and sky.


See blood are diffiented under dark of the line floor and ceil.

[Shadelight]

Hope the final version comes out soon.