Operation: Arctic Wolf Revisited (v. 4.1) I'm outta here

[BFG]

Looking really fun! I like those new mug shots, maybe it is a different character, perhaps it is B.J's brother Nigel 'N.J' Blazkowicz, who was a soldier that was discharged for having polio disease (common in the 1940's), so he went solo, replaced his leg with a strong artificial one (made from similar material as Mecha Hitler's suit) and went off to do his own part for the war.

[CeeJay]

Don't get your hopes up, I recently changed the mugshot back to BJ. Sorry to disapoint. However, I also made some polish to the HUD while I was at it, getting rid of those ugly black outlines on the icons and whatnot.

[armymen12002003]

yea i noticed those black outlines during my testing.

[Enjay]

perhaps it is B.J's brother Nigel 'N.J' Blazkowicz...

What a terrible name. Who would call their kid tha... oooohhhh!

[CeeJay]

Nothing wrong with a little toilet humour

You'll be able to drink from smashed toilets, ala Duke Nukem 3D. 'cos interactivity is fun.

I've also changed two of the easter eggs to something a little more fitting, as the originals were a little odd to say the least. A smurf in the toilet onboard a submarine? I know it is both a reference to the Smurfs and an old video game but I don't get the connection. What does smurfs have to do with submarines, or water for that matter. It's just too random, which kind of makes the whole joke fall flat. The poster of the Yellow Submarine from the movie of the same name was a clever one, though. Probably should change the Bill Clinton one come to think about it, since it's a little dated by this point.

[Graf Zahl]

It runs smoothly on low-end machines, with only occasional slow-downs. These are points I can not say for GZDoom, which I have had nothing but problems with.

I'm just wondering: What's the issues you had with GZDoom? It sounds a bit strange to me, I always had problems with SDL 1.x ports, which for many years meant I steered clear of nearly everything else but ZDoom and children. It only got better after ports started using SDL 2.

Also, speed: 3DGE running faster than GZDoom? That's something I never heard before. What kind of hardware do you use?

[CeeJay]

On my current hardware this is what I get when trying to run GZDoom

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Execution could not continue.

Unable to load shader Default:
Init Shader 'Default':
Vertex shader:
Vertex shader failed to compile with the following errors:
ERROR: 0:2: '' : extension 'GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object' is not supported
ERROR: compilation errors. No code generated.


Fragment shader:
Fragment shader failed to compile with the following errors:
ERROR: 0:2: '' : extension 'GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object' is not supported
ERROR: 0:87: 'LightBufferUBO' : syntax error parse error
ERROR: compilation errors. No code generated.


Linking:
Vertex and Fragment shader(s) were not successfully compiled before glLinkProgram() was called. Link failed.

I remember having it working on one of my older computers, but I would get a lot of slowdowns. I just didn't run very well. EDGE/3DGE has always run fine for me on every computer I've had.

EDIT: I never said 3DGE was faster than GZDoom. I just said it runs smoothly.

[Graf Zahl]

What's your specs? My guess would be Intel HD 3000, because the extension error is a classic bug of Intel's GLSL compiler that has already prompted several workarounds and HD3000 would be the only hardware advertising as GL 3 but requiring an extension to use uniform buffers.

I need to know precisely because that driver will require special handling so that it is forced down to GL 2.x.

Can you run 'GZDoom +logfile log.txt' and post the output?

[CeeJay]

I have a HD 3200 ATI Radeon

If its the contents of log.txt you're after, then here you go:

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Log started: Fri May 19 20:09:25 2017

M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults.
Using program directory for storage
W_Init: Init WADfiles.
adding C:/Spel/GZDoom/gzdoom.pk3, 672 lumps
adding ./doom.wad, 2306 lumps
I_Init: Setting up machine state.
CPU speed: 2095 MHz
CPU Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
Name: AMD Sempron(tm) SI-42
Family 17 (17), Model 3, Stepping 1
Features: MMX MMX+ SSE SSE2 SSE3 3DNow! 3DNow!+
I_InitSound: Initializing FMOD
FMOD Sound System, copyright © Firelight Technologies Pty, Ltd., 1994-2009.
Loaded FMOD version 4.44.60
V_Init: allocate screen.
S_Init: Setting up sound.
ST_Init: Init startup screen.
Checking cmd-line parameters...
S_InitData: Load sound definitions.
G_ParseMapInfo: Load map definitions.
Texman.Init: Init texture manager.
ParseTeamInfo: Load team definitions.
LoadActors: Load actor definitions.
script parsing took 616.92 ms
R_Init: Init Doom refresh subsystem.
DecalLibrary: Load decals.
M_Init: Init menus.
P_Init: Init Playloop state.
ParseSBarInfo: Loading default status bar definition.
ParseSBarInfo: Loading custom status bar definition.
D_CheckNetGame: Checking network game status.
player 1 of 1 (1 nodes)
I_InitInput
I_StartupMouse
I_StartupKeyboard
I_StartupXInput
I_StartupRawPS2
I_StartupDirectInputJoystick
GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_RENDERER: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
GL_VERSION: 3.1.8787 BETA (Compatibility profile)
GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 1.30
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend GL_AMD_performance_monitor GL_ARB_color_buffer_float GL_ARB_compatibility GL_ARB_copy_buffer GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_draw_buffers GL_ARB_draw_instanced GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow GL_ARB_fragment_shader GL_ARB_framebuffer_object GL_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB GL_ARB_half_float_pixel GL_ARB_half_float_vertex GL_ARB_instanced_arrays GL_ARB_map_buffer_range GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_shader_texture_lod GL_ARB_shading_language_100 GL_ARB_shadow GL_ARB_shadow_ambient GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_compression_rgtc GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_float GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_texture_rg GL_ARB_texture_snorm GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_array_object GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ARB_window_pos GL_ATI_draw_buffers GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap GL_ATI_fragment_shader GL_ATI_meminfo GL_ATI_separate_stencil GL_ATI_texture_compression_3dc GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATI_texture_float GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_bindable_uniform GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_copy_buffer GL_EXT_copy_texture GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 GL_EXT_draw_instanced GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample GL_EXT_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters GL_EXT_gpu_shader4 GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil GL_EXT_packed_float GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_provoking_vertex GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shadow_funcs GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_subtexture GL_EXT_texgen_reflection GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_array GL_EXT_texture_buffer_object GL_EXT_texture_compression_latc GL_EXT_texture_compression_rgtc GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_integer GL_EXT_texture_lod GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_texture_sRGB GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent GL_EXT_texture_snorm GL_EXT_texture_swizzle GL_EXT_transform_feedback GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_KTX_buffer_region GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_conditional_render GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color GL_NV_primitive_restart GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays GL_WIN_swap_hint WGL_EXT_swap_control
Max. texture size: 8192
Max. texture units: 16
Max. varying: 64
Max. uniform block size: 65536
Uniform block alignment: 4

**** DIED WITH FATAL ERROR:
Unable to load shader Default:
Init Shader 'Default':
Vertex shader:
Vertex shader failed to compile with the following errors:
ERROR: 0:2: '' : extension 'GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object' is not supported
ERROR: compilation errors. No code generated.


Fragment shader:
Fragment shader failed to compile with the following errors:
ERROR: 0:2: '' : extension 'GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object' is not supported
ERROR: 0:87: 'LightBufferUBO' : syntax error parse error
ERROR: compilation errors. No code generated.


Linking:
Vertex and Fragment shader(s) were not successfully compiled before glLinkProgram() was called. Link failed.

[Graf Zahl]

Sigh...
It's truly amazing what 'quality' ATI's drivers of early GL 3.x hardware were...
OpenGL 3.1 should mean GLSL 1.4, yet this only reports 1.3 and this discrepancy just fell through the cracks. No wonder you are having problems with this particular graphics card and driver, it's probably the worst thing imaginable for GZDoom.

I'll have to add a check that this gets forced down to OpenGL 2.1, because the GL 3 renderer cannot work with the given feature set.

Is this even the most recent driver available? Even for this hardware something better should be available, the card is nominally capable of running OpenGL 3.3.

[DeathIncarnate]

The cancelled mugshot kinda looked like B.J from RTCW.

[CeeJay]

Kinda does, actually.

This project has not been abandoned for those wondering about its status, I just haven't had as much time to work on it. The only big thing I have left to do is to write the text for the crawl at the end of the game, which'll be interesting since my grammar is horrible.

[CeeJay]

Work is slow and steady.

All new screenshots:

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[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Lookin' excellent CJ.

Can you tell us what else we can expect next?

[CeeJay]

Expect to see a full release soon. It won't be No Blade of Agony, but it'll be a bucket of fun with a surprise or two along the way.