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Well, it's not in eng.text and I can't recall being able to put this weapon in a map. I made a test map around two years ago where I placed one of each item by going through the item indices in the editor, and that one never showed up. Maybe the SMG replaces some ither gun, perhaps the Naomi IV Assault rifle (since Cheule starts with it)?
Also, some fan art, if you will: Bioweapon container / stasis tank. It is clear from the cut location-specific conversations that the team was to stumble upon a bioweapons lab. Cue the sound of shattering glass... Custom world map test. I think it came out pretty good! The beach/coastlines could use some randomization but it's a decent start. Last edited by Cherno; 20 September 2021 at 14:11. |
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Wow, that looks fantastic! You could probably add the container tanks as new "tree" graphics in the tile set and use them, there's only like one "tree" defined in that set as it's used for those weird metal tower things.
The landscape generator is in HGCD32/Fscape7 There are the basic source codes for earlier versions as well, but that is definitely the latest one, dated 1992 in the source. You need hisoftbasic.library to run it, but a quick google got that for me. |
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Thanks! Yes, I used the generator. I managed to find the library after some time. Speaking of trees, the Graphics/Style1/tree_old.ilbm file shows three different kinds of trees (two are doubled), of which only the first one is used in the released game. the others might have been just for testing, or for other map styles, or it was planned to have multiple trees per map style. |
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Yes, the Save function doesn't seem to work. I just took a screenshot of the WinUAE window, then edited in Photoshop (resized / cropped, colored the water, overlaid mountain shadows, added coastlines, added water gradient, palettized to 256 colors, overlaid clouds, and then some location graphics).
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EDIT: Also it looks like you are both right on the Sub-Machine gun as well. Seems like this was new for 39.26, as it's in the items.ilbm for both the OCS and AGA versions. Where this gets weird is that clearly the item was intended to be in the game at an earlier point. It's not in 37.14 or the retail 39.25, in the latter it's a junk entry. However, if you look in the ItemIllustraions.pp file that was created for the game's manual you will see this... So, while there was no graphic for this weapon yet, it was intended for the final game, and would even be slotted into the space in the inventory it's present in in 39.26. EDIT2: I'm talking total bobbins about getting the SMG in the new levels (although I think you do on at least one) - more importantly it's now given to Clavius as his default weapon in 39.26 instead of a crappy blaster. He's still listed as having a blaster in the commentes of characters.s but he now gets item 28 instead of 19 that he used to have. Last edited by UnnamedCourier; 20 September 2021 at 18:56. |
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Cherno: Thanks for providing the updated link I only played the demo and never really got into the game, but I'm glad you guys are happy. So you guys just want this game updated so that it runs on AGA with 256 colour graphics?
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from coldstartup.s cmp.l #$20361714,(a1) bne.s .not_cheat1 cmp.l #$21171325,4(a1) bne.s .not_cheat1 cmp.b #$33,8(a1) bne.s .not_cheat1 st.b cheat_mode move.w #30000,d2 .loop2 move.w #$f00,$dff180 dbf d2,.loop2 move.w #0,$dff180 .not_cheat1 cmp.l #$12142024,(a1) bne.s .not_cheat2 cmp.l #$12281919,4(a1) bne.s .not_cheat2 cmp.b #$20,8(a1) bne.s .not_cheat2 st.b cheat_mode2 move.w #30000,d2 .loop3 move.w #$0f0,$dff180 dbf d2,.loop3 move.w #0,$dff180 .not_cheat2 cmp.l #$20241737,(a1) bne.s .not_cheat3 cmp.b #$20,4(a1) bne.s .not_cheat3 st.b cheat_mode st.b cheat_mode2 st.b cheat_mode3 Last edited by redblade; 21 September 2021 at 00:34. |
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I really don't care for the AGA graphic "enhancements". Some select features would be nice, like the additonal sound effects, and maybe the ceiling light and tile brightness, although I am on the fence about that since it does look washed out. The recolored item and character sprites loks rather bad, for the most part. I am planning to restart my efforts at a Unity-based remaster later this year, but scaling back the project goals so it's more like a direct remake with a few quality of life improvements.
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One thing I noticed in the source code called "cheats" is there are other debug functions that can somehow be enabled such as dumping out the screen and recording mouse movements (these are used for the rolling demo option that was possible with the Amiga Format coverdisk). I don't know if there are other codes or it has to be compiled with these options enabled. |
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There is also a "Voxel" archive but I don't know yet what that is about.
Edit: And a DropShadow archive, which curiously is a workbench effect that is supposed to add a shadow to all workbench elements. Scott apparently modified to original code a bit and it ended up being included in the files for some reason. When I tried running the program, the workbench screen became stretched vertically and I couldn't do much. I was hoping this to be related to Hired Guns,like some sort of Duke3D-style shadows for character sprites Last edited by Cherno; 21 September 2021 at 01:59. |
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Updated Fscape7 with working save (work:worldmap.ilbm), added 640x640 resolution and generator options higher values for testing.
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That's great work! However, I'd prefer if the bitflag names would be kept for the Type (Hill, Mountain, Alps,...) for the previously-existing ones. Also, the lowest settings seems to have been overrwritten? The one that created plains with little elevations. And I have no work directory, is there some way to pass a different save directory?
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For now its too many bitflags so I use numbers, old Alps is 110000. Rugd is connected to Type so 512 and 100000 is close to old Alps and make only small hills. To make plains use lowest value with higher Rugd, but its not problem to get back old values, names and mix with new ones. I make new release today. Just assign work: to any directory, or make floppy "work".
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For me works fine.
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About enhancements, it's interesting for Me. But not all of them, regarding too much changed colours. But it could be better recoloured for 256 colour palette than in PC version, which is indeed recoloured too much even for me. |
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480*384 doesn't work, and I wouldn't be surprised if the other non-square sizes would also not yield useable snapshots. My guess is that the differing width dimensions cause errors in the saving routine. Maybe there's a nested loop that uses only width or only height for both loops.
Regarding the bar: The counter could be repurposed of course But I wanted to make some bar furniture, since I remember a screenshot of the HG 2 Beta where a dark Cyberpunk bar was shown. In the backstory told in the manual, they do tend to hang out in their ship's bar/lounge a lot, there's even an arcade machine Maybe there could be shops in some maps if you can find them, in out-of-the-way areas behind secure doors. As for the colors: My wish would be to apply new colors where it makes sense, namely to give faces and other skin areas of character sprites a subtle, more lively tone, since they all look pretty ashen-faced right now In any case, new colors should generally be muted like the originals, nothing flashy except for elements that are supposed to glow or shine; here, strong colors might be used sparingly (so far there's only red and green to a lesser degree). |
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