OK here is the graphics demo

Tabulanis · Post by **Tabulanis** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:53 pm

I have decided to stopp production of this demo so be advised it is not fineshed but seeing as how it never will be I thought I would make it available. I am looking for comments and suggextions and questions about some things I might have missed so in the interests of the later I will declare a few known issues.

Collision is about half done.
Virgil is being used becuase I dont have a good shadow guy working yet.
If it is killing you frame rate turn off the shadows. (If it is still killing your frame rate tell me.)

in certain parts the demos textures are not quite lined up.
I have found that using a opengl driver works wonders for frame rate but kills the graphic quality.

Features...
Soft shadows.
Textured fog effects.
I room with an alpha'ed mirror effect on floor. (Looking for a better way to do this one.

Origional music, textures, actors.

Download it here.

http://www.frogfaith.com/downloads/FFPDemo.exe

copen · Post by **copen** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:24 pm

Hi Tabulanis

Would love to play your demo as the screens I have seen you produce looks amazing. However, the demo crashes for me just after the genesis logo. Dunno whats wrong. The log looks like this:

Initializing Game Shell...
--------------------------------------
--- Reality Factory 0.75 ---
--- For more Information, visit: ---
--- http://www.realityfactory.ca ---
--------------------------------------

Parsed RealityFactory.ini file

Genesis3D Initialized

VFS detected (not encrypted)...

Initializing Camera Manager...
Initializing User Input Subsystem...
Initializing Audio Manager Subsystem...
Initializing CD Audio Manager Subsystem...
Initializing Midi Audio Manager Subsystem...
Initializing RF Menu Manager Subsystem...
Initializing Network...
Loading Menu.ini...
Parsing Menu.ini...
Loading Character.ini...
Initializing Menu
Initializing Collision Manager Subsystem...
Initializing Network Manager Subsystem...
Initializing AVIFile Video Subsystem...
Launching Reality Factory Game Shell...

ardentcrest · Post by **ardentcrest** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:07 pm

Same Here

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:10 am

omg!!!!!!

196mb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will download it though and see if I can get it to work.

ZenBudha · Post by **ZenBudha** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:06 am

Same here I tried all the different video modes, and played with the setting with no luck. I'm on a pretty up to date machine as well.

Tabulanis · Post by **Tabulanis** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:52 am

Well thats messed up.
I dont know. It works here mabey It's the upload messed it up I'll check by downloading it to this machine

Tabulanis · Post by **Tabulanis** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:31 am

You know what its probably the video
Edit the reality factory ini to get rid of it. I bet thats it. I used the micosoft MP4 codec.
It works here but I bet thats it.

ardentcrest · Post by **ardentcrest** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:45 am

changing drivers did not work changing setup.ini did not work changing d3d24.ini did not work.

i also have micosoft MP4 codec

Thinking of changing my computer

hope you find the problem soon.

looked at the models. WOW

Tabulanis · Post by **Tabulanis** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:43 am

wELL i JUST DOWNOADED IT AND IT WORKS FINE HERE. iTS GOTTA BE THAT VIDEO. Caps lock I hat it. Any Yeah, I thinks its gotta be th video. The crash from what I hear starts just after the genisis logo, thats when the FFP video starts.

Juutis · Post by **Juutis** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:39 pm

WOOOOWWW!!!:shock: Amazing things can be done with RF! ...if you have TeH SkiLLz. That is just AWESOME!

It really is the video that causes the crash. I disabled that in the RealityFactory.ini file and it worked like a dream.

By the way I had some performance problems... my framerates were like 10-20 fps with the shadows. I got Athlon XP 2800+ (2GHz) processor and Ati Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card.

shadow · Post by **shadow** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:47 pm

yes I got it to work also by getting rid of Logosm2

Amazing work!

Great textures and lighting from what I've seen so far.
But on my computer at work its very choppy.
My work system has a pretty poor vid card btw
I'll try it tonight on my home system.

Keep up the great work.

ardentcrest · Post by **ardentcrest** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:57 pm

GOT IT WORKING.....

load in the "RealityFactory.INI" from "Update072Ato075" change the line "StartLevel=MenuReplyDemo.bsp" to
"StartLevel=Demo.bsp" and it worked.

go figure...

scott · Post by **scott** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:22 pm

yep

it worked, wel sort of, got pased the genesis logo, at least but took for ever to load on the loading screen, i think it was my computer as i was running alot of other programs at the same time but will try it later.

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:08 pm

I got it to work by removing the cutscene. The only thing I didn't like about the demo is when this happened. But thats only because your not finished with collision. so no complaint here. Btw I could watch all the cutscenes with windows media player so I'm not sure why It wouldn't play.

wxb1 · Post by **wxb1** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:41 pm

Very nice demo! Excellent art work! How did you manage the soft shadows?