Reality Factory

Well, I haven't posted much about the development progress lately so you may wonder what's going on behind the scenes besides the physics integration...
Here's a short list of what we have done lately

-Edited source code layout for better readability

-Fixed Bugs:

• camera flickering at start in 1st person mode
  shots not showing on all walls
  # of weapon slots not matching # of possible weapon IDs
  ActMaterial entity allocating a useless struct each tick
  LiftBelt system causing endless loop if more than 1 LiftBelt entity is placed in the level
  LiftBelt system not updating applied force correctly
  small bug in Damage system
  memory leak in FlipTree entity
  memory leak in Foliage entity
  bug in inventory initialization
  incorrect rotation in pawn routines
  player flashlight attched to "joint2" of weapon actor instead of rootbone if no bonename specified
  fixed pawn command GetStringLength
  smaller bugs in PWXImageManager and Procedurals

-Added features:

• Scaling of actors in x,y,z direction (instead of 1 scale value for all directions) (pawn command)
  Improved pawn command "PostionToPlayer"
  Added a CheckRange to the FixedCamera entity (limits the FOV used to check if the player is visible from the camera's position)
  Hanging Foliage

-Smaller improvements:

• added new constants to replace often used multiplications/divisions (such as GE_PI/2, 180/GE_PI, ...)
  removed unnecessary vector normalizations
  replaced distance checks by squared distance checks if possible

more to come...

oh yeah!

small bug in PWXImageManager

Depth/zDepth perhaps?

camera flickering at start in 1st person mode
shots not showing on all walls

I love you!

Are you working on DX9 support?

Hanging Foliage?

Any luck with the .vfs encryption?

This was introduced about 6 months ago in the RF demo send out
It's not the goal to hang "foliage" but to hang "spider webs", "dirt" etc...

You can find docs + test it on the RF with Physics alpha
There is also a poly-array entity that allows to hang or place polys in 3 dimensions

Just read the docs that where added to this alpha release

AWSOME!!!, thank you so much for the hard work, incredible,
Ani

this is some great stuff!

keep up the much appreciated good work guys!

We're getting nearer to a new release
finally added (and debugged) most of Nout's changes (except physics)

high level script commands

• ShowTextDelay
  ShowText
  GetConvReplyNr
  Concat
  GetAttribute
  SetAttribute
  ModifyAttribute
  GetFlag
  GetEventState
  MouseControlledPlayer

low level script commands

• SetCameraWindow
  SetFixedCameraPosition
  SetFixedCameraRotation
  SetFixedCameraFOV
  MoveFixedCamera
  RotateFixedCamera
  DistanceBetweenEntities
  SetPawnProperties
  SetAttributeProperties
  UpdateScriptPoint
  GetEntityScreenX
  GetEntityScreenY
  GetScreenWidth
  GetScreenHeight
  MouseSelect
  MouseControlledPlayer
  ShowMouse
  GetMousePosX
  GetMousePosY
  SetMousePos
  SetGamma
  GetGamma
  FillScreenArea
  RemoveFillScreenArea
  ShowText
  RemoveText
  ShowPicture
  SetShowHud
  GetShowHud
  SetAlpha
  GetAlpha
  SetEntityAlpha
  GetEntityAlpha
  SetScale
  SetEntityScale
  CheckArea
  SetFlag
  GetFlag

level controler commands

• ShowText
  SetPlatformSpeed
  SetDoorSpeed
  SetPlatformToTargetTime
  SetDoorToTargetTime
  SetFlag
  GetFlag
  PlatformDistance
  DoorDistance

Attribute entity has now a PowerUp option that increases the upper limit of Attribute amount and a FillUp option (increase attribute amount to max

Teleport entity got an optional fade out/fade in effect

TeleportTarget now has an orientation that can be used to align actors after teleporting

Messages can be separated into several lines (like in conversations)

GIF files useable in HUD elements

Fixed bug in
ModelManager (Door entity not reversing on collision)

Due to all these little improvements the framerate has increased 1-2 fps (not much but hey, every bit counts )

Stay tuned...

wow, those are some insanely useful pawn scripting commands, perhaps an rts might finally be possible.

dont feel bad about it only increasing 1-2 fps, most software gets slower as time goes on instead.

great job with all this!

It keeps getting better and better, thank you

Any luck with the .vfs encryption? If not, is it possible/easier to
dump it and go with some other encryption scheme? RF is going nowhere without any serious example content.

I'm currently looking into the vfs stuff... one of the last few things to do in the code before it can be released

i thought Nout said he had the encryption fixed in his physics-able version of rf. could be wrong.