Adding the D1 reactor to D2 levels?

Xfing · Postby **Xfing** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:14 pm

I know that DLE doesn't support this at the moment, but it should be noted that Descent2.HAM contains all the necessary files for the D1 reactor. It theoretically should be possible to add it to D2 levels. It has the flag "0", while the D2 reactors are flagged "1" to "6".

I'm not posting this via ticket at Sourceforge because this isn't an error, but could I request the enabling of adding the D1 reactor to D2 levels in DLE?

Postby **karx11erx** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:43 pm

What would be the point of doing that?

Pumo · Postby **Pumo** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:21 am

Oh yeah, Devil (or SDLDevil) is able to put the D1 reactor on D2 levels, but is a rare practice (although I did it sometimes ago on some very old, ugly levels, lol).

I suppose you (xfing) want to put the D1 reactor on D2 levels for your D 1.5 project?

Xfing · Postby **Xfing** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:12 am

karx11erx wrote:What would be the point of doing that?

Ummm... having more creative liberty? The D1 reactor is quite an iconic piece of modeling if you ask me. Plus all the files are just sitting there going to waste. Would be really nice to have it.

Pumo wrote:Oh yeah, Devil (or SDLDevil) is able to put the D1 reactor on D2 levels, but is a rare practice (although I did it sometimes ago on some very old, ugly levels, lol).

I suppose you (xfing) want to put the D1 reactor on D2 levels for your D 1.5 project?

Exactly. I have already finished converting my D1 level to D2 to the point where it's completely indistinguishable texture-wise (well, bar the palette differences between D1 and GROUPA) and the only thing left to add is the reactor. I think its behavior is identical to the GROUPA reactor anyway, but its appearance still makes as strong a statement as ever. So the reactor is pretty important to me alright.

Postby **karx11erx** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 2:52 pm

DLE would only need to allow you to select reactor #0 in D2 levels, right?

Xfing · Postby **Xfing** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 4:40 pm

karx11erx wrote:DLE would only need to allow you to select reactor #0 in D2 levels, right?

I think basically yeah, it amounts to just that.

Sirius · Postby **Sirius** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:48 am

...yeah, I've figured out how to do it :mrgreen:

Extra line of code in about five places or so.

Postby **karx11erx** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:54 am

Go ahead.

Xfing · Postby **Xfing** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:27 am

Yay! Good on you, Sirius!

While you're at it, take care of the reactor being automatically replaced to the GROUPA one upon conversion from D1 to D2, that's probably also dependent on some coding..

Sirius · Postby **Sirius** » Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:58 am

OK, so 1.11.76 is out which should do this.

I believe it also has the fix for the in-editor transparency problem - please advise if you are still experiencing issues with this. I wasn't able to reproduce any transparency glitches that would show up in-game.

Xfing · Postby **Xfing** » Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:58 pm

Sirius wrote:OK, so 1.11.76 is out which should do this.

I believe it also has the fix for the in-editor transparency problem - please advise if you are still experiencing issues with this. I wasn't able to reproduce any transparency glitches that would show up in-game.

Sounds amazing, Sirius. I'm gonna try this out immediately. Thanks.

EDIT: The reactor looks and works awesome, thanks for the implementation. However, I still have the same transparency issues I had.

http://speedy.sh/Zn7Ac/luntitan.zip

Here's the level in question. See what you can make of it.

Sirius · Postby **Sirius** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 11:15 pm

Found it after only about three hours... it was a bug in the POG saver. The kind that looks like it's doing exactly the right thing until you look under a microscope and realize it's actually working from subtly wrong data.

Now I need some Tylenol

Xfing · Postby **Xfing** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:38 am

Sirius wrote:Found it after only about three hours... it was a bug in the POG saver. The kind that looks like it's doing exactly the right thing until you look under a microscope and realize it's actually working from subtly wrong data.

Now I need some Tylenol

Hahaha, you sure deserve it :lol:

Postby **karx11erx** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:41 am

For you, Sirius

Xfing · Postby **Xfing** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 1:58 am

While you're at it, you might wanna double-check the code for 1.11.76. I have encountered quite a bit of instabilities compared to the previous version - most particularly: the editor crashes randomly much more often than this would happen before. During random tasks like clicking on a segment wall or running the diagnostics. Once it even completely screwed up the placement of the few basic objects I had in my level, and even in one instance, disabled doors from opening by being shot at. With no message at all, the doors just behaved as though they were walls. Some weird stuff, probably all due to like 1 letter in the code gone wrong or something

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