tremulous in High quality

[harraps]

Hello, I was thinking that tremulous can be easily upgraded in HD like halo 3
We can do that with one thing
bump maping
I testing it on a dretch
and it's working.

some screens
in low quality


in high quality

If the high quality is ugly it's because I have used the dretch texture to bump map


With a tyran it's amazing



Does the quake3 engine can use bump map ?

[Redman]

Bumpmapping would look great but idtech3 is 10 year old engine and it doesn't support it. I hope someone will put xreal renderer into Tremulous so we could have bumpmapping and other nice graphic effects.

[harraps]

But xreal is already unvalable for quake3
so it's already unvalable for tremulous, isn't it ?

[gimhael]

like this ?

[harraps]

OH MY GOD !!!

I WANT IT !!!
god job...
sorry good job

[GLAMEOW]

looks pretty awesome

[CreatureofHell]

Shiny Metal Tyrant 

[CorSair]

Whoa.....

And that rant. It looks even more awesome.

Nice work, can't say more.

[harraps]

How do you do that ?
Where do you get that ?
Does it work on a mac ?

please answer to my questions

[gimhael]

I used a modified renderer (patch is here) and a normalmap generated with the gimp normalmap plugin.

That patch runs for hours on my Linux/NVidia box, but leaks memory like hell on my Windows/ATI box and AFAIK it was never tested on a Mac.

So there is still a bit of work ahead....

[Odin]

Hmm, it seems to crash Trem on my box with a segfault. Running x86_64 debian testing.

[Chomps123]

how do you put in the patch into the game?

[Aelita]

That is one wrinkly fucking dretch.

Also, I've tried to apply this patch to my modified TremFusion client I use, but christ, it's a soupy swamp of rejects. Maybe one day I'll get it working. :3

[gimhael]

Tremfusion has a few renderer additions (bloom, cel-shading) that will cause conflicts. The patch is based on the standard renderer, but there are some problems. It just never seems to work for other people. I'll try to have a fixed patch ready on the next weekend.

[Aelita]

Shoot me a PM if you want a beta tester. I'm willing and able to compile on Linux and maybe MacOS if I can get my Mac to boot.

[SlackerLinux]

ill give it another try too so make sure to keep your patches uptodate

* SlackerLinux now wonders where he put his trem source(been a while)

[Chomps123]

what do you do with this file?

do you put it in the base folder like you would with a pk3?

[Aelita]

It's an engine rework. You compile it into a binary and run it instead of your regular Trem client.

[cron]

Necro Bumpy Granger is not happy that this thread hasn't gotten more attention.

[Asvarox]

that Necro Bumpy Granger is dead, and its claws fangs looks really strange We need higher quality/resolution/whatever bump maps or however it's called.

[CreatureofHell]

Nooooooo!!!!!! You can't make ugly grangers! 

[Haraldx]

bump-map is ugly... seriously... I haven't seen a single game where bump mapping looks great...

[cron]

Perhaps posting a pic of Necro-Bumpy-Granger prematurely was a bad idea. For clarification, the normal map for bump mapping on the Granger was made in about 2 minutes, and was just a test. It in no way represents what nice bump mapping on the Aliens should look like.

[jm82792]

This is awesome, I'd like to help with the maps as I need some texture painting practice.
Now get on with soft shading!
Now that you have created the capacity artists can exploit them.

[freezway]

normal mapping or parallax mapping would be better.

[jm82792]

Well I'm not going to be picky

[swamp-cecil]

Necro Bumpy Granger is not happy that this thread hasn't gotten more attention.

That granger is dead! BANHAMMAH CRON!

[jm82792]

So keep in mind your instructing a total compiling idiot here but how do I make the patch work?
And how do I get it to utilize my bump maps?

[freezway]

eh, i'll write a tut later, anyway all i can get it to do is segfault:

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****LOTS OF STUFF ABOVE THIS****
Loading vm file vm/ui.qvm...
File "vm/ui.qvm" found in "/opt/tremulous/base/vms-1.1.0.pk3"
...which has vmMagic VM_MAGIC_VER2
Loading 1075 jump table targets
total 0, hsize 1021, zero 1021, min 0, max 0
total 4771, hsize 1021, zero 33, min 0, max 17
VM file ui compiled to 1674016 bytes of code (0x7f54e3bc6000 - 0x7f54e3d5eb20)
compilation took 0.769078 seconds
ui loaded in 4596672 bytes on the hunk
Segmentation fault


[CATAHA]

bump-map is ugly... seriously... I haven't seen a single game where bump mapping looks great...

So all modern games suck for real? Most of them use bump-mapping. =D