I started with some useless but technically very interesting project about a month ago.
The alst week I wasn't able to update much, as for one thing I had next to no free time available, and the other thing being some engine troubles which however seem to be resolved with the latest beta.


What you will now see are A3 levels read from the original games/demos. the scripts are parsed, the level data is read, and then the level is recreated.

It is far from being perfect.
- Walls for below regions don't work yet
- Texture y shift is not always correct.
- several texture and wall flags are not interpreted
- texture resizing to power of 2 was disabled due to some other problems. this is why the sky has black stripes
- sky textures are not converted to sky domes
- currently thousands of entities are created. The latest beta however allows me to merge everything into a lot less entities. I hope this will speed up things a lot.


Kandoria, with comparison shot


Kandoria, with comparison shot


Kandoria, with comparison shot


Skaphander, debugger ahead


Skaphander, wrong walls of below region


VR Demo

The Lord of Lightning, slightly wrong color palette


The Lord of Lightning, seen from above

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! how awesome is that!

Wow, Really impressive work, Firoball Now I know why you were asking for A3 projects.

What's your eventual aim with this project -- what's the point?

Jibb

There is no point - I just was excited to try it and it kept me well motivated until I ran into problems. Now with this beta I'm stable again and can continue working on it

LAter maybe I try to export all this to MDL7 or some more generic model format, so maybe someone wants to reuse all those levels and do sth cool with it

hi,

sorry I dont get it.

You're happy because the A 8.06 is finally able to run old A3 projects ?

,
gri

Awesome work! I like this a "lott"

Yes!
You, Mr. Firoball, are completely insane.

What's so difficult to understand?

Minimistic update.

I have added some quick and simple ambient / albedo lighting.
The scene from Skaphander which was already shown above looks remarkably better this way.



For better comparison, here the shot from above:


Unfortunately all the ambient stuff makes it much more difficult to optimize the render chain later on.

Currently I'm spamming the engine with entities, which is not really good...