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[Boinciel]

Why are you using OpenGL? Slopes are Software-only.

 

[chaoloveicemdboy]

Why are you using OpenGL? Slopes are Software-only.

Ok. Thanks for the advice. I use OpenGL, because it is faster on the computer I use.

 

[fickleheart]

Mystic I love your memes

Slopes don't render in OpenGL because I have a policy of not touching that renderer (it's somehow even more disorganized than the sotware renderer!), and nobody else has added them to it yet. (Sryder did a bit of porting of CB's code, but he never finished it.) You're welcome to do them yourself if you want.

 

[Xkower8181]

Hey Red (sorry for a bump) but because of your pushable polyobjects does it is possible to them do SOC actions?

 

[fickleheart]

I didn't make those. That was Nev3r doing some fancy wizardry that I believe involved an invisible object as the hitbox.

 

[fickleheart]

Finally adding vertex slopes + dynamic slopes = shenanigans

 

[Sapheros]

Sonic Adventure's Emerald coast, here we come!

Congrats on making progress with these slopes Red.

 

[Xkower8181]

Finally adding vertex slopes + dynamic slopes = shenanigans

Now let's make it bouncy and PARTY ON CRAPPY NETCODE TIME!

 

[chaoloveicemdboy]

Finally adding vertex slopes + dynamic slopes = shenanigans

Do this with a water FOF and you will have an amazing swimming pool.

 

[Rumia1]

So how many slopes does it take to start to lag the game out at the moment? Is it like normal stage geometry where giant stages are the only real reason it lags out or do slopes cause their own lag?

 

[fickleheart]

Slopes are a bit heavier on the software renderer than normal floors, and shoving one right up against the camera tends to drop the framerate down about 5-10FPS (on my toaster laptop, with a build setup that ruins the game's performance for some reason), but overall I think it'd take a fairly huge room to cause performance issues from slopes alone. I've built test rooms with something like ~50 slopes in them that don't lag noticeably.

 

[glaber]

how well do FOF Slopes handle having a normal FOF over or under them?

 

[fickleheart]

They're slopes. Not polyobjects. They'll behave fine. You'll get some funky layering/disappearing issues if you try to make planes intersect outside of sector boundaries, but otherwise there shouldn't be issues.

 

[glaber]

they aren't polyobjcts yes, I recognize that. But they are new and I haven't experienced them yet.

 

[frozenLake]

Can slopes be used with polyobjects to create rounded doors that open?

 

[fickleheart]

Polyobject slopes won't be a thing. I don't wanna deal with that can of worms. You can use midtexture tricks to do things like rounded-off doors if you want.

Alternately, you could make the door a stationary part of map geometry, and make everything around it a polyobject that rotates to give the impression that the door is the thing that's rotating! That wouldn't be incredibly stupid at all.

 

[VelocitOni]

We should take the entire world and push it somewhere else!

 

[Plutia]

And blindly swear allegiance, let your country control your mind

We should take the entire world and push it somewhere else!

Reminds me of that one bug that was showcased at one of the GDQs in a doom-like game where the level geometry basically fucked itself if you did something.

Man I really wish I remember exactly what it was. Moving the level around would be kinda cool.

 

[K.S.]

I assume you're talking about Duke Nukem 3D. Doom-like, possibly, but the engine is completely different.

 

[chaoloveicemdboy]

Slanting Slope Preview

I've finally made a slope that slants up and down.