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Ultraken · Post by **Ultraken** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:13 am

I've set September 24th as an arbitrary deadline for finishing the unofficial 1.5 patch, as that was the date I first checked the Battlezone code into my Subversion repository back in 2007. That leaves about three and a half weeks to wrap everything up so I need to make each build count. That means it's especially important to get prompt feedback so I can fix anything that comes up.

Post by **FirBirGir** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:05 pm

Wow, has it really been 4 years already?

Ultraken · Post by **Ultraken** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:54 pm

I got BZ working in Visual Studio 2008 and incorporated a bunch of fixes from Dx and Tug in late 2007 but I didn't start active development on what would become 1.5 until late 2009.

Post by **hitchcockgreen** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 6:00 pm

It just sort of hit me that this 'deadline' is only a few days away....

Post by **FirBirGir** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:47 pm

4 days to be exact but that's like 4 months in UltraKen days

Enough time for 3 more releases and a about 3 hours sleep...

Eddy

Ultraken · Post by **Ultraken** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:12 pm

I may end up having to push back the deadline, but it's been very motivational.

Post by **Dx.** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:32 am

What will your goals be for 1.5.1?
Will 1.5.1 stay on the same session as 1.5?

SnakeEye · Post by **SnakeEye** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:09 am

Dx. wrote:What will your goals be for 1.5.1?
Will 1.5.1 stay on the same session as 1.5?

I think we should have had the same system as in bz2. instead of different sessons you instead get a pop up saying which build he's runing. and maybe label games with another executable versions with a certan color.

Ultraken · Post by **Ultraken** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:18 pm

Color-coding sessions with the wrong version is a good idea, though the game has to grind through a lot of files to compute the CRC for a given mission.

Ranger · Post by **Ranger** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:52 pm

you will add hi-Res textures support soon ken?

im still thinkin about bz with darkplace-ish style graphics

Ultraken · Post by **Ultraken** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:04 pm

It depends what you mean by "high resolution". The renderer seems to allow much-larger textures than currently in use, but the MAP format itself doesn't support higher color depths.

Post by **Dx.** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:37 am

512x512 would be ok to add but larger textures need tobe png format.
The software renderer didn't look as easy to add larger textures.

Need to drop all the palette stuff.

Post by **hitchcockgreen** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:18 am

That'd be a nice 1.5.1 or 1.6 feature - different image support for textures. Would be nice to have some relatively hi-res textures.

Ranger · Post by **Ranger** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:28 am

Darkplaces has tga textures with this size

but for some monsters(Like the Shambler with High Poly's from Doom 3 Mod) he uses 900+ x 900+ textures

Ultraken · Post by **Ultraken** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:25 pm

Textures that large are fine these days, though it's still important to use power-of-two sizes.

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