Persian Letters [updated x Final]
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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Jinx on Tue Jun 15th at 1:50pm 2004


was the sequel to Flashback named Alone In the Dark by any chance? I think we have a bunch of bargain-priced copies of it at Micro Center.



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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Jun 15th at 1:53pm 2004


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was the sequel to Flashback named Alone In the Dark by any chance? I think we have a bunch of bargain-priced copies of it at Micro Center.


No...it was called Fade To Black...

Is this forum half asleep or something? [addsig]




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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by ReNo on Tue Jun 15th at 2:33pm 2004


ROFL I didn't care for Fade to Black much to be honest, it was impressive at the time as it was one of the first PSX games I played, but I played it again recently and it was a big let down. Not a patch on Flashback or Another World if you ask me
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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Gollum on Wed Jun 16th at 10:39am 2004


I love the style of this map



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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Gwil on Fri Jun 18th at 8:02pm 2004


Alone in the Dark.. thats Resident Evil's grandfather figure isnt it?

I remember it being in that vein, but it wasn't quite as popular as the other games which went on to ape it's style..
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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Campaignjunkie on Fri Jun 18th at 11:25pm 2004


I played the old DOS version of Alone in the Dark a while ago. Kind of amazing how they got 3D working in environments like that. Of course it looks like crap now, but I imagine it was somewhat impressive at the time. Some sort of weird 10-triangle dog killed me, too, in the first few minutes.

I'm afraid I've never played (or heard of, for that matter, except Another World) Fade to Black, Flashback, or Another World. Sounds like they're classics though - any idea where to get them? I'm sure no retailer in their right mind would sell them...

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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by scary_jeff on Fri Jun 18th at 11:37pm 2004


You can definately play Flashback on a megadrive emulator like genecyst, I've got it myself (anti-lawsuit notice - I own the game). Pretty hard to come accross ROMs these days though. I don't know about the other two.



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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by ReNo on Sat Jun 19th at 12:06pm 2004


Its worth playing Another World first, though I'm not sure if it was on the Megadrive, might only have been on the atari / amiga / PC and therefore harder to find a ROM for. I found a Flashback ROM here if you are interested...

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=1351

You can probably grab the needed emulator somewhere there too.
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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Campaignjunkie on Tue Jun 22nd at 9:07pm 2004


Hmm, trying to find Another World but no luck. Maybe a company would see fit to remake it into 3d or something?

Oh, and time to briefly bring this thread back on-topic (unfortunately). Mangled a few new textures and practically ripped a scene out of Prince of Persia - yeah, I'm shameless and have no creativity.

(Trying out the new fangled glow-thingy by DeathWish. Additive cloth-things don't convert too well, as they're way too bright. Oh well, not like anyone will actually play this map anyway.)

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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by scary_jeff on Tue Jun 22nd at 9:16pm 2004


I think you need to make it so there are some stronger shadows being cast onto that area. It seems very bright for night time, and I can't see any lights...

The new fangled glow-thingy looks nice, but perhaps could do with toning down a bit? The second screenshot, the cloths look like they are emiting light. Still great textures/ing, good idea using a masked texture for the spikes along the top of the wall too




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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 22nd at 9:16pm 2004


google search some Aurora Borealis shots.. that would look cool in your new map CJ [addsig]



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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Cassius on Wed Jun 23rd at 12:04am 2004


Wait, how do I give my map this glow treatment?





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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Campaignjunkie on Wed Jun 23rd at 12:38am 2004


It's actually a separate modification. You can give any map the "glow treatment", I guess.

Low-Spec (GeForce 2, GeForce 4 MX, TNT) Glow:
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?go=tron2

High-Spec (GeForce 4 Ti and up) Glow:
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?go=tron1

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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Forceflow on Wed Jun 23rd at 5:51am 2004


That's an awful lot of code.

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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Pericolos0 on Wed Jun 23rd at 7:57am 2004


cool, make those clothes a model and give em some cool wavy animation



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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by ReNo on Fri Jun 25th at 1:05pm 2004


You should try applying the glow a bit more I reckon - it looks cool on the cloth, but how about using it on the windows and things? [addsig]



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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Ferret on Fri Jun 25th at 2:37pm 2004


damn you cj! now I have competition (and now that reno lost his map! loL~L btw reno start rebuilding it NOW!!~)

I like how it looks but yeah outside is overbright andlacks shadows. Both not very good for a night time setting eh?





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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Cassius on Fri Jun 25th at 3:53pm 2004


Ahem... THANTO!!!

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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Crono on Fri Jun 25th at 6:20pm 2004


There's a pre-compiled version of the pixel shader support with a massive glow here

It was compiled with the HL dlls, so it has those weapon modles. You have to recompile a specific mods dlls with this Cg code for them to have pixel shader support.

Personally, I think the amount of blur effect is a bit much, a little less with some other effects he talks about here would be cool.

Also, if you don't have these dlls don't expect a 'cool glow' [addsig]




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Re: Persian Letters [updated x Final]
Posted by Campaignjunkie on Wed Jul 7th at 8:37pm 2004


Crappy Hammer screenshot. Real update coming later. But for now, um, just pretend that this screenshot is compiled and humor me a bit.

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