ETXreaL 0.3.0 released!

[Dragonji]

The most important part, the list of features:

ETXreaL
IMPORTANT: Changed media license for community contributions to "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported"

Changed required minimum OpenGL version to 3.2 on Windows
20 - 80% faster runtime speed by using better Visual Studio compiler options
Replaced VS 2008 and SCons project files by Premake 4.3
Changed default binary installation folders to bin/ to avoid conflicts between different architectures
Improved r_softShadows quality and speed with irregular shadowmap sampling like in Crysis
Implemented Exponential Variance Shadow Mapping to fight the VSM light bleeding problems
Optimized tangent space calculations for ET skeletal models (big speed improvement if r_vboVertexSkinning 0)
Fixed bugs concerning r_vboDeformVertexes
Added more ET specific keywords to the .shader parser
Added top-down view for r_showBspNodes
Added engine version to the console
Updated JPG loader to libjpeg 8c
Added Omni-bot 0.81 to default etmain game
Defaulted com_maxfps to 125
Rewrote HDR tone mapping to use correct RGB <-> XYZ <-> Yxy color space conversions
Added GUID system to generate etkeys which are sent as cl_guid
Renamed r_dynamicLightCastShadows to r_dynamicLightShadows


ETXMap

Improved ETXMap -map2map -format quake3 using additional support for worldspawn detail brushes
Improved ETXMap -map2map -format quake3 to support texture coordinates without GtkRadiant 1.4
Improved alternate BSP splitter algorithm for faster map compiles and better rendering speeds
Updated JPG loader to libjpeg 8c
Changed Unix home dir from .etwolf to .etxreal


ETMain

Added over 1 GB new high resolution textures using diffuse, normal and specular material information
Added replacement textures for battery and fueldump by Eonfge
Added high quality skyboxes and models by AVOC
Added fueldump additions by KeMoN
Converted original ET maps to the Doom 3 .map format and added an etx_ prefix to them


Minimum system requirements:
CPU: 2 GHz (Intel or compatible)
System Memory: 512 MB
Graphics card: Any graphics card that supports Direct3D 10 and OpenGL >= 3.2

Recommended system requirements:
CPU: 3 GHz+ (Intel or compatible)
System Memory: 1024 MB+
Graphics card: GeForce 8800 GT, Radeon HD4850 or higher.

More info: http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php/31320-ETXreaL-0.3.0

[[TfL]DeV!L]

fine :) i will test it ^^


:P great work

[Shagileo]

Item covered, thank you for reporting !

[Dragonji]

BTW, if you'd like to discover all the XreaL's new features, you should start a local server on etmain or connect to some XreaL server: http://gamestats.darkserver.it/etxreal/servers/

[carnage]

Will try it out when my new graphix card arrives. :)

Just, a 1gb file is not the best thing to have to download through ET, so I'm gonna do it manually.

[loic0427]

I have this Message .... :(

R_InitImages: could not load 'gfx/2d/camera/grain.png' :s

[mirqli]

I did a short video to showcase some footage of the gameplay:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9fFV-PQ-8E

It's unedited so thats how the game looks like.

[killfreak]

not working here :/ everty time i launch ETXreal.exe i get the warning: Q_strncpyz: NULL src
anyone can help with this? graphs looks awesome imo :D wanna test it out

[carnage]

I did a short video to showcase some footage of the gameplay:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9fFV-PQ-8E

It's unedited so thats how the game looks like.
Nice vid.

I've been wondering if the claims about fps and overall performance increase are actually true. I mean, from the video I can tell they added some eye-candy effects (which I, quite honestly, wouldn't use in a game like ET), but does it also make better use of GPU rendering, or even add multi-threading support? Ofc, since you aren't one of the devs my question is more about your first impression.

[mirqli]

Well for me the game runs just as smooth as ET, stable 125 fps everywhere, the sparkle effect caused by lights is in my opinion a bit too strong (can be seen on railgun) and it should be reduced, the effect is so strong that it makes some maps ugly. But the textures are a lot better.

[Shagileo]

Thanks for the video, really helpful
... and pretty heroic song as well :)

[Father]

1) Try to restart your PC. Sometimes, some weird things happen with 3D acceleration (including OpenGL) and it needs restart your system.
2) Try to update your graphics drivers.
3) If you have motherboard with VIA chipset, try to update your motherboard driver.

[Jemstar]

lol i tried two of the servers running it and had UI and shader issues on both!! so didnt really look all that good being all yellow and black lol:eeks:

[mirqli]

Thanks for the video, really helpful
... and pretty heroic song as well :)
Hehe thanks, the song is ET: XreaL main menu music :D

[killfreak]

working now :D had to update nvidia drivers looks nice :d

[Shagileo]

Hehe thanks, the song is ET: XreaL main menu music :D

Awesome !

I've added the video to the newsarticle on the site, so people can enjoy this trailer. Thanks again

[Planet Pannett]

WOW! Best visuals I have seen in a mod

[Venn]

I was doing some research for a ETXreaL (Linux) how-to and I located this thread. I plan on having the GIT (how-to) build finished this weekend. That said, I did capture some bots hammering the the shite out of each other using the Linux client.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc_VXpWPdfo&feature=channel_video_title

Fantastic project, this.

Cheers,
Venn

[mirqli]

You should've recorded the stock maps which have the new sharp textures and stuff, ofc that shows the new lighting, but you should definitely check out the stock maps, especially goldrush is awesome! :)

[Belfast]

I spent some time and I would like to show you some of my screenshots

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2775/etxreal20111025203616ra.jpg


http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/8351/etxreal20111026185516wa.jpg


http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/407/etxreal20111026191156ve.jpg


http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6503/etxreal20111026191815ba.jpg


http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/1043/etxreal20111026191902ba.jpg


http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/3919/etxreal20111026192134ba.jpg


http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/3797/etxreal20111026192135ba.jpg


http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/434/etxreal20111026192141ba.jpg

[Planet Pannett]

Wow that looks really good can this be added to a mod or is it an independent mod

[ETc|#.Jay.#]

I did a short video to showcase some footage of the gameplay:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9fFV-PQ-8E

It's unedited so thats how the game looks like.


maybe you not loaded the right maps or have not setup the game on high quality on your pc

i have much differents when i see your video :)





old ET
http://www.clan-etc.de/et_vs_xreal/et_goldrush.jpg


new ET:XreaL
http://www.clan-etc.de/et_vs_xreal/etxreal_goldrush.jpg

[mirqli]

I used the stock maps in the video, dunno if I have a bit different cfg then :P

[Dragonji]

Bad news, ETXreaL will be a standalone game in the next build which means there will be no compatibility with ET anymore... As I know there are some issues which cause that ET cannot work right with ETX.

[Shagileo]

Oh that's sad indeed :(
But ETXreal is the way ET should/meant to be played. Hm, well, maybe not thaaat bad - now people can choose to play old fashioned ET and ETXreal :)

[mirqli]

I think it is bad since I don't think people will so easily switch over to xreal when there's no servers or anything yet, but we'll see :)

[morsik]

I think it is bad since I don't think people will so easily switch over to xreal when there's no servers or anything yet, but we'll see :)
5 servers created in 4 days?

[konexxion]

cant start the game omg, updated video card drivers, but didnt help, dunno wtf


...initializing OpenGL 3.2 context done
GL_VENDOR: '(null)'
GL_RENDERER: '(null)'
GL_VERSION: '(null)'
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( destroyWindow = 1 )
------- GLSL_ShutdownGPUShaders -------
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...releasing DC: success
...destroying window
-----------------------
Q_strncpyz: NULL src

[ETc|#.Jay.#]

its known since they started et xreal that it will be a stand alone version.
maybe i change my server to xreal too.

[mirqli]

5 servers created in 4 days?
5 servers maybe, but how many players do you see there, best i've seen is 2 players, I'm ready to give it a shot anyway, let's give it some time :)

[ETc|#.Jay.#]

was setup a etx server 62.75.222.16:27950 [ETX]ETc|Clan,[ETX] http://et.trackbase.net/index.php?mod=serverinfo&idx=34647
enjoy it :)

[ibunforgiven]

ET:XreaL 0.3.0 win-x86 Nov 6 2011
ET:XreaL Engine 0.9.0 win-x86 Nov 6 2011
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\/etmain
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\\etmain\xreal-mp_bin-20111106.pk3 DEB310B8 3167B735 (178 files)
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\\etmain\xreal-map-etx_railgun-20111106.pk3 3A93CAA6 B35BD55D (16 files)
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\\etmain\xreal-map-etx_radar-20111106.pk3 7D3EE7FB F9E5E09C (16 files)
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\\etmain\xreal-map-etx_goldrush-20111106.pk3 695E7C27 FB70DBC1 (17 files)
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\\etmain\xreal-map-etx_fueldump-20111106.pk3 C594B140 1CD1EA61 (19 files)
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\\etmain\xreal-map-etx_battery-20111106.pk3 59DBA538 262AE897 (17 files)
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\\etmain\xreal-core-20111106.pk3 94E9586C DBF55BBB (1458 files)
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\\etmain\sd-mapobjects.pk3 5FB4DA7 905A4E0B (236 files)
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\\etmain\pak2.pk3 24454BDB 759AFD4C (22 files)
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\\etmain\pak1.pk3 5E483500 AC8C1D00 (10 files)
D:\etxreal\ETXreaL-0.3.0-20111110\\etmain\pak0.pk3 99610168 893549D4 (3725 files)

----------------------
5714 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec language.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok
...detecting CPU, found Intel Pentium III
Bypassing CD checks
----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
Calling GetRefAPI...
GetRefAPI()
-------------------------------
ETKEY found.
----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...setting mode 3: 640 480 W
...registered window class
...created window@0,0 (646x508)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 8 )
...65 PFDs found
...hardware acceleration found
...PIXELFORMAT 2 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded
Using GLEW 1.5.5
...wglMakeCurrent( 4701123D, 00000000 ): success
...deleting standard GL context: success
...initializing OpenGL 3.2 context done
GL_VENDOR: '(null)'
GL_RENDERER: '(null)'
GL_VERSION: '(null)'
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( destroyWindow = 1 )
------- GLSL_ShutdownGPUShaders -------
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...releasing DC: success
...destroying window
-----------------------
Q_strncpyz: NULL src


how to fix this problem?

[carnage]

Quite honestly if you play ET at a somewhat "competitive" level, or if you simply want the best performance, your .cfg will be tweaked to the least demanding of values and will generally not make the textures look good. I don't really think ET needs better textures. All it needs is more stability and multi-threading support. I mean, it's very demanding for an 8 year old game, even on newer systems you're not free from lags.

That being said, I think that if the standalone version of ETX manages to gain some popularity, it will be a great game and I will play it for sure. Obviously it would benefit from being developed as a standalone project, imo. It could be something innovative and modern while still being faithful to the key factors that made ET the game we all love. At least that's my view: I don't want an ET overhaul mod, I want a worthy follow-up to it.

[morsik]

how to fix this problem?
No hw/sw specs = no help.

[konexxion]

No hw/sw specs = no help.
Okay, here is my specs http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02053349&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=4146845&lang=en

[morsik]

Small announcement
If somebody hosts etxreal server and it "crash" with error:

ERROR: SP_team_WOLF_objective: exceeded MAX_MULTI_SPAWNTARGETS (16)

Please don't inform us anymore about this. We are getting more and more bug requests. We know about this bug, and we are trying to find what's going up. Not everyone have this problem so this must be something specific.

But we should get some logs. Please add here your logs (better with +set developer 1) and your server config on sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3354585&group_id=27204&atid=389772
I added this bug a lot time ago.

Try changing gametype or something similar.

Personally i use this server settings: http://pastebin.com/d41PfGMw

[killfreak]

to fix this:Q_strncpyz: NULL src


1) Try to restart your PC. Sometimes, some weird things happen with 3D acceleration (including OpenGL) and it needs restart your system.
2) Try to update your graphics drivers. (worked for me:D )
3) could be that your video cart isnt good enough?

[ibunforgiven]

i did restarted my pc.my video ati radeon 1550x is up to date.u mean this card is not good enough for this etxreal?

[killfreak]

maybe idk but it is prolly the problem

[nikka]

5 servers created in 4 days?
0 people on all the servers yeah winning ;)

[Patriot]

So is this somthing i can download and then start a public server on Linux using it?

[morsik]

0 people on all the servers yeah winning ;)So maybe connect and invite other people to game?
Stupid thinking.
"I won't play because there is 0 players, but hey! There's 0 players because nobody plays"... that's how it works.