at last. for some wierd reason my dads pc could run the "screwed" versions(yep back on his pc to test it and im too lazy to login)..... he has a Geforce FX. Btw F12 takes screenshots.

After trying some of the maps : Speed is really an issue, it runs far slower than RtCW itself, but on my Radeon it also has several rendering errors. Take a look at that screenshot I've attached. It was taken in a map called "village" (If I remember correct). The console isn't rendered correct, the skybox sometimes disappears and the trees either (depending on where you are) miss some parts or are not visible at all. In other maps, I noticed that some textures were either missing or bound wrong (there was a window, but a texture containing lightmaps was bound to it, instead of the texture that should be there).

P.S. : The maps also are very dark. Don't know if that's also the same case on your gfx-card, but they're sometims so dark that I can't see anything.

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now it runs, beside without a map i couldnt say anything more, but the console is rendered in the correct way .... good work

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Darkness will b cos Gamma i set to 6, need to make it so user can choose it. Iv never noticed any missing textures, did u extract pak0 and the sp pk3's? I noticed that for some odd reason the sky and entitys can disapear depending on ur view and position in the world...... i don't get why since the entitys render procedure is basically identical to the normal walls.

Iv looked at the same map and for some reason the sky is going over the tree's leafs, i have noticed this happening to other things like snow on windows.... btw the map is forrest.bsp.

Did u extract the ui/assets folder and files? It contains some of the consoles images.(its in sp_pak1.pk3). If u run heliosapp.exe does the internal console look right? Or is it a gray/white image?

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Looking at the image u posted again im 100% sure you havn't extracted all the image files. The RTCW console is made up of 2 shaders, one to do the fancy RTCW W symbol, and one to do the fog/smoke effect. With no images they defult to being white (and with some colour setting/blend/whatever it can go gray).

The reason the Sky and entitys wern't drawn sometimes was due to a stupid mistake:



Id accedentaly placed the drawentityobjects and renderskybox in the if numTransparent > 0 bit...... the renderskybox is now after the solids and before the transparent's so it no longer screws up transparent surfaces. Gamma is now optional, personaly i find 6 to b a fne value and 10 to be way too bright(shadows become non existant) but it depends on ur monitor.


Btw, you can download free Quake 3 maps made by users, alot have custom textures.

Latest Download:
- Helios Lite 4

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That may be the caus of the "problem". You're right, I have only extracted the pak0.pak file, and not the others. I'm gonna try it later and tell you if it works.

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Iv found another screwup on my part which could screw up images.

- Helios Lite 5

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It now works, after I extracted all the other pak-files too. I right now don't have the time to take a closer look, but I'll report back later.

P.S. : Great work, it's the first loader for RtCW-Map I've seen. Are there any other, or are you the first one to do such a thing?

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Well, Q3MapView could load RTCW maps if it was modifyed. Currently it rejects RTCW maps cos the header version is 47 and it expects 46.

The major differences between helios and Q3map view are:

More Realistic Gravity(Still not perfect.. well its like being on the moon.... but much better then q3mapview's shove the user against the floor like u got an elephant on ur head)
Less shader bugs/Rendering bugs
Smallconsole mode (Where it looks like a games console compaired to plan text over the whole screen)
Easyer to use(q3map view uses an annoying ini file that you have to manualy setup, you even have to give it the exact location the game files were extracted to)
Entity support, Helios supports a few entitys. Most arn't 100% RTCW like and most arn't fully working(most don't support the spawnflags). Func_breakable for example doesn't break(no weapons in helios or heath for entitys yet)



I don't know any other projects that are trying to emulate RTCW(Eventualy id love it to be able to read rtcw menu's, camera's, ai scripts, etc).

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I just had some time to try out several RtCW maps with helios and so far my observations are (just tested : escape1, boss2, forest) :

• Performance is bad, sometimes it even dropped (escape1) below 10 fps, which is far slower than the game was
• Parts of the skydome (I guess it's no skybox) are either still missing (forest) or you get a hard seem (escape1)
• Turning of shader doubled the performance, at least in parts of the maps where performance was bad (jumped from 10 to >20 FpS), but that maybe because then many things don't get textured
• Visibility determination for the portals doesn't seem always work as it should. Fire up escape1, and there is a stair (it's the first) to the right that goes straigt up. Depending on where you are on that stair, you should see the room behind that step, but you don't.

Besides that, it's looking great, and it's also great to hear the original RtCW sounds when running through the maps. As far as the bad speed goes, I really can't tell why, cause I don't know how things get done internally. I suggest you to time your functions with a high performance counter to see where the culprit is.

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Q3 Map viewer(well the moded Q3Mapview which was gona b helios) has better performance than helios, even when helios has speed improvements(saving bind's, less state changes, etc). The only other real difference is q3mapview uses opengl12, and Helios uses ur one. Even when i comment out the entitys(which should take up most of the processing time), etc it still never gets to the same level as q3mapview.....

The sky has been changed, its now 2 tryangles, flat sky like in rtcw, but u can now see nice blue bits where the sky doesn't cover....(true it doesn't take into account the skyportals, but somemaps don't have any).

I did notice the stairs thing...... and i don't get it, Ill have to test ti without the frustrum, the frustrum seems to like cutting faces it shouldn't (i.e doors, when i used frustrum on doors it cut them when they were nearly out of view which it shouldn't).

Ill post all the render code when im on my pc.

Btw u should try the following in the console:

setmusic m_assault.wav
setmusic m_mission.wav
setmusic l_theme.wav

RTCW has sweet music.

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Render Code:



Iv left out the entity's rendering stuff cos there the same with minor modifications, WalkLeaf is just a thing to sort the faces into the 3 categorys, solid, aditive and transparent.

There is alot more faces that use Rendersurface than rendersurfaceshader.

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I found the main speed issue and not supprisingly it was me being stupid. The GetcvarB searches the array of cvars and returns the value of the cvar u want. Its used alot in the rendering procedures. Fixed by using varibles to store the current values (updated each frame using the getcvarb)

Version 0.8
- Helios Lite (1MB)
- Helios Full (4MB)

Full's Extras
- Particle Test map + its textures
- Shader Editor
- MD3 Viewer
- Particle Editor
- Vector Particle Editor

Particles
You can view the particles in the engine (with no map running, type closemap in console). You can also add particles to maps tho its best when no map is running.

usage: addparticles <name>

Current Particles:
Smoke
Fire
Drip
Fountain
Shower
Sprinkler
Space

NOTE: The things to save bind calls have been commented out due to JKA maps not displaying any faces that didn't always bind a texture....... its wierd....

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Nice job, but performance hasn't improved much on my Radeon 9700. I'm running at 1280x960, 32 Bit and Fullscreen, using no AA and 16xAF. Performance in the same map as you showed (escape1) still sometimes drops down to 15 FpS, and I get some flickering due to overlapping polygons (maybe lightmaps). But besides that it's looking great.

One small note : You use an installer, which is nice, but most people don't like to install things that they just want to quickly try out. So it may be a good idea to also include a download to a zipped version.

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Which part of the map do you get 15fps? Lightmaps are drawn over the normal texture with shaders, but faces with no shaders have the lightmap in GL_TEXTURE1 and are only drawn once not every shader layer. Seems a waste to redraw the face for each layer of the shaders.....

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