Duke Nukem 3D: High resolution pack released

[Besli]

NabbyFan said:
One problem, though - I notice that the pack has the oversized 502 texture, which cause slowdown after viewing a security monitor in episodes 1 or 3. Included a resized version - I can't seem to insert it in the duke3d_hrp.zip file without breaking all the high-res add-ons.

You just resized the texture, now it looks a bit wired! It should be remade in the smaller size!

[Carger2000]

A big thumbs up to everybody who made this pack happen! Cheers!

[djimd]

Killd a ton said:
Post it, or read the stuff above.

You have identifyed a bug made by yours truely (me), i also compresed the zip so it loads a bit slower (only the hacks).

Great work guys,
Here's a fixed and faster loading hachs.zip - just un rar making sure that you copy over Duke3d directory.

[djimd]

djimd said:

Great work guys,
Here's a fixed and faster loading hachs.zip - just un rar making sure that you copy over Duke3d directory.

Zip above corrupted in attachment use this one.

[KaiserSoze]

really great job to all who have worked on this project and continue to do so!

duke3d is like a whole new experience again! it looks great!

kudos to you all and thanks!

[Roma Loom]

NabbyFan said:
...One problem, though - I notice that the pack has the oversized 502 texture, which cause slowdown after viewing a security monitor in episodes 1 or 3...

It's not because of texture's size - it's a bug of jfDuke my first post was about. It's been disscussed in the modelling thread.

[wieder]

I've mirrored the pack at my page as well.

http://www.wieder3dr.com/downloads/dn3d_hrp.exe

I'll be spreading the love to the industry folk who have been expressing interest as well. Good job guys, it's nice to see it organized so cleanly and running better now that everything is compressed better.

[TerminX]

NotWieder3DR said:
running better now

As I've said for months, 8 bit png for textures that don't need 32 bit is all the difference in the world.

[Parkar]

Lower resolution pack comming soon, hopefully begining of next week.

[Icarus2de]

Hi there,
First, thanks for your great pack, it saves me a lot of time searching for stuff in those long threads. I just wanted to let you know i receive some errors.

I have attached a screen, but in case it failed...

Error on line DEFS.Con:22
Error on line DEFS.Con:23
Error on line DEFS.Con:25
Error on line DEFS.Con:27

Those are some, but i can't see them all, the startup screen happens to fast. (it's very hard timing right with the print screen button...)

[Killd a ton]

Then why don't you bring down the console ingame and scroolle to the start of it
(num lock and page up)

As i get it the errors are there because i didn't realy care to split the tiles in a atomic and non atomic pack, so you gett a error because it cant find the original stuff but it's not a problem.

I might not split it befor the final version and then again you never know, mabe i will

Thumbs up to Wieder, Eclipse, IHerman and every one for spreading the news and making mirrors .

[Parkar]

These errors has nothing to do with the textures or models. As far as I know it happens when you use the port with 1.3d version since the port is a port of the atomic version. Not sure if its the case its just what I have understod to be the reason, anyone correct me if I am wrong. It does not affect the game in any way, at least not that I can notice and has always been there for me when playing with jfduke.

[Icarus2de]

I would like to thank you both for your explanation...
By the way killd a ton, i had no clue there even was a console in JFduke, did the old duke have one too?

[Dreams]

Thanks everybody who helped with this

Here is my mirror:
Link removed due to possibility of archive being infected

[Semicharm]

Icarus2de said:
I would like to thank you both for your explanation...
By the way killd a ton, i had no clue there even was a console in JFduke, did the old duke have one too?

No, the use of consoles wasn't every common til Quake came out.

[djimd]

Thanks again for a well structured pack.
Please could you outline the main changes that the new game.con does to the atomic version.
Thx.

[Blade Nightflame]

djimd said:
Thanks again for a well structured pack.
Please could you outline the main changes that the new game.con does to the atomic version.
Thx.

Shrinker, new episode. New enemies. New level entries.

[Shock2k5]

Isn't modyfing things in source code for Duke 3d illegal too?

I mean they are changing graphics etc.

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[NutWrench]

Shock2k5 said:

Isn't modyfing things in source code for Duke 3d illegal too?

I mean they are changing graphics etc.

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Making mods within the same engine is usually not a problem.

The problems start when you start using one companys resources (graphics, music, levels) and put it into another companys engine. A Duke 3D mod using the Source engine would look really cool, but in order to play it, you would have to buy a copy of Half Life 2. That makes money for Valve but what about the company that supplied the artwork for the mod?

There's nothing to be gained for yourself by giving away your game to the competition.

[Blade Nightflame]

Shock2k5 said:

Isn't modyfing things in source code for Duke 3d illegal too?

I mean they are changing graphics etc.

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XD. Roffle.

How stupid it is to think for it to be illegal for 3drealms, to edit their own game in ANY way? Any mod or sommat that 3dRealms makes, while others may not, is literally legal and acceptable through their range.

Hey, they DID make the game. Silly.

[Besli]

Ding Bat said:
Parker, this is the greatest package ever. Because of what JonoF, TerminX and you are doing, I think what we have here should be called Duke Nukem Forever and screw 3D Realms becuase there DNF is For Never.

What we have here now is Duke Nukem Forever for me to play and build Forever.

Duke Nukem ForNever!!
Look at this:
http://www.michaellontke.de/Download...00_glanz_3.jpg

[DLT]

Blade Nightflame said:

XD. Roffle.

How stupid it is to think for it to be illegal for 3drealms, to edit their own game in ANY way? Any mod or sommat that 3dRealms makes, while others may not, is literally legal and acceptable through their range.

Hey, they DID make the game. Silly.

Someone post up that pic of the old man with lightning in a bottle.

[Ding Bat]

Duke Nukem ForNever!!
Look at this:
http://www.michaellontke.de/Download...00_glanz_3.jpg

exactly

[Semicharm]

I just got the pack even though I had most of the stuff anyway just because it's so damn organized and it made a big cut in the load times too!

I do have one issue though. How is a mapper such as myself supposed to add hires userart now that the duke3d.def file has been moved into the zip file? The problem is that I need a fix that will not just work on my PC, but on ANY machine that has the new pack as well.

[Parkar]

It is simple.

Just extract the zip file and work in the "duke3d_high" folder and when you are done pack it all up again. When you have the files unpacked it will work like it used to without the shortcut. Just remeber to turn compression off or you will get worse performance then without a zip file.

You can also just exttract the duke3d.def file from the zip and add an include to a def file were you add your stuff in case you dont want to edit the contents of the pack. like this.

last in the duke3d.def file add

include myhighres.def

and then create a def file in the duke directory called myhighres.def and add any def lines in here.

In fact I think I'll add an include line in the duke3d.def for an external file in next version so you dont have to tutch the zip at all. Propably named user.def or similar.

If you have xp I think you might be able to just use explorer to edit the stuff in duke3d_hrp.zp. Not sure how well this works with compression etc as I have not tried this.

[Semicharm]

Well, I don't use build with hires textures anymore because it just slows it down way too much so I really don't need to mess with the zip. Besides, I use ACDSee as my picture viewer because it can browse zips too. XP's zip support is a joke, so I turned it off. It's not quite as transparent as it should be. It jsut feels tacked on, like many of Microsoft's "improvements".

BTW, before the new pack was released I just had my batch loader make a copy of the orginal duke3d.def and append an include for my file at the end. Having an include in the pack for a user.def would work real nice, eventhough I would still have to check for the duke3d.def in the game folder.

[Ecmaster76]

What do you mean by turning off the compression?

[TerminX]

Ecmaster76 said:
What do you mean by turning off the compression?

He means exactly what he said.. pack them in an uncompressed zip.

[NutWrench]

Use the 'Store' option in your Zip program, instead of the 'Deflate' one. If you did it right, the 'compressed' data should be the same size as the original data.

FPS games run in real-time, so they can't waste precious CPU resources decompressing texture data. (Plus I don't even know if JonoF's port supports Zip decompression, anyway.)

[Ecmaster76]

You mean... ...a folder?

[The_Goat]

Er....wow.

Is there any way I can use this in eDuke32? I was making a mod, and I'd like to use these textures in it, with the whole "credits" file included.

IMHO this should be stickeyed.

[mental stampede]

Yeah. This should be a sticky. And maybe the first post edited to add links to all the new mirrors too...

[Ecmaster76]

These icons are missing as well (assuming they weren't left out intentionally ). They are decent as the inventory icons. The numbers may be a little weird since I had originally used them for double duty as inventory and item.

*zip attached*

[TerminX]

Ecmaster76 said:
These icons are missing as well (assuming they weren't left out intentionally ). They are decent as the inventory icons. The numbers may be a little weird since I had originally used them for double duty as inventory and item.

*zip attached*

There's some other stuff missing as well, such as the hightile shell casings.

[zworqy]

I miss the big movie screen from E1L1...

[Killd a ton]

yer we lost some stuff like the hud in the last minuts of lait night working and oly realized just after releasing the pack

[djimd]

Well the one made with the 2 lesbians really didn't fit - perhaps if someone could do a set more closely matching the original.

[Killd a ton]

I'm already on it but i didn't get it alligned properly in time for the pack

Okay, the original link doesn't work anymore. So I'm downloading from one of the mirrors. Two mirrors however have a different (size) file. How do I know I have the newest one?

[Parkar]

Thats wierd there is only one release so far, they should all be the same size. Since I am at school I dont know wich is the correct size though.