Duke Caribbean: Life's a Beach HRP (VacaHRP)

[Hendricks266]

Yatta has graciously allowed me to use his webspace.

Here is the latest version of the VacaHRP!

Download Link

[Radar1013]

Yay! I have been waiting FOREVER for this! Too bad that i can't play in 32 - bit anymore.

I wonder if NighFright will put this on his site.

EDIT: Mark McWane did a version of Doomsday available for download here. With the OpenAL eDuke32 snapshot coming up, it could be put in the VacaHRP.

Also, palmaps is now supported into eDuke32 so if you make a palmap for the folding chair for the original HRP, you won't have to put all those extra skins for it in the VacaHRP.

[Dopefish7590]

Yea, I love Duke Carribean.

[Psykomanius]

Originally Posted by Hendricks266

Yatta has graciously allowed me to use his webspace.

Here is the latest version of the VacaHRP!

Download Link

There are only one working link to dll from, but, i can't dll it
I only get timeout...
Is there a mirror to dll from ?

[Thundik81]

Originally Posted by Psykomanius

There are only one working link to dll from, but, i can't dll it
I only get timeout...
Is there a mirror to dll from ?

http://moreplease.free.fr/HRP/Hendricks266/

[Psykomanius]

Originally Posted by Thundik81

http://moreplease.free.fr/HRP/Hendricks266/

Thanks for the link Thundik81

[FIVE-one]

Hi all
First I'd like to thank you all of this community for this idea. I'm a Duke : Caribbean fan since a long time and it's with a great pleasure I discovered this HRP.
However, after installing it, I obtain this kind of sh*t, the same kind that when you didn't activate Caribbean through gamer.exe :



Was I wrong when I installed it ? Did you follow a special sequence ?

For information, I used the utility from HRP Faq's link (at http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index.php?p=misc ) that I used to uncompress files from Life's a Beach CD. I also tryied with a downloaded GRP to be sure, without effect.
Indeed it uses the HRP, but not the way I intended

Thank you for your help guys

[NightFright]

Don't activate DukeDC and Vacation addons at once. It will NOT work. Remove DC groupfile when playing LAB and vice versa.

[Hendricks266]

Yes. Your art tiles are overriding each other.

[FIVE-one]

ok guys, thank you so much for your help I'll keep you in touch

[FIVE-one]

thanks guys, it works now.
However I noticed this :



Indeed, it's a balloon, but not the same I expected
Any idea ?

[Radar1013]

I used to get that problem to and i somehow fixed it. I think it had something to do about the CON files or the ART or maybe even the VacaHRP.

[FIVE-one]

Oh ok, so is the problem aknowledged already ?

[HangNail]

In mapster/build the blimp will show up, but in game the beachball is what you see. Also there are several other items that show up in mapster/build that will be different in game. Most of the differences are generated by using certain pallet numbers.

[Radar1013]

Originally Posted by FIVE-one

Oh ok, so is the problem aknowledged already ?

I'm not sure if this will fix it, but take the VacaHRP out of your directory and change to 8-bit. (Don't just keep the VacaHRP in you directory and turn to 8-bit, because i think that will result in the blimp being in 8-bit)

[Hendricks266]

What exactly is the problem, anyway? That blimp is supposed to be there. I don't know if the angle is wrong. Because it was a one-sided 8-bit sprite, it's up for debate.

[Radar1013]

I thought that it was supposed to be a beach ball or radio.

[FIVE-one]

Indeed, I played this add on for a long time and can tell you it was intended to be a beach ball (the same you see while loading if I remember well).
This beach ball also jump when you walk over it, and you can play with it (its lame I know but I had to tell this.).

[NightFright]

It probably means something is wrong with your Duke Carribbean groupfile. The game cannot find the custom tile for the beach ball and uses the blimp from the original game instead.

[FIVE-one]

It was what I thought, so I completely reinstalled it, and since I'm not alone to notice this, it looks like there is an error within the HRP.

[Hendricks266]

The original map has the blimp, although perhaps in v1.3D version of the CONs they had that auto-switch to the beach ball (as they do with the strippers → beach babes), but they left it out in the Atomic ones, which I use. I will take your word for it add the code to the CONs.

[NightFright]

Maybe he is using Atomic version of the addon with v1.3D groupfiles or vice versa?

[Hendricks266]

I realized what the problem was. The beach ball tile was defined as 3400, the same as the blimp. This is not a problem, exact that I mistakenly uncommented the blimp code to add something, not making the connection. It is now commented out and should work. It will be fixed in the next version.

New things in SVN:
beach ball fix (see above)
folding chair palmap (experimental - the colors produced by the game may not be what I am looking for)
Mark McWane's "Doomsday.mid" Rendition

[FIVE-one]

Eeeeexcellent !!!

[Crix]

I'm trying to get the LaB HRP to work as well. When using the Caribbean.bat I receive this message:

Error: You don't have VACATION.GRP in your directory.
Aborting Launch.

Press any key to continue . . .

Well I've already used the unpackssi program to make group files of all three of the ssi files on my lab disk. I tried each one in my duke3d folder along with the duke3d.grp. No luck.

[jagguar20]

Hmmm.. guys how do I intall it? I suck at PC.

[jagguar20]

cmon guys.

[The Commander]

Not everybody will respond to your posts/questions straight away. Maybe the only people that know how to do this right now are in bed asleep ect.

[jagguar20]

I know... but sometimes it looks like if it was on purpose

[Crix]

Hopefully they're just too busy working on the mod in general etc. To a certain degree though I also think some of em probably don't want to deal with answering questions and being the "help desk". To add on to my previous post by the way, I tried sticking that zip file in a few different places besides just the duke3d folder as mentioned in the readme hoping I'd get lucky... *goes back to CoD4*

[Hendricks266]

Well, unzip the RAR to your EDuke32 folder. There is a batch file for you to run. If you want patched maps, follow the instructions in the folder that is included.

[supergoofy]

I uploaded a caribbean vacation music pack v1.0
http://rapidshare.com/files/13015988...music.zip.html

big thanks to Mateos for the OGGs and MasterFaster for the DEFs

It seems working

[Mateos]

Hendricks, I'll go to do the same of NW : report bug ^^

Let me find what are lvls of screens, you will have 2 squishs probs and other little things.

PS : No problem supergoofy, it's simple, I do same for The Gate : I have a zip I have create where I have OGG version of musics, and it work ^^, but I don't know if I continue to have an HRP project for it.

HS : Jagguar20, your picture, it's Postal 2 AW ?

[Hendricks266]

Originally Posted by supergoofy

I uploaded a caribbean vacation music pack v1.0
http://rapidshare.com/files/13015988...music.zip.html

big thanks to Mateos for the OGGs and MasterFaster for the DEFs

It seems working

There will be no “Caribbean Music Pack”. Everything will be integrated into the the VacaHRP since it is small enough to fit in one package. I do already have Mark McWane's Doomsday in the music folder.

I have yet to listen to your music, and as such, judge it, but please desist in it as a standalone pack.

[supergoofy]

There will be no new versions in the future of this music pack. Sorry.

[Mateos]

I made an OGG pack with a working DEF for The Gate.

Mean I can include my OGGs of Vaca in your pack.

[Hendricks266]

I listened to your OGGs, and they sound great! They are now part of the VacaHRP and NWHRP.

As for the status of the packs, I won't be releasing a new version until I have more content. I will begin adding in detail textures.

In particular, I would like some light-blue colored fonts to match the green DC and the white NW fonts.

Any help is appreciated!

[Mateos]

I want to learn how make 3D models for Duke, but I have the school.

When I'll finish to learn this, I'll help you for 3D Models of monsters and others objects.

And thx for your work!

[Hendricks266]

You're very much welcome.

I tried to make the Snowman, but I only got so far as the snowballs and carrot nose, let alone complex things like the hat and UV mapping. I used Wings3D, and I still have the files around somewhere... hopefully.

The other simple models I've made are a blocky antenna for DukeDC, the laser projectile for my mod (it's just a cylinder). I also attempted to make the present, but the UV mapping was messed up. Tea Monster sent me a good model that I edited the skins to match, but the UV mapping was messed up on it too.

Another problem is that I have school too.

[Mortal Shang]

Hello everybody, I'm a pure fan of King Duke Nukem, but Iv'e got a big problem with the HRP caribbean addon. Everything is ok when I launch Life's a Beach sunny episode, but EDuke32 crashes after my landing in the beach, what the hell happens to my game ?!