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SMIFFGIG · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 10:42 pm Post subject:

pchote wrote:

Public service announcement: don't drink and fly

Great to finally see the Harpy with rotors! (they look a bit small though..)

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Banshee · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:13 am Post subject:

pchote wrote:

Public service announcement: don't drink and fly

Oh, come on! I can't even drink the little beast below without recorded in these days. Laughing

j/k

pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

Why 4k when you can 5k? (click image for full size)

Bonus godzilla

Gangster · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:10 am Post subject:

Looks like Remastered. oh, wait...

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pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

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I now have OpenRA loading and using the remastered sprites. This was actually quite easy - the much harder and more disruptive part will be redesigning and reimplementing all of the palette-based graphical effects to work in a RGBA-friendly way.

pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

Mortecha · Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 3:59 am Post subject:

This is very cool indeed, I can see my workload increasing nowXD Well Done!

pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

#18728 adds full modding support for tilesets, which finally unlocks the capabilties for things like animated terrain tiles (which I have now also implemented for the remastered assets) and terrain autoLAT.

Holy_Master · Commander **Joined**: 21 Jul 2004 **Location**: Thailand

look really cool! cant wait to try it. Very Happy

pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

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After a long break to focus on finishing the next playtest, I came back to one of the last major missing features: dynamic player colours for skirmish/multiplayer.

pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

SMIFFGIG · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:37 am Post subject:

Looking good, loving the progression!

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pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

Back to TS, #19090 gives our map resources a long-needed overhaul and implements the logic for vein rendering and tiberium on slopes.

We also think we now understand the logic for the dynamic ice rendering, so an implementation for that will hopefully come soon.

DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

Very nice progress!

Ickus · General **Joined**: 25 Nov 2002 **Location**: @__@

very nice! looking forward to more. Smile

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pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

Fancy lighting, part two:

OmegaBolt · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:07 pm Post subject:

Can attest ORA supports some really smooth lighting, as it actually degrades per pixel (?) rather than per cell, so you don't get the blocky look. Also unlike vanilla, all objects are affected by it regardless of palette (though this can be disabled per sprite).

pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

The current lighting is actually half way between per-cell and per-pixel: the colours are calculated in the four corners of each sprite, and can vary linearly between them. This looks really good when sprites are small compared to the light source, but doesn't work at all for things like the Bright weapon flashes (this will need real per-pixel lighting, which will be a future part 3).

Graion Dilach · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:39 pm Post subject:

Can you fix the API inconsistency the Stance->PlayerRelationship change brought in on C# level for the next release? The check is internally still called HasStance. https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/bleed/OpenRA.Game/Traits/TraitsInterfaces.cs#L79-L81

Also I'm really, really glad you added both count and value to INotifyResourceAccepted.OnResourceAccepted. I can see great potential for that one, because that allows modders to add additional resources via adding a player trait to hold storage, a widget or a SelectableBar to draw it out on the screen and consumer traits to utilize the new resource and using the Refinery trait just to offload. I don't know if you have thought about it before but you can probably cop out veins handling in TS as well via just relying on that interface in a followup. Either way, that PR as-is already holds great potential and I'm heavily impressed how elegant it became. Great job.

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pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

Graion Dilach wrote:

Can you fix the API inconsistency the Stance->PlayerRelationship change brought in on C# level for the next release? The check is internally still called HasStance. https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/bleed/OpenRA.Game/Traits/TraitsInterfaces.cs#L79-L81

Too late for the prep branch, but I filed #19129 to fix this on bleed (and we plan the next release cycle to be very short, so the difference hopefully won't matter much).

Thanks for the positive feedback on the resource changes Smile

My longer term goal there is actually more ambitious, although I haven't yet worked out all the fine details: decouple resource storage from PlayerResources into its own trait that keeps resources as resources, and only converts to money when the player is trying to spend it. This will significantly reduce the amount of custom code needed by mods that want to implement multiple spendable resources, and means that things like the storage bars will just work for veins etc.

SMIFFGIG · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:12 am Post subject:

Great Progress ! #Robot

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:33 pm Post subject:

pchote wrote:

Too late for the prep branch, but I filed #19129 to fix this on bleed (and we plan the next release cycle to be very short, so the difference hopefully won't matter much).

This change provides no additional functionality, but atleast now it breaks the API for two releases instead of one. Good job.

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Past C&C projects: Attacque Supérior (2010-2019); Valiant Shades (2019-2021)
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WeiDU mods: Random Graion Tweaks | Graion's Soundsets
Maintainance: Extra Expanded Enhanced Encounters! | BGEESpawn
Contributions: EE Fixpack | Enhanced Edition Trilogy | DSotSC (Trilogy) | UB_IWD | SotSC & a lot more...

pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

I have recently spent some time polishing up various issues with our depth sprite handling, and the engine side should now hopefully be complete for the needs of TS and RA2.]:

The long awaited support for vehicles tilting on slopes is finally ready:

IceReaper was also showing off (and hopefully doesnt mind me sharing out of context) some prototypes with 3d models:

Gangster · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:07 am Post subject:

pchote wrote:

I have recently spent some time polishing up various issues with our depth sprite handling, and the engine side should now hopefully be complete for the needs of TS and RA2.

Very well! Has it been tested on custom tile size yet?

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pchote · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 06 Feb 2015

The depth code doesn't actually know anything thing about the tile size, so in some sense every tile is a custom tile size.

Banshee · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:36 pm Post subject:

Great job with the slopes. Smile

It seems to be working very well, although I have the feeling that the front harvester disappears momentaneously below the slope. Except for that, everything seems to be perfect. Nice job!

And this IceReaper's 3D models testing looks very, very promising!

Matthias M. · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 2:10 pm Post subject:

I recently created a Visual Studio Code extension which helps with mission scripting so that you can have C# programming and Lua in one IDE

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=openra.vscode-openra-lua

For other editors which support VS Code extensions, try
https://open-vsx.org/extension/openra/vscode-openra-lua

Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 9:02 pm Post subject:

The vehicle tilting broke aircraft shadows because they also tilt along due to your unlucky choice of -1 as disabled and 0 as default (and then exposing this setting only to Mobile, leaving Husk and Aircraft in the dust). It looks really jarring after one notices it.

The tinting rewrite also seems to drop the depth data on voxels. Sure, the previous tinting had issues as well, with the transparency layering and shadowleaking over when one stacked tintlayers over but now voxels are very susceptible to just glowing outright if one takes a brighter tint color and I feel I need separate tint colors for SHP and voxels to get everything right because what works for one breaks on the other and simply slapping an additional layer of transparent monochrome doesn't normalize the difference.

On the other hand, I was impressed that I was able to catch up the 2021 developments within a weekend and I didn't run into massive blockers beyond this (there's a promise I made to a few people in the community that periodically I play catchup even though I'm really not interested, but I just keep my word). I expected much worse considering how this Stance->PlayerRelationship change is ongoing (because there still isn't a release which has that API stabilized).

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Past C&C projects: Attacque Supérior (2010-2019); Valiant Shades (2019-2021)
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WeiDU mods: Random Graion Tweaks | Graion's Soundsets
Maintainance: Extra Expanded Enhanced Encounters! | BGEESpawn
Contributions: EE Fixpack | Enhanced Edition Trilogy | DSotSC (Trilogy) | UB_IWD | SotSC & a lot more...

Matthias M. · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:25 pm Post subject:

The OpenRA MiniYAML Language Extension code named ORAIDE was recently released for Visual Studio Code and is still being improved.

Hovering over text in YAML files will (often) give helpful information:

Pressing Ctrl while hovering over text allows you to peek:

Clicking on text will go to the definition:

Same applies to weapon definitions:

Use the same editor to code traits in C# as it also allows you to jump into the Open Source code at any time:

There is even support for IntelliSense™

Upcoming features include mouse cursor definitions:

as well as map rules:

and color definitions: