quake2xp 1.27 beta 1 file

sorry i was unlogged. Yes , alpha textures. Once in a while i ask you😂 . I want to make a modern sp campaign with your mod. My pref, so far. No pressure, im asking. ☮

Yes! And decals on floor with grungy textures to break the "tile" feel a bit. I was experimenting with Quake 4 alpha textures , and I found that with your engine the colors wich do the work is black. I surround the subject (fences, decals) with black in photoshop and it work. ( for vanilla Quake 2 it was the pink color which was color number 255 on the palet) . But unfortunately it appears in fullbrite mode on the map, which it can look ugly in less lit area. I tried with your own decals, ( like the bfg stain map decals) and its doing the same thing. The other thing is the decals appear very pale. (neither I use trans 33 or trans 66 or both) . To solve this I stacked a lot of decals at the same place. It can do the work , but of course it increase the polycount, but I "skip" texturised the other sides of the brush to help with that a bit. I like to experiment with your engine. My goal is to able to see a modern new Quake game. Quake 2 with your engine the Lazarus mod, is just perfect. You can almost do everything you want. Move brushes (like a box), sink it into liquid. The physics of quake 2 still amaze me.

Cool man! Let me know ! And I let you know if I found bugs or issues while editing maps. 🦾
And thanks for the console text editing update 😅. I'm gonna save a lot of time in the future.

of course it doesnt work on amd cards once again how about get a f*cking amd card for once? Amd cards have superior image quality anyway look it up.

1 - if you can spare some time, please add menus for those keys, like Q2RTX has for example (every key bindable, even F1-F12, which doesn't work in Q2XP, if you unbind F1 from Computer you can't bind it again).

2 - my OS Language, System Locale and non-Unicode is all English, but my keyboard layout isn't, so every time I run Q2XP it adds an US keyboard layout in Windows and switches to it... I don't need a different language for Q2XP, just the layout fix.

3 - Is this intentional? I mean if I'm running Q2XP, it should use it's bindings, or maybe allow to overwrite autoexec from a menu?

4 - I meant, if I have all the original music for Q2, Xatrix, Rogue, can Q2XP play it properly?

5 - I don't have mouse in menus (even tried your old Steam Launcher). How do I get a bigger console while in a map?

Thanks for replying, hoping for that "bind everything menu".

As for things not saving, it's just that I make my keybinds, and next time I run Q2XP they're lost, dunno why.

Music - from OGG, do levels play their respective tracks in Xpacs?

Regarding menu mouse, it's low priority, but nice quality of life.

Forcing US layout is bad indeed.

Thanks for com_fullConsole 1, I wanted to see my previous commands but the console was a bit short, tho fullscreen console is a bit much :D

Keep up the good work!

Sorry to bother you again, but is it possible not to use red explosive barrels and use old Strogg barell models if Q2XP has a high textures for those too?

Also, music seems to cut sometimes, or starts playing again in the middle of current track?

1 - is there a hi-poly Q2XP vanilla barrel maybe?
2 - this is the only port I've that has OGG playback issues for some reason, just letting you know about it.

Man I love active devs with fast responses :D

I've another issue - sound volume (I've tried turning everything off and on, nearest and max sinc...).

Go to Lost Station - those moving platforms/lifts sound so quiet even if you're standing on them.
Otherwise, I can barely hear when most enemies expressions and their weapons firing, it's like they are 2x further than they actually are.

Basically, if it's not in my face, it's too far away/too quiet.

AMD/RealTek ALC897, even disabled Win 10 Signal Enhancements so Realtek Console wouldn't applly any postprocessing.

Streamable.com - notice that the first door that opens only goes to right channel, and then the lift comes and you can barely hear it, notice how loud blaster shots are and how quiet the gondola is. Enemies vary, usually they're a bit louder than that lift but still too quiet.

HRTF also seems to apply too much mid frequencies, a lot of weapons in my hand lose the "boom" out of them.

PS: 1.26.9 barrels have no shadows and seem to be unaffected by light sources, and flashlight, just fyi.

Streamable.com - Q2 vanilla, louder enemy voices (expected due to lack of true positional audio), loud lift/gondola.

Streamable.com - Q2XP, quieter enemy voices, Guards at the beginning are quieter due to distance, but a bit too quiet, same with Enforcers that are right around the corner and boxes later. Enforcers at the end of video right behind the boxes shouldn't be so quiet considering they're practically in front of me. Gondola/lift is barely audible.

No HRTF, no Reverberation, Resampler Nearest.

You hear that gondola/lift in Q2XP as loud as in vanilla Q2?

PS: I can't choose anything else than "Default" or "OpenAL SOFT on Realtek", no other options if that matters.

I used old Q2 just for a quick comparison, that gondola shouldn't sound that quiet in OpenAL no matter what since the sound is coming directly from it, no?

I don't have Creative OpenAL (unless you mean outside of the game to use Headphone virtualization or such), only Default or OpenAL Soft tho.

Sound in Q2 can give away enemy positions or things (secrets) opening/closing, so quiet is a no no.
HRTF just makes it worse by applying acoustic filter, for example Super Shotgun losses a lot of it's oomph even tho it's literary in my hands (I tested the rest with HRTF off).

"adjusted for 3D sound" that's the point - most of the things are spatially 3D located, but a bit "far" away than they really are, and some doors/lifts like that gondola sound as if they're very far for no reason.

Maybe "shorten" the audio distance of things compared to player, or a fallback to original audio engine?

No probs, it's just a civil discussion about what can or should be improved.

As I said, that gondola is just one example, and enemies are a bit too quiet for my taste.

Hope you didn't forget what we talked about above too :)

I mean enemy voices/reactions/breathing are just a tad too quiet for me to automatically orient myself to their sounds. I didn't even hear footsteps :D

Built-in sound cards are still ****, you need to take discrete cards - and there will be no problems.Creative and Asus rule!!!

Is something off with Tank:

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Np, can wait until all of this gets rolled in a full release.

Parallax Mapping also looks wrong on those big computers with map screens, it projects the map in front of it making everything unreadable (also, texture and text has some noise to it too), maybe disable it for that particular texture? Imgur.com

PS: some lifts bring you up, but if you wanna get down you have to take fall damage, lifts won't come back up if you stand close to the edge, forgot if this was vanilla experience...

And the lift behavior? I remembr tho murky if lifts should come back up for you so you don't have to fall down?

PS: Final doors in Warehouse just before exit closes and won't reopen, was that too in vanilla? Missed a secret, wanted to backtrack.

Dammit, I wanted to blame it on you :)

Quick question - would extracting your pkx files make loading faster, and if yes, in which order to extract them? Also, what does "Compressed textures" option do?

Letting you know that Receiving Center has quite a lot of mobs in white gray, probably bump maps or similar.

And the secret level there crashes.

EDIT: apparently if Center loads "wrong" (mob textures) the secret level crashes. Had to restart Q2 and load Center, things fixed themselves.

Any ETA on the next patch maybe?