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FF7 Tools / Re: Kimera: FF7 p model simple editor
« on: 2013-07-30 08:42:29 »
Mmmm... But is blending explicitely turned off in real-time or is there some sort of flag in the file that specifies it should be diabled?

The V_ALPHABLEND state has to be enabled either in the group itself or somewhere above it in the render tree. Presumably models themselves usually don't touch this state at all and leave it up to the engine to enable it before rendering.

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FF7 Tools / Re: Kimera: FF7 p model simple editor
« on: 2013-07-29 09:48:31 »
Blend mode doesn't matter if blending is turned off

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FF7 Tools / Re: Kimera: FF7 p model simple editor
« on: 2013-07-28 12:09:54 »
In some situations the alpha is overwritten at runtime to get the right blending effect (128 for average, 64 for mode3) so in those cases the alpha from the vertices makes no difference whatsoever. I think it's when the game forces blending for a model which normally doesn't have blending enabled that it actually uses the alpha from the .p file and 128 just makes it look right for the most common blending mode (average). Looks like they made a bit of an ugly fix just to make it work.

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FF7 Tools / Re: Kimera: FF7 p model simple editor
« on: 2013-07-27 22:43:56 »
I think a better default value for the alpha would be 128, that's what it's set to in all the stock models IIRC.

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Team Avalanche / Re: Out of hibernation
« on: 2013-07-27 22:42:08 »
Making FF7 render weighted meshes isn't very difficult at all actually, the problem is inventing a new model format to support it and writing the loaders/exporters/etc for it. This is something I've wanted to do since like version .6 of the driver but I don't think I will ever have the time to actually do it.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Error: GL Out of Memory
« on: 2013-07-27 14:09:06 »
This is a problem with the current version of my driver, not related to PBO or VBO or what-have-you, its all about how much texture data your graphics driver is keeping in memory. Currently once a texture has been loaded from disk it will stay in memory forever and since FF7 is a 32-bit application it has less than 2GB of address space available (worst case) and you will hit that limit sooner or later if you're using some of the recent upscaling mods. Either disable mods that use a large number of big textures or restart FF7 if you're changing areas alot (thus loading more textures). The problem has already been fixed on my side so it wont be an issue in the next version.

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Pretty sure this data is in the **AB script files on the PC version, not sure exactly what that corresponds to in the PSX version. Either way the format is not really known, I know Akari did some work on it and so did I but not enough to be able to edit it or even decode it really.

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There is actually a bug in FF7PC at this point in the game (first time exiting mythril mines) which can make it crash but its very rare and normally it can't be reproduced consistently.

0.7.10b fixed another bug which could be triggered in battle in the mythril mines (and many other places but mythril mines is probably the first) but that doesn't seem to be the issue here. Still, you should update to the latest version.

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SPT to TEX mappings are hardcoded into the .exe, so is the actual usage of the SPT files. That is to say, each effect (all hardcoded) defines exactly how its SPT files are used, thats why there are alot of inconsistencies and also why simply changing the SPT file isn't gonna do anything useful for most effects. As if that wasn't enough, alot of other frame-dependent timing is hardcoded into these effects, nothing short of a rewrite of all effects would really solve that problem. I was playing around with a hack to run the code for these effects once every X frame but it was just not working out and of course that wouldn't really give you 60 FPS effects, it would just keep it in sync with other 60 FPS content.

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DLPB: Post your crash dump and I will have a look at it.

0.7.11b has some issues with FF8, most of them have already been fixed on my end.

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General Discussion / Re: Can anyone identify this?
« on: 2012-10-16 21:43:23 »
Those are the maps for the submarine minigame.
It seems to be a heightmap in plaintext, probably inverted (8 - low elevation, 0 - high elevation).

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Its bad for performance basically. LGPs are much faster and with the way the game is designed (load alot of data from disk in big batches and keep it in memory for a relatively short time) its just not going to run well on low end rigs if a bunch of mods start using direct mode. Direct mode is meant for testing only and if we keep it that way we wont ever see any of the potential issues it could cause.

That doesn't mean we have to stick to the LGP format forever, it would be technically possible to implement a complete replacement. As with all complete replacements though thats a massive task and its probably not going to happen anytime soon.

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It has been bugging me that the config file for 0.7.11b still says 0.7.10b, I should fix that and release as 0.7.12b.

Seriously though, if you haven't heard anything from me that probably means I haven't been working on it, so far I can only say for certain that looping .ogg support (without FF7Music) is going to be in the next version.

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FF7PC has a whole automated heap debugging mechanism, thats hardly surprising though as many if not most applications and games do that to some extent.

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I don't know whats going to be in the next release.
I don't know when it will be done.

Seriously, just stop asking.

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Every time someone asks that it is delayed by two months.

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Most, if not all of the code that converted PSX data to PC format is still in there.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg
« on: 2012-09-07 16:45:54 »
I recall there being a DEP issue with the menu overhaul that wasn't fixed (as far as I know) in any of the new releases. I would not jump to the conclusion that its a pirated copy because of a DEP crash, plenty of other things could cause that.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg
« on: 2012-09-07 15:41:37 »
You got a broken mod installed which is triggering DEP. Don't know which .exe mods you got installed but my guess would be DLPB's menu overhaul so try uninstalling that.

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I'm going to guess that WM1 was probably a copy of the post comet overworld map before they realized they could just swap out cells at particular plot points.

Makes sense, doubly so considering that this "feature" is only used post-comet; that could very well be explained by the fact that that code just didn't exist while they were working on disc1.

All speculation of course, and in the end, it doesn't really matter :)

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In the PC version WM0, WM2 and WM3 are indeed overworld, underwater and snowfield respectively while WM1 simply does not exist. Would be very strange if they changed it from the PSX version.

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Whats so odd about storing the time in milliseconds?

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Server will be down for a couple of days due to a hardware failure, have patience. In the meantime I'm sure someone can send you the file (without mirroring it publicly, please).

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This is actually a bug/misfeature in my driver. Use any of the above workarounds for now.

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Some guy is livestreaming it on twitch right now, go check it out! http://www.twitch.tv/darkthrone

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