ProQuake 4.70 PSP Build

[Downsider]

PCX should be loaded with a CLUT or at least get DXT compression.

[Biodude]

hey downsider, what ever happened to your engine, the one with hl1 model support, and all those other fancy features? ever going to release that?

[Baker]

baker you external texture thing is fucked up i think. Even without modifications it is just black screen. Any idea?

Self-help ... you can WinMerge against 4.70 to see the changes. It has code to load the PCX textures and to upload them instead of the map or model texture. It says in the experimental source release post that you might need to play around with it a little to get to work as you wish.

The experimental source release is entirely unsupported and states this in the post.

That's just the way it has got to be at the moment, because I am 70% into a major release of Engine X and I have no intention of being sidetracked from that goal.

When I am done with my current projects (2-3 months to wrap up all of them) I will revisit the PSP code again.

[Jukki]

well, i meant that when i try to load game even without touching the source, it is just black screen

[Baker]

well, i meant that when i try to load game even without touching the source, it is just black screen

Probably out of memory.

If you trace through the changes to the code, external texture support is very elemental and is scarcely different than HLBSP support:

1. When loading textures for the .bsp or .mdl, check for an external texture by that name. If found, use the PCX file loader allocating enough bytes and get the palette and "upload" the texture after storing the palette. Free the data and recover the memory. You will find that in video_hardware_model.cpp

The PCX loader is in image.cpp or image.c or something like that.

The next time I revisit the PSP stuff, I may get a Slim or something with better memory or may implement memory saving features like DXT compression.

The Phat PSP is always walking on eggshells when handling memory, unfortunately. It'd be a moderate time investment to determine ways to cut down on memory use, and right now I have other engine coding stuff I am doing.

But I will be revisiting the PSP in a few months.

[Mexicouger]

I have ported over your PCX texture support, but it does not work. I tried using even a 2 kb pcx file replacement for a model, and it said it found the file, and it showed a number that came up to 256, then it froze. I am running a Phat psp, but there should be no reason to freeze on a 16x16 texture.

I also ported the map code too, which I had a bit more success with. It actually errors out(Doesn't freeze).

I think between Your pcx support and Crow_bars, I may be able to get this working. I already have his DXT texture compression ported into my engine, now I just have to adjust the 2.

[mh]

And what happens when you run it in a debugger?

[ceriux]

baker, your proquake engine froze on me (on my psp) right before an ogres grenade hit my in my face.

also seems to crash when i fire in custom maps too (hlbsp and qbsp)

[dr_mabuse]

will be there a new version soon without the texture bug and "full mp3" support??

[Baker]

You can fix the MP3 issue via self-help with this ...

viewtopic.php?t=2858

I don't plan on updating this project in the future, I have a different engine project I spend all my free time on now.

[dr_mabuse]

nice thx

Sad to hear, ProQuake runs nice with my game/mod
And looks like the NZP dudes didnt want to release theyr modified proquake psp engine ;( (they have external textuers etc..)

[Baker]

nice thx

Sad to hear, ProQuake runs nice with my game/mod

Glad I could help.

[I might do one more release and if so I'll do it a couple of days before Christmas, I would have preferred to kill the last couple of bugs anyway.]

[dr_mabuse]

wow, if you could release a christmas build with texturesupport and mp3 fix you will get 100000000 cookies
that will be a nice christmas present

[ceriux]

nice thx

Sad to hear, ProQuake runs nice with my game/mod

Glad I could help.

[I might do one more release and if so I'll do it a couple of days before Christmas, I would have preferred to kill the last couple of bugs anyway.]

PLEEEASE!

[dr_mabuse]

I hope you can fix the texture aligment error...
It looks strange on skyboxes: