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I have to thank Baker so much, for all this stuff he did (This is the only Source on the web for implenting HL BSP Support)
and wanna ask about fixing this sucked up lightning, in Lord Havoc's DarkPlaces Engine everyhing is ok. Im no programmin newbie, but in this Section i need abit help...
I have ...

humm.. interesting.

Thanks guys, for your brilliant suggestions.

I was originally envisioning adding some DSP functions to the server software, and I'm so newb, I forgot that the *client* makes the sounds :oops: , and all the server does is tell the client which .wav's to play ( and when). Any DSP would have to be ...

Right Tei, my idea would work for new maps only. But then again, OneManClan needs this for HIS mod, and he will create new maps.

He is not trying to implement these changes into old mods. And the work to have compatibility for ALL mods (some of them pretty hacky) is not justified.

Then either ...

All ideas are good.

Doing it "programatically" make it work on old maps, while if you need to add entities or new clip solids, will only work on new maps.

Right Tei, my idea would work for new maps only. But then again, OneManClan needs this for HIS mod, and he will create new maps.

He is not ...

Better yet, rather than inventing yet another new format and having to write yet another new parser for it ( :roll: ), something that can be parsed by COM_Parse. :D
"key" "value"

Only if you want, since there are Windows API that already does this work for you, right ;) ?

The OS dependant ...

All ideas are good.

Doing it "programatically" make it work on old maps, while if you need to add entities or new clip solids, will only work on new maps.

I think the existence of a float variable in progs.dat can be enough.

float REQUIRED_HYPNOTIC = 1;

... but compilers may "optimize" this constant removing it, so I dunno .

The rationale of having a contant in the progs.dat is that new engines can detect the contant and warn the user "This mod ...

Yea.. the other problem is how to detect "Big Room".

Most people would do it with tracelines. Launch 8 tracelines (N, NW, W,SW,S,SE,E,NE), and somehow calculate the "area" this tracelines explore. Based on this area, activate or not the use of reverberation.
Or doing a traceline to the sky, and ...

look in to eax extensions.
its an extra com class which can be queried from your directsound object, and then configured to set the enrionment/room properties.

Sorry bout the newbie questions, but what's a 'com class'?
[EDIT, it's cool, Im googling]

Why has no-one done it yet? Would the solution ...

fog is "poor man" blur..

theres always teh checkextensions stuff

http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/docs/?qc

I think you sould raise the view of the player a bit ( view_ofs ?). The Stepsize of Quake is very big, and looks weird and unnatural on a realilstic setting.

Anyway on a map like this sound will be everything.

If you are aiming for realism, IMHO you sould use a model for the light poles.