[Paging] Andrew

[Plasmatic]

Yeah, I agree. Unfortunately the masses don't. Hell, the last game I bought and played ( 2 times max ) was TF2 about a year or two ago!

I bought the Orange Box for Portal and ETQW because there is a Tribes project based on it.

[Perrinoia]

bawb, I think that's the funniest thing I've ever read.

I also purchased the Orange Box, because I wanted Portal, and everyone told me I needed to get a Steam game. I actually got a couple other valve games too, but they all suck. Good graphics though.

My favorite games are Tribes, BF2, NFS: Most Wanted (haven't tried carbon), in that order.
Microsoft's Chess Titans is better than all the games I have in Steam.

The feature I'm excited about for playtribes.com is that the phrase "client side" will be obsolete, since you'll practically be downloading the whole game modded or not each time you visit. The other stuff that Andrew mentioned sounds good too.

I remember reading a post from Plasmatic years ago, when he tested an old Glide capable graphics card with tribes and said it was as good if not better than OpenGL. When you say Software mode is gone, only OpenGL remains... That mean's glide is gone too, right?

[Armageddon]

i dont know.. i'm personally getting a little tired of all those new games that look awesome but play like crap or are just plain boring. Atleast those good ol' uglier games are fun (well most of 'm )

Yeah, I agree. Unfortunately the masses don't. Hell, the last game I bought and played ( 2 times max ) was TF2 about a year or two ago!

Thats what im getting at, Tribes has the gameplay down without a dout but new people won't be drawn in by that alone they need eye candy.
If the new version had both the great gameplay and better graphics it would ignite the tribes series again.

The changes sound pretty sweet so far, the unlimited datablocks will help me finish my mod which i guess will be released so time after 1.40 is out and i make the needed changes for compatibility.

I do have a question if .vol is removed what format are skins and mods going to use? Or will skins/mods have to be ran through directories?

[Armageddon]

Awe F.. Forgot to ask one last thing.

Any chance you could make the imageslots max a little higher while your at it? I'll make you a cake

[Hazor]

I do have a question if .vol is removed what format are skins and mods going to use? Or will skins/mods have to be ran through directories?

It's .zip: http://forum.instantaction.com/smf/inde ... pic=9257.0
Having the contents of the resource volumes in /base (or large mods) be extracted there would be painful to work with, even if broken into some directories, as it's thousands of files.

a lot of scripting language enhancements, all the scripts have been refactored/re-written, the datablock limit IS raised to virtually unlimited, [...]

I don't suppose we could get some real details on these any time soon? Alternatively, will documentation be made and available around the time of release?

[bawb]

the thing about tribes is, it cant die, because it already did, im beginning to suspect tribes is the anti christ

[robindegen]

i dont know.. i'm personally getting a little tired of all those new games that look awesome but play like crap or are just plain boring. Atleast those good ol' uglier games are fun (well most of 'm )

Yeah, I agree. Unfortunately the masses don't. Hell, the last game I bought and played ( 2 times max ) was TF2 about a year or two ago!

Thats what im getting at, Tribes has the gameplay down without a dout but new people won't be drawn in by that alone they need eye candy.
If the new version had both the great gameplay and better graphics it would ignite the tribes series again.

The changes sound pretty sweet so far, the unlimited datablocks will help me finish my mod which i guess will be released so time after 1.40 is out and i make the needed changes for compatibility.

I do have a question if .vol is removed what format are skins and mods going to use? Or will skins/mods have to be ran through directories?

yes, as long as the graphics improvements dont suffer the gameplay i'm all for it.

Please i beg of the dev's to not change anything in the movement to make it be more real or whatever reason. The way you move around in tribes is perfect.

and andrew, that sounds pretty cool. can't wait

[Armageddon]

the thing about tribes is, it cant die, because it already did, im beginning to suspect tribes is the anti christ

Or tribes is jesus because he came back from the dead too... But then again jesus wasn't packing a disc launcher gotta give that to satan.

[Perrinoia]

Satan packs an OS... Angels use Heaven's Fury... That means disks are the weapon of men.

[Plasmatic]

From the tribes faq's: Movement and graphics will not be updated.

[MadCowDisease2]

Dammit! Will they at least add in support for better graphics in mods? D:

[Quimica]

cool thanks for the info

I hope it happens before (grape) harvest though otherwise I won't have much time until November/Decemberish

I also hope NoFiX will port the plugin loader lol

[robindegen]

Dammit! Will they at least add in support for better graphics in mods? D:

well yea, if they support png, you can change the textures cant you . You just need to be skilled at making/picking/ripping w/e good textures

[NoFiXette]

Maybe he was talking about download-able content? Which would be really nice!

[robindegen]

i thought they were going to do that anyway. Could be wrong.

[MadCowDisease2]

Game needs corona effects. Placeable corona effects which face the screen.
Real particles too, rather than just slapping 3d models with translucent textures behind rockets.

Fehh, screw it -- Perhaps I should just switch over to some other game that actually has bumpmap/normalmap support, like Sauerbraten
--Since none of my mods involve jetting, that is.

[robindegen]

a proper particle engine that can be fully configured in a datablock (like torque). That could make for really nice effects

[MadCowDisease2]

Yep.
Be much, MUCH less laggy than the way I have to do it right now -- Bulletdatas being spawned at position/rotation by the server

Perhaps image base, size and color modification options for particles?

[Blakhart]

nr fixes????

[Andrew]

Yeah, both Software mode and Glide are completely gone, no traces left. I don't have a glide card so I really couldn't take a look at if the glide code to steal any improvements it made. The terrain bug behind the BE SH base is fixed with OpenGL now at least, and the textures are properly mip'd / tri-linear so the terrain doesn't look like it's crawling with ants by default.

The scripting stuff will probably need to be documented I guess. If I had to guess, I'd say there'd be a dev section on playtribes it'd be on. Some of the stuff that's been added:

ternary compares:

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%var = %bool ? "this" : "that";

switch statements:

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switch ( %name ) {
   case "Jim":
   case "Joe": return "Male";
   case "Sally": return "Female";
   default: return "Amoeba";
}

variable/function dereferencing (kind of like pointers):

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%testvar = "$abc";
*%testvar = "$def"; // $abc now holds the value "$def";
$def = "ghi";
%testfun = "echo";
*%testfun( *$abc ); // echos "ghi";

function attachments (nofix's idea):

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function test( %a, %b, %c ) {
   echof( "Test: %1 %2 %3", %a, %b, %c );
}

function pretest( %a, %b, %c ) before test {
   %a = "before";
   echo( "BEFORE test!" );
}

function posttest( %a, %b, %c ) after test {
   echo( "AFTER test!" );
}

Running "test( 1, 2, 3 );" results in

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BEFORE test!
Test: before 2 3
AFTER test!

As well as a lot of functions that used to be done in script (string, math, etc) that are now built in to the engine so they're more efficient.

Movement is staying exactly the same.

NR's aren't.. fixed per-se, but you can disable client-side collisions which effectively removes them.