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Given that I had no idea that was even possible before now and have never used any of those features... yes-ish?DDL wrote:Huh. I have no idea. Not near my HDTP pooter so I can't check atm.
If it DOESN'T, you could maybe fake it with renderoverlays? Set bEnvmapped=true, draw it again?
Wow ! I thought I was a ‘stick-in-the-mud’ gamer, but jeez ! You’ve beaten me by a country mile. Heck ! This is almost Guinness Book-like !Y|yukichigai wrote:Welp, just hit a setback. An amusing one. Read on.
So if you aren't aware, I've been in the Deus Ex game for a long, long time. Well no, you're probably aware of that part in general, I mean with Shifter's tagline even mentioning the year 2002. What I specifically though is that I've been all over Deus Ex since about two months after it came out. I actually got the game along with a copy of Thief: Dark Shadows as a bundle with my sound card, back when sound cards did that sort of thing. I started modding before the v1112fm patch came out... hell I think before v1109 came out.
Anyway, this isn't me bragging (much), this long-winded explanation has a purpose. By the time v1112fm came out I had so many decompiled .u files and other stuff littering my Deus Ex install that the concept of reinstalling from scratch was just unthinkable. WAY too much work. I just installed v1112fm on the existing install and kept working. I figured that eventually the install would get unstable enough that I'd have no choice but to reinstall. In the meantime though I kept working, waiting for that day to come.
Well that day finally came. Today.
Yes, that's right, I have been using the same install of Deus Ex for thirteen years. Oh sure, it's been copied between computers as I switched from tower to tower, but since Deus Ex doesn't need any registry settings to function there was no reason to actually reinstall. I've been copying my Deus Ex folder from computer to computer for thirteen years, and it's continued to work in all that time. Until now that is.
So yeah, right now I can't actually get Deus Ex to run past the main menu screen. Any attempt to do so results in the lovingly cryptic "bad name index" error, which I'm told means some .u file or other is corrupted. I really am not in the mood to figure out which one, so I think, grudgingly, it's time to start over. A new, fresh, clean install.
Unfortunately I can't actually remember what I did with my original Deus Ex install disc. Yes I still have it, I just put it somewhere safe... so safe I can't remember where it is. I'm busily downloading the Steam version as we speak, but since my internet has all the line quality of a potato it may take some time.
No worries though, this isn't stopping me from merging HDTP stuff, it's just stopping me from TESTING. The latter is pretty annoying since I've just done something that (I think) is pretty clever for all the new weapon meshes with their custom hand textures and whatnot.
So yeah, hope that gives you a little chuckle. I'm now going to do something to fill my time while I wait to install Deus Ex for the first time in 13 years.
No problem. I'm just thrilled so many people enjoy Shifter.CrocMagnum wrote: Wow ! I thought I was a ‘stick-in-the-mud’ gamer, but jeez ! You’ve beaten me by a country mile. Heck ! This is almost Guinness Book-like !
By the way I never had the chance to thank you for Shifter. This is the time I guess. Cheers for your dedication and good luck for the next version.
That would make HDTP mandatory for running Shifter then I think. Exec Obj Load is a compiler command.DDL wrote:Preload the entire package via an exec obj load?
