TA3D

Ok, so if possible I'll need the mods files in order to try to reproduce it.

That's interesting, in both files the names of the 2 sides are ARM and CORE and since it is where TA3D looks for these names it's what it shows. What happens if you select ARM or CORE and start a game ?

hmm looks like a bug involving the gamedata/sidedata.tdf file of the mod. Can you find it in your mod files ?

Hi,

it didn't matter much in the old days but you are right its gets difficult to read on modern high resolution monitors. Maybe a GUI scaling factor could be useful here.

hmm, I think you put your mod files in the wrong folder. It would be .ta3d/resources/mods instead of .ta3d/mods

Interesting, can you post your log file ?

I updated your username ;). Regarding all the features you described, some of them are almost impossible to fit into an OTA like engine (like animation because script timings and events rely on animation timings so that would break too much things). Regarding shaders, as they will become mandatory i...

Qt5 is much bigger framework than SDL. SDL is only for graphics, audio, basic networking and basic user inputs whereas Qt5 brings many APIs, to access files, network, complex user inputs, threads, bluetooth, graphical interface with look and feel integrated to the target platform, ... Qt5 APIs are h...

The 0.6 branch is the last stable branch and is based on SDL, not Qt5. The Qt5 port is the 0.7 branch which is currently unstable. Also the 0.6 package is much bigger because it contains much more data (graphics for menus, unicode fonts which are quite big) than the 0.5 branch.

This thread will be dedicated to the progress of the ongoing port to Qt5. The first changes are quite visible (many dependencies have been removed and Qt5 is the only big dependency left) but because lots of code still rely on OpenGL API, very few parts of the code are running through the Qt5 OpenGL...

good idea.

I didn't do much testing in the last few years so I don't have all the bugs in mind. I can at least remember this one: last time I checked torpedos didn't work when dropped from planes.

I don't remember if transport units work as expected, will have to be checked.

The .sh script is for Linux, run the .bat one.

Hi, the game comes with an installer for OTA resource files (that's the ota_resources_installer.sh/bat script). It will ask for the game CDs (some of which can be skipped if you don't have all the extensions). You can also copy manually the .hpi, .ccx and .ufo files to the resources folder, which wi...

The last stable release (0.6) doesn't use Allegro any more and the package has been built against recent versions of its dependencies.

There is still a bit of OpenGL code everywhere but since textures are 100% wrapped into Qt objects I also replaced FTGL with Qt font API :). The 2 last dependencies are: - GLUT, which will be useless once all rendering is done using Qt's wrapper for OpenGL functions - Lua : this one is required and ...

I have started porting the code to Qt5. So far I completely removed SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_net, SDL_sgui, GLEW, Yuni, OpenMP. I broke many things in the process but it still loads and runs but with a few features disabled/broken (like water rendering and shadows). There is still FTGL for fon...

Done

There used to be a #ta3d chan on freenode. I'm on it right now.

I am already starting to port the code to Qt5. I already have threads and mutex from Qt, new smart pointers, I am also replacing the String type with Qt's QString. Current version number of the master branch is 0.7

Now that TA3D 0.6 is released ... and a few years have passed, it is time to modernize TA3D. I was thinking about porting it to Qt5 (cf https://www.qt.io/ ). This would bring many new interesting features and increase portability. Qt5 would make it possible to play TA3D on tablets or smart TVs for i...

Most activity stopped just before TA3D 0.6 had a chance to get released :( . So I decided to test windows build with new tools and I managed to get a working win64 build and an Ubuntu 16.04 amd64 package. These 2 packages and a source package are already available. So here we are: TA3D 0.6 is offici...

The new version of phpBB has a new anti-spam feature (enabled of course

). Registration is enabled again. So far so good.

What do you have in mind ? Are you talking about the forums or the rest of the website ?

The website itself has 2 styles OTA and modern, but you have to register in order to select one.

Yeah but that's the only spam post

Hi everybody ! I know it has been a long time without activity but things are starting to change a little. I have updated the forums and done some cleaning. The source repository has been exported to github: https://github.com/zuzuf/TA3D I have been recently contacted by 2 persons interested in TA3D...

What we need is a way of detecting junks based on content analysis ... does someone here knows of a solution which could be easily plugged into a phpBB forum ?

Indeed, MP3 may be broken ... anyway OGG is better and well supported

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No, I am just busy.
New versions of Ubuntu ship glew >=1.6, the package needs to be built for those versions (which I think are not 100% binary compatible with glew 1.5 or for some other reason they decide to include the version in package name).

I think TAK file specs are available (at least most of it) so adding support for it in TA3D could be done with "minor" efforts but the new game mechanics may require some more work.

I may build/release a Linux package soon (using current SVN code). I don't want to see TA3D dying but the truth is it's becoming difficult to maintain because of a lot of legacy stuffs (the renderer is quite difficult to understand). This is a consequence of reverse engineering: you don't know where...

I've just deleted some spams maybe I'll build and release something soon (as I start playing with a cousin I will likely find motivation to fix bugs ... when I find time

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I think I still have it somewhere in my TA3D resources if needed.

If you're interested in shadowing stuffs you may want to have a look at a few papers regarding shadow map filtering, especially "Percentage Closer Filtering".

I think supcom2 pathfinding implementation will be kept secret at least for a few years and reverse engineering it would be too time consuming.
TA3D 0.6 stable packages will be compiled in release mode of course but shaders, scripts and every aspect of the game will remain moddable.

I am against Java in a game engine if it is to be used as an extension mechanism (if you write a game in Java that's another story) because a Java VM is not something light. Lua is just the perfect balance for what we need and there is a JIT for it which is quite fast. Regarding pathfinding, this is...

Sorry for the long time not being there. I've been really busy and recently sick. TA3D is not dying actually but things are going slowly because releasing TA3D 0.6 implies fixing a windows specific compilation error and because I develop with windows at work I am a bit fed up with it right now which...

Thanks, I like that kind of post

DLLs are binary files you need to know the API and ABI to use them. Also I doubt we can really use them because of design differences between TA and TA3D. 1) TA3D has its own COB virtual machine. No, your code shouldn't crash TA3D. For now explosions and many special effects are just sprites. I want...

Only vertex and fragment shaders would be processed and non-conforming ones would produce error messages in the logs but it would not crash.

I guess the ones interested in promoting what's pointed by their links.

I guess some of them get paid for it

Hello, you may want to try the 0.6 branch : tt's still in beta stage only because I couldn't find the time to work on build RC packages ... so the last beta package should be quite stable for a beta. You'll find it there: ftp://downloads.ta3d.org/binaries/windows/dev/0.6/ You'll have to extract it w...

TA3D uses whatever you put in its folders. By default (without the free data set) it should use the last Evolva models.

Use the console: "screenshot()" will do the job.

Can you post a screen shot

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Until now the installer was made with NSIS. There is a script in the repository, it may help you (but it is outdated).
Help with the installer is more than welcome (I still haven't got a working windows binary

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I am sorry, I've been busy and building RC packages for windows takes me more time than expected because the build process is currently broken.

You need an OpenGL capable video card with OpenGL driver installed.
If your computer can run vista with aero enabled it should be able to run TA3D.
For vista specific issues I let windows users help you.

Thanks! I already have put a few of them in the free data set but since then there may be new ones

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It is activated but it seems to be inefficient.
There is a phpBB update available so I am going to install it right now, I hope it'll help.

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