Two Steps Forward
A couple of days ago, I received an email that got me thinking about popular music back from the late 80s and early 90s. I remembered watching a video for the song, Opposites Attract, on MTV. That is the video where Paula Abdul is dancing with MC Skat Kat while singing about taking two steps forward and two steps back. I'll use that song lyric as inspiration for this blog entry, and show you another step forward with the Doom port before I start blogging about the translation and implementation effort (the steps back).
I've done a few tweaks to get the rendering to be a little faster than the last screencast. One of the things slowing down the last screencast was the conversion of a Depth8Image (Doom has a small palette) to a Depth32Image for displaying. Dave Wallen made some suggestions that improved this specific conversion from one palette to another one. Another fairly big slowdown can only be blamed on me being dope, which I will explain at a later time, because frankly it is embarassing.
I still have the same fixed lighting (it does not get darker as you look into the distance) issue. However, I've added the message displaying ("Picked up a clip") and added the part where the palette shifts when you pick something up or are attacked. Because this is the second screencast of the port, I've decided to show the second demo (demo2) in the ultimate doom.wad file. This screencast is on a window rendering the 320x200 bitmap. It is a little long (nearly two minutes and half minutes) and a little violent. If you don't like seeing imps being berserked punched, then you might want to skip this one.
Click through the DOOM title picture above to see a screencast of the port as it plays the second demo in the Ultimate Doom WAD file.
Comments
Re: Two Steps Forward
[ Michael Lucas-Smith] August 31, 2007 22:21:50.150
Comment by Michael Lucas-Smith
Is it that slow a frame rate or is that just the screencast?
Heh!
[Andres] September 1, 2007 0:43:50.356
Bob,
That's nice! I used to like Duke Nukem 3D. One thing I learned that it was possible in DN3D as opposed to DOOM was to modify the behavior of the game. There were 3 files in pseudo C lying around in the game's directory, and inspection would reveal the script for the monsters, the environment, etc. I had a lot of fun rewriting them, and would have done even more if I had had a proper browser to allow better refactoring. The code was copy/pasted all over the place!
Fun times...
Andres.
Re: Framerate & Heh!
[] September 5, 2007 17:12:52.792
First, sorry for the late replies.
The screencast looks to me to be fairly representive of what I'm seeing.
As far as Duke Nukem 3d, that game had such effect on me that to this day when I'm looking for something I can't help but think of Duke saying "where is it?" in my head.
[] October 20, 2007 3:18:45.273
bob....what the hell are you talking about? how do i connect my phone to my computer? :)
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