The Dark Mod for Doom IIIBroken Glass Studios are very pleased to announce the release of The Dark Mod 2. This update includes literally hundreds of new high quality models other assets, along with an update to the editor that will change the way TDM missions look going forward. Please see the latest official trailer above for a quick teaser. New Modular Models. Springheel has created over two hundred modular models that can be combined to create multiple types of environments. Tavern interiors, city streets, industrial warehouses and more. By placing modules together, high fidelity scenes can be created quicker and more easily than ever before. New Official Mission. Many of the above new assets are showcased in a new introductory missionthat is included in this update. This mission is the first of a three mission story which serves as ourofficial introduction to TDMs game play and setting. Better Performance. You should notice an increase in performance speed in TDM 2. The main improvement to TDM 2. Lightgem Rendering. To accomplish the Lightgem functionality in The Dark Mod we originally had to dig around in the game SDK for places where we could communicate with the renderer. Picture Merge Genius V2.8 Keygen. This was primarily done via the in game camera systems and tricks with piping screenshot files to a RAM workspace. Modwiki. The way the system works is 1 If it is time to create a Lightgem image, initialize a new View aka camera2 The player model, held objects, and other non essential objects are hidden. The player model is replaced with a low poly representation octahedronOctahedron with eyes representing cameras4 The camera is positioned facing down at the octahedron below5 The scene is rendered and captured to memory. The camera is positioned facing upward looking at the bottom of the octahedron below7 The scene is rendered and the image is captured to memory. The images are combined and then analyzed for the brightest values. A final light level value is return to the game code to be adjusted further by other visibility factors. With the above screenshots, the process certainly looks wasteful but those are only hand made representations I created by spawning the octahedron model in game. The real Lightgem render would crop away everything but the boundaries of the octahedron leaving you with a square made of 4 shaded triangles. Still, id Tech 4 Doom 3 engine is very nervous about throwing away scene data during a render. If there is anything that could cast a shadow or show up in a mirror, transparency, or postprocess the engine will tend to do a substantial amount of setup before deciding to discard the data just before sending it to the video card for render or will actually render the invisible stuff if all the culling heuristics fail. Edit HahIts even worse than I thought. 3D Anime Character Creator. According to Serpentine one of the old core coders the lightgem camera is actually inside the octahedron an optimization I was planning on doing. This means that the visibility culling heuristics are really falling down or else these latest changes wouldnt have been so effective. In TDM 2. 0. 3, Steve. L was struggling with the particle system and as part of his cleanup work he ensured that particles no longer make up the above workload. To everyones surprise, this was a pretty significant performance boost to scenes with lots of particles. In 2. 0. 4 Steve. L added the ability to omit Lights from the Lightgem calculation so that mappers could place decorative bounce lights around their maps without having to struggle against the Lightgem because the brightest part of those lights was typically floating in mid air and invisible to the player till they stepped into it. This work laid the groundwork for the 2. Lightgem changes. In 2. 0. 5 the octahedron was given a new material type islightgemsurf to allow the following change Skip all surfaces that cant create shadows except islightgemsurfThis, along with skipping all lights that the player isnt inside of drastically cut the amount of work for the Lightgem render phase. But we were not done yet A new coder Duzenko and veteran of the Russian Darkfate Thief community arrived to complain about the cost of the Lightgem render prior to the above changes. Parallel to the above development, he looked into another expensive aspect of the Lightgem Pixel reading. Even though our Lightgem image capture was given a superhighway to native memory space in 1. RAM was still pretty slow. Duzenko studied the problem and found that an ancient Open. GL 2. 1 feature called Pixel Packed Buffers would do a better job than our very legacy Open. GL code. This lead to some drastic performance improvements in fillrate heavy scenes like the cave in No Honor Among Thieves mission 1. A little tangent on tweaking. Part of the genesis of the above Lightgem optimization was my own pet project to improve our documentation on performance tweaks and cvars In the forums, there had been at least a few confusinginconclusive discussions about one tweak that seemed to offer the biggest performance boost but came with some pretty bad caveats tdmlginterleave. This console variable allows you to specify how often to capture Lightgem renders. By default, this is done in every frame. Users were finding that setting it to 2 or 3 would nearly double FPS is some scenes but it was also causing terrible stutter, especially where the average FPS was below 3. It occurred to me that automatically enabling or disabling the larger skip values depending on your FPS was the ideal solution, so I created a new cvar tdmlginterleavemin that allows you to say if my FPS is below X then set tdmlginterleave to 1 to avoid stutter. The default value is 4. FPS. tdmlgsplit. This console variable was created shortly after tdmlginterleave at the dawn of TDM to address the same stutter concern above. It was posited that the biggest problem with tdmlginterleave was that the frame load was so uneven with the huge wallop of frame cost during the full Lightgem scenes. One of the developers suggested calculating only the top or bottom of the Lightgem capture per pass so that the render load would be much closer to the non Lightgem passes. This worked great but was never enabled by default in The Dark Mod because it caused particle effects to flicker. Именование игры, для которой предназначен русификатор либо набор файлов, что. Download DOOM II also known as 2, DOOM II Hell on Earth for free now. Published in 1994 by GT Interactive Software Corp., enjoy a action game with sci. THE DARK MOD was once a total conversion of Doom 3, and is now a STANDALONE GAME with the release of TDM 2. A dark and moody stealth game, inspired by the Thief. With Steve. Ls exclusion of particles in 2. Further, it can be paired with tdmlginterleave so that the interleave frames calculate half the scene every x number of frames. With the above knowledge, feel free to try setting tdmlginterleave to higher values now. I have been playing with tdmlginterleave 3 but Ive tested it as high as 8 without seeing any stutter or anomalies. For most missions, I can set tdmlginterleavemin to 1 along with tdmlginterleave 3 and gain FPS even at sub 3. FPS areas with no consequence for frame stutter but Penny Dreadful 3 required me to increase the min to 5. Your mileage may vary. Size. The old imagedown. Size cvar settings that allow you to shrink and degrade texture quality to reduce video RAM consumption and bandwidth consumption, no longer cause menus and GUIs maps, signs, etc to become blurry. If you have limited video memory, try reducing these settings now that they no longer affect play ability. 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