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FPSC Classic Product Chat / [LOCKED] Official efxMod Thread [56k Warning]

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Nighthawk
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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 22:41 Edited at: 9th Oct 2008 21:53


Current Version: 1.6.3-0292

http://efx.helixsoftware.eu/


efxMod 1.6 Free Edition is a modification for the FPS Creator Game Engine, featuring

AirMod 0.6 and all of its features
efxCore Technology
Ambience Occlusion
Water Effects
Multi-Language Interface [DE, FR, EN]
Multi-Pass Bloom Shading [2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Passes] and variable Tone Mapping
Refraction Shading
Timer System
efxCustomizer GUI v3.5 (ingame adjustment of all efx Features)
Water Physics including water currents
Resolution auto-adapt (automatical aspect ratio adjustment)
New Transparency Management System [fixed transparency bugs]
New dynamic shadow shading system [higher performance, less graphic bugs]
Script Commands
Dynamic Light Moving
Dynamic Variable System for FPI Language
Uncapped Framerate
Detachable shaders
Quality levels changeable
VSync Option
Extended Debug Info
FOV Change
and lots more to discover

efxMod 1.6 Free Edition does not contain

Profile Management System
Depth of Field
HueSatLight Shading
Camera Effects
Parallax Mapping, Relief Mapping, Normalmapping


Minimum system requirements
FPS Creator Recommended System (see fpscreator.com)
FPS Creator v1.07/1.08 (v1.09 and higher is unsupported!)
Graphics card with Shadermodel 2.0+

!! For optimal performance, we recommend the latest graphic cards of ATi (Radeon HD2k, HD3k or higher) or nVidia (Geforce 8 & 9 Series).
!! We also recommend at least a mid-class graphics card, not a low-budget card.

License
efxMod 1.6 Free Edition is non-commercial only and cannot be used for any kind of commercial project.

The Download is available at

http://efx.helixsoftware.eu/

And there's a lot more to come soon...


Btw. the Updater was removed during the 1.5 development process.



And now... the best screenshots made with efxMod i ever saw... made by adrian10 + efxMod 1.48/1.49











Have fun


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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 22:47
Looking very nice indeed.

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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 22:48
Great job, Nighthawk....

I take it the problem with DarkLights is fixed now then?

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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 22:49
Awesome looking i must say, and...bloom. omg! lol does it have the sliders like you presented in that video over youtube, or is that not in this current release?

You'll Know When You See It.

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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 22:49
there's no DarkLights Bug on the testers machines...
on my machine, too

i think it's a thing of your FPSC install...

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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 22:49
Are you serious??

FINALLY!!! I can't tell you how much I love EFX Mod...

but I got one error, its saying im missing a file:

FPS Creator/efxmod.exe,

will that interfere with me playing with it?

Play the games the masters play: MKZn and 3-B promo

http://www.3bpromo.tk
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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 22:51 Edited at: 15th Feb 2008 23:00
you can use the efxMod without the efxMod Service, but you won't get updates automatically...

some testers said you should disable your av software for a moment and let the Loader install it

that means:

start the efxmodloader.exe again, Deinstall the Mod and install it again (with av disabled)

(i think it's a thing of AutoHotKey)


Quote: "lol does it have the sliders like you presented in that video over youtube, or is that not in this current release?"


Yes it has them... since v1.1 i think...
(we were the first with that feature in FPSC X9)

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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 23:01
You know, I love the MOD.

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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 23:02
Yes Yes Yes!!!! im gana take off my pants im so happy there is finaly and official english thread

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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 23:07
ok... thanks nighthawk... but im getting TONS of lag...

framerate dropped from 36 w/o EFX to 7-20 with, can you sort this out?

Play the games the masters play: MKZn and 3-B promo

http://www.3bpromo.tk
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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 23:09 Edited at: 15th Feb 2008 23:10
What are your PC Specs?

If you have opened the efxMod Customizer GUI, this is possible

the efxMod uses a GUI Lib created by me (called "Arrax")
it is usable in all DBP Apps but it seems to have a performance loss, if used in masses... like in the efxMod

i got a stable Framerate of 37-38 (w/ efxMod - the syncrate is higher than the normal fpsc syncrate)
but with the Customizer opened... well... 22...

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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 23:15
i have:

2gb ram
Geforce 8400 256MB
AMD Athlon x2 64 4000+
Windows Vista
Fps Creator v.1.08 rc4

Play the games the masters play: MKZn and 3-B promo

http://www.3bpromo.tk
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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 23:21 Edited at: 15th Feb 2008 23:22
i think it's your graphics card...

you can use the efxMod with FPSC-capable Hardware, but it should be at least mid-class to use it without performance loss

it will be optimized the next time, so there will be a performance increase of ... let' say... 20% (at least)

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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 23:28
ok... thanks...

Play the games the masters play: MKZn and 3-B promo

http://www.3bpromo.tk
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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 23:44
Oh, what i forgot to say...

the old Camera/Mousemovement was replaced by a new, smoother and more exact one

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:00
Amazing. I'll be messing around with the water height setting for hours. question though:

Is there a way to save the preferences so you don't have to reset the water height/color each time you test?

And how do you build the game with the water in it?

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:01
Hey night hawk, the Sliders dont seem to wrok for me, on my keyboard the INS key is a PRTscrn also, so when i try and use your sliders, it never seems to pop up... Any advice?

You'll Know When You See It.

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Quote: "Is there a way to save the preferences so you don't have to reset the water height/color each time you test?
"

I don't think so. I haven't seen it anywhere. But I think, it's fun to play with the sliders (almost 2 hours now ).

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:08 Edited at: 16th Feb 2008 00:09
Quote: "Is there a way to save the preferences so you don't have to reset the water height/color each time you test?

And how do you build the game with the water in it?"


A Profile Management is coming very very soon

You can change things like the Waterheight or Color or everything else with scripts

look in your scriptbankefx dir
Use them with a triggerzone


Quote: "Hey night hawk, the Sliders dont seem to wrok for me, on my keyboard the INS key is a PRTscrn also, so when i try and use your sliders, it never seems to pop up... Any advice?"


maybe you have some kind of "Fn" Key or Alternative Key Trigger

maybe try pressing all the surrounding keys...

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:10 Edited at: 16th Feb 2008 00:13
EDIT nvm i fixed the problem.... i now know what F Lock means!!! lol

You'll Know When You See It.

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:13
Don't try it with V1.08. LOL

Good thing I had a backup.

Best.

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:14 Edited at: 16th Feb 2008 00:16
... good idea

*writes it on a big piece of paper*
*hangs it over the bed*
*takes a flashlight, turns it on and adjusts it to shine on the paper*

Will be changable with the efxMod Service

just a question: did the installation work without problems?
i'm asking because in the german community, there are a few problems with the loader...



xplosys, it seems to work with 1.08...

we've got 5 testers with 1.08 and everything works fine

the screenshots on top of the page are all made in 1.08...


btw. the Loader automatically makes a backup, just to make sure

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Quote: "just a question: did the installation work without problems?"



everything works fine over on my cp on 1.07



i love the bloom!

You'll Know When You See It.

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:23
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everything works fine over on my cp on 1.07

i love the bloom! "


nice to hear that! (both )


i'm interested in the opinion of Urlforce and Plystire...

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:30
I'm really sorry guys, I'm quite a newb at this. I installed it and the ran PFS Creator and put a few dynamic objects and static lights in a map and when I test play I see wierd things like close up images of the objects i put into the game. I also see the skybox in front of everything. It's very strange. I'm really sorry but can someone help me?

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this looks very nice. Nighthawk, Urlforce, airslide, and plystire are making FPSC a much better engine.

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:32 Edited at: 16th Feb 2008 00:34
Looks great. One suggestion though, could you make it so we can have more detailed skyboxes? a 512 texture per face is rather limiting.

Oh, and I get an error saying it can't find the help files. So I have no idea how to use this.
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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:41 Edited at: 16th Feb 2008 00:42
Quote: "this looks very nice. Nighthawk, Urlforce, airslide, and plystire are making FPSC a much better engine."


We're currently not working together - Lemur and efx

Quote: "I'm really sorry guys, I'm quite a newb at this. I installed it and the ran PFS Creator and put a few dynamic objects and static lights in a map and when I test play I see wierd things like close up images of the objects i put into the game. I also see the skybox in front of everything. It's very strange. I'm really sorry but can someone help me?"


what FPSC Version do you use?
was there any error?

it's 95% not the efxMod, i'm sure


a user of the german community had a similar problem (i mean the skybox thingy)... i don't know what the solution was... can't remember

sometimes the skybox becomes visible in the reflection - a known and soon-to-be-fixed bug


what do you mean by more detailed skyboxes and 512 texture per face?
in german i would say, that's "Quark"
you mean 512x512 px Texture on one object?

you can bypass that by adding -1 in the Reduce Texture line


you may have to redownload it (and deinstall it prior to that)
you should disable Firewalls/Antivirus software during that period, they seem to block the complete loader

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no, the 6 images for a skybox can only be 512x512 pixels, and removing this limit (if possible) would mean we can make more detailed skyboxes.
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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:44
Ok, I'll try that and play around with it and hope to get it to work, but this mod looks absolutely amazing. Bloom, water shader. It's so cool, nice job you guys!

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:45 Edited at: 16th Feb 2008 00:49
for me, Skyboxes are 1024x1024 images with 6 256x256 smaller images for each side of the cube

(hmm seems to i never noticed that... )


EDIT: i can't answer questions or give support for the next 10 hours... here in germany it's already 1:00 am and i'm very tired
good night

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 00:49
Nighthawk,

I restored from backup (which was V1.07) and tried again:

- The install works fine... no issues.
- Frame rate on levels that normally run 32FPS ran at 21FPS. Quite a drop.
- Water and bloom look beautiful, and the console works well.
- In many places, walls - ceilings - floors become transparent and the skybox shows through.
- Some dynamic objects (doors) failed. I had the same problem when updating to V1.08 and had to remove and replace them to fix it.
- Uninstall seems to remove files Ok, but FPSC will not run after. "Image file missing". Had to reinstall V1.08 update to repair.

SPECS: Athlon64 4200 Dual Core, 3GB DDR400, nVidia 8600GT w/512MB, Windows XP Pro.

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Quote: "Uninstall seems to remove files Ok, but FPSC will not run after. "Image file missing". Had to reinstall V1.08 update to repair."


hmm strange

the uninstall just removes the efxMod EXE and moves the old one from the backup folder back to the main one
maybe it's the efxlog.txt file... the backup system uses it for restoring the right file (timestamped)

thanks for the report

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 01:00 Edited at: 16th Feb 2008 01:01
Whenever I switch weapons, comes up with a runtime error and crashes the testgame:

Other things:

-white edges round any decals
-dynamic entities don't really play ball (slow, and animations don't play at the right times, ie death animation sometimes won't work).

Apart from that, it looks awesome. The bloom is amazing, can't wait to try out the relief shader on my panelled walls.

I upgraded from 1.06 to 1.08 beta 3, and that's what I'm currently running.

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Tested on AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
2.61 GHZ 1,50 GB
ATI Radion X1950 GT

No problems
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Will water physics be added to the water?

This is a great add-on, Nighthawk!
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Could you define "Syncrate Management"? Is that a timing system? If so it looks like you proved me wrong

I don't mind friendly competition, makes competitors strive for more. If we raced alone we probably won't bother to get too far, would we?

Well, I certainly can't deny that it looks wonderful. Congradulations on your work.

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@Nighthawk

Just have to say, I ran a test level on my FPSC and although everything was beautiful, my PC ran at 3fps......

I think you may need to add some frame saving functions into the engine.....

PC specs are:
Intel 2.9ghz single-core processor,
1024mb RAM, with 1.5GB paging,
Geforce 5200 Graphics card,

Yes, my computer was invented around the same time as fire, but it would still play at a higher FPS than with this....

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Geforce 5200 Graphics card...

thats the problem!

you can`t use this shaders and think "k, with this card i get good FPS!"^^

I'm from Germany so don't say something about my English! Otherwise i will be a bit angry!^^
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Das ist nicht gut....

Hmm..... problems then.....

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 01:45
yeah , because with my 2900XT i get a FPS of 30-40...

so it cant be only your graphics card^^

*buy a new one* XD

I'm from Germany so don't say something about my English! Otherwise i will be a bit angry!^^
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There are problems with opening doors
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i got a 5500, will an ati radeon 9550 run faster?

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It happened sometimes,when you place more than 1 door in a room.
You will be able to access only 1
And sometimes it happens that you no longer by an open door can be
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THIS IS THE COOLEST FPS MOD I HAVE EVER SEEN! [capsoff]

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but, how do you change the built game's water colour?

My current work screen:

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 03:30 Edited at: 16th Feb 2008 03:45
Looks like my error is truly one of a kind.
The efxMod loader won't even download the files. It just sits at 0%


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Hey bud this is EXCITING NEWS! YES I tried it out. It was very nice! I'm glad you decided to post this on these forums- alot of users were interested in EFX. Your shaders look pretty sweet. It is a good release!

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Is it possible just to post the mod in a zip? Because I can't get your installer/downloader to work.


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I love the mod,but I cant get the water to work i got the bloom but no water

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