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Nighthawk
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Posted: 31st Mar 2009 19:48 Edited at: 31st Mar 2009 20:18
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So, guys. Here it is, after 15 months of development, releases, milestones and a long break.
The official efxMod 1.6.5-0817 beta release.


PLEASE NOTE:
FPS Creator v1.07 and 1.08 ONLY!
No guarantee on functionality on 1.09+


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PLEASE DISABLE THE FPSC SHADER SYSTEM BEFORE USAGE.

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// General Information:

1. Commercial usage in any way, including game contest entries, is prohibited.
2. Changing of components of the software is prohibited.
3. This efxMod Official Beta is delivered as is, with no warranty of functionality.
4. Use at your own risk. No guaranteed help from the developers and no responsibility from the authors.

// Additional Information:

1. This is a beta and not the final product.
2. There are no scripts/other readme's delivered with it. Ask for it on the forums or use older script (backwards-compatibility is given).






*NEW! Color Adjustment of Bloom!
*NEW! Sharpening Effects!

* Re-Organized Source
* Specialized Rendering System
* AirMod 0.6 Implementation [Thanks to Airslide!]
* Extended Timer System
* efxCustomizer v3.6
* Ambience Occlusion

* Water Shading
* Bloom Shading
- Multi-Pass Blur [up to 8 passes!] and Tone Mapping
- Variable Tone Mapping
- Color Adjustment of Bloom
* Refraction Shading (2-Pass)
* Motion Blur Shading
* Quality Levels changeable
* Detachable Shaders
* Re-Done Dynamic Shadowing

* Water Physics
* Dynamic Light Moving
* Resolution Auto-Adapt
* Resolution Override
* VSync Option
* Extended Debug Info
* FOV Change
* Dynamic Variable System for FPI Language
* New Transparency management system
* Lots of Script Commands (especially for every GUI Setting)
* Go-To-Level Jumping

*** Lots more to discover.



Download available here:

http://efx.helixsoftware.eu/efxMod_1.6.5-0817b.rar



We'd be happy so see some supporters who appreciate our work.
Please donate if you want to help us, keeping efxMod online and updated.




Thanks.


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We're back, guys.


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Posted: 31st Mar 2009 19:52 Edited at: 31st Mar 2009 19:54
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Amazing work guys long awaited


Will defiantly give it a try soon as i get a clean install of FPSC on my PC.

Nice screens as well will the site be back up soon or not

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Woo! Looks great

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What are usage restrictions on this version non-commercial only or what??

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Read the Readme.


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Posted: 31st Mar 2009 19:58 Edited at: 31st Mar 2009 19:58
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Oh yeh just saw that

So no commercial projects seems fair to me no contests may annoy some people

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Posted: 31st Mar 2009 19:58 Edited at: 31st Mar 2009 19:59
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Quote: "Woo! Looks great"

I agree, but performance wise its Horrible. 9fps on the lowest quality settings in a one room level. There are no enemies, weapons or dynamic objects either.

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Cool, is it possible to downgrade to version 1.08 when you have 1.09?

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Posted: 31st Mar 2009 20:00 Edited at: 31st Mar 2009 20:02
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Congratulations on the release Nighthawk. Glad to see you're still working on improving FPSC for its users.

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Quote: "I agree, but performance wise its Horrible. 9fps on the lowest quality settings in a one room level. There are no enemies, weapons or dynamic objects either."


Well, could you provide a complete system hardware information and screenshots?

EDIT: Thanks Url, nice to see you here, being around.


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It works in V1.09 as well i just put it on mine and it works fine to what i can tell

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When i try to run it it sais fpsc game doenst work anymore.

I'll try to find out how to downgrade

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keep getting error when trying to open fpsc, Im using vista, v108, error 5104 - memblock 10355
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Are you running the FPSC-Game.exe with administrator rights?


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Have a bit of an issue every time i spawn with or without a player start marker i fall instantly down to the bottom layer and die.

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Found out why

When you start the level the player jumps about 5 paces to the left of the screen. If you are near a wall when this happens you get flung through and into the air on the otherside.

Also another bug i found all the water is pure black

One more the FPS level at max is 13 which is very bad for my rig as it has a nvidia 9600 GT 1024MB and Intel Core 2 duo 2.8GHz so that need attention.

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Quote: "Are you running the FPSC-Game.exe with administrator rights?"


yeah and running in compatibility mode for xp
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Quote: "Have a bit of an issue every time i spawn with or without a player start marker i fall instantly down to the bottom layer and die.

When you start the level the player jumps about 5 paces to the left of the screen. If you are near a wall when this happens you get flung through and into the air on the otherside."


It happens when your rig doesn't have enough power to manage all the effects (-> low framerate -> timersystem goes crazy -> physics bugs) or you did something wrong regarding your FPSC configuration (especially, see the next point: )


Quote: "Also another bug i found all the water is pure black
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Did you disable the FPSC Shader system?



Quote: "yeah and running in compatibility mode for xp "


What about disabling the compatibility mode?


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Will have a look at what i can do to speed it up a bit and post my findings but odd that my rig cant run all the effects.

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Cool, is it possible to downgrade to version 1.08 when you have 1.09?

I mena from version 1.09 to version 1.08 so delete 1.08? would be great, i have super pc

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Posted: 31st Mar 2009 21:06 Edited at: 31st Mar 2009 21:09
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These are my current settings:

Shaders = Off
Texture Detail = Medium
Lightmapping = Quick
FPSC Version = V1.08 and V1.09 tested on both same results

This is my rigs specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz
9600 GT 1024MB Ram
3GB Ram
Vista 32bit (all the necessary UAC changes have been made and runs in compatablity mode)


Results of test are:

Water is still black
Very slow Highs of 15 FPS and lows of 2 FPS
Player jumps at startup
General Tab on GUI doesn't work when you try to click on it same with debug tab


Am setting up my super fast PC with FPSC right now so that i can test on that it has following

Intel Quad Core 3.2Ghz
Dual nvidia 9600 GT 1024MB
4GB Ram
Vista 32bit

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It has to be some kind of driver issue, did you update them?
Because you should get 40-60 FPS on a map which isn't overloaded with entities.... how many enemies do you have in it?
Screenshots?


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I have no entities at all in the level it is a 30x25 square box using scifi>Armoury Top segment.

All drivers are newest i check for updates every 2 weeks.

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Quote: "Quote: "yeah and running in compatibility mode for xp "

What about disabling the compatibility mode?"


Tryed that same problem
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Quote: "30x25 square box"


30x25?
You mean 30 by 25 segments?
Then you just shot yourself in your knee

Quote: "Tryed that same problem "


Could you set up a completely new installation of FPS Creator 1.08?


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Yeh sorry now i cant count 7 by 8 segments i have a KVM switch was looking at another screen when i told you that info.

Will post a screen shot on this post

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...looking good,

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How does saving the settings work for this version? Is it all script based still? Someone should make a tutorial.


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This is just the FPSC-Game.exe.
And you need (for the best experience) FPSC 1.08 (my personal opinion) as the basis.

@The Next:
Are you using a notebook/mobile graphic chip?
If so, this should be the reason.
We're having similar bugs like yours on laptops in the german community. With the same graphic chip.


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either one of them both work

just take the FPSC-Game.exe in the zip file and patch it into the FPS Creator root folder replacing the one thats already there

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just ried it and it is awesome, i get between 9 - 18 fps on medium and im only running on a 7300se

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Nighthawk no its a desktop not a laptop

will try other pc any second now

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Nighthawk; do you think you could create a small demo game to showcase what EfX does....and to possibly test different people's systems?

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Quote: ""Tryed that same problem "

Could you set up a completely new installation of FPS Creator 1.08?"


just did clean install v1.0 then updated too v1.08, added your mod and still error trying to open fpsc
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i have made a little Screen showing a comparison between activated sharpen effect and without:



(You need to look close!)

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These are my current settings:

Shaders = Off
Texture Detail = High
Lightmapping = Quick
FPSC Version = V1.08 (clean install about 15 mins ago)

This is my rigs specs:

Intel Quad Core 3.2Ghz
Dual nvidia 9600 GT 1024MB
4GB Ram
Vista 32bit (all the necessary UAC changes have been made and runs in compatablity mode)


Results of test are:

Water is still black
FPS great Highs of 95 FPS and lows of 83 FPS

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Here is image of water bug FPS is slower now as im running a load of apps in background

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And where is the tod system and light rays?
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Can make some very nice effects with motion blur i was messing and in this screen i messed with it a bit and put some bloom in as well. Very fun to play with.

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Quote: "And where is the tod system and light rays? "

Thats a different version of efx -.-

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Speaking of which DG, I can beta for you on that one. I'm thinking about buying a commercial license also. ($150 right?)


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Just contact us via email.

As some of you probably don't know, THIS is efxMod 1.6.5, not the in-development efxMod 2009 which is still in a pre-alpha stage.

Anyone who's interested in commercial licenses/beta testing (both 1.6.5+ and 2009) should contact us via email.


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A beta test is free, right?

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Depends on the future/planned usage, which product you want to test, etc.
Actually, we're not giving out betas of 1.6.5+ because we're doing official/community betatests.

There's still efxMod 2009, which is in a closed-testing phase (and btw. still not alpha). But I'm pretty sure we won't give any testing versions of 2009 without having the security of future financial support.

At the moment, we developed efxMod for more than 15 months (earlier concepts and pre-efx Mods existed already 20 months ago.
So we actually invested and invested, thousands for hardware, software, energy costs and most of our spare time.

And what we earned for all this... at least, no money.

This is the reason why we are only willing to give out such stuff when we're sure we can cover the development costs.


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If its free i would be very interested in beta testing for you i have the pc to do it and have loads of experience in testing if you say its free then i will drop you and email ASAP.

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Posted at same time as you dropping you an email now will be a few minutes.

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hmm, after testing this its... dissapointing, the FPS is horrible even when i mess around with the sync bar, and compared to most gamers, i have a rather good system (GEFORCE 8500GT) overall the functions are very nice, but otherwise its not great really

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Tried it, it seems ok, no major bugs... FPS of around 25 on a mid end machine.

Can't say I'm too impressed with the license, not for use in competitions? Would be happier to see a not for profit clause without a commercial license but that's just me.

On the subject of licenses, is the price of $150 right? If so, that seems ridiculously expensive for what is in effect an expansion to an engine which only costs $50. Especially as we've been promised a lot of the features in this mod from TGC in the migration for free. Having said that, it's kind of hard to really judge without a manual outlining the features, but I doubt I'd be willing to pay that amount.
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No the price Nighthawk just told me was $170 USD thats £118 GBP but thats for V1.6.5 and 2009 licences and all the pre-release versions included. But true its allot seeing as Plysmod is only $20 USD

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$170? So more than $150. Sorry, but that seems way too expensive to me, I really don't think it's worth that kind of money in the circumstances.

Incidentally, I've been involved in programming for a lot of years and am more than happy to pay if I feel I'm getting good value.

Price aside, I think the beta wasn't too bad, but I was expecting a lot more.
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