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Turok Evolution / Re: Corrupted save file

« on: December 15, 2022, 10:11:29 AM »

With the look of that save file, you have the game installed in Program Files? It's highly advisable that you install into a short directory, e.g. C:/Turok. I had trouble saving the game when it was in program files before.

Turok Evolution Modding / Re: Fixing the Shaders

« on: October 14, 2021, 08:48:15 AM »

Quote from: Dinomite on October 12, 2021, 03:49:30 AM

I doubt this is the reason why SHFF got an earlier build of the game to work with. I think it's more so related to the fact that Acclaims management was absolutely horrible at the time and only kept getting worse as time went on.

It's a shame really. They had such a good franchise going. If they had sorted themselves out, they would still be around today.

Quote from: Dinomite on October 12, 2021, 03:49:30 AM

Veeeery nice. It's starting to look more and more like the console Xbox port of the game, minus some stuff that's flatout just missing from this build of the game with seemingly no way to reimplement it. Great job.

Thanks

Im trying my best. Im no programmer, so I just fiddle around with it instead. Sometimes I find things, sometimes it all just breaks before my very eyes

There is a lot of things missing. Point Lights for example. The lights are defined in the Map files, but objects receive no lighting from them. I know the lighting is under the Vertex Shader section, so if I can put it into the Pixel Shader instead, it might get that working. (In theory).

I can make the Reflection Mapping for the Tek-Bow work also, but it breaks the rest of the Textures with a strange Green Tint.

I will keep digging.

Turok Evolution Modding / Re: Fixing the Shaders

« on: October 09, 2021, 01:04:31 PM »

Quote from: Nutshot on October 09, 2021, 03:00:22 AM

One thing i also can remember and that´s also the point why i deleted the Game on my PC, that the Mouse was strangely working different then in your usual FPS Game.
It sometimes feels like it wants to emulate an Joystick instead of a proper Mouse Look. Sometimes it feels too slow.
It´s strange how Acclaim wasn´t able to implement a proper Mouse Look in "Turok: Evolution", they got it right on previous Games on PC.

As far as I know, Acclaim didn't have any involvement in the PC Port. So while Acclaim has made Turok games on PC before, presumably with proper Mouse Aim (dunno never tried PC versions), it was actually "Super Happy Fun Fun" that made this Port. But @dinomite has said that SHFF has previously made PC games so dunno

If you have a Mouse with adjustable Polling Rate, put it on the lowest. Also in Mouse Settings, turn off "Enhance Pointer Precision". I find that makes aiming behave a bit better. Although not perfect.

Turok Evolution Modding / Re: Fixing the Shaders

« on: October 08, 2021, 03:06:13 PM »

I think you are both right about an older version of the Engine. Could be that acclaim didn't want an outside company to have access to the newest updated version.

It's a shame really. But when you think, the console versions were bugged as well. Maybe not in graphics, but in the gameplay. It was a rush job for acclaim right from the start. If the console versions were more polished, the PC version could have been great.

For the Shaders, found something else.

Waterfalls use SelfIllum.fx
The current way they work, the alpha is not blended correctly.

Adding an extra line for blending,

I've also disabled Culling on the Shader in the first post. Looking in specific directions, some tree leaves and random objects were disappearing.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/9iiqdwz86ygrt15/SelfIllum.zip/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/6t7fotxu1vg1gjx/Diffuse_Updated.zip/file

Turok Evolution Modding / Re: Fixing the Shaders

« on: October 07, 2021, 04:52:38 PM »

As far as I can imagine, it is the Xbox engine that was ported to PC. After all the xbox is a cut down PC.

But I think because the Xbox GPU was custom made, there had to be new hlsl shaders created for PC.

But, I don't think Super Happy Fun Fun had any idea about PC graphics. And I certainly believe they never created those Shaders.

If they were capable of programming Shaders, the port wouldn't have been in such a mess in the first place.

I assume all the effects are in the engine waiting, it just needs someone with graphics know-how to create working Shaders. (That's not me btw

)

I will keeping poking the shaders, moving them around to see what I can find

A good thing, if you minimize the game, make some changes and save, the game loads those changes.

Turok Evolution Modding / Fixing the Shaders

« on: October 06, 2021, 04:57:56 PM »

Hi everyone, my first post on this forum

I decided to have a mess around with the Shader files, and something interesting.

All the Brightly lit objects use the file Diffuse.fx

So a little swapping around I managed to fix it.

Before

After

Here is the Shader. Make a backup of the shader file in /Data/Effects first.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/o9mroq4ngnk1hat/Diffuse.zip/file

I will keep plugging away at the Shaders to see what works. I will update this Thread as I find things.

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