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by BlackAura
Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:46 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Forum
Topic: BlackAura?
Replies: 14
Views: 2973

Re: BlackAura?

ace wrote:So, thanks!
You're welcome.
by BlackAura
Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:43 pm
Forum: Programming Discussion
Topic: Quake 3 lightmaps - PVR Multi-Texture
Replies: 106
Views: 22056

Re: Quake 3 lightmaps - PVR Multi-Texture

There's no multitexture on the PVR, so you'd have to do multiple rendering passes. That's what Quake 3 did on cards that didn't support multitexture, and for surfaces that needed more than two passes (some of the surfaces can have two or three layers, plus the lightmap). It's also what Quake 1 and 2...
by BlackAura
Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:17 am
Forum: Off-Topic Forum
Topic: BlackAura?
Replies: 14
Views: 2973

Re: BlackAura?

Zealous zerotype wrote:If he post again I'll release the sex tape.
:o

Go on then.
GyroVorbis wrote:Please god, tell me he isn't gone!
I still exist, if that's what you mean. I've just not been around here recently.
by BlackAura
Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:02 pm
Forum: First Person Shooters Development
Topic: Alien vs Predator on DC
Replies: 56
Views: 31766

Re: Alien vs Predator on DC

That is not true; we are currently using it on a linux-based chinese handheld console, and it works great. (Whoops... Long post. Summary - too hard, no benefit. There are much more effective ways to do this on a console like the Dreamcast, games don't really benefit from things like zRAM anyway, an...
by BlackAura
Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:18 pm
Forum: Programming Discussion
Topic: KGL- PCX from PC.
Replies: 3
Views: 1087

Re: KGL- PCX from PC.

Are you sure it's not just slow? The PCX loader reads the file one byte at a time, with no buffering. KOS's filesystem is fairly simplistic, and doesn't really do any caching or buffering of it's own. Each byte that's read requires the Dreamcast to send a request to the dcload host, and then wait fo...
by BlackAura
Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:59 am
Forum: Programming Discussion
Topic: Romdisk
Replies: 2
Views: 1118

Re: Romdisk

Basically, it's for embedding files inside your program, so you don't have to read them off a CD. You have a bunch of files, and the build process generates a romdisk image out of them, and embeds it in the program. KOS picks that up, and makes the files accessible from /rd. You can then read them t...
by BlackAura
Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:57 am
Forum: Programming Discussion
Topic: So I've got off the ground.
Replies: 60
Views: 10180

Re: So I've got off the ground.

Ooookay....I thought you said transparency wouldn't work on emulators? Transparency works. Automatic depth sorting doesn't. The Dreamcast's 3D hardware will automatically depth sort transparent polygons, and draw them in order from back to front. Emulators just draw all the transparent polygons in ...
by BlackAura
Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:15 am
Forum: Programming Discussion
Topic: So I've got off the ground.
Replies: 60
Views: 10180

Re: So I've got off the ground.

A few possibilities. First, The z value probably doesn't do what you think it does. It's doesn't represent the distance from the viewpoint. It's actually 1 / z (because the DC does perspective correct texture mapping, so it needs 1 / z instead of z). So, smaller values are actually further away than...
by BlackAura
Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:04 am
Forum: Programming Discussion
Topic: So I've got off the ground.
Replies: 60
Views: 10180

Re: So I've got off the ground.

One other thing to be aware of with colour keying - you'll get colour fringing if you distort the image in any way. For example, your images use magenta as transparent. So, you set all the magenta pixels to transparent (alpha is 0). If you draw the sprite at 2x it's normal size, you'll have this mag...
by BlackAura
Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:24 am
Forum: Programming Discussion
Topic: Drawing rgb565 image in output_buffer using PVR
Replies: 28
Views: 8877

Re: Drawing rgb565 image in output_buffer using PVR

The VQ format is basically: 1 - A 256-entry dictionary, with each entry containing a 4 pixels (a 2x2 pixel square) in RGB565 format. 2 - A Set of 8-bit indexes into the directory. Since you're getting a recognizable image, you've probably got the dictionary and data in the right place. If you'd miss...
by BlackAura
Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:51 am
Forum: Programming Discussion
Topic: Drawing rgb565 image in output_buffer using PVR
Replies: 28
Views: 8877

Re: Drawing rgb565 image in output_buffer using PVR

Essentially, that looks about right. Two comments though: uint32 * png_dec_buffer __attribute__ ((aligned (32))); png_dec_buffer = memalign( 32, PVR_TEX_WIDTH * PVR_TEX_HEIGHT * 2 ); That first line probably doesn't do what you think. That's actually aligning the pointer itself to a 32 byte boundary...
by BlackAura
Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:31 am
Forum: Gaming Forum
Topic: PS Jailbreak Finally Hacks PS3 (allegedly)
Replies: 114
Views: 14947

Re: PS Jailbreak Finally Hacks PS3 (allegedly)

Once the Sony lawsuit thing is over and people are done releasing the big guns for PS3, hopefully they'll move to PSP. I have a PSP-3000 which means I have to keep my PSP in sleep mode in order for it to stay modded, which is a pain in the ass. I know some form of CFW came out soon after the keys w...
by BlackAura
Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:20 am
Forum: Gaming Forum
Topic: PS Jailbreak Finally Hacks PS3 (allegedly)
Replies: 114
Views: 14947

Re: PS Jailbreak Finally Hacks PS3 (allegedly)

I don't know if anyone else noticed this already (I only noticed it a couple of hours ago), but the PSP's keys have been released as well. Currently, it looks like you can sign your own executables and run anything you like on there. On any firmware version, and any hardware revision including the P...
by BlackAura
Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:54 am
Forum: Gaming Forum
Topic: Final Fantasy XIII-2 Announced!
Replies: 20
Views: 2893

Re: Final Fantasy XIII-2 Announced!

I liked bits of FF10. The core gameplay mechanics were pretty decent. I really liked the battle system - it was functionally equivalent to that used in previous games, but completely cut out the boring bits where you're waiting for something to happen, so it was actually much quicker. No mad rushing...
by BlackAura
Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:37 am
Forum: Gaming Forum
Topic: Final Fantasy XIII-2 Announced!
Replies: 20
Views: 2893

Re: Final Fantasy XIII-2 Announced!

Square Enix are having money troubles at the moment, and it really suprises me that they'd greenlight a sequel to a poorly recieved FF game Think of it this way - they spent five years making Final Fantasy XIII, and they had an enormous team working on it. It must have cost an absolute fortune to m...
by BlackAura
Sat Jan 08, 2011 10:02 am
Forum: Programming Discussion
Topic: Building a 4.5.2 toolchain for MINGW WIN32 (tutorial)
Replies: 48
Views: 28191

Re: Building a 4.5.2 toolchain for MINGW WIN32 (tutorial)

I haven't found a suitable SVN for it and subversion won't compile. You don't need a MinGW-specific version of Subversion. Any of the normal Windows binaries will do the trick. http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#windows It would be useful if they had some kind of package manager though. At ...
by BlackAura
Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:02 am
Forum: Programming Discussion
Topic: Working with Sound Output using the AICA SPU
Replies: 15
Views: 5152

Re: Working with Sound Output using the AICA SPU

PH3NOM - As far as I remember, the snd_sfx stuff in KOS is pretty basic. The .wav loader is primitive, and it's quite possible that it'd break on a perfectly valid .wav file. Specifically, it doesn't use a proper RIFF parser, so it only works if the chunks in the file happen to be in the right place...
by BlackAura
Wed Dec 15, 2010 9:14 am
Forum: Developmental Ideas
Topic: Homebrew ADX Support?
Replies: 1
Views: 2047

Re: Homebrew ADX Support?

The ffmpeg wiki has a somewhat more readable description:

http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=CRI_ADX_ADPCM
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=CRI_ADX_file

KOS doesn't have any libraries to decode ADX. It's certainly possible. Pretty much all homebrew just uses MP3 or Ogg Vorbis though.
by BlackAura
Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:42 am
Forum: Gaming Forum
Topic: 3D Realms closes doors
Replies: 42
Views: 4487

Re: 3D Realms closes doors

Triptych apparently already finished it (or bits of it, but not assembled them into an actual game yet), and Gearbox are helping them finish it off, and are handling the console ports. Gearbox (unlike Triptych, which is all ex-3D Realms guys who didn't want to let the game die) actually have a histo...
by BlackAura
Sat Sep 04, 2010 10:49 am
Forum: Off-Topic Forum
Topic: Post your web browser!!
Replies: 34
Views: 4070

Re: Post your web browser!!

Work: Firefox on Windows XP. Too many useful extensions, particularly development tools. Laptop: Firefox on Mac OS X. Given that Flash tends to heat the machine up a lot, when it's not crashing, it's unusable without AdBlock Plus / FlashBlock. Running Flash in a separate process, as Chrome and Safar...