I just wanted to let you know that main technical problems have ben fixed (I finally got my own computed at home) and that means that I can return to normal development of Vavoom. And the first thing to do is fix the sky problem <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->.

Hey nice to hear that! <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

You should fix huge particles in OpenGL too , anyone else have them so huge?? <!-- s:roll: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt=":roll:" title="Rolling Eyes" /><!-- s:roll: --> And there are no support for 32bit textures in D3D , it makes them just 8bit....

Some OpenGLimplementations have buggy GL_EXT_point_parameters extension. You can disable it in console by typing:

gl_ext_point_parameters 0
vid_restart

And those textures actually are 16 bit, 32 bit is not a problem.

Great news Janis. Hopefully now we can see even more improvements to the Strife support for Vavoom. <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->

Glad to hear all's well and Vavoom's back in development, Janis. I'm looking forward to your next version.

OK, better Strife support is number 2 in TODO list. Any other requests?

Lights pre-rendering into a file like GL nodes and vis data are (as discussed in other topic). And please make it #2 ahead of Strife support, this function would greatly speed up map load times for everyone. <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) -->

That might be too much for now. The whole system needs to be changed and that's a lots of work. Basicly I'm thinking about releasing another version in 1.15 series with several isues and bugs fixed and then do big changes for next version. It should be within this month.

Placeable dynamic lights? I'm thinking specifically of what ZDoomGL just came up with; they're extremely cool. <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

Aren't they the same as static light sources?

Hey! How about ogg support? Its much better than mp3. <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

Yep, it's planed.

[quote="Janis Legzdinsh":297htvle]Aren't they the same as static light sources? NO! Vavoom static lights = computed lightmap , very based on world , walls are creating shadows , and etc. Dynamic lights in Vavoom (and most other games) = lightmap taken from image (most round) blended to lit surface , so dynamic light are not lights at all , only true lighting is verte lighting and per-pixel lighting , that

Basicly what I wanted to say is that ZDoomGL's placeable dynamic lights are basicly the same thing as Vavoom placeable light sources, only in Vavoom they will generate shadows. <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->