2027 Music in DX

[Cybernetic pig]

Download: Link temporarily down.

Adds a 4th music composer to the DeusEx campaign, Mr Oleg Gelo.

- Replaces music in 8 maps where I considered the original tracks to be overused.

- Recommended for those who have played DX campaign more than once.

- Each new track matches the theme of the map perfectly.

- Is compatable with every DX mod that does not alter the map files.

- Also fixes GOTY version not playing NYC_Streets2 music.

All Credit goes to Oleg Gelo of the Project 2027 team. Go play 2027 first if you haven't already.

Thank you to ggrotz for testing.

[Cybernetic pig]

Update on Hardcore mode:

[bjorn98009_91]

Are you going to replace the music with new music in .ogg files? Because if that's the case it could be made pretty compatible with Revision, since we are going to use .ogg files too. Then all the user has to do is replace our music files with yours. It would help if we were naming tracks the same though

Edit:
Also, not sure how you are going to implement the hardcore mode. It would be a bit more time consuming doing it via code instead of changing the maps, but the download would be significantly smaller and can be modded to work for Revision. If you are not going to change brushes and geometry anyway, I would see this would be the way to go.

[Cybernetic pig]

Are you going to replace the music with new music in .ogg files? Because if that's the case it could be made pretty compatible with Revision, since we are going to use .ogg files too. Then all the user has to do is replace our music files with yours. It would help if we were naming tracks the same though

Yeah, more compatability the better Shouldn't be hard.

[Cybernetic pig]

Edit:
Also, not sure how you are going to implement the hardcore mode. It would be a bit more time consuming doing it via code instead of changing the maps, but the download would be significantly smaller and can be modded to work for Revision. If you are not going to change brushes and geometry anyway, I would see this would be the way to go.

I fail at coding. I've tried a few times to learn but I lose interest/think I dont have what it takes. But from those attempts I at least have some understanding. Maybe I should keep at it, it's a great skill to have....but I lack the skill points atm.

[bjorn98009_91]

The easiest way to find an actor through code would be searching for all actors of that class with a specific tag. However this wouldn't be much use for you, since in vanilla DX maps almost all actors of the same type have the same Tag. Like all the terrorists in the Ton have the tag "Terrorist", tags are only set on stuff that your would want to behave differently. One thing you could do in code is to simply don't care about the tags and instead identifying the actors by their spawn location or possibly with the actors name in the map.

It would be more time consuming doing this than just editing the related pawns in UED, since that would be quite fast. For general settings like "All terrorist should have the following sight radius and sensitivity" it wouldn't be that hard.

I guess we'll implement at least some of the AI stuff in Revision as it makes sense, our goal is to make the game harder We will also make it compatible with the HardcoreDx mod, and then it will be truly hard as fuck.

[Cybernetic pig]

HardcoreDx mod

Oh!
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What's with the hud? Does it have simplified gameplay?
Mine has a one up over it- that mod is not compatable with anything else except New Vision because it changes DeusEx.u. At least until you have made it compatable with Revision anyway

It would be more time consuming doing this than just editing the related pawns in UED, since that would be quite fast. For general settings like "All terrorist should have the following sight radius and sensitivity" it wouldn't be that hard.

No female NSF then other enemies with varied sounds, varied looks. Less items dropped, different combat behaviour.
For better AI code though you could take a look at G-Flex's HuRen mod or 2027's dx.u

[bjorn98009_91]

HardcoreDx mod

What's with the hud? Does it have simplified gameplay?

Idunno actually, didn't notice anything different about the hud when I tried it on the vanilla maps, haven't tried any of the maps that come with the mod though. It uses mission scripting to add more enemies to the maps and to mess with their AI properties. Haven't actually read through the code that well yet, since support is not implemented yet (focusing first on Shifter and Biomod). Basically what I do is determine what stuff in the mission script files the particular mod has changed and then just make a fork of RevisionMission and copy paste that stuff in there in the right place. Usually the code involves spawning stuff and locations have to be changed. That's about all that's required to make things compatible.

The nightmare begins when you have a few forks and you realize there is a bug in vanilla dx code or some revision code you've written and you have to go through every fork to implement the fix. ^^

[bjorn98009_91]

No female NSF then other enemies with varied sounds, varied looks. Less items dropped, different combat behaviour.
For the code though you could take a look at G-Flex's HuRen mod or 2027's .u

You could change multiskins and meshes via code, it's just a bit more complicated to "select" the actor you want to change. I would say that almost every thing that has to do with actors in the editor can be done in code too, just a bit more writing instead of clicking. You can spawn triggers, set properties, spawn decoration, pawns and all sort of things from code really. Things you have to do beforehand is to have a PlayerStart, DeusExLevelInfo, Zones (if needed) and ofc lights. ^^

[Cybernetic pig]

HardcoreDx mod

What's with the hud? Does it have simplified gameplay?

The nightmare begins when you have a few forks and you realize there is a bug in vanilla dx code or some revision code you've written and you have to go through every fork to implement the fix. ^^

I forgot to mention, I have experience with VPL (noob coding), which was so easy for me, but then I try the real thing it seems so much harder to just do pretty much the same thing.
VPL's only flaw as far as I can tell was once your code starts getting complex things get real messy, keeping it neat is hard. Some bugs drove me mad.

EDIT: Oh and if someone else wanted to copy your code it would be very hard to identify what is what even with comments.
Ok they are some huge flaws, but it's harder to learn the real thing and more time consuming to both learn and execute (assumptions again, I probably just suck).

Have you built Revision on top of DX2.0?

[Cybernetic pig]

[bjorn98009_91]

I forgot to mention, I have experience with VPL (noob coding), which was so easy for me, but then I try the real thing it seems so much harder to just do pretty much the same thing.
VPL's only flaw as far as I can tell was once your code starts getting complex things get real messy, keeping it neat is hard. Some bugs drove me mad.

EDIT: Oh and if someone else wanted to copy your code it would be very hard to identify what is what even with comments.
Ok they are some huge flaws, but it's harder to learn the real thing and more time consuming to both learn and execute (assumptions again, I probably just suck).

Have you built Revision on top of DX2.0?

EDIT 2:

(focusing first on Shifter and Biomod).

I need to learn some proper programming languages, then there are no limits with DX, I can make my Iron Sights mod. Or copy code Fast Gamer is using in Nihilhum

The syntax of UnrealScript is kind of similar to Java, so try and learn that language. Otherwise it's just looking at a lot of code, see how stuff is implemented and if you are lucky you might find some documentation. I try and comment whenever I write something, but usually not that much needs to be done coding wise in Revision.

Revision's mission scripts are built on Human Renovation's mission scripts actually. However I compared HR, Shifter and DX 2.0 together to see what differed them and then I just picked stuff I liked from the different mods. Like HR has some fixes DX2.0 doesn't have and Shifter might have some stuff (ex. answering machine in the Ton) that isn't included in the other two.

[DDL]

Out of curiosity, how are you increasing vision range?

[Cybernetic pig]

AI> Visibility Threshold set lower than 0.010000. Lower values sometimes mean an increase for some reason
It would be nice to have some documentation on what all the values do too.
There are fuck all notable ones for combat which is a let down.

[G-Flex]

AI> Visibility Threshold set lower than 0.010000. Lower values sometimes mean an increase for some reason :-s

You'll also need to increase the range at which they'll actually check for the player. I believe that's in CheckEnemyPresence() and is, by default, hardcoded at 2500.