Botdra

I'm trying to get a 2D sprite image to maintain it's direction, facing the player at all times no matter where they are. I know I can use "deformVertexes autosprite" for this in a shader, but that rotates the sprite in all directions. I only want it to rotate around a single axis, which autosprite2 does. The problem is that autosprite2 distorts the texture, resulting in bent, angled, or twisted sprites.

Anyone know a fix for this?

48 minutes ago, scp_chaos1 said:

I don't know if it's because of the ambient of my worldspawn, but I see that there is no lighting on the texture side in your screenshot.

So, In base/shaders, did you add your .shader in shaderlist.txt?

Here's how I put it in my GTK Radiant: 

My worldspawn configuration is next:

worldspawn
_color		0.2 0.4 1.0
ambient 	400
classname	worldspawn

 

That could be. Here's my worldspawn:

_color 1 0.71667 0.402228
classname worldspawn
light 25

Yes, my shader is in the shaderlist, I've got other custom shaders in my shader file that are working in-game.

My brush looks the same as yours in radiant, although it has nodraw instead of caulk, but I don't imagine that would be the problem.

13 hours ago, scp_chaos1 said:

What generates the light is "q3map_surfacelight 3000", so it should look like this:

Thank you! This does in fact add light emission, but I notice your result is much more "clean" than mine. Here's what mine looks like in-game:



My glow map is the same as yours, minus the top of the candles, so it's just a copy/paste of the flames themselves on a black background.

2 hours ago, scp_chaos1 said:

If either one doesn't work for you let me know so I can work on it in more detail.

Thank you, both of them work as you described. I just need to tweak it a bit and could use a hand.

The glow kind of works, but doesn't actually give off any light. It applies my glow texture properly with the correct blend mode, but doesn't actually give off any light/glow. If I have the brush outside in direct sunlight, then it looks like it glows properly. But if it's inside or in shade it doesn't glow, just looks flat. I changed "rgbGen identity" to vertex, and added cull twoSided, otherwise I left the shader as-is.

2 hours ago, NAB622 said:

Can you post the image as well?

If it's just a flame, forget using alpha and just use blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE.

It's the candles as well, that's why that blendFunc did not work for me. It made them partially transparent.

I have this basic transparency shader I'm trying to get working in my map, with no success. I have an image file with a candle and a transparent background, saved as a PNG in Photoshop with the "Transparency" box checked, which I assume means it exports with an alpha channel. However, when I apply the texture to a brush and compile, I get a completely blank image. I got the shader from this tutorial.

textures/kb_map/candlesprites
{
	{
		map textures/kb_map/candlesprites
		blendFunc GL_SRC_ALPHA GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA
		depthWrite
		rgbGen lightingDiffuse
	}
}

I have tried messing with different blending modes and using a black background instead, but that makes some of the shadow areas of my sprites transparent which is not the desired result.

Thanks, I'll give that a shot. Looks like it's the closest option.

8 minutes ago, NAB622 said:

Target_speaker is buggy as hell. Several of the parameters don't work. I don't think the wait key does anything on them, either.

You might be better off using target_delay or a script to fire it every few seconds or whatever. In fact, if you're looking for random sounds, that wouldn't be a bad idea, in my opinion.

 

I've never heard of SoundGroup before....is that even a thing in Jedi Outcast/Academy?? It looks like your Radiant is set up for Voyager: Elite Force, judging by the Borg reference. Try changing it to Jedi Academy and see what happens.

How would I need to set up target_delay to get the intended effect?

I may be stuck scripting it but if I can do it in Radiant that would be preferable.

I'm using netradiant so that's likely why. Probably doesn't exist in JA.

 

I have two issues I'm running into with target_speaker entities in GtkRadiant.

1) I can't seem to set a sound to loop AND have a delay between each loop. I set my "noise" key to the audio file I want, and checked the "looped-on" box, then added a "wait" key. The "wait" key doesn't do anything, it'll just loop immediately without any delay, making sounds very repetitive.

2) For some entities, I want to use the "soundGroup" key so that it randomly picks from a group of sound files, but I can't seem to get it to work. The documentation in Radiant is unclear exactly how it's supposed to work:
 

Quote

"sounds" va() min max, so if your sound string is borgtalk%d.wav, and you set a "sounds" value of 4, it will randomly play borgtalk1.wav - borgtalk4.wav when triggered

to use this, you must store the wav name in "soundGroup", NOT "noise"

I'm unclear on what needs to be written in the "noise" and "soundGroup" keys. Using this example, I understand "sounds" should be set to 4 if I have 4 audio files numbered properly, but no matter what combination of things I try in the other two keys I can't get it working. I'm using the stock Yavin bird sounds for my testing, so there's no issues with improper export settings or file names.

Conversion process is giving me a bit of a headache. Instead of wasting time I'll just drop the MP4 versions here for anyone who wants to convert them and get these in-game.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/1wbov77z5gjjsev/UpscaledJACutscenes.zip/file

Alright, everything is done. The only tricky part is that I can't seem to get them in-game as Quake Video Maker is crashing on me, so I may have to pass these files off to someone else for that step. Everything has been upscaled 4x, with the aspect ratio corrected, then converted to 60fps. The resulting resolution is 2664x2048. I'll probably add a touch of film grain at some point as well, but this looks pretty good for now.

Just to update, I'm working on this, it just requires more time than you'd think.

Based on the tests I did above, you'll see that the version where I correct the aspect ratio and then upscale looks great, but also ruins stars. They look horrendous. Square, tons of color bleed, just gross. The version where I upscale and then correct the aspect ratio stars look great, but everything else looks more pixelated and has more artifacts.

So naturally, if you're gonna do something, do it right. I'm making both version of the files, and manually masking out the areas I want to keep from each set of files based on the scene. Only then will I convert them to 60fps. It's time consuming, but this will result in the best quality final product. Results so far are promising.

20 hours ago, Bubbles said:

I think all of his models should be added to jkhub, far easier to navigate that way. Also not relying on mega to keep the files up.

Although if its a legal issue I guess linking to an offsite website like mega is still better than searching through the thread.

 

Because currently people have to either use this thread or scroll through the jkempire discord to find models and hope the links still work which kind of sucks.

This won't happen, unfortunately. JKHub cannot host these without legal risk, and they have no reason or desire to put themselves at risk. This is why Omega's mods need to be hosted off-site.

I agree with you about the disorganization, but that's either on Omega to put together a nicer format for his downloads, or give someone else permission to organize them onto a more structured website than just a Dropbox link. I don't blame him if he's not interested in adding a lot more to his workload.

7 hours ago, Lancelot said:

@Botdra

You already have the files you need, so I don't think that there is anything I could send to you.

I meant the Gamecube JKII files, if you wanted to do those as well. Otherwise, I can definitely handle the JA stuff.

6 hours ago, Lancelot said:

Looks very good. The second image, with the fixed aspect ratio first and the upscale later, is definitely better. That was the procedure I did. Personally, I also added film grain. The right amount can mask some flaws of the upscales that are hard to avoid.

Higher FPS are definitely not a bad idea. After all, most players are able to play the game with 60 FPS (at the very least), so it would definitely add some consistency.

Film grain is a good idea, adds a bit of perceived sharpness as well.

If you're interested, you could send over the source files along with any settings or film grain overlays you'd like me to use (I've also got several film grain emulation plugins etc. if need be) and I could process everything and send it back to you this weekend.

Did a little dry run for you. This isn't quite optimized yet, but just a vague idea.

The JA cutscenes are rendered at a very odd aspect ratio, something vaguely similar to 7:6, requiring about a 30% horizontal stretch to properly render objects that are supposed to be a perfect circle.

The first photo is the original resolution, the second is what I consider the "best" workflow order (stretched by 30% first, then upscaled), and the third is what I consider overall inferior (I upscale the video, then stretch it by 30% to the correct aspect ratio), but it does have some perks. Stars look awful, very square and with more color bleed, but gradients like the one around the planet actually look a bit less block.

Next step would be doubling the FPS to 60 FPS, which is a pretty cut and dry process compared to upscaling.

https://jkhub.org/albums/C3OCt9N

12 minutes ago, Lancelot said:

@Botdra

Could you share your results? Screenshots are enough, so you don't need to upload an entire video.

What did you want to see specifically? I don't have the same source files as you, and I'd be happy to use whatever settings you want to use. I just don't have the watermark issue so I'm happy to be the middle man so that we can get these to the public.

4 hours ago, Lancelot said:

I initially started with Gigapixel AI, but then gave up on that, as upscaling the videos frame by frame simply is too big of a task. When Video Enhanced came out, I moved to that software for that purpose.

I sourced some of the videos for the more recent upscales straight from the assets of the Gamecube version of Jedi Outcast. Like I said, the videos look far better than the PC cutscenes. The PC cutscenes are heavily compressed, while the Gamecube don't have that much of compression. That's why they are the perfect basis for upscaling. Jedi Academy on the other hand was trickier. The main problem was that some cutscenes were in 4:3 format, which resulted in planets looking like eggs. But once I converted them to the 16:9 format, they were much better material for upscaling.

The project was fun. In fact, I wanted to upscale all of the cutscenes, with the intention to get them into the game somehow. But since they added watermarks to the upscaled videos, I didn't continue the project.

But here's a question for those who have much better understanding with the engine: Is it possible to modify the game so that instead of ROQ files, it supports better files, like mp4 or avi?

Hmm, I wonder if we could source the game files for the PS4 release of JA, it may have better quality video as well. I'd dump my copy but my PS4 is not hacked, unfortunately.

I've got an actual license for the upscaling software, so no watermark here. If you'd like to get in touch I'd be happy to use whatever settings you found luck with and export the finals so we can get them in-game. I've been working on increasing their FPS as well, so we could really get these looking much better than the originals.

That's funny, I had just started on doing this myself for JA with Video Enhance AI. Your results seem a bit better than what I got, I assume it's because you're using Gigapixel and doing things frame by frame?

On 6/26/2022 at 11:41 PM, Lazarus said:

i believe GTK does it too, when you compile, you may see it in one of the lines, that it cant load that texture. During applying it doesnt tell you jack tho.

That may be version-specific? It didn't display for me, even after discovering that error and double-checking in Radiant. Or perhaps it is supposed to and just flat out didn't for some odd reason.

Turns out we did have some progressive JPEGS that we had to resave as Basline Standard JPEGs in Photoshop. Doesn't explain why Kalek could load the map in base JA and I couldn't, but at least this info is here for anyone else who runs into this issue. Also, NetRadiant-custom was very helpful as it was the only software that told the user, upon loading a .map file, that there were progressive JPEGs and specifically what files.

On 6/22/2022 at 12:36 PM, mjt said:

ffmpeg can convert into .roq format much easier:

with audio:

ffmpeg -i inputfilename.containerextension -ab 256k -ar 22050 -r 30 -s 512x512 outputfilename.roq

without audio:

ffmpeg -i inputfilename.containerextension -r 30 -s 512x512 outputfilename.roq
 

The reverse should work just as fine but might need some different parameters.

I've had a lot of trouble with FFMPEG, as well as trying to find a decent GUI for it. What exactly would the reverse parameters/commands be? The plan is that I want to upscale JA's (and maybe JO's) cutscenes and release it as a mod for the community, but without a proper way to capture those files in a non-ROQ format, I'm a bit stuck.

EDIT: Found a working GUI, FFMPEG did the trick, thanks.

8 hours ago, mrwonko said:

The JPG issue you allude to is that JA doesn't support progressive JPG files. You don't have to use TGA to fix that, saving it as a non-progressive JPG also works. I don't know of anything else that causes this error, but the message is very vague, so it's hard to tell for sure.

I think it's fairly safe to assume that this isn't the problem, since Kalek got this working and we're using all the same textures. I've confirmed and overwritten the texture files several times to make sure that's the case. As you said, the message is quite vague so I'm not sure what else to troubleshoot.

I'm looking to convert JA's ROQ files to a more practical format. I tried using Quake Video Maker, importing the ROQ as a "animation sequence", but while it does import successfully, both the preview and the exported files are slightly glitchy versions of the original format.

Check out the red planet on the left, for example:

https://jkhub.org/albums/8RL0SaA

Am I missing something? Is there another way to do this?

I'm trying to get a BSP I made to load but no matter what I do it crashes upon devmapping. @Kalek got it working no problem which tells me the explanation I saw online of a funky texture needing to be a TGA and not JPG isn't the solution. So, when he makes an sends me the BSP it crashes. I make my own BSP, same thing. Using compile mode (single) BSP -meta.

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