Bloody Aftermath | Quadropolis

KingKickass | 2011-12-29 04:19

Bloody Aftermath

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Blurb Blood and bullet holes don't disappear!

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Ever wanted to maximize the violence in Sauerbraten? Now you can with Bloody Aftermath!

Bloody Aftermath is a very simple source mod that prevents blood and bullet hole decals from disappearing(or at least it prevents them from disappearing in the time a game usually lasts). This can mean the map you are playing on may get covered in blood, especially in insta games! I find this adds a little extra fun to Sauerbraten.

The mod itself is an edit of the decal.cpp, which controls the amount of time it takes for a decal to fade away and how many decals can be allowed on the map at once.

Unfortunately I do not have the time to compile on different platforms, so the only those with a Linux x86_64 OS can install the mod simply by using the binary I created. However, Bloody Aftermath should be able to work on any operating system that Sauerbraten runs on. Simply download the mod file, extract the decal.cpp file to the scr/engine directory of Sauerbraten, and then compile the game. Sauerbraten is amazingly simple to compile on Windows, and you don't face dependency hell when compiling on Linux. Search Google to learn how to compile Sauerbraten.

Before installing, please remember that having lots of decals on a map at the same time can lower your FPS, depending on your graphics capabilities. Right now I am running an Nvidia card with 1GB memory, and I have no noticeable slowdown. When I first tried this mod on my own months ago, I was using an Nvidia card with 512mb memory, and I only experienced minor slowdown with excessive blood(but the game was still playable. Please make a backup of your Sauerbraten folder before installing Bloody Aftermath!

If you decide to install the 64-bit binary, download the mod file and extract the decal.o file into your src/engine directory in the Sauerbraten directory.

The last thing you have to do before running Sauerbraten is you must make a few edits to your config.cfg file. The "decalfade" variable must be set to 1316134912, and the "maxdecaltris" variable needs to be set to 6000000.

After editing and save the config.cfg file, you can now play Sauerbraten with Bloody Aftermath!

Keep in mind that I am not an experienced C++ programmer, and the modification I made is very novice. Once installing the mod, the decal fade control options inside the game probably won't work for you; in order to get them back you'd either have to reinstall the game or recompile it with the original source code for decal.cpp. While my modification isn't great as far as code is concerned, it seems to get the job done. I'd like to make it so that you don't have to mess with the config.cfg file.

If anyone wants to help improve Bloody Aftermath, please let me know.

UPDATE: If the decals keep disappearing, this probably means that the config.cfg file has been overwritten by the game. Sometimes this happens and I'm not sure why. Most of the time the game leaves the decalfade and maxdecaltris variables alone, but if it somehow messes with those variables, just change them back and start the game again. Making the file read-only might help, but that will also mean that Sauerbraten won't be able to save any other settings you change.

Mod file bloody_aftermath_0.1.zip (20.67 KB)

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Chasester_aka_you | 2011-12-29 18:50

sauerx next update already will have this ... along with ragdolls not disappearing... and many other features, this will be realsed on the 1/1/12.

Note: i had written the code for this far before this node came out ;9 great minds think alike :)

chasester

PS your graphics card is pointless ... it your memory that you will have to worry about ... but all it is an array that stores all the pos of were to draw the textures... so honestly any one should have no problems with infinate decals

KingKickass | 2011-12-30 01:25

Thanks for the info, Chaseter!

I actually tried to get Sauerx, but it seems to be Windows only? Maybe I'll check again to see if I can compile it on Linux or whatever.

This was actually an idea I had a year ago but I didn't get to uploading the modification until now.

If infinite decals aren't a problem then I wonder why they always have decalfade on by default? It would be nice to have a little more control over decals since even when the fade is set to "slow" they go away pretty quickly.

skiingpenguins | 2011-12-30 03:08

you can't compile it on linux because he won't give out the source code..

Chasester_aka_you | 2011-12-30 03:33

cuz in ffa modes it looks a lil monotonous especially cuz there is only 3 different types of decals (which i started to change and then realized that it would take a whole restructuring of the decalrenderer struct to happen, not to mention other various changes throughout the code).

Mostly the reason for it is that it is not necessarily to "waste" memory keeping track of useless information like that, but it does give the game a more of a gruesome feel.

chasester

Ps: i looked threw your code, its not really infinite ;p u just bumped up the maxdecals to a larger number ;p mines actually infinite ;p

KingKickass | 2011-12-30 07:45

Yes, it's not actually infinite, but its set to a high enough number that it makes the decals infinite, practically speaking. I do want to go back and actually make it truly infinite, make it so that the config.cfg file doesn't need to be toyed with, and maybe even just add it in as an option "None" along with "Fast" and "Slow" decal fade. Still, my mod gets the job done for anyone who wants to try it.

Sweet | 2011-12-31 02:37

I think it's a good idea, but I also think that after awhile, especially in a big match, it has lag potential. I'm all for blood, but what effect do the increased decals have?

Suicizer | 2011-12-31 11:42

They have the effect of decreasing your attention on the opponent, as it can be considered as distracting. Also, the option of letting the ragdoll disappear right after your opponent has spawned is a way to notify your opponent is on the run again.

On rendering, of course it will lead to less frames, compared to the default settings. What do you expect when more textures are being loaded as usual?

Chasester_aka_you | 2012-01-03 07:50

ok clarification ... it is an option

second ... decals will not kill the renderer (aka lower framerate) because they are 2d textures with a space and a normal ... basically one model has 100s of these at least, if not 1000s only costing u memory to store 2 vectors (3 floats each).

fetz | 2012-10-31 18:50

What do i need to edit to get this on mac? i found decal.cpp but i do not know what part of it needs editing :( Plus: Can i just edit it? Or does it need compiling?

skiingpenguins | 2012-10-31 18:58

you must recompile because the game uses the binaries you compile from the source code, it doesnt some how read the c++ and compile it on the spot and let you play within seconds of starting the game..

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