Silent/lowres loadings in 1.9.7

theleo_ua

Dear Support!

The "in between" music "chess.mus" is not played, when you travelling between maps (both by portals and menu\cheats). You can compare with 1.8.6.

Howewer, "chess.mus" is played in 1.9.7 when you finishing map31 and see chessboard with korax and player.

Also this is related to Doom and Heretic, because when you start changing map - current music is turning off

DaniJ

This was a deliberate change. Maps are now loaded in a new "busy mode" which visualizes load progress.

At some point we might look at allowing games to customize the progress animation (which would allow Hexen to display the Ethereal Travel graphic and play the "chess" music). However, given the ideal load time is zero - this isn't very high priority.

theleo_ua

However, given the ideal load time is zero

Even with heavy 3d models and texture packs?

which would allow Hexen to display the Ethereal Travel graphic and play the "chess" music

What do you think about "just add chess music without displaying Ethereal Travel graphic" ? I think some music should play during loading (previous music or chess), because silent loadings are boring (this is related to Doom and Heretic too).

This was a deliberate change. Maps are now loaded in a new "busy mode" which visualizes load progress.

BTW: this "busy mode" also changes all ingame graphic to "drunk" mode (like if you watching 3D movie without 3d glasses), and only after loading completes, the graphics is changing back to normal mode.

Here are the screenshots:

Before loading: http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/9477 ... oading.png

After loading: http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/4002 ... oading.png

Is it deliberate change too?

DaniJ

theleo_ua wrote:

However, given the ideal load time is zero

Even with heavy 3d models and texture packs?

Ideally, yes.

BTW: this "busy mode" also changes all ingame graphic to "drunk" mode (like if you watching 3D movie without 3d glasses), and only after loading completes, the graphics is changing back to normal mode.

Is it deliberate change too?

Yes that is deliberate. The engine captures a "screenshot" of the last rendered frame, at a lower resolution, which is then used as the background for the loading animation. What you are seeing is the lower resolution frame content.

theleo_ua

Yes that is deliberate. The engine captures a "screenshot" of the last rendered frame, at a lower resolution

Will it capture a screenshot in a "higher" resolution in future releases? If not - will it be possible to set this functionality in options or via addons?

Also I wonder, why it capture a screenshot in a lower resolution - what benefits? As I understand, higher resolution screenshots can be captured less that in a second

DaniJ

Capturing at a lower resolution and drawing with linear texture filtering, results in a slight blurring of the background (the "drunk mode" as you call it) - this makes it easier to read the progress text and animation that is drawn on top.

skyjake

DaniJ wrote:

Capturing at a lower resolution and drawing with linear texture filtering, results in a slight blurring of the background (the "drunk mode" as you call it) - this makes it easier to read the progress text and animation that is drawn on top.

Later, when we have shaders in the renderer, we might even add a proper blur effect there...