Amilmand WIP

amilmand · 2017-12-18T00:44:10+00:00

I will report updates made to SlrrExhaustive (which will only concern bugs reported or ones I find) here. Also if or when I find something more to add to the Native function thingmod Or if I find something interesting to share like the MapRPKDecode or the RPKMergeTool I will also try and relay bugreports here. Concerning SlrrExhaustive I will keep an update link this one: SlrrExhaustivePatch That will contain all the patches made from the start merged together but I will update the main file und

amilmand

This is the first I hear of it how did it happen?

Added 10 minutes later:

Aaand also how did you lose all the progress? The game should autosave when you go out to races or to the dealers.
(if it crashed during saving your cars should be in the save/temp directory and the main file should be intact in the original save/carrer/<profile name>)

amilmand

I updated the links under the SlrrExhaustive Bits
and also the patchlink for SlrrExhaustive (LINK)
There is a new option (DynamicReflection_HaltAfterFirstReflectingSurface) which if active saves the backbuffer before the first object is drawn in the scene with reflection enabled and uses that as the environment map this solves the self reflection but it is a bigger "cut" it makes so the things with reflection do not get reflected this includes other cars aswell:

With DynamicReflection_HaltAfterFirstReflectingSurface == 0

With DynamicReflection_HaltAfterFirstReflectingSurface == 1

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Additionally the reflected picture will not have the reshade effects on it (you can see the trees are not blurred by the DoF on the top left corner of the gray car in the second picture)

Holy_Shit_Man

Is there a way to make reflections trigger by reflection maps and not specular? On some cars you can find perfect glossy interiors

Hinata23

# amilmand :
This is the first I hear of it how did it happen?

Added 10 minutes later:

Aaand also how did you lose all the progress? The game should autosave when you go out to races or to the dealers.
(if it crashed during saving your cars should be in the save/temp directory and the main file should be intact in the original save/carrer/<profile name>)

It happened when I was about to face the 20th position of the Green Slip club. My problem was that I was still in my very first session of night races after doing tons of daytime races. I think it didn't save because I haven't been to the garage once while battling my way to 20th. Error log only sad "Invalid wear!".

Also, what ALAN said, it's kind of annoying. It'd be nice if we could have different reflection maps to choose from. And the screenspace reflections make it look super weird, when things mirror on the car that could never possible be mirrored in that place.

Another thing I came to think about while playing was, that I'd love to add other cars and remove some that are there already, but it doesn't really work because of the prices (most cars I thought about adding are way too cheap in the catalog/showroom compared to the rest of the game due to the part prices).

Though I gotta say this is really fun to play, and pretty much the first version of SLRR that made me enjoy doing the campaign!

doge

These reflections actaully look much better than before and much more realistic
i'm not happy with mxao tho, looks too dark and in wrong places, i tried adjusting it but it did no good

gorgoil

# amilmand :
I see, well I see two ways you can implement that for the hackish way you can approximate the box with some smaller triggers with smaller radius (replacing the faces of the box maybe) but this sounds very hackish I would only consider this because multithreading in slrr is very very (very very) dangerous and can easily result in silent crashes,
the other would involve manually checking each like 5 frames (from another script thread) whether the car is in an arbitrary 3D box, your best bet in this case is defining the box in terms of its width height and depth and also two transformations a translation and a YawPitchRoll if you have the box like that you can inverse transform the point(with built in functions Vector3.rotate) you want to check (you will get the point in the boxes space(where the box is centered in (0,0,0) and its rotation is (0,0,0))) and you can use the trivial axisaligned origin centered box case (6 conditionals (whether its x < width/2 && x > -width/2 ... )))

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That check would look something like this: (I didnt test this thou)
pre
Mind you the point above we give as the position of the box is its center.

Wow thanks, but how do I implement it on trigger?

JF1

doge, set the AO to 1 or 2, it provides a very subtle amount.

doge

tried still not as it should be

Bigg_Boss93

# amilmand :
Can you give me the textures aswell? It seems I need to test this ingame.

I gave a look at the merged SCX and the original one, i think i can tell that it is not reindexing the textures in the file itself, so they just load in the same order as they used to be originally, without following the new loading order.

But i may be wrong, so yeah, check it yourself too.

DHR

Might be a bit off topic, but since someone very informed and with the knowledge is here, could I ask you @[deleted] , since I never finished my traffic mod, how could I make the fake racers and traffic spawn in random colors instead of just one? It always bugged me and reduced the variety of Valo. I asked around everywhere years ago and never found out.

Holy_Shit_Man

What if we replaced fake racers with cars/racers cars?

Bigg_Boss93

The game would blow up

amilmand

Bigg Boss93 wrote
[..] not reindexing [..]

It should thou but I will look into it tonight.

gorgoil wrote
[..]how do I implement it on trigger?

It wouldnt be a trigger those are coded in the core exe (It would be way too hard to modify that behaviour)
You would have to create a new class that implements the Runnable interface (in java) and run a new thread that checks with the function I posted whether a checkpoint is triggered and then notify your Track script of the event with a function call.
Take a look at the VelocityVisualMeter.java in SlrrExhaustive.

ALAN wrote
[..]glossy interiors

Explore the customisation options more. You can set the ReflectionStrengthOverride to 0 and you would get... well, the original reflection strength that is set in the .scx
It is triggered by reflection map only the objects which have an environment map set, will get their environment map overwritten.

Hinata23 wrote
[..]reflections make it look super weird

Again you can always disable the whole reflection thing and enjoy the original method.

Hinata23 wrote
[]..add other cars[..]

How do you mean(or where)? I thought you ment as in new mods but the comment about prices made me unsure.

Hinata23 wrote
Error log only sad "Invalid wear!"

Well this means what is says one of the parts somewhere had an invalid wear (a negative number) I'm surprised thou that the engine cant handle this (this either...)... I looked into the disassembly and this error can be reported(and all of them terminates the game immediately) at like 30 places they must have thought this to be a serious issue for some reason... I really dont know why thou... just fix the wear I mean get the abs of it..
I will look into fixing this in the next update.

I added another option to the reflection part of reshade and updated the relevant links (SlrrExhaustive Bits SlrrExhaustive Patch Link)
It adds the ability to blur the dynamic environment map:

Hinata23 wrote
[..]reflection maps to choose from[..]

I also added the ability to select a predefined environment map, the textures are located at reshadeFx\Textures\env_maps\
you can replace these files BUT! you have to update the texture definitions in the ReflectionSettings.fx to match the changes (resolution and/or format)
please stick to the .png fileformat. The predefined environment maps can not be blurred.

DHR wrote
[..]traffic spawn in random colors[..]

This is tricky:
Firstly the texture you are using for the chassis of a traffic car must have transparency the "color" will be painted under the diffuse texture secondly I think this automatic random coloring only works with version 4 scx files also your mesh should be paintable but not like the car-parts thou it must define a second layer in its diffuse map (the diffuse should be a mix-map in 3dsmax) this second layer should be the diffuse texture the game will overwrite the first one with the color so that should remain empty.
Thirdly the renderRef definition in the rpk should have the flags set to "flags 459400.000" and the cfg line of the traffic car:

colors		16 0x00EEB621 0x00E3E3E3...

defines the colors (its ARGB) the first number is the number of colors defined on the line.
Also if you want the traffic car to have multiple parts (flopping doors) those should be attached with a stockpart line in the cfg.

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Amilmand wrote
It should thou but I will look into it tonight.

I dont see a difference if I only add one model to the game or if I merge them I think the program is working as it should
Thou your shadow maps are not as you intended them I think; the alpha channel looks like this for the lr_smod_toolchest9_SM.tga

This suggests you saved it with 1bit alpha (a pixel is either visible or not) you want the inverse of the actual shadow map as the alpha channel in 8bits
if you update the shadow maps it should be good.

Hinata23

Just found out how to remove the reflections, sorry ^^'

By adding other cars I meant that I was thinking about adding other cars to thr game, but I am not able to adjust the prices of each single part according to the cars that are there already

Bigg_Boss93

Ugh what, those shadowmaps just work right if i dont merge the meshes... wtf? 😃

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# Bigg Boss93 :

this is what it looks until i merge the stuff(mind this is missing the render meshes, so all the colored stuff around)

amilmand

Hinata23 wrote
By adding other cars[..]

Hmm I'm sorry to be this dull but I still dont really get what you want to do
but if I get it right you want to mix up the cars appearing in career mode.
Well the order of the ladder (the night races) is set when you start a new career the cars are sorted by their max horse power.
In the tournaments usually you get opponents that are near you in the Valocity ladder (or ones who are at the top of your club) this you can mix up:
First make sure you installed the latest patch (LINK) after that you can edit the sl\Scripts\game\src\GameLogic.java:
on line 31 at the end there is a literal (5) if you are this close to be the top racer the game will instead of selecting from the ladder will generate random opponents for you if you set this to like 400 you will get random opponents always (in the tournaments).
The same should be done on line 143

Sorry if I missed your point again :/

Hinata23

No, it wasn't it. I'm bad at explaining. It's my idea to put cars into the game that are not there. I'd like to put my own car mods into the game. But if I do, they'll be way too cheap to buy and likely OP. I would also like to remove some cars (because of terrible models) but I don't know if it would kinda break the game. Hope I got it more understandable right now ^^'

amilmand

Bigg Boss93 wrote
[..]shadowmaps just work right[..]

Ok lets stick to one model and we can figure this out:
Put the unmerged model: lr_smod_toolchest_02_00.scx ingame as you would the merged (also how are you doing that as a RenderRef from script?)
using the lr_smod_toolchest_02_00_SM.tga as the second texture and give me picture.
When I do it I get this🙁disabled everything to avoid incompatibility with reshade or anything)

In the rpk I tried removing the flags line also tried setting it to 2048.000, 459400.000, 1160.000 it always looks like this (and this is how it should look when you check the alpha channel for the corresponding secondlayer texture) Maybe you can force slrr to combine the textures by multiplying and that is what you are doing but I have no clue how.

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Hinata23 wrote
my own car mods[..]

It is a mighty quest doing that but it is far from impossible so firstly you would need to stick to a one rpk out one rpk in method so that you wont get over the rpk limit.
The rpk load-order is burnt into the GameLogic.LoadInOrder() so you will have to modify that function to get a different rpk to load.
I reference racer rpks directly in these classes: (the list may be incomplete)
ExtraPartCatalogLookup
PartsCache
RacerLookup
WheelsCache
You would have to remove the references from these calsses if you want to remove a car.
In the Valocity.java I use the RacerLookup class to get the dummy car definition for cars to place as dummies into the city during career you would have to edit this part because there is not much error checking generally you should integrate the car to the RacerLookup class (I get the default HP in there aswell)
Also the game expects that all the cars define the following slots:
slot [..] 572 ; Rear Neon
slot [..] 573 ; Left Neon
slot [..] 574 ; Right Neon
slot [..] 575 ; Front Neon
slot [..] 1323 ; RoofScoop
slot [..] 1324 ;DecorMuffel_1
slot [..] 1325 ;DecorMuffel_2
slot [..] 5024 ; FrontLeftRollPrevention
slot [..] 5025 ; FrontLeftRollPrevention
slot [..] 5026 ; FrontLeftRollPrevention
slot [..] 5027 ; FrontLeftRollPrevention

I think after these the game should accept the new car but if not I'll would probably be able to point you to the right direction from an errorlog

Bigg_Boss93

After a small research i can tell you that it's using(when you merge all the toolboxes in one file) the texture lr_smod_toolchest_05_00_01_SM.tga instead than one for each toolbox(as it is when they're not merged).

So the tool isnt, as i said before, reindexing the textures.

I'm gonna do some hex editing and see if i manage manually reindexing, in order to make them follow the correct loading order, and let you know what i come up with.

ps: it does index properly the diffuse textures but not the self-illumination ones, it only picks the last one(i have checked and verified that it happens exactly the same in all the merged files) and applies it to all the materials.

Added 21 minutes later:

Nevermind, i'm just struggling to understand V3's structure, besides from reflection amount, specular level, specular color and material color... fml

Added 10 minutes later:

I went on with tests, i only kept the ground mesh and the merged toolchest one, changed the loading order, it was supposed to show different textures ingame but nope, it only works if i change the 2nd texture in the loading order, let me show you

Added 9 minutes later:

Stock loading order after merging:
pre

loading order after first edit:
pre

loading order after second edit:
pre

So in short, it isnt re-indexing the self-illumination textures, it's only applying one for all the materials in the scene(contrary to what i said before, it's the first from the top, the lr_smod_toolchest9_SM.tga)

Sorry if i'm spamming your thread, thanks for the help

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I wish V3 materials had the same hex coords as V4 ones, you know, the 06 ##(where ## stands for the number of the texture in the loading order, 00 is the first and so on)

amilmand

Ok I uploaded the original again I think in my definition the self illumination texture index would be one of the "unkown" ones i reapplied the reindexing to those aswell in the link (LINK) see if that does what it should.

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