Thanks! I also am more than happy with the look. Now it mostly depends on the models and textures.

You can try the out the renderer yourself now! We are currently running a public beta test of our mod with the new renderer. The screens you see in the news post have some tweaked material settings and I also found some bugs during our initial testing which are fixed now.

Moddb Link

@Traversal: The backgrounds are currently from "Freelancer: HD Edition" mod. What do you mean with "Will it require vanilla or also work in HD?"?

Here is a video from one member of our server team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H1NDFXbw8w

Some new screenshots with current version:

Hi,

I still have old versions of our mod laying around. In 1.6 we had https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/122039 as the music in unicon. Is that the track you were looking for?

P.S.: Glad there are still players of our mod around - Soon with a new renderer

Hi Boomer,

du meinst deinen Post hier: https://the-starport.net/modules/newbb ... t_id=63071#forumpost63071

und insbesondere Antwort #5 von Skotty. Der Bini Code, den er nutzt, ist tatsächlich von mir und kannst du ruhig verwenden.

Wenn ich mal wieder mehr Zeit habe, werde ich einige Pascal Sachen für FL auf Github stellen.

Thanks! I actually feel the same. It's very hard to find mods which keep the original mood. So if you think I succeeded here it makes me very happy

I did not like the current normal maps (somehow it looked a bit like there were compression artefacts) and did some tweaking to the generating process. They are now way more clean. Here is an example:



Regarding donations: That is very kind of you. I still am not sure how to handle this, since I am not so fond of PayPal and do not plan on making an account there. Nevertheless the new renderer will be free for anyone as it should help keeping Fl alive. Donations would be completely optional.

I think the list server might be down in general currently. I was unable to see any servers in FL the past days. Maybe it bugged out...

Here is a newer version, which also works on wine. I added more offsets and it will work on the newer dpnet.dll I also attached. It also will tell you in the log wether it applied the patch.

The attached newer dpnet.dll is a patched one from Microsoft for Win XP. It is newer as the one winetricks uses. You have to replace it after applying "winetricks directplay". The folder is "Windows\SysWow64" in your wine prefix directory.

I have the offsets for the dpnet.dll winetricks uses, but did not have the time to test it, yet (so it is not included). According to the version number it is an unpatched version (there were some exploits). So you probably should use the one I attached anyway.

For a Linux tutorial, see: https://the-starport.net/freelancer/fo ... t_id=61737#forumpost61737

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With polishing I meant getting it ready for everyday use. Like adding options, in game menu for those and getting rid of any annoying enough bugs I find. Also testing how the automatic texture upscaling / generation works for our custom models (for some surprisingly good, some have too bad base textures). So there is nothing really new to show currently. I still need to find a solution for duplicate texture names, like automatic renaming of them in the UTF file if they are not identical.

And yes, removing those additional details from the textures will really be hard. I did not try anything further for now.

I hope you did not lose a lot of data because of that crash. I actually currently use one of the heightmaps you did I just wonder whether it will look better than those parallax/normal maps I currently use.

P.S.: I finally renamed the topic, since the name originally was chosen by wodka back then when he split another topic into two threads. It should be more clear now.