Orazio, Actually I wasn’t referring to the model as being named the Madrid. I was referring to it as the Madrid model. This is because the later plans that have been extracted from that model by naval architects and artists serve as the basis for this model.

I have never seen the model in person only in diagrams and photos. It appears in…[Read more]

Orazio, Actually I wasn’t referring to the model as being named the Madrid. I was referring to as the Madrid model. This is because the later plans that have been extracted from that model by naval architects and artists serve as the basis for this model.

I have never seen the model in person only in diagrams and photos. It appears in…[Read more]

Thanks Ram. I’ve spent the last two days putting new stuff up on the site. It will all be visible to everyone as soon as I get everything just right. Happy NEW YEAR!

@ Schiavonna,

The Hans Sloane model does need a retouch. That is Hugh Laurie – House. It was one of my first celebrity face graft attempts. I’ve gotten much better at building…[Read more]

Nearing ready…

I noticed the other day, LarryHookins over at PA! mentioned demasting CTDs. Alas! I was very glad he briefly mentioned that age-old, notorious problem, as I had almost forgotten about it. Ages ago, I had actually turned that off in my games, due to the dismasting instability causing CTDs, so the phenomenon had pretty much…[Read more]

Another beneficial change is the message pump loop. This is the main loop to intercept messages, iterate execution/draws. They were using a time tick measurement that only resolves to roughly 15 ms per tick and Sleep command to throttle it, but I thought it would be better to use a higher resolution timer, down to clock counts per second…like…[Read more]

You know, this effort for Caribbean Tales and POTC was worthwhile in at least one sense. Things that don’t happen in AoP, GOF, ERAS, are sometimes called upon in those games. I have found broken pieces in the executable part of the game because of this and was able to fix them.

Also, I decided to add the Windows error message if my new…[Read more]

You know, this effort for Caribbean Tales and POTC was worthwhile in at least one sense. Things that don’t happen in AoP, GOF, ERAS, are sometimes called upon in those games. I have found broken pieces in the executable part of the game because of this and was able to fix them.

Also, I decided to add the Windows error message if my new…[Read more]

Yeah, definitely something I did, and turned out it was a very small change that was time-consuming to find. Your explanatory help, though it started me initially at the wrong root, definitely got me on the path toward the right place for the fix, so thanks for that. Not sure it was ‘fast’ since it took me all day to find it, LOL. But…[Read more]

Yeah, definitely something I did, and turned out it was a very small change that was time-consuming to find. Not sure it was ‘fast’ since it took me all day to find it, LOL. But fortunately for you, the wind was so strong yesterday, I had to forgo some steelhead fishing anyway, so why not sit down and fix it 🙂

Let me poke around in the game a…[Read more]

Found and fixed!

Aha! Using the above-described method, replacing those 4 components, I do NOT get a green shade AND I see building shadows. So somewhere in my adjustments, something went awry. I will start comparing to find the difference that causes the problem.

I will start with techniques.

Ugh! New strategy.

I found it has nothing to do with those Caustic shaders, as they never get called by the town models…I think it’s for storms and such.

But I have a new plan to at least determine if I did this, or it was like that when I got the code. I am going to make a copy of this project. Since I figured out definitely that it’s the…[Read more]

Orazio, you are a star. Thank you for providing this explanation. Between you and I, with that explanation, we might be able to resolve this. At the very least, I now probably know exactly what shader to look at. I just poked around and found that the models use the Caustic_shaders.sha, and that is one that I had to change for DX9; I likely…[Read more]

Well, I’ve been up to no good. A short while ago, decided to resume looking at Pirates of the Caribbean…can it run with my compilations? Soon enough, yes it can.

http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/potc-vanilla-running-in-2-8-coas-engine.28178/#post-551973

The last two days, also banged out Caribbean tales. Now my compilations can…[Read more]

Well, I’ve been up to no good. A short while ago, decided to resume looking at Pirates of the Caribbean…can it run with my compilations. Soon enough, yes it can.

http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/potc-vanilla-running-in-2-8-coas-engine.28178/#post-551973

The last two days, also banged out Caribbean tales. Now my compilations can…[Read more]

Probably just need to change start.ini in the game’s install directory. Open it in a text editor like notepad. Change these setting to match your monitor’s resolution size:

screen_x = 1920
screen_y = 1080

The above would match a 1920 x 1080 resolution.

WoW that sucks! When I was a young guy in college my first apartment was in the basement of an old house built in the 1890s. My wife, myself and my young baby boy went through all kinds of drama in that place. Not only were there plumbing problems, but the damn place was teaming with spiders that were living in the boiler room for heat and coming…[Read more]

WoW that sucks! When I was a young guy in college my first apartment was in the basement of an old house built in the 1890s. My wife, myself and my young baby boy went through all kinds of drama in that place. No only were there plumbing problems, but the damn place was teaming with spiders that were living in the boiler room for heat and coming…[Read more]

Wow! This is great that people are commenting on the off topic forum!

So two things up front.

1) On this forum there is no such thing as a necro posts or any kind of bad juju associated with commenting on an old post as in so many other forums. Useless etiquette interferes with honest communication IMO.

2) I HATE political correctness! It is…[Read more]

Orazio Mate, I am going to go out on a limb here and tell you that I am having a somewhat dramatic emotional response looking at your model. It nearly brings tears to my eyes and I am not kidding when I say that.

Lets take the “way-back machine” back to 1972(3). My father was a musician and I got dragged across the country as a small child. Much…[Read more]