Damn, making the lighting files was a real pain in the a**!!

The tool to make them is kind of primitive, not exactly a joy to work with. And the light has to be manually created to resemble the different hours of the day, one can not simply move a slider to the desired hour and *puff* the light is ready!
I spent many days in this process,…[Read more]

I post the correct Day.c file.
I found out that in mine there were other wrong entries for the sky textures to use in certain hours, causing the white sky bug. I fixed them.
However, looking at the Day.c file in Jeffrey’s recompiled version (ERAS2Test), the wrong entries for the sky were already fixed.

Anyway, this Day.c makes use of the correct…[Read more]

Ok I think I fixed the no light bug.

Light information is in the .col files, which are numbered after the time of the day (6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and so on). For hours from 12 to 19, the game – instead of looking for col files ‘day12’ to ‘day19’ – was looking for col files ‘day1’, ‘day2’, ‘day3’ and ‘day4’, that do not exist (1 a.m. is ‘night1’ and so…[Read more]

Ok I think I fixed the no light bug.

Light information is in the .col files, which are numbered after the time of the day (6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and so on). For hours from 12 to 19, the game – instead of looking for col files ‘day12’ to ‘day19’ – was looking for col files ‘day1’, ‘day2’, ‘day3’ and ‘day4’, that do not exist, hence the unnatural…[Read more]

Ok I think I fixed the no light bug.
Light information is in the .col files, which are numbered after the time of the day (6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and so on). For hours from 12 to 19, the game – instead of looking for col files ‘day12’ to ‘day19’ – was looking for col files ‘day1’, ‘day2’, ‘day3’ and ‘day4’, that do not exist, hence the unnatural…[Read more]

I think I found an unpleasant bug, which is not game-breaking, rather immersion-breaking.

It seems that inside ships (cabins and decks) the lighting files are not read/loaded from approximately 12:00 to 19:00. This means that light during those hours is very unnatural, far too bright without any relation with the corresponding time of the day.

I…[Read more]

I think I found an unpleasant bug, which is not game-breaking, rather immersion-breaking.

It seems that inside ships (cabins and decks) the lighting files are not read/loaded from approximately 12:00 to 19:00. This means that light during those hours is very unnatural, far too bright without any relation with the corresponding time of the day.

I…[Read more]

Ehy Jeffrey, did you find anything useful in my dump file?

The cabin is almost done. There are still minor things to finish and refine, then I want to do some test about textures in Maya, and finally the lighting files; after that, it will be ready.

This is the day scene (there is some slight variation in the night scene).

Thanks for the info about religion, very informative and interesting!

The dump file I have is 450 MB and my upload speed is ridiculously low. I managed to compress it to 113 MB, but it’s still a bit big.

I read the content with WinDbg, but I understood you need the file to use with symbols (?), so posting here the content would be of no help, right?

Anyway if you need the file, I’ll try to upload it and will send…[Read more]

I can’t really say when it will be complete… My pace is kind of irregular, though I think I will finish it in some weeks, not months.

Anyway I think there is no need to delay the patch release for just one cabin.
I learned how to use it in game, so I will release it with the necessary files already modified to make it appear in the game (I’ll…[Read more]

Jeffrey, I downloaded the ERAS2Test, which I understood is the right choice (?), changed the paths to point to my ERAS2 installation location, and started the game.

However, everytime I try to start a new game the program crashes, with nothing useful in the log files, it only tells me it’s something in dx8.dll.
I think this line appears in the…[Read more]

I don’t know the code for the interface, but I suppose the standard resolution for the interface with no stretching is 800×600 right? So that is a ratio of 1,33333…

Would it be possible to have the block with the elements have its height equal to the vertical resolution of the screen, and then adjust the width automatically with something like…[Read more]

It’s slowly progressing… the furniture is almost done, then I’ll add objects around.


Overall, it’s coming out better than I had expected.

Very nice! The difference is subtle since in your screen the stretching effect is little, but I can see now the circle with the flag, on the top left corner of the portrait, looks like a real circle, not an ellipse anymore.

Very nice! The difference is subtle since in your screen the stretching effect is little, but I can see the circle with the flag, on the top left corner of the portrait, is a real circle, not an ellipse anymore.

Thanks for the support, usually the beginning is the hardest part.
I wasn’t expecting texturing to be so hard (and also frustrating), but maybe it’s just because I’ve never done it before, while I read really a lot about modeling, so I’m more confident on the latter.

About locators, I did some testing for this interiors project and found out it’s…[Read more]

Thanks for the support, usually the beginning is the hardest part.
I wasn’t expecting texturing to be so hard (and also frustrating), but maybe it’s just because I’ve never done it before, while I read really a lot about modeling, so I’m more confident on this.

About locators, I did some testing for this interiors project and found out it’s easy…[Read more]

Interesting finding in XINTERFACE. It would be cool if the interface weren’t stretched anymore. It really annoys me!