GoldenEye 007 Nintendo 64 Community, GoldenEye X, Nintendo 64 Games Discussion

[zoinkity]

All R*P settings roll through sequential display lists, something of a quirk here. In a lot of other games they'll branch to a "init" DL blob between things to prevent mistakes.
So yes, each room needs to explicitly set its own settings because you can't be assured which ones are loading in what order. Objects are more predictable, you're (mostly) assured the part rendering order.

In practice primary is always single-sided, because without coercion it gets flattened against the BG color. Secondary is more practical for anything free-standing, but you do need to manually turn culling off for anything two-sided then set it back when done.
You can allow everything to be two-sided, but that's unnecessary expense of memory and computation time.
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[SubDrag]

OK, latest beta, now for GE/PD levels only (not objects/guns/weapons, anything in edit model), it should always start a secondary displaylist with a B6...3000 to force it to a clean state.

[HackBond]

SubDrag wrote:

OK, latest beta, now for GE/PD levels only (not objects/guns/weapons, anything in edit model), it should always start a secondary displaylist with a B6...3000 to force it to a clean state.

Thank you, tested it on the level I showed earlier that had the issue, just imported from Visual with the Background and it is fixed.
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[Wreck]

SubDrag: I've sent you an e-mail regarding the latest issue I've encountered, which required I attach a file for you to use yourself to check out. Hopefully you still use that e-mail address. If you did not receive it, please send me a personal message here with your current e-mail, so I can try again there. Thanks.

[Wreck]

I've run into something strange with the clipping for Train in GE-X. For whatever reason, the Editor does not like it, and crashes when you try to open the level in Visual. Also, exporting the file only gives you a small portion of it. It looks to me like room 0x19 is tripping it up. If you apply the newest patch and go to level 0F (ID 23) with the "run" files, you will see what I mean. It works fine in game (I think), so why the Editor does not like it, I'm unsure.

[SubDrag]

I really don't know what's wrong. It clearly can't decompress it in editor though. It is using GE's decompression code reversion engineered by mrhttford mostly, so perhaps it hit some random small thing that PD supports and GE doesn't in the zlib code, or minor bug in that.

I just ripped it from PJ64's RAM, and re-injected it in editor, and seemed fine from that point forward, so give that a try.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mcab760q1hyeyu1iavvv9/traingexclipping.bin?rlkey=l0tcd425ucguv0idft0puugks&st=djns2gfs&dl=0

[Wreck]

I downloaded your file and looked at it. What is strange is that it seems to have changed the data in each tile from 0x6-0xB (probably things happening in RAM). I can import it fine, but what is more odd, is that if I choose to save out the clipping file again after, it perfectly matches my previous one that was crashing. Which, if imported, will crash the editor on Visual load.

[Wreck]

I have a request, if possible, which would make my life much easier. In the Edit Animations menu for PD, could there be an option to copy current frame X amount of times? If I edit a one frame file manually, to have the proper coordinates and rotation for the intro/outro camera, then import it, I could copy it enough times to play the scene for multiple seconds. My current method is all manual in Hex Edit, and it is too time consuming to copy + paste, and update keyframe number (over two hundred times). These camera animations are much better, and fill out the full screen in 2P modes, and allows for skipping.

[SubDrag]

The train compression issue - just slightly tweak maybe some clipping? Whatever zlib is doing, it's not compatible with this version - it seems to be trying to copy 3 bytes, from current spot, which ends up with an error...must be something special in the newer version of ZLib past GE, that they used in PD. I'd change clipping slightly in the room before it, so it changes the offset...and changes compression then to work (maybe room 1A, add a tile, or room 19?).

Wreck wrote:

I have a request, if possible, which would make my life much easier. In the Edit Animations menu for PD, could there be an option to copy current frame X amount of times? If I edit a one frame file manually, to have the proper coordinates and rotation for the intro/outro camera, then import it, I could copy it enough times to play the scene for multiple seconds. My current method is all manual in Hex Edit, and it is too time consuming to copy + paste, and update keyframe number (over two hundred times). These camera animations are much better, and fill out the full screen in 2P modes, and allows for skipping.

Just do this in obj format. Export Camera to .obj. Open up in notepad. Add a bunch of keyframe #s. Import it back. Copy I don't really show the frames for cameras, so it'd have to add a lot more than just a copy thing, to make it doable in the editor.

[Wreck]

I was worried that the Keyframe # would need to be updated, but it looks like the Editor will automatically handle that, which is excellent. I just add in my first keyframe, copy it so there are ten, copy those so there are a hundred, and copy those until there are three hundred (five second animation). Actually pretty quick, and has been working well thus far. Thanks.

As for Train clipping, I may end up rebuilding it. That one was made a long time ago, and it may have some incorrect types and sounds set to walls, etc. See what happens later on with it.

[Morrigan Aensland-Hill]

Hello, Subby. In case you haven't noticed; on the Game Configuration screen for PD, the byte 08 used for the Firing Range Data indicates the help messages that pop up at the bottom of the HUD.

This byte was used for all 3 variants of the Falcon 2. (And also the RC-P120 due to a copy/paste error from the Falcon 2)
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[SubDrag]

Sorry what data? Where does it show up in that page?

[HackBond]

SubDrag wrote:

Sorry what data? Where does it show up in that page?

I believe Morrigan is referring to this


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[SubDrag]

Ah ok, what do values mean (00, 01, 02 I presume?)

[Morrigan Aensland-Hill]

SubDrag wrote:

Ah ok, what do values mean (00, 01, 02 I presume?)

Here, memorise this list of values for the Firing Range Data:

00 Load Target Block
01 Set # Targets Active
02 Set Goal Score
03 Set Time Limit
04 Set Ammo Limit
05 Set Target Movement Speed
06 Set Accuracy Goal
07 Set # Targets Goal
08 Set Help Script
09 Set Secondary Fire Ammo Limit
0A Set Pad Table Offset
0B Set Score Multiplier
0C Draw Target
0D Loop
0E Pause Time
0F Rotate
13 Terminator

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