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[MultiplayerX]

**UPDATED DAM TEST MAP BELOW**

A few years ago I started experimenting with techniques to export the EXACT geometry from GE and PD and recompile it into source engine EXACTLY as it works in N64. Well after that time has gone by I know exactly how to make everything work so you are literally playing in the exact level geometry. The first project will be *GoldenEyeLegendSourceMod* Please be patient with me as this project will most likely take a year or two to do justice to the integrity of the original. I will release one map at a time for TESTING on Steam until I can finish the entire mod so keep an eye out!

*WHAT ON EARTH IS THE REASON FOR THIS YOU ASK???*
Because source engine is such a popular engine and runs multiplayer so well online, this conversion will be wonderful to play eachother in our favorite N64 games. Steam and GoldenEye Source Mod are both free and I run my own server for the mod to play FREE together. In the future I could possibly switch all the player models out as well as the weapons but I would need support from the development team over at gesource so if you like it put in some requests! The official banner is posted below. Here's to new beginnings! MultiX

*GoldenEye Source Mod*
You can also run around in GoldenEye Source Mod for the time being to get acquainted with the engine I'm porting to.
DOWNLOAD STEAM (make an account) *free* and GoldenEye Source Mod:
https://store.steampowered.com/

http://geshl2.com/client-downloads/

++DAM TEST MAP++ *DOWNLOAD* :
http://multiplayerx.site.nfoservers.com/gesource/GOLDENEYE%20LEGEND%20SOURCE_dam_test_MultiX.zip





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[MultiplayerX]

made one last banner that could end up being the official banner. can't make up my mind lol


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[MRKane]

I'll try to twist the arms of our systems admin to let me do this at work! How well have you found everything for porting over and do you have any videos?
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[MultiplayerX]

The .obj exporter seems to maintain room geometry at 99% accuracy. Decals will have to be remade into source and placed back over terrain, walls, etc. There are only silly TINY bugs in some maps where you may lose a triangle or two from the original geometry when moving all rooms triangles to one room for .obj export. I was going to ask Carnivorous if he could tweak this or ask if anyone knows if you can EXPORT MULTIPLE ROOMS TOGETHER AS .OBJ? Instead of having to merge what you need into one ROOM? If not it's not a big deal. Older versions of the editor seem to maintain geometry integrity a little better but of course the rooms I extracted were from Perfect Dark.

This tiny issue is really no big deal because it can be covered up with a brush in hammer and the correct texture applied to it. STATUE PARK has a tile on the terrain that is glitched out and flashes in the normal game. DeepSea has one as well in the green hall area around player start. I had started that level and got too busy to mess with it but it works just fine. Glass obviously has to be be made into hammer brushes and brushes for clipping walls, floors, etc.

It's more time consuming to align brushes against the geometry than anything else. Porting the geometry and getting it into source is no big deal now that I've done it so much I could make a tutorial showing how I do it. Everything has to be converted to source materials then the geometry works completely normal in game. It's really neat in my opinion.

If you or some other people are interested I can make a tutorial and share every tool you need to get all of it into hammer and convert them. I have MASS CONVERTERS so you don't have to do it one by one. It's all fully automated just a little time consuming in places but 100% worth the work.

God knows this kind of project isn't exactly easy doing it all on your own but I've learned over the years that arrogance and selfishness seems to enjoy discouraging or blocking actual community supporting one another in the face of ideas such as: THAT WOULD NEVER WORK IN MULTIPLAYER....THAT MAP IS TOO BIG.... THERE'S NO FLOW TO THE LAYOUT.... etc...blah...blah... blah.


Bunch of lazy, greasy, taco bell eating crack hackers around here. xD
JUST KIDDING. lol
But no in all seriousness the ROGUE in me wants to see certain things happen that the dev team at source aren't interested in and that's fine. I guess I wouldn't be that eccentric MultiplayerX hacking bastard if I followed everyone else's uuuuummmm OPINIONS.

The JUNGLE map I'm making I think drives the dev team insane because the idea of VISIBILITY terrifies them that I'm importing an insane amount of models that will be used to make it look like an actual **JUNGLE** lol
BALANCE is what's important so you can find a path to where you're going. Honestly I find it more compelling no one can see me coming at times so I can sneak up on them but it will be visually balanced as well.

Just let me know buddy! I am very busy so if anyone wants to help please post here that I won't waste good time making a tutorial and sharing the tools.

Multi
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[Graslu]

lol
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[MultiplayerX]

There's that source hacker Haxlu.
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[MultiplayerX]

Okay. So above is a test map I decided to release to get everyone excited. It's a rough sample and still has to be tweaked but you get the idea. DECALS and textures with transparency have to be adjusted and I haven't done that yet. Some stairways may have to be brushworked in due to some glitches in export or something but overall integrity is 99%.The skybox was tricky because source sees emptiness from models as leaks so i used a sky camera with a displacement dome brush to get around that issue
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[oldyz]

MultiplayerX, i have sent you a PM greeting & some thoughts, glad to see you back

[MultiplayerX]

Like I said, this is a very rough test map. The only clipping there is is on the floor so you can explore and get a feel for the map. I also missed a small area of geometry copying the rooms together so it has a pink area where there is missing texture from it. Bare with me, it's just a beta test map.
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[Wreck]

Looks as though the vertex colour / shading is lost during the process?

[MultiplayerX]

The lighting is source is very different. I figured out a way to light models using an info_lighting entity inside a color box. Let me know if you have a color chart for each level and I can change it accordingly. Right now I'm just using white. Sky boxes will have to use a generic background color then I can use a sky camera to project any moving models in front of it. The mod has several animated cloud models already accessible.

I'm not sure why a few things won't carry over texture wise. Decals simulating signage and other things have to be removed from the model and brushed in. It's not a problem just takes a little time.

Let me know what all you find in that test map geometry wise so I can troubleshoot some workarounds.

Multi
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[Carnivorous]

The secondary decals are not importing correctly - and using light entries will not emulate the same vertex coloring style of the original (this is an source limitation). You may as well use brushes and trace over the original model in hammer, at least then the BSP will be optimized with portals

[MultiplayerX]

However hammer has a brush limit and levels like Dam have geometry that borders on insane. Lol. I have already run multiple tests on perfect darks deepsea map a couple of years ago and honestly you can't tell much difference when using model illumination in hammer. It just has to be adjusted.

I ALREADY MENTIONED THIS WAS A ROUGH TEST MAP It's just so everyone can get a feel for what's to come. Trust me I have every intention in matching the lighting as close to the original as possible. Deepsea was 99% dead on. It just takes some patience adjusting the brightness of the light assigned to the model. I was using several colors to match the N64 green shade in DeepSea so close it looks like you are just in the same game.

Keep me posted and shoot suggestions at will!
I will keep everyone updated as I work on this.
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[MultiplayerX]

Carnivorous wrote:

The secondary decals are not importing correctly - and using light entries will not emulate the same vertex coloring style of the original (this is an source limitation). You may as well use brushes and trace over the original model in hammer, at least then the BSP will be optimized with portals

I am aware of the issues here as well. It is an ALPHA CHANNEL issue that can be simply corrected by making the decals translucent materials. I had this same issue in Perfect Dark as well with the hanging vines in deepsea
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[Carnivorous]

MultiplayerX wrote:

I am aware of the issues here as well. It is an ALPHA CHANNEL issue that can be simply corrected by making the decals translucent materials. I had this same issue in Perfect Dark as well with the hanging vines in deepsea

I think you're confusing vertex color with texture alpha, they are different. Exported textures should have alpha information within the BMP file.

MultiplayerX wrote:

I ALREADY MENTIONED THIS WAS A ROUGH TEST MAP Wink It's just so everyone can get a feel for what's to come. Trust me I have every intention in matching the lighting as close to the original as possible. Deepsea was 99% dead on. It just takes some patience adjusting the brightness of the light assigned to the model. I was using several colors to match the N64 green shade in DeepSea so close it looks like you are just in the same game.

Lighting entities cannot emulate hand painted vertex coloring as it will bleed into the surrounding vertices. I don't think you understood what I was saying