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Devs / Re: EXIT: Coming up for air...
« on: July 01, 2023, 03:39:41 PM »
3d model editor (Alt+click)

http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/SomEx.dll/1.2.4.12.zip (SVN Update)

I've uploaded changes to better integrate MM3D into SOM by pressing Alt+Click in SOM_MAP and SOM_PRM and preferring the EXE in the new MM3D folder so it will "just work" without setting up Windows Explorer "Open With" files associations.

The following extension will use the "Open With" file association.

Code: (Ex.ini) [Select]
[Editor]

do_not_open_with_mm3d

Note, I recommend associating your SOM extension files with TOOL/SOM_EX.exe.

Hopefully this will help orient everyone who's interested in custom art. I hope this is helpful. The alt+click works wherever the profiles can be opened up.

I'm currently working toward shields. The version of mm3d-portable.exe in this release is stuck and it has a new Reorder window that helps for ordering the left and right arms in a 2 handed arm model.

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Devs / Re: EXIT: Coming up for air...
« on: June 22, 2023, 12:20:01 AM »
semi-release

http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/SomEx.dll/1.2.4.10.zip (SVN Update)

This is a small release that fixes an x2mdl.dll problem and adds a wind sound effect that plays when running and dodging and falling.

It's controlled like this:

Code: [Select]
[Sample]

;1000.wav is default
;headwind_identifier = 1000

;headwind_ambient_wind_effect = 0.1

sample_pitch_adjustment = nan(se_pitch[1_](2_),2_)
sample_volume_adjustment = nan(se_volume[1_](2_),2_)
The effect can make it seem like there's wind in the environment and makes the wind sound louder until it might be heard when doing nothing if your speakers are sensitive. When it's set to -1 it will do the opposite, making the ambient wind more crisp than the default, which is 0. Altering the volume and pitch is also possible.

The formula is tailored to the default human/earth like movement and gravity. It's loudest when falling from high above and doesn't get that loud when running. It's meant to be inaudible when walking and jogging. It depends a lot on BGM volume though if you can hear it or not, especially when dashing/dodging. It'll probably get fine-tuned more in the future, but this is something I've planned for falling for a very long time.

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Devs / Re: EXIT: Coming up for air...
« on: June 18, 2023, 02:45:33 AM »
semi-release

http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/SomEx.dll/1.2.4.8.zip (SVN Update)

I've increased the size of the download a lot by adding a full KING'S FIELD folder with English and Japanese versions.

This release also replaces the movie player and uses mp4 for KING'S FIELD.

Playing movies has been a problem for a while. The code is supposed to play DRM video but I haven't tried it. The Microsoft demo I got it from doesn't do anything else special but I haven't tested it with a DRM protected movie that I know for certain. It uses Media Foundation.

I may turn this into a blog post if I think the project is ready for it. It's currently using the translation work done for the SOM patch on archive.org which I know JDO wrote and DMPDesign inputted into SOM. There's a vocal track for the English movies who I don't know who to credit for (https://archive.org/details/so-m-3-d-rpg-maker-install)

I've asked TheStolenBattenberg to help upscale these movies, but they're not up that way yet. The text may be an issue.


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Devs / EXIT: Coming up for air...
« on: June 10, 2023, 09:28:27 PM »
Quote from: http://www.swordofmoonlight.net/archives/exit/2023/06/coming-up-for-air/
Before I begin I’ve been in the habit of hiding past posts of late. The current most recent post dates back to April last year. I’m sorry. Anyone paying attention to me will have seen me going through a lot of contortions concerning my lifestyle and life course. Right now I have a kind of semi-benign schizophrenia that doesn’t interfere with my ability to think, however it disrupts my life a lot. I’ve been trying to cover my tracks.

I’m currently trying to tie up unpaid work on Sword of Moonlight in order to try to begin publishing a paid “early access” version. I haven’t had success with a Patreon model thus far, but I want everyone reading this to join me at Patreon.com/Swordofmoonlight and a new alternative called SubscribeStar I’m just starting out setting up.



In all these unpublished posts I’ve done some difficult work on order-independent transparency and most recently I’ve completed the new art import system by making icons be generated by default when making use of the art system. A preview is here showing how shading and lines are used to distinguish otherwise identical tile models.



These tiles come from my King’s Field II project. My schizophrenia is slowing me down on it. It also can help, surprisingly, since my brain talks to me and seems capable of programming computers. But it mostly slows me down. I’m having to recast my life/lifestyle, and reconsider if I can hit a 2025 self-imposed deadline or not. I’m trying to sleep less, and I’m out and about a lot more than I’ve been in the past decade since I started working exclusively on Sword of Moonlight. I’m active, and spreading my activities across many different areas of interest. I’m trying to take Sword of Moonlight to the next level in terms of using it to become financially independent. I’m also pursuing disability benefits, but truly I need economic support from everyone. That means you. I know a lot of people are interested in my effort, but don’t support me materially. I want you to really ask yourself if you can do that for me? I’ve put so many years of full-time work into this to arrive at this point. And it’s hard on me to ask myself if I should carry on or not, when my heart says I must, but my outlook says I can’t sustain this forever.

I want to thank everyone who has supported me in the past and present and in the future too! Please join us. For those who do not I want to try to get Sword of Moonlight onto Steam. I just have to figure out if it’s going to be compatible with its launcher. And I’m going to put the current version on Archive.org soon. I intend to add a few more features to it, but in the future I’m going to publish new features based on fundraising goals and sales figures. This is overdue, and I really have no choice at this point. Once set up on Steam I’m going to approach From Software to see if they are interested in collaborating on a physical edition of Sword of Moonlight with a developer license, and program something like SOM_RUN, for the paid version. It’s going to be “early access” for a while, and it’s going to need guides to be written. It will stay there until it has everything a paid product should have.

Here's more information in the main thread: http://www.swordofmoonlight.net/bbs2/index.php?topic=373.0

To update I recommend SVN Update and redownload your theme/language package for a new big map editor mode.

http://www.swordofmoonlight.net/main/single-file-download/ has a direct download link that I must patch up right now.

EDITED: I'm trying to get all my ducks in a row, including putting the King's Field 1 sample back into the package. I've removed the CODE folder and put it on Github instead at https://github.com/m-7761/swordofmoonlight with a Ghidra database too.

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Devs / Re: SOM_MAP icons: new "art system" progress in 2023
« on: June 09, 2023, 05:59:58 AM »
Release

I've uploaded my work for having a big editor and tiles like in the link above. I'm going to package it into a blog post ASAP.

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Language packs for big editor can be found here:

https://www.swordofmoonlight.net/text/

They go in the text folder, or use the SOM.exe (Dragon Sword) tool to redownload your tool language pack.

Use SVN Update (recommended) and follow the component update prompts, or the following direct download links:

http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/SomEx.dll/1.2.4.6.zip
http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/x2mdl.dll/1.0.0.2.zip

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Devs / Re: SOM_MAP icons: new "art system" progress in 2023
« on: June 07, 2023, 03:16:41 AM »
This preview has some effects to help to tell tiles apart when they technically look the same from above.

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Devs / SOM_MAP icons: new "art system" progress in 2023
« on: May 26, 2023, 01:41:37 AM »
Here are some pictures of new things I'm working on. They show off generating (very basic at-the-moment) ICO files for SOM_MAP to use. They're embedded in the shortcuts, so you can see them in the MAP/MODEL folders.

Also on display is an alternative layout for SOM_MAP, with a larger display area. I'm trying to make it possible to switch with the min/max buttons.

For the icons I have to play around with some lighting and fog-like effects, and add some sharpening.

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Devs / Re: Ordered transparency blending
« on: May 26, 2023, 01:36:57 AM »
Update

This is now in the latest release as do_alphasort. It's pretty good but can impact performance.

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Projects, demos, and games Information / MOVED: Moratheia
« on: May 20, 2023, 09:53:21 PM »
This topic has been moved to Demos.

http:///bbs2/index.php?topic=154.0

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Devs / Re: EXIT: Friends in high places
« on: May 10, 2023, 09:21:12 PM »
patch

http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/SomEx.dll/1.2.4.4.zip

This patch adds glitch fixes for the new transparency system, including showing transparent objects in menus in VR.

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Devs / Re: EXIT: Friends in high places
« on: April 25, 2023, 03:33:00 AM »
patch

http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/SomEx.dll/1.2.4.4.zip

I found a "stack overflow" when unpacking tools from the language pack that could be a source of why I get reports of translated tools (EXEs) not working. I'm really hoping (fingers crossed) this solves the problem that I often suspect to be an antivirus thing when setting up SOM this way.

Note, I've tried to update the new ZIP download version of SOM too, but I think using Subversion should download it faster than unzipping the zip.

But there also seems to be a new problem with running Start.bat where it fails to run SOM_MAIN as a "child process" of SOM_EX.exe on first run because of "access denied" from the ("batch file") CMD console. I guess I have to try to fix it but no luck so far...

Update: It seems that apps from the Windows cmd console can no longer use CreateProcess. It seems crazy, but that's what I'm seeing. Update: I was able to add this back with the Visual Basic Script that installs the Start menu shortcuts. (The ASCII art version of the Moonlight Sword is no longer shown.)

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Devs / Re: EXIT: Friends in high places
« on: April 24, 2023, 11:54:24 PM »
minor update (SVN Update)

This update (1.2.4.4) adds a pretty good do_alphasort Option to Ex.ini and preloads the BGM when using the new seamless map transfer feature to help ensure no hiccups occur. (You have to use a supported WAV file to be sure this works fast.)

http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/SomEx.dll/1.2.4.4.zip

The default Ex.ini file (http://www.swordofmoonlight.net/text/English/Default.zip for the English translation) now has do_alphasort added to its [Option] section.

What this does is turn all the transparent polygons into a soup and draw them back-to-front. I've been working on this for a while, but it's proved the most challenging little project I've ever taken on, and it took some tricks to enhance the performance since it wants to tank performance pretty hard. It can still use more optimization.

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Devs / EXIT: Friends in high places
« on: April 21, 2023, 03:36:59 PM »
Quote from: https://www.swordofmoonlight.net/archives/exit/2023/04/friends-in-high-places/
To anybody visiting or returning to here, I’ve not dropped the ball on Sword of Moonlight and everything else, but I’ve been going through a lot in the past months that’s been spurred on by a “supernatural” string of daily events pushing and pulling me in different directions. I want to say it’s all in my head and I need some kind of medical attention, but the truth is there’s not really a medical solution and it’s not medical seeming at all. I’ve had a day job for less than 2.5 months, that I had to quit because the work environment was surprisingly bad, even though the job itself was a really good fit for me. I’m also trying to fit work on projects into my life. But I’m being regularly encouraged to find friends, and even make a family. But something about the “path” I’m walking is showing me how difficult or impossible that can be in our world today under my circumstances. I think I’m not alone in this. So, I just want everyone to know, that I really need to make friends somehow okay. I know that not everyone has a platform like a website, like this, and a game dev project/system to be able to reach out like I’m doing now. And right now this site has problems, including that email notifications aren’t working, so people (you) can’t even register with it until I can figure out what’s stopped working in the past few months.

You can leave a comment on this post if you want to get in touch so we can register you or help you out with Sword of Moonlight or even hang out.

https://discord.gg/x782kpHQ7E is a permanent Discord invite, where you can contact me on Discord as “m.” in there. #7761 is my full ID if you want to make direct contact, if that’s simpler for you. I’ve tried to find places to meet people in my city and just about every dating app, and it’s not working out for me. I’ve tried using Discord in meetup groups, to some extent, where young people are teenagers. It seems like right now it’s very hard to make contact with anyone if you’re alone, which I think a lot of us probably are now. My city isn’t a big city, I’m thinking of going to swimming pools soon, I mean, cities seem like bigger ghost towns right now than King’s Field’s towns. I wouldn’t have thought it until I really tried to. I was most surprised by dating apps. I mean they don’t work at all, they’re gold digging scams, and it’s almost impossible to meet people through them. So, where I stand is, please, if you believe in this project, let’s talk and be in a loop together. I’m trying to get my act together, but this may be my final front page post for a while.

I’m still working bugs out of the new order-independent transparency feature that’s become my focus of late. I’m aware of some performance problems. A generic transparency system (sorting triangles by screen depth) is a tall order. It’s something that I hope will make Sword of Moonlight standout since it’s something modern games have given up on making work.

Meanwhile my life is pretty weird, and I’m trying to clean up my house and family land.

FYI I'm planning to be adding new release information to this topic/thread going forward. Right now I'm debugging some things. I have every indication I should be sticking with Sword of Moonlight and King's Field, but my life it tumultuous now, and eventually I'm going to have to start looking for a new job to have some spending money. I'm continuing to get less sleep to try to make up the difference. I wish everyone well.

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Devs / Re: EXIT: It's just work
« on: March 11, 2023, 03:35:41 AM »
I apologize, it's taken me a long time to crank this out. I ran into a couple bugs that were hard to hunt down with my diminished schedule.

You should use SVN Update to get SomEx.csv to apply this kind of update.

Direct download: http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/SomEx.dll/1.2.4.2.zip (advanced)

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Help / Fresh start
« on: March 08, 2023, 03:24:39 AM »
I'm trying to cleanup my act. This board is the new main board. I hope everyone will feel free to use it as much as possible :evil: :evils: :saint:

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