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#4229669 - 02/16/16 10:09 AM Good news for Glide  
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Several months ago Col Gibbon contacted Zeus software to enquire about getting the documentation for glide3.
"Zeus" kindly offered to update the source code, and a few days ago he sent me the modified files that he had made for the version I sent him. This morning I was able to track the changes to two files which have been updated since that time, and make a Glide3 version of my latest source code.
It works wink




Now we need some 512x512 TPC files to test how it handles them wink

A very big "thanks" to "Zeus" and thanks to Col Gibbon and Allen (Brit44) for their help in getting this to fruition.

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#4229705 - 02/16/16 12:41 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Is this about the flipped over element problem?


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#4229718 - 02/16/16 01:21 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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No
EAW/Glide2 was restricted to 256x256 textures.
Glide3 supports 512x512 so the new exe has been re-programmed to use glide3 along with 512x512 textures smile

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#4229727 - 02/16/16 01:50 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Oh, too bad.


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#4229739 - 02/16/16 02:13 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Glide3 also supports 24 bit colour, so say goodbye to 8 bit colours!

A code change might be needed to read 515x512 24bit pcx files, as I'm not sure if you can convert a pcx to tpc in 24bit.

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#4229763 - 02/16/16 03:01 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Thats great news about the updated glide support.

#4229774 - 02/16/16 03:21 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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#4229793 - 02/16/16 03:44 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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It gets better wink


Running Mike's 24 bit skins with their BMP files in Glide3








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#4229809 - 02/16/16 04:07 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Just a comparison with the previous exe and the new one:

Only the player's plane is rendered properly the rest are white:



With the new exe all the planes are rendered:


Question:
These BMP files are all 256x256

Do we have any 512x512 multiskins?


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#4229823 - 02/16/16 04:40 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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IM seems to have only posted his skins in 256x256.

I have Terrain sets and Tmods, with a few single planes.


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#4229839 - 02/16/16 05:28 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Some of your railway stuff is 512x512 such as the engine and coaches and it is rendering:



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#4229847 - 02/16/16 05:57 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Here are a couple of 512x512 skins to play with. The Glad has all the files, but the DH-1 needs converting to TPC and BMP.

https://www.mediafire.com/?6scud3au3qk0mav

https://www.mediafire.com/?6scud3au3qk0mav


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#4229852 - 02/16/16 06:01 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: Col. Gibbon]  
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Both the links are the same (DH-1)


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#4229853 - 02/16/16 06:02 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Nice. They just look so much better in 512. cool


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#4229854 - 02/16/16 06:05 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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#4229863 - 02/16/16 06:27 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Converted to 140 and put in a new med planeset





Some rendering problems in the cockpit


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#4229916 - 02/16/16 07:50 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Heres Col.Gibbon and Iron Mike's updated one, might fix cockpit.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/lv0q9306yb3l33l/MS11GlosterGladiator24bit.zip

#4229930 - 02/16/16 08:22 PM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Thanks Mark- that did the trick smile



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#4230121 - 02/17/16 10:12 AM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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I have just made the 1.29 old and new map versions, and put one of Iron Mike's 24 bit skins in the 109G slot





There is a 1.28e version too, but the display is not as clear as the 1.29 version with the same files:



This may well be because 1.28e uses the enormous hard coded texture mapping, whereas 1.28f and later use the external and editable files

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#4230126 - 02/17/16 10:55 AM Re: Good news for Glide [Re: MrJelly]  
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Seems to be a transparent colour used on the spinner?


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