StrikerMan780 wrote:

I want to let VOGONS know that your copy of the S3 S3D Toolkit (S3 ViRGE) was a lifesaver!

I'm currently working on a modern port of Terminal Velocity, Fury3, and Hellbender. (Yes, I have the source code now.)

Hellbender included the sources to the S3 Virge renderer for Terminal Velocity, and I'm working on transferring everything to OpenGL. It's surprising how close the syntax of this is to GL.

That's awesome!

Great news! Good luck! 😉

😉

After your modern source ports are done, an S3D Toolkit wrapper for the other closed-source games might be cool, if possible 😉

Hope nobody minds me posting in this thread, but here's what I managed so far:

Your project looks amazing. I'm sure a lot of people here would be excited by it. You should start a thread dedicated to its progress 😀

It is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!
Please please please keep up the work! An OpenGL-rendered Terminal Velocity would be the best possible gift for Christmas!

BX300A wrote:

Your project looks amazing. I'm sure a lot of people here would be excited by it. You should start a thread dedicated to its progress 😀

Split the topic. 😀

very nice, can't wait to test it!

A 3dfx patch for terminal velocity??

Sounds great !!!

Sammy wrote:

A 3dfx patch for terminal velocity??

Sounds great !!!

Uh, no, it's going to be OpenGL and accordingly available on any graphics card that supports OpenGL (OpenGL 3.3?), not just 3dfx cards. You misunderstand.

StrikerMan780:

it looks awesome 😁

but it will work on 3dfx cards?

dr.zeissler wrote:

but it will work on 3dfx cards?

I suppose that depends on which OpenGL version is actually targeted. Stiletto guessed OpenGL 3.3. Original 3dfx drivers supported OpenGL 1.1. With MesaFX you can get OpenGL 1.3.

Kudos to StrikerMan780 for your great work! I loved Terminal Velocity and I got a Virge card (actually several) mainly for that game.

minigl/wickedgl? support.

any news? is there a version we can test?

News?

StrikerMan780 happens to be a person with a lot of issues (putting mildly), both physical and mental, so don't count on anything solid in a long time or perhaps ever (it's not a critic, everyone has issues, I'm simply telling you how things are); besides the right holders seems to think they have a high value, licensable engine, so open source is not gonna happen.

I'm still working on this. I've been making progress with getting all of the input migrated over to SDL2 and whatnot. Joystick control is already ported over, and now I'm getting keyboard/mouse handling implemented.

This will require OpenGL 3.0, to answer everyone's question about that. This is because trying to support anything older with the planned features (such as shadows and replicating the software renderer's bright texture pixels for things like lights) would be a nightmare. The software renderer was gutted out because it's a nearly indecipherable mess of assembly. (There's C versions of most rendering functions, but not all, especially in Hellbender's case.)

In short, I'm working on it, it'll eventually be ready. When? Not sure. There's still a lot to do. The UI needs to be finished (since I'll be using an improved version of TV's old UI, rather than Fury3/Hellbender's MFC UI, which still needs to be gutted for portability reasons), I need to finish writing the new sound system, fix the many assorted bugs the thing has right now, and fix TV/Fury3 support. (Porting Hellbender broke the other two games since they are vastly different. I'll get it to a point where all 3 games can be run in the same executable, but first release may be hellbender-only.)

And yeah, I know I have mental / personal / health issues to deal with, I'm trying to get through it though.