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UQEH2114 Feature Requests

Korax — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:51:08 GMT

Well, this is the official call for submission for features/fixes requests from you, the community! :)

So, what fixes and features would you like to see for the next version?

Glowing items?

Bjossi — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:52:13 GMT

My first post here. :)

When I came across the unofficial Quake Engine I was very happy. Hexen 2 is a pain to play with modern computers. I was very happy to be able to increase brightness, which wasn't working in default GLHexen 2.

Anyways, now on to my request. Maybe the brightness thing I mentioned is a clue that I don't have good eyesight, in fact I have a very hard time seeing in darkness and I have lost a lot of my peripheral vision so I won't see items unless my eyes are staring at a point near them on the screen.

So I figured it would be great to have the ability to have an option that maks all items of the game glow from a distance. Health vials, powerups, mana, etc. The glow could get reduced as I get nearer. This would be a lifesaver because I pretty much just run around the rooms of the game hoping to pick up any items. :P

I hope you'll consider this idea, it would make Hexen 2 a lot more enjoyable for me like in the old days when my eyes were more useful. :)

Inventory scroll commands mapping

TonyL — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:38:44 GMT

Great job with your engine! However, please provide mapping for the controls to scroll through your inventory and use your inventory item. -thanks

A Couple Music & SFX Wishes.

Razumen — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:47:50 GMT

Here's 2 features that would be great if UQE supported it:

Dynamic Music:
Nothing too fancy, but being able to start, stop, fade in/out and between different tracks via some sort of ingame trigger would be awesome and help me a lot when I start concentrating on RH's music.

Better Sound Effect Support:
Currently the amount of available sound effects is hard coded into the progs.dat, making using more SFX more trouble than it should be. There should be a universal ambient sound entity that:
- Can play any looping or non-looping sound effect (Of the correct file type) that is located with in the proper file directory, without the need for creating new code for each sound effect.
- Be either triggered or set to play automatically.
- Has a settable interval between sound playback as well as the option for a random delay added onto the interval.
- Have a settable range and decay field which controls how far the sound will be audible, and how fast it decays the closer/farther away the player is.

The last one may be more of a problem with the progs.dat, than something that can be solved via UQE, but It's something that's been bothering me for a long time.

A new HUD

Twood1130 — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:09:52 GMT

The old Heads up display is very distorted when scale 2d is turned on, and when its not its rather hard to read, it would be awesome to have a redone HUD with hexen 2.

First Wishlist

necromancer — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:13:30 GMT

Well I gave a try to the UQEH2 and it was what you write, didn't find anything bad and all you promised is there..
However I still don't think it is enought to beat good old NH, what it really miss is model frame interpolation and colored lighing
Can you also consider following?
bind some textures instead boring generated image for particles?
use normal maps for bumpmapping ? ( turn it off unless texture has _n equivalent with normal map information )
some shading? GL_LIGHT would be very interesting as it provides very nice vertex shading without really much work :hehe:
better transparency? ( color buffer trick preventing ugly overlapping polygons )
new model formats ? ( MDL is dead all the way, MD2 is better on it but still hard to get real tools, MD3 is okay )
multiplayer goodies :P
Anyway keep the great job, it is already much better than vanilla H2 ;)

Hexen II

The_grim — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:14:13 GMT

Well, its not really about UQE Hexen, but i wonder if there is a free full version of Hexen II out there, because here, in Hungary, this game has "disappeared" so i cant buy it and im too young to order one from an internet shop :S

Update: No need for the game anymore

Old newhexen features, and next update?

Xanithe — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:23:36 GMT

Before I forget to ask, when you implement colored lighting in the next version of UQE, will it be the same as it was in newhexen? I remember going to the JShexen site, and downloading .lit files and being able to use them with newhexen. Will we still be able to do this?

Also, I'm assuming the next update will have colored lighting, fog, and water caustics... What about console controlled weather ie rain/snow, and lens flares as well?

Last question: How long do you think before the next UQE update that would contain older features that were lost in translation to the new engine?