2010-11-23, 07:18 PM
Here (https://www.swordofmoonlight.com/Trismeg...stusEx.zip) is a trial/teaser for Trismegistus with Ex 
It's not the official Trismegistus I want to go up for outsiders, but please try it / tell me what you think / if it works for you. Hopefully Todd and I will be able to integrate Ex into everything available on this website etc throughout this month, or next 30 days-ish anyway.
This package incorporates everything I think Som can do for Trismegistus at this time. There's just a few more things I wanna work on before an official release, including trying to get rid of the restart soft-requirement. Basically once you unpack the archive and run the game it will ask you to restart. You can either A) restart or B) until you do restart you'll have to edit the Trismegistus.ini file by hand and if you change your settings in game they won't be remembered.
I remember a day when putting anything new on your Windows OS meant you'd have to restart your computer, but now days you can pretty much run Windows for weeks until it finally crashes and you have to restart. So I do wanna get rid of this requirement one way or another. Personally I won't restart my computer for some program.... I'll as soon wait a month until I happen to restart, so...
It's not really a requirement that Ex work that way, but its the only way to make a game work out of a readonly drive, like a CDROM or a network share -- and also the only way to have a non-ascii .ini file name. The main reason I wanna do better somehow is because it doesn't work if the path to the folder has any non-ascii characters in it. The only prob is afaik the only way to make it work is to somehow replace an interface in an other process. I'm guessing it's possible but its a whole other level compared to the trickery Ex has indulged in so far.
I also wanna clean up some rough spots around the edgess that no one will likely ever see. And there is some trouble with shadows not blending correctly into fog, but I'm pretty sure there are no shadows in Trismegistus. The included SomEx.dll should look virtually identical whether your video card is Shader Model 2.0 or 3.0 (I reckon most of us have 4.0 or 5.0 cards these days, I really don't know) and I plan to add 1.0 (if possible) before done here and hopefully spruce up the other possible targets just in case anyone ever sees them.
The only problem I'm aware of is if you stand in a certain spot near the beginning of the game a phantom tower will pop into view in the distance over the wall, but its a really small spot. That tower is really the only thing in the game (first 6 maps or so anyway) that really dictated the draw distance. Normally (when extending the draw distance) it is visible from the starting point basically, I'd thought I'd gotten rid of it, but I'd noticed it still popped up in one specific spot earlier today. If Tom rebuilt the map with optimization disabled it would probably become a non-issue. The tower would still be there, but the problem is really that it pops in/out so. In fact I think if one map tile was just lowered .5m it might not show up either.
Maybe something could be done about the Status/Compass display options because I'm pretty sure Tom is not using them.
I used the debugger to explore many of the maps but not all. I reckon if you get that far into the game a glitch or two more won't deter you. Plus I don't wanna spoil everything for myself
The main improvements are:
-Smooth windows experience
-No sound dropout
-All around solid graphics (wysiwyg)
-Unlimited lamps / more vibrant lighting
-Further draw distance caps off sky (fog is same)
-Fog saturated stuff blends into the sky
-Cleaned up a handful of graphical eyesores
-A slew of little Ex features/bugfixes
-Probably much better performance
-Fonts come with game
Mainly there is a lot of quality stuff the untrained eye will probably totally miss even with a side by side comparison, but your subconscious will thank you I think.
The game can also be easily translated into other languages (\<span> site blocked, contact your administrator/ex/lang/Trismegistus/) and I may look thru the script at some point inserting Unicode in place where it would seem to help (pretty quotes, arrow symbols, etc)
You may need this (https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta...laylang=en)
Below is the Ex.ini configuration.
Maybe you can help with the dates?
UPDATE: If you're considering downloading this at this point, there is a patch download (patch.zip) on the next page. Probably should've attached it to the top post, but didn't.
It's not the official Trismegistus I want to go up for outsiders, but please try it / tell me what you think / if it works for you. Hopefully Todd and I will be able to integrate Ex into everything available on this website etc throughout this month, or next 30 days-ish anyway.
This package incorporates everything I think Som can do for Trismegistus at this time. There's just a few more things I wanna work on before an official release, including trying to get rid of the restart soft-requirement. Basically once you unpack the archive and run the game it will ask you to restart. You can either A) restart or B) until you do restart you'll have to edit the Trismegistus.ini file by hand and if you change your settings in game they won't be remembered.
I remember a day when putting anything new on your Windows OS meant you'd have to restart your computer, but now days you can pretty much run Windows for weeks until it finally crashes and you have to restart. So I do wanna get rid of this requirement one way or another. Personally I won't restart my computer for some program.... I'll as soon wait a month until I happen to restart, so...
It's not really a requirement that Ex work that way, but its the only way to make a game work out of a readonly drive, like a CDROM or a network share -- and also the only way to have a non-ascii .ini file name. The main reason I wanna do better somehow is because it doesn't work if the path to the folder has any non-ascii characters in it. The only prob is afaik the only way to make it work is to somehow replace an interface in an other process. I'm guessing it's possible but its a whole other level compared to the trickery Ex has indulged in so far.
I also wanna clean up some rough spots around the edgess that no one will likely ever see. And there is some trouble with shadows not blending correctly into fog, but I'm pretty sure there are no shadows in Trismegistus. The included SomEx.dll should look virtually identical whether your video card is Shader Model 2.0 or 3.0 (I reckon most of us have 4.0 or 5.0 cards these days, I really don't know) and I plan to add 1.0 (if possible) before done here and hopefully spruce up the other possible targets just in case anyone ever sees them.
The only problem I'm aware of is if you stand in a certain spot near the beginning of the game a phantom tower will pop into view in the distance over the wall, but its a really small spot. That tower is really the only thing in the game (first 6 maps or so anyway) that really dictated the draw distance. Normally (when extending the draw distance) it is visible from the starting point basically, I'd thought I'd gotten rid of it, but I'd noticed it still popped up in one specific spot earlier today. If Tom rebuilt the map with optimization disabled it would probably become a non-issue. The tower would still be there, but the problem is really that it pops in/out so. In fact I think if one map tile was just lowered .5m it might not show up either.
Maybe something could be done about the Status/Compass display options because I'm pretty sure Tom is not using them.
I used the debugger to explore many of the maps but not all. I reckon if you get that far into the game a glitch or two more won't deter you. Plus I don't wanna spoil everything for myself
The main improvements are:
-Smooth windows experience
-No sound dropout
-All around solid graphics (wysiwyg)
-Unlimited lamps / more vibrant lighting
-Further draw distance caps off sky (fog is same)
-Fog saturated stuff blends into the sky
-Cleaned up a handful of graphical eyesores
-A slew of little Ex features/bugfixes
-Probably much better performance
-Fonts come with game
Mainly there is a lot of quality stuff the untrained eye will probably totally miss even with a side by side comparison, but your subconscious will thank you I think.
The game can also be easily translated into other languages (\<span> site blocked, contact your administrator/ex/lang/Trismegistus/) and I may look thru the script at some point inserting Unicode in place where it would seem to help (pretty quotes, arrow symbols, etc)
You may need this (https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta...laylang=en)
Below is the Ex.ini configuration.
Code:
TRISMEGISTUS
[Boxart]
game_series = Trismegistus
game_title_with_sequel = Trismegistus
game_version = 1.1
game_edition =Â First Ed
game_year_published = 200X
;game_date_published =
game_first_edition_year = 200X
;game_first_edition_date =
game_legal = This game is a product of From Software's Sword of Moonlight KING'S FIELD Making Tool. It is not produced by nor is it endorsed by From Software.
game_auteur = Tom Eversole
game_thanks = From Software
[Author]
;This section is for authors especially. Players should not make
;changes without authorization from the author to do so. The values
;of these settings should not change if/when this file is trans-
;lated into different languages.
international_production_title = Trismegistus
software_company_name = Hguols
[Legacy]
;settings in this section override the settings in the game
;ini file. If this file or the game ini file is readonly (such
;as on a CD-ROM or part of a compressed archive) this section
;will have no effect. Any key value pair will be written over
;the initial ini file each time the game is played.
[Launch]
launch_title_to_use = Trismegistus
do_fix_controller_configuration = yes
do_fix_spelling_of_english_words = yes
[Folder]
;Uncomment this to save your game in your Saved Games folder
;for Vista users, and in your Application Data folder for pre-
;Vista Windows operating systems. This will be done by default
;if playing Dark Destiny from a CD-ROM.
;do_use_users_saved_games_folder = yes
;Alternatively you can manually specify a folder for your game
;by uncommenting and setting the following setting to the address
;of the folder you would like your games to be saved to. Environ-
;ment Variables (eg. %HOMEPATH%) will be expanded if set.
;saved_games_folder =
[Locale]
;Note: only Microsoft Windows defined locales are supported and
;may be required to be installed. Microsoft's "Locale Builder"
;custom locale creator can be supported on demand if need be.
;Locale settings are one iso639 language code and one iso3166
;country code separated by an underscore (ll_CC) with an optional
;@variant modifier, ie. (ll_CC@cyrillic)
;Eg. play in Japanese if your Windows locale is not Japansese
;locale_to_use_for_play = ja_JP
;your computer/user locale will be used by default
;locale_to_use_for_dates_and_figures =
do_use_builtin_locale_date_format = yes
do_use_builtin_english_by_default = yes
do_use_abbreviation_prefix = yes
[Window]
window_title_to_use = Trismegistus
restrict_aspect_ratio_to = 4:3
;Set to 9 for Direct3D 9 mode. Defaults to 7
directx_version_to_use_for_window = 9
shader_model_to_use = 3
do_force_fullscreen_inside_window = yes
do_auto_pause_window_while_inactive = yes
;This will keep your game from from changing to 640x480 resolution
;during the intro/ending screens and in game movies.
do_scale_640x480_modes_to_setting = yes
;1:1 (pixel perfect) mapping to your digital TV/monitor.
do_center_picture_for_fixed_display = no
;Under Direct3D 9 this puts the game in true fullscreen mode.
do_not_compromise_fullscreen_mode = no
;Might help interlaced TVs/monitors. Direct3D 9 only.
do_use_interlaced_scanline_ordering = no
;Disable "vsync" when set to yes. Direct3D 7 not yet supported.
do_force_immediate_vertical_refresh = no
[Option]
do_pause = yes
do_cursor = yes
do_mipmaps = yes
do_alphafog = yes
do_rangefog = yes
do_dither = yes
do_highcolor = yes
do_anisotropy = yes
do_lights = yes
do_sounds = yes
[Detail]
;set to 1 to disable anisotropic filtering.
;mipmaps_maximum_anisotropy = 1
;Ms wait before showing hourglass. Or 0 to disable.
cursor_presentation_timeout = 250
;Use 80% calibrated, 20% original Som parameters
lights_calibration_factor = 0.8
;number of Shader Model 1.x light calculations
lights_vs_1_x_unroll_x = 7
[Adjust]
sky_distance_multiplier = 1.7
sky_fadeline_multiplier = 0.8
[Bugfix]
do_fix_slowdown_on_save_data_select = yes
do_fix_graphics_device_interfacing = yes
do_fix_oversized_compass_needle = yes
do_fix_clipping_item_display = yes
do_fix_lighting_dropout = yes
do_fix_elapsed_time = yes
;EOF/Enjoy Trismegistus~Maybe you can help with the dates?
UPDATE: If you're considering downloading this at this point, there is a patch download (patch.zip) on the next page. Probably should've attached it to the top post, but didn't.