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I think Drakan actually works on waveforms level rather than on generic midi; It just sound too good to being only midi files

It's good to see another Drakan fan from Poland :) I remember I was once on your website back awhile ago; I am now really busy, but when I find some spare time, I could help you with translation (I've worked with Drakan executable internals, so mayhap I would be able to find and change the files you...

Damn, it's much thorougher nut to crack then I thought before. Setting up wrapper around DX 6.1 to 9.0c is difficult, because the last one does not contain Direct Draw module at all! And the game is using it...
But hell, I will do this! [8D]

Every single feature can be turned off And you can still play original game after installing add-on

Yeah and very, very good one. Several new creatures, a lot of new features, endless possibilities (demolish town, commanders in heroes' army, henchmen, new locations, artifacts, and everything turnable on- and off). And yet still I didn't discovered all the new features. Yesterday, in example, I fou...

Version of game?

Did you played indie add-on called Wake of Gods? It's beautiful

Are you sure Drakan uses internal T&L? Well, that would be very sad info (I am yet to check lighting rendering methods) and indeed would make my task way harder. But AFAIK Direct3D 6.1 Immediate Mode (that one used in Drakan) has hardware support for T&L, hasn't it?

Well, can you post sample of your work? Some 3D model, texture, etc..?

Uhmm... Actually I *am* programmer. With more than 6 years of experience and dozen of known programming languages.

Everything in Drakan: 10th anniversy is done in Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition and with some use of old and new versions of DirectX SDK.

When I wrote Dark Wars (http://www.arokhslair.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2787) I used normal maps that were automatically generated from diffuse maps. Algorythm is not so complicated and effect was extremely good. And about disassembly - well, sometimes I want to become citizen of Australia, 'caus...

andreipirate, a bit more faith for what I am doing (as I am doing quite hard way). I know you are not programmer and do not know many programming-related terms, so I try to explain. [:)] When I finish replacing DirectX 6.1 D3D module I will be able to inject any shader code to any texture. And not o...

DarthVadr, where have you learned that nonsense about disassembling being the only way to improve Drakan?

Look here if you want to help upgrading visual side of Drakan:
http://www.arokhslair.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2909

My current project is create new, very special "upgrade" to Drakan to make it shine in new era of computer games. Codename of project is Drakan: 10th Anniversy Patch. So, what it will be exactly? I am working on hooks for Drakan calls to DX 6.1; I want to translate via custom DLL all calls...

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