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by Mechanist
Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:01 pm
Forum: Drakan Level Editing and Game Mods
Topic: Questions regarding the OOTF editor
Replies: 8
Views: 14717

Re: Questions regarding the OOTF editor

I presume that you mean when Rynn calls Arokh over? Hmm, I've been messing around in Wartok Canyons a whole bunch; and several times I've accidentally slid down into the stream and got carried away by the current, calling Arokh over immediately after climbing out onto dry land (why yes, I was feelin...
by Mechanist
Fri Apr 20, 2018 5:39 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2855656

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

Well, I ran some quick tests last month on my old computer, and I haven't run into any technical problems with OOTF's gamepad support. The only issue I've seen, is that using the analog sticks for movement doesn't allow for variable fore/aft movement speed; it's all-or-nothing. Haven't tested with a...
by Mechanist
Fri Apr 20, 2018 4:47 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2855656

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

Thank you, it works fine now :mrgreen:

BTW: the Arokh's Lair download link in the OP seems to be broken; it redirects me to the main page.
by Mechanist
Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:55 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2855656

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

Just found a new bug (?), right after I enabled the gamepad in options menu and restarted OOTF: Upon starting drakan.exe, it tries to go fullscreen (as it should), but after 2-3 seconds an error message appears: "The procedure entry point DirectInputCreateW could not be found in the dynamic li...
by Mechanist
Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:18 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Idea of Drakan based Fan Movie/Drakan Animated Movie
Replies: 3
Views: 3104

Re: Idea of Drakan based Fan Movie/Drakan Animated Movie

I think that if we're to even consider doing anything of that sort, it'd probably be best to improve on existing work, by (re)creating some missing/new content for (Open)OOTF. We can probably agree that OOTF is sorely lacking a whole bunch of in-game exposition - both in the form of reading material...
by Mechanist
Mon Apr 16, 2018 3:12 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Idea of Drakan based Fan Movie/Drakan Animated Movie
Replies: 3
Views: 3104

Re: Idea of Drakan based Fan Movie/Drakan Animated Movie

Well, the idea did cross my mind. Quite recently, in fact; not more than a few weeks ago. But I more or less immediately dismissed the idea of a live-action movie as not very feasible - at least not with the available resources and manpower. It'd take a pretty solid group of hardcore fans to success...
by Mechanist
Mon Apr 16, 2018 3:20 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Drakan won't start in Fullscreen mode. (Edit: Fixed.)
Replies: 8
Views: 16664

Re: Drakan won't start in Fullscreen mode. (Edit: Fixed.)

I can now confirm that an apparently identical problem exists on Radeon cards under Win7 x64. Start in windowed mode - no problems, everything works fine. Fullscreen - instant "atikmdag" BSOD. Trying to start windowed, and then alt-enter into fullscreen causes mad flickering for a few seco...
by Mechanist
Sun Apr 15, 2018 3:14 pm
Forum: Arokh's Lair Forums
Topic: The worst street in the world?
Replies: 5
Views: 10123

Re: The worst street in the world?

Gun laws are very strict here as well but there's plenty of illegal weapons around. Ah, but you can't hope to deprive the mafia of guns by banning them; not any more than it is possible to inflate a fishing net! What strict gun control laws are good for, is for preventing random Joes from shooting ...
by Mechanist
Sun Apr 15, 2018 2:20 pm
Forum: Arokh's Lair Forums
Topic: The worst street in the world?
Replies: 5
Views: 10123

Re: The worst street in the world?

Nah, the major Polish mafia hangs out mainly around Warsaw. And they generally seem to stick to the policy of "more bribing, less shooting", which seems to be working out very well for them. There is a local mafia here as well, of course, but it's on a somewhat smaller scale. Still, they a...
by Mechanist
Sun Apr 15, 2018 1:59 pm
Forum: Arokh's Lair Forums
Topic: The worst street in the world?
Replies: 5
Views: 10123

Re: The worst street in the world?

That'd make a decent setpiece for a movie based on the Fallout games :D No way it would ever get that bad in Poland, though: with all that scrap lying around, it's like the streets are paved with gold :twisted: The homeless people would be in heaven - free scrap ( = money), AND lots of abandoned bui...
by Mechanist
Sun Apr 15, 2018 1:13 pm
Forum: General games and fantasy discussion
Topic: Fan Art
Replies: 22
Views: 46760

Re: Fan Art

Eh, it's a matter of preference. A similar point was raised in the HD texture pack thread. I find that version you linked a bit too bright and colorful. You say its dark, but why should it be particularly bright? The scene's composition doesn't seem to suggest that; seems like it's supposed to be ni...
by Mechanist
Sun Apr 15, 2018 10:52 am
Forum: General games and fantasy discussion
Topic: Fan Art
Replies: 22
Views: 46760

Re: Fan Art

This is not new content by any means, but it still might be of use to someone: I took the OOTF promotional poster, and edited it down to a wallpaper form. Whitespace trimmed out, rescaled, and also mildly color corrected. (is it just me, or does the original look kinda faded, or washed out?) Here, h...
by Mechanist
Sat Apr 14, 2018 6:08 pm
Forum: Drakan Level Editing and Game Mods
Topic: Questions regarding the OOTF editor
Replies: 8
Views: 14717

Re: Questions regarding the OOTF editor

Well, that would certainly be one way to do it. But given that there are only a couple tens of entries to change, I think I'd long be done changing them by hand before I could even get off the ground (pardon the pun) attempting to write a program for that. Likewise, at work I don't waste time creati...
by Mechanist
Thu Apr 12, 2018 6:23 pm
Forum: Arokh's Lair Forums
Topic: If anyone's interested, this is the kind of designing I get paid to do
Replies: 4
Views: 9904

Re: If anyone's interested, this is the kind of designing I get paid to do

The company I work at does sell a very light duty benchtop mini-mill . Last time I asked, the price was roughly $12-15k, depending on the options. Yes, we do sell worldwide. You mention 200 cases. At that quantity, it'd cost roughly as much to buy a mini-mill, as it would to just outsource the machi...
by Mechanist
Thu Apr 12, 2018 3:40 pm
Forum: Arokh's Lair Forums
Topic: If anyone's interested, this is the kind of designing I get paid to do
Replies: 4
Views: 9904

Re: If anyone's interested, this is the kind of designing I get paid to do

What you see above isn't even remotely close to being complete - and most likely it never will be, because the whole project got dropped. Designing it to that point took roughly a hundred hours, most of which was spent on preliminary design and validation. Actually creating the model shown here only...