Arcanum Arcanum Multiverse Edition

[Macbeth]

Drog Black Tooth,
I've started a conversation with you. I assume here it's like PM...

 

[Poseidon]

One new alert "Drog has commented on this thread" ZOMG OMG.

But anyway... I was just here to ask if there's an update on next version?

Also one thing I'm not too clear on:

Macbeth, you mentioned 3 different projects - Multiverse, Mappers Mod and SEM. Are those 3 completely separate things are they gonna come all together in Multiverse?

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

OK bros I'm in. The Ruskies have accepted my help. Maybe this will stop me from drinking this much, hmm.

 

[Poseidon]

OK bros I'm in. The Ruskies have accepted my help. Maybe this will stop me from drinking this much, hmm.

Working with the Russians to stop drinking? Say what now :D

Anyway that's some great news!

 

[Macbeth]

you mentioned 3 different projects - Multiverse, Mappers Mod and SEM. Are those 3 completely separate things are they gonna come all together in Multiverse?

Mapper's Mod is already included to Multiverse. And it will be updated in the next version.
SEM is partially ready. I'm translating it to English. Now all our work is concentrated on Multiverse. As soon as it'll be done, we will continue work with SEM. We will deside how to implement SEM.

Next version of Multiverse supposed to be in may, I hope.
New backgrounds and Level cap will be implemented as well.

 

[OracleX]

New backgrounds and Level cap will be implemented as well.

will new features be optional in the install/setup?

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

This may have been asked already. Is enabling auto-update wise? I wonder whether auto-update will introduce save incompatibility, or will the team take care of that?

 

[Macbeth]

We are deciding now will it be auto update or total Repack.
But ANYWAY saves will not work, because maps are upgraded.

Level cap, backgrounds - optional.
SEM (in future) - optional.

 

[Jinn]

I'm getting some cursor lag/slow-down when I'm navigating menus and inventory. Is this a common problem? I'm playing at 1920x1080.

 

[Junmarko]

I'm getting some cursor lag/slow-down when I'm navigating menus and inventory. Is this a common problem? I'm playing at 1920x1080.

Can't say I've had that, I posted my settings on Page 1 a while back, see if this layout helps - I think you'll find 1280x720 a little more suitable for scaling as well

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[Jinn]

Thanks a lot! That seems to have fixed all the problems I was having.

 

[Poseidon]

Can't say I've had that, I posted my settings on Page 1 a while back, see if this layout helps - I think you'll find 1280x720 a little more suitable for scaling as well

I did run the game under 1920x1080 pretty smoothly. If you choose the 18 font size, you can read everything properly. However I only ran around the first area to check out how things were. While it's rather impressive to be able to see such a large area in a single screen, it wasn't very comfortable really. Also, I'm not sure how helpful it would be from picking up items off the ground. 1366x768 (average laptop resolution) seems to be working pretty good.

Mapper's Mod is already included to Multiverse. And it will be updated in the next version.
SEM is partially ready. I'm translating it to English.

My current occupation is freelance editor for a US ghost writer. If you'd like, I can help by looking over some of the translations for typos, grammar and stuff. Not something everyone might care about, but then again Arcanum is a very text-heavy game.

 

[Junmarko]

1366x768 (average laptop resolution) seems to be working pretty good.

If you're on a laptop, yes - but down scaling to 1366x768 on a 1920x1080 native monitor, no.

https://www.howtogeek.com/224657/why-does-the-1366x768-screen-resolution-exist/

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

BTW, bros. I dug out my high resolution patch sources today and have been working on it the whole day. The Ruskie programmer is still MIA, so it's just me playing with my dick for the moment.

I removed the stupid command line prompts, it now has an .ini file, with way more settings. You can no go windowed, change the renderer to software (no need for the -no3d command line argument anymore), set the scrolling distance back to the original behavior or make it infinite, etc. Also, there's now an option that allows you to do this. How cool is that?

I'm also fixing all the remaining bugs. Will add black backgrounds to the main menu and ending slides, and will possible increase object limits for vicinity checks and tile distance for AI and animations, etc.

Any requests?

 

[Ovg]

Drog and Russians. Good to see international cooperation bringing us the best in Arcanum experience.

So, what's the best resolution for a 1920x1080 screen?

 

[Zero Credibility]

Any requests?

Well, since you are asking, Arcanum 2 would be nice.

 

[Poseidon]

If you're on a laptop, yes - but down scaling to 1366x768 on a 1920x1080 native monitor, no.

https://www.howtogeek.com/224657/why-does-the-1366x768-screen-resolution-exist/

That was an interesting read. Good to know.

So, what's the best resolution for a 1920x1080 screen?

Well Junmarko's suggestions is 1280x720, but unless there's some other technical stuff I'm unaware of, you could probably do 1440x900 nicely.

Edit: 1440x900 is 16:10, so if we have to perfectly maintain aspect ratio, there's isn't another resolution between 1280x720 and 1920x1080 that would be 16:9. 1366x768 is the closest thing to it, but not really (as Junmarko's link explains).

Well, since you are asking, Arcanum 2 would be nice.

Who even has the Arcanum IP rights atm?

Any requests?

So I have next to no understanding of this kind of thing, but what really grinds my gears is that Windowed would lock the game window to the target resolution, essentially occupying what, 60% of my screen?
I know, however, that some games support going Windowed where you can still resize and maximize, essentially stretching the image, but at least you are "Full Screen"
I guess what I'm looking for is Borderless since the current monitor standard is 1920x1080, and we prolly won't be playing in that resolution. I use multiple monitors and having to alt-tab is hella annoying.
I hope that makes sense.

 

[Junmarko]

That was an interesting read. Good to know.

No worries man

Who even has the Arcanum IP rights atm?

Activision. It'll probably sit dormant for a long time.

 

[Junmarko]

Also, there's now an option that allows you to do this. How cool is that?

Damn, that's pretty neat.

I'm also fixing all the remaining bugs. Will add black backgrounds to the main menu and ending slides, and will possible increase object limits for vicinity checks and tile distance for AI and animations, etc.

Any requests?

Will jump on and see if I can think of anything.

Maybe call upon the powers of ghostdog to see if he can lend inspiration? I heard his master never released the source code, sad.

But he was PST UI king before now.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

Drog and Russians. Good to see international cooperation bringing us the best in Arcanum experience.

For some reason, I have been thinking that Drog is a Russian himself. Guess, I was wrong.

edit: updated drog.txt

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

well i aint too keen on going full ghost dog on this and adding tons of gay wallpapers around ui elements

just not cool bro

 

[Fry]

Who even has the Arcanum IP rights atm?

Activision.

 

[Macbeth]

My current occupation is freelance editor for a US ghost writer. If you'd like, I can help by looking over some of the translations for typos, grammar and stuff. Not something everyone might care about, but then again Arcanum is a very text-heavy game.

Ok, we'll speak about it when time will come.

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

Finally managed to find how to increase the "active radius" today. The original limit was 30 tiles away from the player everything would get frozen, including the animations, AI, etc.

And this shit is kinda sorta really fucking obvious in Full HD.

I've played with it for a bit. Tarant with the limit of 255 tiles fucks the game right up. You can infinite scroll from the bridge right to the Bates mansion and it's all live. The game just slows to a crawl. But 60-80 is p awesome, no lag and it looks very alive.

This will be an option that everyone will get to tinker with themselves. But I'm changing the default to at least 45 anyway.

 

[OracleX]

Great to see you working on Arcanum again Drog! I remember you send me a hack in the past on Terra-Arcanumin that removed the follower cap . I was trying to do so myself but never managed (7 was the max). I'm still using it on my modded Arcanum install. Looking forward to future releases!