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• Scott_AW at 2011-01-25 04:39
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSfDaMh5Rk
  
  With a bit of time and reading, I managed to figure out most of the tricks to overcome various issues of drawing and shading.  I had to disable actor shading for decor in CON files, as well as palettes.  I make use of the original Duke3d palette, but also use Fatmancraig's extended palette lookup table for more variations in coloring.
  
  Currently there are more voxels then sprite based actors, although I still need to do the trees, this project should show the true potential of the Build engine's original classic renderer.
  
  To fix some of the issues I was having with shade and clipping, I had to set actors to spritenoshade, since I had manually set shading in mapster.  Additionally I found that if I'm going to have voxel models on a wall, they need to be somewhat off the wall or they'll have clipping problems, like you could see windows through the tops of the roof.
  
  Video was captured on a netbook.
  
  I'll be putting game/progress information on a blog at blackshadowgame.blogspot.com
  
  
• Jinroh at 2011-01-26 01:00

  Re: Black Shadow, voxelized Build

  Looking rad broham!
  
  I like the idea of loading up levels with voxels to make them seem more than they are. ^^ Voxels really play more to the look of the classic renderer than polys.
  
  Can't wait to see more of the stuff you got going on with it. ^^
• Scott_AW at 2011-01-26 05:00
  I think modern computers play a part in pushing build further, but its nice to see just how far I can take it.  I'm working on the trees next, and I still have to convert the jib splash, its just a blacked out version of the original right now.
  
  
  Trees done.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M72WuYdF8Tw
  
  Edited by Scott_AW at 2011-01-26 12:19
• CaimX86 at 2011-01-27 13:10
  Awesome! Very good work, waiting for more.
• Scott_AW at 2011-01-27 17:22
  I decided to redo the grass, I was using masked walls but that had limits and seemed to slow things down.
  
  I was going to just make them sprites, but I thought this would look better.  That and you can cut the grass, so I think I'll have it get shorter as you destroy it.
  
  http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb140/scott_aw/th_wtfn_grass3.png
  
  http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb140/scott_aw/th_wtfn_grass2.png
  
  http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb140/scott_aw/th_wtfn_grass1.png
  Edited by Scott_AW at 2011-01-27 17:24
• hark at 2011-01-29 12:35
  I'm loving the style of graphics. Excellent work!
• Scott_AW at 2011-01-30 07:21
  Here's the grass finalized.  And some other stuff.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP4b5dMRT3A
  
  
  The grass is outdated in this one  color wise, but it shows the effects of hacking at grass.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgJK7oWlj3A
• Scott_AW at 2011-02-23 05:23
  Demonstration in polymost render.  Its not totally optimized, as described in the videos description.
  
  Now that I got a new system, AMD dual 3ghz with 4gb ram running win7 I can do some test with 32bit rendering.
  
  It came out better than I expected, and I found that sizing issues can be corrected with con editing.
  
  I cut off the  FPS, but it runs around 200-400FPS on average which is pretty amazing for voxels converted to models.