DarkXL - GPU Accelerated Dark Forces: Secret Base

[ericou812]

STOP REBAL SCUM!!!

[MountainFox51]

Just wondering, that's the difference between the Accelerated and the origina/? O.o

[ChrisRedfield1991]

@MountainFox51 It may not seem much but think everything looking nice and smooth rather than pixelated.

[DeslikKarcasso]

@MountainFox51 Yes, there are differences. As of the latest Alpha build as I have posted this, DarkXL allows for button configuration, although the secondary fire button is stuck on "R", better graphics, a green reticule of your choice of shape, and the ability to use mouse look. No longer will you have to use PgUp and PgDn.

Unfortunately, DarkXL lacks two things that the original has: Super Bullet Shield and Completion symbols beside the level names. Other than that, I prefer DarkXL.

[mario19885]

If you want a DF Remake with 3D graphics, Then try playing Dark Forces Mod for Jedi Outcast or Academy.

[ChrisRedfield1991]

@mario19885 I have, in fact I have a couple videos of it. Besides when this project is done I can see people porting those models to this, since when its completed it will have .md3 support.

[dragonyoshi94]

i have dark forces, but i cant get the installer to work on my 64 bit windows 7. Any ideas? to play it i use dos box, then again i had to download the full game from the internet. I also tried copying some of the files directly from the DARK CD but it doesnt work either, and XL doesnt seem to work on the downloaded version of the game. help

[mantax55]

Does it support 1440x900?

[ChrisRedfield1991]

@mantax55 Yes it does

[Aphradonis]

@ChrisRedfield1991 Does it support 7680x3200?

[ChrisRedfield1991]

@Aphradonis You can try but I wouldn't know if it supports multiple monitors for that resolution.

[filipetolhuizen]

How are you able to walk? I can only move by jumping around.

[ChrisRedfield1991]

WSAD Keys

[filipetolhuizen]

It won't let me move unless I keep jumping around

[ChrisRedfield1991]

the keys are already set to those specific keys. Its meant to be played like modern FPS games

[Ehal256]

Do you know anything about why df-21 is down?

[BootedNoob]

It's up for me at the moment

[Ehal256]

it must be my dns

[lurkerrekrul]

Assuming this ever actually gets finished, will it support full mouselook? I'd also love to see an option to put crosshairs on the screen and to turn off auto-aim, so that you actually have to have good aim to kill distant targets.

[ChrisRedfield1991]

Full Mooselook and Crosshairs have been confirmed. The Crosshairs will be plenty from other Star Wars games, mostly the X-Wing series which are noticable. Autoaim option most likely in the future

[lurkerrekrul]

Do you have to hold the antlers to use the Mooselook? ;)

Any onscreen crosshairs will do just fine. When I played the game, I actually used a marker to draw a crosshair on a little piece of Saran Wrap and stuck it to my monitor.

[TRIARII117]

what engine did this use?

[ChrisRedfield1991]

it's a built from scratch engine.

[Paul07791]

I find it annoying that you need pixel shader 2.0 ...surely the reason people revert to playing older games is because they don't have fancy new graphics cards.

[ChrisRedfield1991]

This is still in the alpha and the "classic" mode is still in development. However the main goal is to have Dark Forces run on modern systems and Hardware Acceleration. Besides a Graphics Card with Pixel Shader 2.0 are really cheap so I wouldn't complain.

[Paul07791]

Fair enough, I will invest in a new card at some point. How is it though that the open GL Doom/duke nukem source ports don't need pixel shaders?

...I do really appreciate what you guys do, don't get me wrong.

[ChrisRedfield1991]

Most modern source ports support pixel shaders but yes you don't need them to run because of course not everyone has a graphics card with pixel shader support.

[Paul07791]

like me for one :-(

[ChrisRedfield1991]

Hopefully Classic mode will have no need for Pixel Shaders. But of course Lucius is using it to his advantage with the addition of Bloom which is one of the reasons the Extended mode needs Pixel Shader cards. Hopefully you have a motherboard that has either a PCI-e x16 slot or an AGP slot

[Paul07791]

Should have, mine's a "Dell 4600" from 2003. Thanks for the response. I was due a new card anyway.

[ChrisRedfield1991]

No problem I really hope your motherboard one of those slots. With a new release coming soon, it has alot of content and hopefully most of the

AI is in place

[Pornhuzlio]

was df multiplayer?? any way to play df coop with a friend??

[ChrisRedfield1991]

No however hopefully we'll see some DF multiplayer action in later builds of DarkXL

[togerrard]

cant get Darkxl to start , any suggestions ?? and i have the full retail version of Dark Forces

[ChrisRedfield1991]

You need to be up to date with DirectX (although assuming you have a graphics card with atleast Pixel Shader 2.0 or above) and OpenAL installed

[togerrard]

YEAH I GOT IT WORKING BUT I CANt GET PAST THE 4TH LEVEL(Imperial Weapons Research Facility) IN THE DUCTS I CANT CROUCH SMALL ENUF TO GET INTO THE facility. The keyboard wont let me type in the cheat LABUG to crouch small enuf so im stuck !! any1 get past this ??

any1 got any

[ChrisRedfield1991]

g or f should allow to pass through any adjoins (walls connecting to another sector/room)

[togerrard]

thanks dude !! i knew about the f key but not the g key , prob solved.

[togerrard]

ughh looks like level 3 is the last one to work properly . Too many things dont work in level 4 . Oh well its still awsome , this guy did a great job with Darkxl !!

[togerrard]

Thanx for allur help, im interested to know if u can play user maps with Darkxl ??

[ChrisRedfield1991]

yes you can try dragging the .gob file over it or using the cmd and load it like "cd C:\Dark darkxl.exe -uname.gob"

[TheCharlyHorse]

did you know theres an extra life in that corner you were looking at at about 3:34? just go behind there and open the door theres a free life

but the drop is to the beginning of the level and it hurts your health so mash esc before you hit the bottom and press next mission.

[ChrisRedfield1991]

I know. This was just a demonstration video of the new engine so I didn't get all of the secrets

[DarkForces99]

I can't wait for the final version of this program. It'll be a while though.

[Paul07791]

I tried it but can't get it to work because I don't have pixel shader 1.1 or higher, is there a way around this issue??!

Thanks for any help.

[ChrisRedfield1991]

try searching for a 3D accelerator. Though it will be the sprites will be transparent it'll still run. Another work around is to see if your computer can take an agp or pci-e low end graphics card

[AlexFlameSkater]

If I play a more up-to-date version of Dark Forces, will I be able to play it on XP without the hassle of using a DOS emulator?

thanks

[ChrisRedfield1991]

Well DarkXL is a game engine being built from scratch to run Dark Forces on Windows rather than Dos

[imperialpod]

Shame skint flint, mr tight ass Lucas doesn't get a team to convrert the original to windows and release it as freeware!

Loads of great free games about inc. Battle of Endor/Yavin, Smokin Guns etc, but NOTHING from the multi billionaire Lucas.

The guys an idiot!

[PizzaguylolXD]

This was such a good game. I wish more mods would come out, but only Doom really gets that nowadays of the old FPS games.

[tobar1p]

Eh, the DF modding community is still active. And once this is officially released I think activity is gonna spike.

[lewissingle]

i have the acutal game of dark forces....how do i get the level editor?? reply plz =)

[ChrisRedfield1991]

DF-21 has 3 level editors for download 2 for windows and 1 for Mac. WDFuse and Wedit for Windows and Dark Forge for Mac.