X-Wing Alliance game in XXI century - new tests in 2023 - Global shadows (raytracing)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Today I invite you to a short film (unedited) where I test global shadows (raytracing).
Thanks to the extraordinary commitment and skills of blue_max, the X-Wing Alliance enters a new era. The drop in frames is noticeable, but as blue_max wrote, this is a pre-optimized version, so it will only get better.
Shadows cast by objects do a really good job in this very old game (it's been 24 years since its release).
You can read more and download the ddraw file in this thread on the XwingAllianceUpgrade forum -
www.xwaupgrade...
Thank you blue_max and Force is strong with You.
Fantastic nice the render and shadow of the xwing 😍
Thank you.
Nice video. I see you modified the X-Wing cockpit to include the whole mesh. Thanks for linking to our forums too.
Thank you for your amazing work and passion for this game :-). You're right, I had to add the missing part of the model to make the shadow look natural. I have a request if you can shed your expert eye on the bakcdrop problem. After crossing a certain horizontal point, the whole backdrop jumps, it is a slight jump, but noticeable. I made a short video - link ua-cam.com/video/2A2JdFX2WSM/v-deo.html
So I thought that after eliminating gimballock you can make changes and fix this bothering problem. Thank you once again.
@@xwingfacility Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I can take a look to see if maybe there's a jump in the orientation of the craft around this point. You're looking straight ahead, at the horizon, right? Yeah, I can take a look.
@@leoreyes4700 Yes, I'm looking straight ahead at the horizon. this has been present since the implementation of large backgrounds and as far as I can see people do not pay attention to it. I can make a video explaining it better if needed. Thank you.
@@leoreyes4700 ok here is another video with this behavior - ua-cam.com/video/50X4mUftk1U/v-deo.html
Mmmm, XWAUP is getting better than XWVM! :D
I said exactly the same when I saw the effect of blue_max's work so far. Thanks to him and JeremyFr, X-Wing Alliance has a good chance of becoming an engine for various space simulators, such as Battlestar Galactica and similar.
However, XWVM is a different quality and the ability to use a modern GPU, and here XWA lags behind.
@@xwingfacility Okay, it's more modern, than the XWA engine, but it still boggles my mind... How?! How do they rewrite the engine? Like... What? It's a kind of sorcery or sorts! Please, pass them my gratitude!
Sorry I missed the live good to see you back online. I hope you are keeping well. This looks fantastic. I would have thought this was XWING virtual machine rather than alliance but it looks brilliant. Are the mods available to download?
I am sorry that the materials appear so rarely and unsystematically. Unfortunately, the mod is not available yet. Each new modification of ddraw causes the need to introduce many changes. This is how it looks from the perspective of modification creations. It is not our intention to release a defective mod. Thank you for your support and being with us.
Absolutely impressive... I know raytracing is the main point of that video, but that cockpit never ceases to amaze me. I LOVE the sensor screen blinking just like in the movie when the target is in front of the crosshair.
The only thing that still have me wondering is the firing rate of the laser cannons, I feel like it's a bit higher in general in other media (in the movies and other games), but that's a tiny nitpick.
Again, amazing work
Thank you. Theoretically, the gun's rate of fire is the same as that of the XWA. hm... good and valuable observation :-).
I can't wait to play this. Is the best place to subscribe to updates right here on UA-cam?
UA-cam is the only place where we post updates and tests. Please be patient, our work has been going on for over 2 years and only a few things have been made available to the public. We do a lot, but at our own pace. Thank you for your understanding.
Man, that's the best looking X-Wing cockpit
Thank you.
Much better and functional than the previous version. If that is released, I might install XWA again 😊
The cargo ship's pilot must have gotten his pants wet while thinking: "Why isn't the fighter shooting? Why is he approaching me like that?"
Havent played xwa since highschool. Can you do the whole single player campaign in co-op?
How do you get the cockpit and consoles to look like that? I know about the upgrade mod but after it installs it does not look like that.
My god this looks amaizing.
Is this cockpit, asteroids, everything in the video downloadable from your site?
Is X-wing Facility a part of the XWAUP? I have an old version pre pandemic of the XWAUP but the X-wing Facility content as far as i know wasnt included in that one...
Unfortunately it is not available online yet. The X-Wing Facility is not part of XWAU, but we rely on the work of people from XWAU.
@@xwingfacility
Well, take your time if it looks this good...
When your mods are available, will they be compatible with the XWAU version, and will you guide us how to properly "install" the files?
@@pqsnet Thank you. We do everything to make it compatible with the latest available version of XWAU. Installation instructions will be available.
That cockpit looks amazing, keep it up!
Thank you Jason and May the Force be with You.
are ppl gaming on these servers
people still play this old game. Unfortunately, nothing better has been done for pilots in the Star Wars universe to this day. Star Wars Squadrons is a separate topic.
I wonder if this engine can be setup for an open world gameplay style. Hyperlanes, Privateer style missions etc.
Unfortunately, the number of limitations is too large to use this engine for an openworld game. The XWVM project would work better.
First falcon bms gets pbr texturing and now this. Only pbr materials left to give xwa a modern day look. Bluemax is amazing
We people seem all alike. Falcon BMS, DCS, XWA 😂
Keep it up mate, it's people like you that make good things great, stuff I could only have dreamed of back in the early 2000s, better than squadrons by a mile.
Thank you for your kind and warm words. Our task is to make our childhood dreams come true as we played X-Wing poand 20 years ago. This time we won't have to use our imagination to make everything look good :-). We hope that the pretty pictures will attract today's youth and convince them to the classic world of Star Wars.
better than squadrons by millions of light years!
Any chance to do a tutorial of all visual mods that you have been using in your videos in the future? XWAUP is one thing, but I assume to get that much detailed visuals, you also added way more mods? Im a big fan of your channel, keep'em rolling!
Thank you very much for your support and kind words. As soon as we finish working on the mods, we have plans for a video on how to install them. For today, the only finished mod is the one not made by us, i.e. XWAU. On our part, we are working on models, backdrops, cockpits, missions, i.e. what you can see in the videos on this channel.
Love the game, but It sucks that the YT-1300 looks like balls.
I mean it's the first ship & impression of the mod.
I would have liked a new model for the starter ship.
The thing that I wish they would update is give an option for updating the speeds of the fighters in the game.. cause I find they don't Wizz past shit like they do in the films
Today anything is possible in this old game. It just takes a little work and a lot of testing. The game would gain more dynamics, that's for sure.
Hey there, I used to be a tester a while back. I had made a sound pack with a bunch of explosions, would you happen to have it laying around? Thanks
Hi, I'm sure there's this sound pack somewhere. If you want, I can send you what is currently in the in-game tests.
@@xwingfacility thank you that would be nice, google drive is best option I think
@@gasparayakos8215 Here is the link - we.tl/t-CqnbwWaedE enjoy.
Wow, looks really great. Amazing what you accomplished with, i guess, minimal money but probably a lot of free time and passion! Looking forward to try myself!
This is going to be epic!
It's enough that it will look like Battlefront on a modified XWA engine :-). Thank you.
HNNNNNNNGH! 🤤
True :-)
Wait what? I was just thinking of this game yesterday, right after I played squadrons I was like wow nothing ever came close to X Wing Alliance from all those years back... I decided to youtube search and I find out people are making this game playable today? What a time to be alive... I have no words. Can I make a donation?
Holy fucking shit lol omg this looks amazing