Degas video - Nexus demo

Mac_Fife · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:15 pm

Found a few more of the console commands after a nudge from Brice:

getroomstats - will tell you how many objects, lights and "portals" are in the room
getnumrooms - will give you the number of rooms (presumably total in the game). Maybe this is the "ultimate question" since the answer appears to be '42'

listportals - gives you the IDs of the room's portals (doors, windows)
getportalprops portal_ID - lists attributes of a portal

There are a few other commands that seem to need object IDs that I haven't figured out yet.

tanshin · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:14 pm

Figured I'd post this again because I really want to try it:

tanshin wrote:

So, does Dirt take an inordinate time to load, or is something just wrong with my setup? I installed nGlide and then ran Dirt.exe

The log seems to make it appear that everything does load, however it hangs at "Starting main loop"

I'm running 7 x64 for reference.

Mac_Fife · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:18 pm

It takes a little while for it to run through all the loading messages, but at the end it immediately drops into the game. No hang such as you describe. Maybe a processor affinity problem if you're multi-core?

Edit: BTW, "All data loaded successfully...Starting main loop" is the final message in my log too.

Edit 2: I wonder if it's the video mode - I'm using an old 4:3 display - Anyone got this working on a widescreen display?

tanshin · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:44 pm

From what I can tell it changes the screen's resolution automatically on launch. I'll have to try setting the affinity. For something I suggest so often it's amazing that I forgot it!

morwyn · **Posted:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:11 am

This is - hands down - the most fun I've had with a PC game in a long time! On my machine (Windows Vista 32x) the difference between the Dirt-dbg and the Dirt versions are that in dbg I couldn't get the > to show up and poor Simon moved waaay too fast. I'm still trying to position those danged obelisks but luckily I don't crash when I load my saved game.

Thanks to all who gave us this fun fun gift!

pokemon71096 · **Joined:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:08 am **Posts:** 1185

I have a widescreen- i didn't adjust anything for it

PaladinOfKaos · **Joined:** Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:55 pm **Posts:** 625

morwyn wrote:

This is - hands down - the most fun I've had with a PC game in a long time! On my machine (Windows Vista 32x) the difference between the Dirt-dbg and the Dirt versions are that in dbg I couldn't get the > to show up and poor Simon moved waaay too fast. I'm still trying to position those danged obelisks but luckily I don't crash when I load my saved game.

Thanks to all who gave us this fun fun gift!

Yes, it unfortunately looks like -dbg is built with a slightly different codebase than the regular one. Not too different though - It's still very useful for understanding the code.

Other random reverse-engineering tidbits: A quick overview of the filesystem shows it's similar to an unpacked RealMyst (if you extract the actual data from the .dni files). There's also an easy list of console commands, but in the form I have it in now it inludes some random bits of code. Probably nothing Cyan would consider proprietary, but just the same I don't want to post the decompiled source. I'll post the list whenever I get around to cleaning it up.

Malfhok · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:27 pm

This looks cool. I wonder if I can make it run in Wine on my Mac…

tanshin · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:43 pm

Still no luck getting it to run... I'll think of something I suppose.

Main_Avvie · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:31 am

tanshin wrote:

Still no luck getting it to run... I'll think of something I suppose.

usually it's me with these kinda of problems tanshin

dragossh · **Joined:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:39 pm **Posts:** 517

Try it under Wine?

janaba1 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:39 pm

Have a widescreen as well and it works and looks great... There was a 800x600 resolution initially...
I adjusted it to 1680x1050 with nGlide's configurator and I have a great full view...

Thanks for the commands Mac_Fife, will try them out asap... I am also hanging with the chapel
and obelisk puzzle right now lol, but I was glad that I could move on to the earth puzzle where I've
got the lovely gong in the end and I think that is it then, not so? Couldn't find a way to go any further...

The save and load commands work great as well (without crashing) and so I'll go back to the chapel soon...
I'd like to add, just in case that this is what the initial crashes were about, I also crashed in the beginning,
when I named them with spaces included such as bomb first, power on, power lightning, chapel 1 etc.
Now I changed the names to e.g. poweron, chapel2, bombfirst etc... and it works like a charm... Thanks all...

Edit: Tanshin, I'm sorry, I have a Win XP SP3 only... So, I have no idea...

PaladinOfKaos · **Joined:** Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:55 pm **Posts:** 625

OK, I know I said I was going to clean this up first, but I've been lazy and I don't want to keep making you guys wait. So without further delay, here's the console commands in their natural habitat:

Code:

//----- (0046C18C) --------------------------------------------------------
int __thiscall sub_46C18C(void *this)
{
void *v2; // [email protected]

v2 = this;
sub_46C0AA(this, (int)"SetEnable", 2);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"SetCollide", 3);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"SetDraw", 4);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"SetUpdate", 5);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"SetSoundEmission", 6);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"SetCurrentsAffect", 7);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"SetGuidesAffect", 8);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"Quit", 1);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"Exit", 1);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"GetWorldPos", 9);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"FogSetColor", 10);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"FogSetClearColor", 11);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"FogSetDistance", 12);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"FogSetDensity", 13);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"FogSetDepth", 14);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"FogSetYon", 15);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"Wireframe", 18);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"ZClear", 19);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"SaveNode", 20);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"LoadNode", 21);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"Reset", 22);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"Save", 23);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"Load", 24);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"Shading", 25);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"PlayAnimation", 26);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"SetPersona", 27);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"GetProps", 28);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"GetNumRooms", 29);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"GetRoomStats", 30);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"ListPortals", 31);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"GetPortalProps", 32);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"ExecActor", 33);
sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"RegisterEvent", 34);
return sub_46C0AA(v2, (int)"RemoveEvent", 35);
}

janaba1 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:39 pm

... Wow!!! Thanks...

Malfhok · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:27 pm

I gave Wine a shot and got an error. Even after I tried installing nGlide. If anybody makes some kind of wrapper that might work, please, please, please post it! I'm dying to give this a try!

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