ZylonBane on 20/8/2008 at 18:08
Quote Posted by snydley
What program was used to remake the graphics in SS2, any idea? Is it freely available?
There is no program with a magic "Remake Graphics" button. SS2 takes standard GIF, PCX, and TGA image files for its texture maps. You can use any paint program to make these.
Dash on 22/8/2009 at 17:59
Gigaquad what hex editor did you use to open the Terra Nova exe? I don't have much experience with these programs, so have little idea what works best. Thanks!
Gigaquad on 22/8/2009 at 21:21
xvi32
Dash on 22/8/2009 at 23:04
Thanks again. I managed to locate your stated offset [I presume $1BB298 is the same thing]. However how did you access the resolution tables from then on? All I see are duplicated alphabetic letters in the corresponding text mode box. I'm clearly looking in the wrong place, can you point me in the right direction?
Gigaquad on 23/8/2009 at 10:18
You are at the right offset. Resize the window (width) until the data aligns or copy to a text editor to edit. I use the Terminal font, that way zeroes are invisible and patterns are easy to see.
40 01 = 0140 hex = 320
C8 00 = 00C8 hex = 200
justalookingglfn on 19/9/2009 at 13:11
Is there any way to modify the original engine so it can allow larger memory sizes for textures and even maybe hardware accelaration ?
I know its one thing asking and another doing it but many old engines were modified like the doomed engine with full d3d support or the build engine with the new jonof engine so it is possible
Shadowcat on 19/9/2009 at 21:51
I recommend reading up about "source ports".
New engines for those games were made possible because the actual source code that the original games were generated from was released to the public.
No source code is available for Terra Nova, or any of Looking Glass' games.
That doesn't mean it's "impossible", but without source code the amount of time and effort involved would surely be absolutely prohibitive.
justalookingglfn on 3/7/2010 at 14:30
Is there any possibility to ask for a source code from the original developers of the game ? Yeah i know its pretty hard as the company was closed ages ago but...from time to time i remember some actual developers were visiting these forums and posting helping posts to make many old games playable....
I don't know if there are actually left any source codes but i don't think it would hurt asking.
Also in any case you probably all know about moddb and that there are some amazing mods/total conversions/remakes covered in that page.Maybe making a terranova page there and posting about making a engine mod/remake and a graphics update would attract the help of many many talented people !! If you still care about this game and i am know you do lets give it a shot...