Grimrock

minmay wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 12:42 amThough the real puzzle for me is going to be figuring out how to make a .cfg file that lets Windows users switch between the Direct3D and OpenGL render engines...

Well, I finally got around to actually trying to do this instead of just talking about it.
I've concluded it's not doable in a umod unless that umod modifies grimrock2.dat (which is NOT a umod I would make!).
My reason for concluding this: after EngineSystems.create() has been called - which happens before umods are loaded - calls to Renderer.create() give an error with "renderer already created". disposing engineSys doesn't fix this, or even let you call EngineSystems.create() again for that matter.

So instead - as bad as I feel asking for even more goodies - I'm going to beg for something like a "windowsRenderEngine =" option in grimrock.cfg.
It would let Windows dungeon creators see what their lighting/water/emissive color/etc. looks like in both game versions without having to switch between computers, as well as find renderer-specific issues with the dungeon*. I think anyone writing umods with custom shaders would find it useful too.

A few years ago I made my own personal hack (sorry) to use the OpenGL renderer in Windows and I haven't encountered any Windows-specific crashes with it yet, or any memory leaks, with lots and lots of time spent editing a couple dungeons. Plus it uses less RAM than the D3D9 one

*For a brief time during One Room Round Robin 3 development, there was a script that made just enough drawText calls in a single frame to reliably crash the OpenGL renderer (and anyone playing the Mac version) but not the Direct3D one

Minmay, do you plan to make more mods?

You did Artefacts just as an example and it is already good. I wonder if you make full, true mod.

So hey it's been almost a year, any idea on when we can see this put into the main branch of the game? Also GoG and mac versions?

Indeed!

I'll second this! (I don't own the Steam version).

I also second this - even I own the Steam Version (as I accidently found out).

But without having Nutcracker in an official version we can never use its features in any mod-release as standard...