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by Nullpointer
Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:08 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Speedrunners wanted
Replies: 6
Views: 10613

To clarify a few things: * Using fan-made patches is generally not permitted. There are exceptions but anything that alters the game mechanics beyond what's possible in official versions certainly won't be accepted. * Besides that, you can use any official version you like, including the unpatched r...
by Nullpointer
Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:04 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Speedrunners wanted
Replies: 6
Views: 10613

Speedrunners wanted

Over there at SpeedDemosArchive there's a cash bounty for the first person to do a good speedrun of Giants. If you're interested beware that the quality requirements are rather high since the aim is to get a speed run *accepted*. You need to achieve good gameplay quality (better than the average exp...
by Nullpointer
Sun May 10, 2009 9:05 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: WTH is this?
Replies: 3
Views: 5109

A quick google search revealed the following description (in german): Den Action-Titel "Giants" gibt es nun auch in der Square Box, wobei er mit einer Reihe neuer Features ausgestattet wurde. Die Story um die drei Helden, die um das Eiland Majorca kämpfen, blieb erhalten. Die Spieler kön...
by Nullpointer
Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:22 am
Forum: Patch 1.5
Topic: Giants: Citizen Kabuto 1.5 (no, really)
Replies: 239
Views: 678212

i haven't followed this thread, but including gmm functionality into the 1.5 release could be useful. i originally wrote gmm to emulate the behavior of unreal tourney - when ya joined a mod'd game it would dl the required files. i might still have the source kicking around, also gave it to a coupla...
by Nullpointer
Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:35 pm
Forum: Patch 1.5
Topic: Giants: Citizen Kabuto 1.5 (no, really)
Replies: 239
Views: 678212

I'm not affiliated with this patch, at least not at the moment.

And no, I'm not doing Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer. I don't even have that game.
by Nullpointer
Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:13 am
Forum: Mods
Topic: Vimp herds?
Replies: 5
Views: 8485

These numbers are there due to a mistake in interpreting Giants binary files when I made GiantsEdit years ago... here's what I remember: 6 = number of how many vimpheard markers u have minus one (is identical to the the highest TeamID of its vimp markers) 23 = telling which vimpheard team it is, PMS...
by Nullpointer
Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:56 am
Forum: Gameplay
Topic: Giants Multiplayer without Gamespy Arcade?
Replies: 13
Views: 25264

The all seeing eye is an alternative server browser that supports Giants as well (but AFAIK sees fewer games than GSA).
by Nullpointer
Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:53 am
Forum: Website Related
Topic: screenies
Replies: 12
Views: 18872

Wouldn't it be possible to automatically create a resized screen shot on the server using ImageMagick?
by Nullpointer
Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:49 am
Forum: Technical Issues
Topic: Movie sounds
Replies: 4
Views: 6862

According to Planet Moon Studios it's pure luck that cut scene sounds are played back at the correct moment. Yes, I've noticed that too but I can't tell whether the game plays the sounds incorrectly or the error is within the soundtrack itself.
by Nullpointer
Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:46 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: anyone here has the soundtrack for this wonderful game?
Replies: 6
Views: 8560

Unfortunately the quality of that soundtrack is not that perfect, in some situations (such as when everything gets loud along with a clash sound) compression artifacts are clearly audible. If someone still got an original disc I recommend encoding it again with LAME at default settings.
by Nullpointer
Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:53 pm
Forum: Website Related
Topic: Domain Business
Replies: 27
Views: 39519

... They decided to stop renewing their domain registration(s) which allowed other, less than friendly people to obtain them ... The same thing happened to www.PlanetCitizenKabuto.com ; after release domain grabbers obtained that domain (probably due to the term "citizen"). Well, as you c...
by Nullpointer
Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:15 pm
Forum: Website Related
Topic: Domain Business
Replies: 27
Views: 39519

Should we wait the 2 months for the domain name to become available
Is it guaranteed that no one takes it before you do?
by Nullpointer
Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:05 pm
Forum: Gameplay
Topic: Speed Runs
Replies: 40
Views: 51920

It should work with the GF8 version as it records the game's state *before* it is passed to the renderer. Demos can (and must) be played back with the same tool. There's a large number of bugs left but the basic functions are working. I'll try to make a version that's suitable for public release as ...
by Nullpointer
Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:04 pm
Forum: Gameplay
Topic: Speed Runs
Replies: 40
Views: 51920

I've made a tool that's way better for recording Giants demos than Fraps is. It dumps Giants' object storage to disk (and, in order to save space, for following frames just the difference to the preceding frame). For a typical single player mission running at 40 fps this gives 0.25 to 0.4 MB per sec...
by Nullpointer
Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:28 pm
Forum: Gameplay
Topic: Speed Runs
Replies: 40
Views: 51920

What about these rules? Feel free to comment or correct them :-) * version 1.4 * no cheats or other manipulations (at least those that affect gameplay in any way) * no taking advantage from restarting a mission (with base build missions the base is not lost when just restarting the mission) But what...