Howto: Night Battles for RTW

**DimeBagHo** · 02-17-2006, 22:33

Cesare diBorja: I'm glad you like XGM. I thought about doing a night battles mini-mod, but I doubt if many people would want to play a mod that did nothing but add night battles, and because it requires changes to some fundamental files like descr_strat.txt and the character traits, it wouldn't mix well with other mods.

**PROMETHEUS** · 02-26-2006, 12:02

Great tutroial , this is what I was waiting too ....Thankyou...

**Monkwarrior** · 03-12-2006, 11:16

This is perhaps more a question of technical help than modding, but it becomes apparent when I implement night battles in my mod.

This happens to me:

This problem depends on the camera distance and angle, as can be seen in this comparison:

What can I do? (apart from buying a new computer, or at least a new video card)

**Avicenna** · 03-12-2006, 12:17

Ditto, monk. A reason for not playing BI yet.

**DimeBagHo** · 03-12-2006, 16:48

Monkwarrior & Tiberius: You could try updating your video driver. I had a similar problem (not quite so bad though) a while back which disappeared with an updated driver.

**Seasoned Alcoholic** · 03-12-2006, 17:53

Great tutorial DBH!

I was thinking about implementing night battles into RTG, but tbh, I'm in a similar situation to Monkwarrior and Tiberius - my system is very old. Also, my graphics card is well outdated, Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 64 MB (anybody remember them?

). They stopped releasing patches / drivers for these gfx cards a LONG time ago...

As in the case of Monkwarrior's screenshots, I had similar experiences when playing BI night battles after it had been released. The 'hall of mirrors' effect blurred the screen so much that I just gave up with night battles all together.

I've seen this appear frequently in other games such as Unreal Tournament and the various Half-Life games and mods. I think its to do with poor optimisation or something along these lines, think I read this in various tutorials when using Unreal Editor to design levels.

With Unreal, it was best to use zone portals throughout a level to improve optimization. Whenever a player did not look at a zone portal, I think whatever was contained within the zone wasn't completely rendered. As a result, this improved framerates (frames per second, fps), and allowed for a smoother gameplay experience.

**Monkwarrior** · 03-12-2006, 22:36

Originally Posted by Seasoned Alcoholic

I was thinking about implementing night battles into RTG, but tbh, I'm in a similar situation to Monkwarrior and Tiberius - my system is very old. Also, my graphics card is well outdated, Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 64 MB (anybody remember them?

). They stopped releasing patches / drivers for these gfx cards a LONG time ago...

Well, problem solved.
I have also a Nvidia GeForce2 MX 100/200 graphic card (as old as 4.5 years

), but I have installed the ForceWare driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_81.98.html

I've tried the same battle and it works perfectly, I can see the units, with the torches, lights, etc, etc...