Hi, here is an ebuild for D2X-XL, an enhanced client for Descent 2 with support for midi music (via Timidity), high-resolution textures and multiple joysticks. It is in heavy development and is not bug-free, but it is now Linux-friendly regarding file locations. I suggest category "games-action", as with d2x and d2x-rebirth.
Created attachment 94497 [details] d2x-xl-1.6.147.ebuild
Created attachment 106243 [details] d2x-xl-1.9.64.ebuild Version bump. Added texture files. This engine is not yet suitable for the official tree - it's still in heavy development, with daily releases.
I'll hold off on this one for a while, then.
A quick hint for the ebuild: Your ebuild uses dos2unix for file conversion. Portage has its own function edos2unix already integrated. So you do not need to DEPEND on dos2unix anymore.
Since this one's still in heavy development, I'm marking it LATER. It looks promising, so definitely let me know once you think it has stabilized some and we'll add it to the tree.
Created attachment 108914 [details] d2x-xl-1.9.115.ebuild Added loads of single & multiplayer maps.
Created attachment 134228 [details] d2x-xl-1.11.16.ebuild New version. Still in heavy development, with bugs being created and fixed daily, due to lots of eye-candy features. High-resolution models, and maps, will be in separate ebuilds.
(In reply to comment #7) > Created an attachment (id=134228) [edit] > d2x-xl-1.11.16.ebuild > > New version. Still in heavy development, with bugs being created and fixed > daily, due to lots of eye-candy features. > > High-resolution models, and maps, will be in separate ebuilds. > can't seem to locate the models/maps ebuilds. do they exist yet?
shouldn't it there be a 'demo' useflag to install demo data rather than the current method of 'cdinstall' for retail data?
> can't seem to locate the models/maps ebuilds. do they exist yet? Nope. "cdinstall" is better than "demo", because it demands interactivity during an emerge.
(In reply to comment #10) > > can't seem to locate the models/maps ebuilds. do they exist yet? > Nope. > > "cdinstall" is better than "demo", because it demands interactivity during an > emerge. > imagine if every ebuild demanded interactivity during emerge... :-/
*** Bug 213545 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 194459 [details] d2x-xl-1.14.49.ebuild I had a shot at this but after it complained about the file locations (was expecting the files to be in a "data" subdirectory), played crap through my speakers, beamed me into a pitch black room at the start of the game and then crashed when I changed some option, I decided to throw in the towel and settle for d2x-rebirth. Here's what I came up with anyway. Much of the stuff wasn't needed anymore, especially if we're handling the data in separate ebuilds.
Created attachment 248397 [details] d2x-xl-1.15.88.ebuild You can probably reopen this now as it is more or less playable. I've redone the ebuild and it is now somewhat cleaner. There are still a few sharp edges but it's been worth the effort because it does look *really* nice, even compared to D2X-Rebirth. The ebuild now includes support for the hi-res models, sounds and textures. Since this is the only engine that supports them, I didn't see the point in splitting them off. On the other hand, the textures are quite big. If you don't want the Descent 1 textures, you will spend a few more minutes downloading and will waste an extra 400MB of disk space. I'll leave that up to you. At the time of writing, some of the textures downloads on the site are missing. This has been acknowledged in the forums and will hopefully be fixed in the near future. The ebuild currently doesn't reference these missing downloads. I dropped extra.hog. It adds briefing voices to Descent 1 but it only works if the music is switched off. Most people will probably want the music on. The default options are now fairly sensible and much can be configured through the interface so I dropped the "common" wrapper. Whacking up the quality settings too high almost grinds the interface to a halt but there's a patch in the pipeline that pauses rendering while in the menu. The original data files are now symlinked from the d1x and d2x directories. It doesn't matter whether these files are actually present or not. Ideally these directories would be symlinked in the other direction so that any additional missions would also be found but that'll involve adjusting the other packages. I'll leave that with you. Support for OpenMP has also been added. This seems to be worth enabling if you have more than one core so give it a try. The dependency list is a little shorter. I've confirmed that several of the old dependencies weren't actually needed. In particular, SDL_image is only used on Windows and OS X. I'd like to be able to use a SoundFont for the MIDI but unfortunately SDL_mixer's bundled version of Timidity doesn't support them so I am going to try and add FluidSynth support to SDL_mixer. This problem isn't unique to this game but I just thought I'd mention it. The only serious problem I'm having is that the sound AND music cuts out in Descent 1 during busy scenes. Strangely, this doesn't seem to affect Descent 2. I tried options like "-use_d1sounds 1" but that made no difference. The only option that did make a difference was "-sdl_mixer 0" but that disables the music and the sounds play at half speed.
> SoundFont for the MIDI Use OGG files from e.g. http://descentbb.com/viewtopic.php?t=2556 - these sound better, and work on all soundcards.
Must have missed that comment. I knew about those but I didn't think D2X-XL supported OGG music. It actually does but I also managed to add that FluidSynth backend to SDL_mixer anyway. Hoping to get that polished off and sent upstream when I have a moment.
Created attachment 330804 [details] d2x-xl-1.16.15.ebuild Ebuild for d2x-xl-1.16.15. I removed one of sed patching expressions, that cause compile error on this version. Also, I adopt ebuild for use with the next ebuilds for data files (thanks to Jared B.): [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369419 (see descent1-data ebuild) [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369397 (descent2-data) [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369399 (descent2-vertigo). These ebuilds ([1] and [2]) working both with GOG package and CD. Ebuild [3] require CD. I removed cdinstall USE flag, since that not match with d2x-xl engine and belong to data-packages. I added descent1, descent2 and descent2-vertigo USE flags, that enable dependence of corresponding data packages and make correct simlinking to proper resources. Also, simlinking to resources was broken (some descent2 resources link was pointed to descent1 data directory), I fix it. All changes is "works for me" and can be not fully correct. Criticism is understood positively. I pushed all related ebuilds to http://totktonada.ru/portage/games-action/ , if some problem occured, you can check it all.
are any of those required games free?
Forgotten: also I updated download URLs from "http://www.descent2.de/downloads/..." to "http://www.descent2.de/files/...".
Created attachment 351320 [details] d2x-xl-1.16.15.ebuild Add missing dependencies.
If somebody interest: I update this ebuild in gamerlay overlay.
Created attachment 466838 [details] Ebuild for 1.18.74 I've been giving the Descent stuff some TLC (commits coming soon) and I took a look at this, updating the ebuild for 1.18.74. At first, it would just exit with no output at all. A later attempt opened a window (not full screen) with the Create Pilot screen but I could not input anything. Sometimes it seems to freeze before even getting to that point. Closing the window doesn't work, I have to kill it from the command line. It's quite easy to see why the DXX-Rebirth project doesn't give this project much respect. It does appear to be as buggy as some people say it is. Here's the ebuild anyway. Have a go if you like.
Created attachment 466840 [details, diff] flags.patch for 1.18.74 ebuild
