Unreal Texture UT site and S3TC releases

DieHared, that is just a texture and not a player skin, are you sure there wasn't a mistake on your part when you posted these pics?
EDIT: Ah I see you tried to apply that texture into S3TC.

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Yeah it was just a test to see if could be done at all. And to amke sure i could test the amount of detail i used a texture that had alot of recognisable and readable detail.

Can S3TC skins be applied with mutators?

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That i asume can be done as well, but of course its only needed for the skins that are sitting in the .u files. The female/male skins are in a utx files. Just a pitty Epic added the remaining to the .u files.
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I need a few admins to test the S3TC packages from Hourences. So if your an admin than please come forward and join a small test program. Its really not alot of work and only requires to install the normal packages from Hourences along with a test map on your server.


On the clientsided end it only requires to have the S3TC versions of those installed and that same map(or download it from your own server). And i want to release the packages as soon as possible, but they need to be tested online to find out if they work or not.
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I will redo the initial post when i feel for it, and i agree it contains outdated info and needs an overhaul.


This year i have been nothing but ill and that slows down the project, on top of that my mother had been in the hospital for 6 weeks in critical condition, and i had to got there pretty much every day. On the 11 July she passed away peacefully and needless to say that was a big shock for me and my family. Last monday we had the funeral, which was the funeral she wanted and talked through with me in the last years, and it all went fine.


But its all too much for my head, me being ill and loosing my mother only 18 months after my dad passed away. The project isnt dead, i recently payed for another 5 years on the website, and i only need to match the domain name for the same period. The low Euro and lack of money prevented me from doing already.


I have had several requests for doing the Deck16 textures and i had a look at those a few months ago, and they can be done "easelly" meaning they are very doable its just the tons of work that needs to be put in it. But on technical view they simpply can be made without any hasle.

Because of the time since there were releases i wanted to release the S3TC packages from Hourences as plaster on the wound, but i needed testers for those. And no-one came forward unfortunatelly, except Protos today. Today i was finally able to do some testing with Protos his server, and an error did surface in the form of the skating player glitch. It seems its limited to one package but i need conformation before i can do the actual releases.


In this case if the glitch occurs, nothing can be done, i cannot fix the package involved, and the only solution is to exclude it from release. But as said, i need conformation from others on the test results. For that matter i still am looking for admins to test the stuff on their servers to try exclude errors prior to release.



So admins that want to do a few simple tests (count an hour work)please come forward.


But in a nutshell, i will try redo the initial page, i will try work on the Deck16 textures and if a few admins step in, i could release the S3TC textures from Hourences this week.
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This skating players problem, does it happen if you're just using the original S3TC textures that came on the official bonus disk? I thought I might use them, because they don't clash with areas that still use the vanilla textures so much (you know when you have a super high res texture next to a standard texture it sometimes looks a bit funny). Are there any problems with those S3TC textures that come on the disk?

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Because there are still people that like the 2nd CD textures for whatever reasons, i will process those files in the near future as well to try fix the skating player glitch from those. But seeing my health it will take time till i can do so.



Apart from that, in all circumstances you are worse of with the 2nd CD S3TC textures. The textures from the URP/UTRP project have misaligned textures fixes, masking problems fixed aside a truckload more S3TC textures (Almost 1500 Mb more S3TC textures).


As for the skating player glitch. I didnt do bugreports yet, so i have not asked. But the last update should have fixed that. But as said, i havnt asked people yet if they still encounter the bug. Test showed the bugs were gone, but at the end, actual players in the field will likelly end up more often in situations where the glitch could occur, so input from players is wanted to agree the glitch is gone or not.


So i guess people simply should post here weather they still see the glitch after the last update. But as said, at least theoretically the bug should be gone and tests did proof that.
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It will be great when they are all done and all work with an easy set of instructions or possible even just a UMOD install.

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Its unlikelly there ever will be a UMOD file. And dont get me wrong, i wouldnt mind at all to also have it available in a UMOD file. But its technically impossible. The current High End textures will barelly fit in the file, but the Extreme End already passes the 2 gigabyte limit for a single file in the current excisting filehandling.


And when the project is done, than the High End files are probably around 4 gigabyte and the Extreme End could even topple 15 gigabyte


And even if it was possible to pour it into a UMOD file that large, than the download must be split in lots of win or rar files because a single UMOD file being 15000 MB large will fail to download sheer because the size and the time needed to download it.


But see it on the bright side Its unlikelly there ever wil be a game in the near and further future to have that much amount of super large textures
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New site for UT

The reasons

Because of my ever declining health i decided to split www.UnrealTexture.com into two sites:

www.UnrealTexture.com for Unreal

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www.UTTexture.com for Unreal Tournament


My health is that bad i didnt want to take the risk that if everything turns to the worse the site would go down.


Unreal Texture was reaching a critical size which in time could have lead to problems with the host in the (near) future. And long time i have been debating with myself to split the site up to prevent problems. About 3 weeks ago i purchased the new domain name and rented webspace for the new site.


Technically it means that the bandwidth and occupied webspace now is cut in half, which reduces the stress on the servers its running from. In addition to that the websites run off a different box being the HOUSE server for Unreal and the PELE server for UT. So if one site goes down, than the most crucial files(S3TC textures) can be obtianed from the site that is still running(I still do need to set that up). It also means that the site(s) can grow further without problems.



Mishap....

Right when i started uploading i noticed there was something missing on the site. And i thought i upload the stuff first and than contact the host. So after 60 hours of uploading i contacted the host about the problem. Only to find out that in order for them to have it fixed i had to pay an additioanl(big) fee as it was an extra service which is billed seperatelly. Previously it was within the package for free. After paying the fee i got somewhay in dept, but it was too important for me to have it, in order to do decent maintenance on the site.


The other problem was, they needed to move the site to another server(from the COMMODUS to the PELE server) that supports that feature. And the only way it could be done was re-uploading the entire lot to the new server........ Sigh. And this time it took over 70 hours to upload it. But alla its uploaded, and even though it took 130 hours of uploading the site is there now, and as far as i can see everything works as it should work. Needless to say i did regret to not solve the issue before i started uploading :



From clients point of view

From clients point of view its hardly to notice from the outside anything changed. Regardless what what website you choose, the mainpages will automatially redirect you to the proper site depending on the button you press(Unreal or UT). Effectivelly its only noticable on the left top corner that either show the Unreal Texture logo or the UT Texture logo. And of course the domainname in the adress.




It might be usefull to update your links if you have any. And i also dont mind if people post this info on other forums as much as possible, so the google ranking will go up ASAP. Because at the end, the more people that find the sites the better it is for new and old players(who start playing again) to find info they might need.



Donations

Though the sites have been payed for the time being, i still dont mind if donations are being made. And the donations will be used to keep working on URP and UTRP projects. Mainly its needed to get enough hardrivespace which i am always in big need for. But also other expenses i have, to be able to create the textures. It happens regularly i need to buy things in shops to gain access to a surface i need, but also money for gas, and bustickets if i need to take photos in a certain area not close to home. On a yearly base the textures do cost me around 2000-3000 dollars a year which is alot of money. So even though the websites have been payed now, i dont mind donations for both projects. Anything is welcome



Progress on the projects

As everybody probably knows by now, my health went even worse than it already was(and it already was bad to the bone). Ill try to keep working wherever i can to create new updates. But at this moment i cannot really make a prediction how soon updates wil be released. But as said, where i can i work on them.


But at least the site(s) have a much more solid future now, which personally is big relief to me.
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Well its good they do have a diagnose, that would at least be a step forward for you.


As for your site, it kinda was involved in the decision, but mainly on filesize rather than bandwidth. And dont get me wrong, your files are no problem, nor the bandwidth, but each megabyte on the site added to the problem of course. So in that respect your files added to the problem, but so did any other file on the site. All in total it was getting too much, and i didnt want to take the risk the site could go down.


And its my decision to host your files and you are alowed to use the allocated space for it. But its history anyway, the site has been split up now, and that includes both filesize and bandwidth. So if your files ever were a problem than its solved now.
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