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First videos up

Posted by Fatbag on February 25, 2012
Posted in: Discussion. 6 comments

Three videos have been added to the Niotso YouTube channel, narrated by me.

In the first video, I explained I would scan various items, and also submit the track checksums of the soundtrack CD to freedb and AccurateRip.

I ripped the soundtrack using Exact Audio Copy, configured under the advice of numerous posts on the Internet. The soundtrack unfortunately does not make use of CD-Text; the 3 audio drives I tried it on (two computers, one car), which DO work with another CD, reported nothing. Without this information, we don’t have track names or any identification of the performer/composer.

With that in mind, here are the official CRCs:

Track 01 (5:53) [Ingame: ./music/modes/map/tsomap2_v2.mp3]
    Peak level 99.3 %
    Extraction speed 2.9 X
    Track quality 100.0 %
    Copy CRC 5FB5789F
    Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [09CEE30D]  (AR v1)
    Copy OK

Track 02 (5:20) [Ingame: ./music/modes/map/tsomap4_v1.mp3]
     Peak level 99.3 %
     Extraction speed 3.2 X
     Track quality 99.9 %
     Copy CRC 75B5EBD7
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [7B497775]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 03 (5:00) [Ingame: ./music/modes/select/tsosas1_v2.mp3]
     Peak level 99.3 %
     Extraction speed 3.7 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC 0076F2AB
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [F58BEEE9]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 04 (5:00) [Ingame: ./music/modes/select/tsosas2_v2.mp3]
     Peak level 99.3 %
     Extraction speed 3.9 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC 2BE641CE
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [D75C89EC]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 05 (5:00) [Ingame: ./music/modes/create/tsocas1_v2.mp3]
     Peak level 99.3 %
     Extraction speed 4.2 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC 48C62922
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [513A2A7C]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 06 (5:00) (Not found in either game)
     Peak level 99.3 %
     Extraction speed 4.4 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC 92906A3C
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [6655FDA5]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 07 (5:45) [Ingame TS1: ./music/modes/map/tsobuild3.mp3]
     Peak level 97.2 %
     Extraction speed 4.6 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC 6AE3DECE
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [BAC4252F]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 08 (5:49) [Ingame TS1: ./Music/Modes/Build/build6.mp3]
     Peak level 96.4 %
     Extraction speed 4.8 X
     Track quality 99.9 %
     Copy CRC F7B7E8CB
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [9BB867E6]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 09 (2:56) [Ingame TS1: ./Music/Stations/Latin/latin3.mp3]
     Peak level 96.3 %
     Extraction speed 5.0 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC 4562334D
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [413D497B]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 10 (3:21) [Ingame: ./music/stations/scifi/tsosci3_8a4a80c5.mp3]
     Peak level 99.3 %
     Extraction speed 5.0 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC C3AF80EF
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [C510CDB2]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 11 (5:31) [Ingame TS1: ./Music/Stations/Rock/rock5.mp3]
     Peak level 98.0 %
     Extraction speed 5.4 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC CD20DF35
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [3B8796AD]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 12 (4:34) [Ingame: ./music/stations/scifi/tsosci4_8a4a80c2.mp3]
     Peak level 99.3 %
     Extraction speed 5.5 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC A87420B0
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [94C8D9AB]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 13 (3:17) [Ingame: ./music/stations/oldworld/tsoold7_v1_6a3c88fc.mp3]
     Peak level 99.3 %
     Extraction speed 5.5 X
     Track quality 99.9 %
     Copy CRC 3BF7C275
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [B71EBAB4]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

Track 14 (3:16) [Ingame: ./music/stations/oldworld/tsoold7_6a3c88fe.mp3]
     Peak level 99.3 %
     Extraction speed 5.8 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC 02E6FB3D
     Accurately ripped (confidence 1)  [4F7D549A]  (AR v1)
     Copy OK

I am not sharing these files on the Internet.

Scans will be posted here when I get them done.

Character animations done

Posted by Fatbag on February 19, 2012
Posted in: Client, Formats. 5 comments

Sim kiss animation

I expected more. But translations and rotations in animation files are stored completely absolute and do not apply to children. No additions, no subtractions, and in the case of quaternions, no matrix multiplication. In each new frame, you just swap the old values with the new.

So that didn’t take very long. Pictured is a Sim breathing out in solace after a passionate kiss.

What the renderer is still missing, though, is proper time synchronization, which is my current task. In fact, I’d like it to properly interpolate between discrete frames of the animation, so the end result displayed on the screen will be silky smooth on a 60Hz monitor.

Working character renderer

Posted by Fatbag on February 13, 2012
Posted in: Client. 4 comments

We’ve hit a milestone.

libvitaboy can render character models from the game using OpenGL—even robots.

In the above screenshots, green dots are regular bones, the red dot is the root bone, and the yellow dot is the head. The head, body, and hands are swappable.

Pretty nice treat for Valentine’s Day. I hope you have a fantastic one yourself.