Quarry v1009

Quarry v1009

Builds the data for Sandstone Engine b1009
from a PS2 disc image you own. The converter version tracks the engine build number, so
v1009 goes with b1009.

Fixed in this release

• Pickup models were never baked from a PS2 disc. The step required
  DATA/MAPS/GENERIC/PROPEXT.IDE, which is a PC file, and gave up on the first miss - so
  data/pickups came out empty and every pickup in the game was invisible: money, health,
  armour, bribe, info, the save icon, the jetpack. They still worked and could be
  collected, they simply had nothing to draw. DYNAMIC.IDE declares the band and is on
  the disc; the PC-only file is optional now.
• The default settings.txt switched off the backdrop behind the on-screen log, so
  boot messages floated over the world with nothing behind them.
• The jetpack is baked as three parts (body plus two nozzle frames) so its nozzles can
  move.
• The SFX bake no longer depends on a warm temp directory: the PS2 executable and the two
  surface tables are staged by the audio step rather than by a later one.
• Draw-distance ceiling raised so the Quality preset can reach the original game's
  horizon in clear weather.

If you converted with v1005 or v1008, please re-convert. Delete your data/pickups
folder first if the tool reports the step as up to date.

Requirements

Windows, plus the .NET Desktop Runtime. Point it at a PS2 disc image you own and it
writes the data/ folder the engine loads. No game assets are included.

Quarry v797

Wheels are found by rule, not by a list of names.

Five vehicle models name their wheel mesh something the baker did not accept, so they converted with no wheels at all. Measured across the 191 wheeled models on a disc: 173 call it wheel, while buccanee, intruder and petrotr call it wheel2, combine calls it wheel_rf and raindanc calls it wheela. The rule now takes any wheel node that is not a mount point, so models this disc does not have are covered too.

Requires the .NET Desktop Runtime 8. Pair it with engine build 797.