Bunch of polish items that make the whole experience quite a bit nicer in this one! For one, say goodbye to most of those blurry doors, lifts, and panels! I got motion vector support in for many of those cases that should eliminate surface blurring when running with either the denoiser or DLRR.
Before
After
I also got rocket shadowcasting back in!
Lastly, there were some significant performance hits when many explosions spawned, and I got those reduced drastically via better indirect ray trace work discarding and analytic light workload bounding.
How to install/run:
- Purchase and install Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour (or otherwise have it installed on your computer - you need a commercial version of Duke 3D to use with the Duke-RT engine fork)
- Download the .zip file in the assets section from this release
- Unzip Duke-RT to your computer
- Run launch-duke-rt.cmd in that folder
- Give it the path to your Duke 3D install (if it doesn't find it automatically)
- Let it grab the normal maps from Duke World Tour (if that's your Duke version, will still work without them)
- Let it open your browser to grab the voxels
- Download the voxels from that site
- Go back to the Duke-RT console window and hit enter
- Let it unpack the voxels into its own directory for you
- Proceed into the game
- Always run via launch-duke-rt.cmd in the future
New features:
- Proper motion vectors for non-blurry animating wall bands (lifts, doors, etc)
- Added FSR3 upscaling support
- Frame generation (FSR) now works in fullscreen mode and in HDR (although I think HDR fails occasionally)
- New system to mark parts of voxel actors to glow and other parts to cast and receive shadows normally
- Now actually build production shaders with diagnostics removed
Bug fixes:
- Perf way better on scripted events that spawn many explosions, like shooting a reactor
- Got analytic lights from RPG projectiles and explosions casting shadows again
- Fixed E1L1 still able to see geometry intrusions from far enough away in lobby
- Renderer now actually honors FPS limit settings
- Crosshair settings work in-game rather than appearing as green squares
- Fixed some voxel actors flickering red from time to time, like atomic health and flames
- Fixed some light/shadows escaping the denoiser, but not upscalers (E2L1 window light near start)
- Made it so Battlelords and other monsters don't rotate toward the player after death
What's coming next:
- Water and other fluids
- AMD support
