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Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-09 04:25
by Spitfire1.2
Hello, recently I stumbled into this: https://github.com/rigred/BattlefieldRespawn

Is this something known in the community? If not, can someone tell us more about this project?

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-09 06:03
by DesmoLocke
Late to the party.
https://battlelog.co/downloads.php

Played a little of BF2. Nostalgia was there and so was everything I didn't like about the game like the endless audio spam. "Enemy boat spotted"

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-09 07:30
by CAS_ual_TY
DesmoLocke wrote:Late to the party.
https://battlelog.co/downloads.php

Played a little of BF2. Nostalgia was there and so was everything I didn't like about the game like the endless audio spam. "Enemy boat spotted"
That is not a reverse engineering, tho. They want to publish the source of refractor so that all these revive projects and mods that have survived can further improve and fix necessary exploits.

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-09 07:57
by gwa1hir
CAS_ual_TY wrote:That is not a reverse engineering, tho. They want to publish the source of refractor so that all these revive projects and mods that have survived can further improve and fix necessary exploits.
it is reverse engineering. how do you think they get to that source of the engine ^^
they reverse engineer it and then take the result and recreate a modernized version.

this would be ridiculously awesome if they manage to do so and if it works then with the pr data without issues

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-09 12:40
by CAS_ual_TY
https://battlelog.co/downloads.php
I mean this^ is not reverse engineering :p

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-09 12:55
by DogACTUAL
This could be huge if they really follow through with it.

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-09 13:12
by Frontliner
Some people are going to be overjoyed that fastropes might be a possibility somewhere in the distant future, but I personally am much more interesting in seeing other things to come to fruition such as a better loadout system, and being able to see all of the names of your teammates again to make interacting with them easier(and to reduce tks lol) instead of roughly 60%.

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-09 13:38
by CAS_ual_TY
Frontliner wrote:Some people are going to be overjoyed that fastropes might be a possibility somewhere in the distant future, but I personally am much more interesting in seeing other things to come to fruition such as a better loadout system, and being able to see all of the names of your teammates again to make interacting with them easier(and to reduce tks lol) instead of roughly 60%.
That 64ID fix would be so nice. My favourite: Imagine fitting your whole squad into 1 chopper instead of missing one out :eek:

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-09 13:52
by rPoXoTauJIo
There's something more important for people who actually know something :)
Blender Plugin (read/write) for all mesh and Animation Formats
Lets see if it can go anywhere(perhaps i should contribute).

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-10 00:32
by gwa1hir
CAS_ual_TY wrote:https://battlelog.co/downloads.php
I mean this^ is not reverse engineering :p
lol wtf i totally misread your post sorry :D

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-10 04:48
by obpmgmua
Whats the point? Why dont these modders move on to other engines?

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-10 13:31
by X-Alt
obpmgmua wrote:Whats the point? Why dont these modders move on to other engines?
All the hard work they put into BF2.

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-10 14:21
by PeppeJ
obpmgmua wrote:Whats the point? Why dont these modders move on to other engines?
They would if you could just copy paste everything, problem is you can't. The work necessary to port everything to another engine is tremendous, we're probably talking years. Plus, who is going to do it?

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-10 14:25
by Vista
I just want better hit detection

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-10 21:25
by Sequadon
I saw a video where a guy made a working firing computer/fire-control system for APC's/tank's with the 2142 engine. You had to measure your targets distance with laser rangefinder, than the firing computer calculated the drop for the projectile and raised the barrel elevation. Than your crosshair was set for that distance. I can't find that video tho.
If it could be possible to implement to pr....

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-10 22:43
by CAS_ual_TY
Sequadon wrote:I saw a video where a guy made a working firing computer/fire-control system for APC's/tank's with the 2142 engine. You had to measure your targets distance with laser rangefinder, than the firing computer calculated the drop for the projectile and raised the barrel elevation. Than your crosshair was set for that distance. I can't find that video tho.
If it could be possible to implement to pr....
would be shit

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-10 23:45
by chrisweb89
Pretty sure that was CAS(plus some numbers) a former dev, and other dormer devs and community members that made the combined arms minimod.

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-13 18:04
by PatrickLA_CA
Yeah IIRC there was also automatic tracking system for armored vehicles in the Combined Arms minimod. And also thermals way before they were put into PR. It would be interesting to see what can be done with this project.

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-13 22:22
by M42 Zwilling
It was not actually automatic tracking per se. All vehicles had lazes attached to them and the tank rounds were just set up to track these like any AGM.

Re: Refractor engine being reverse engineered

Posted: 2017-01-13 23:35
by PricelineNegotiator
Frontliner wrote:Some people are going to be overjoyed that fastropes might be a possibility somewhere in the distant future, but I personally am much more interesting in seeing other things to come to fruition such as a better loadout system, and being able to see all of the names of your teammates again to make interacting with them easier(and to reduce tks lol) instead of roughly 60%.
Nope fastropz first.