Launch Clear Sky

[Xottab-DUTY]

Call of Pripyat engine which we are using wasn't changed too much since Clear Sky.

We can launch it! Lets do this!

Status:

• Alpha (many bugs, crashes, you can't finish the game)
• Beta (bugs, crashes, but you can finish the game)
• Release Candidate (there are minor bugs, from a few to none crashes, game is stable finishable)
• Release (game is stable)

Tasks:

• Renderer
  • Don't crash on missing COP functionality. (c7dec85)
  • R2/R3/R4 issues with old/new shadow cascades (d6780cc)
  • R3 issue with mark_msaa_edges.ps (8e07828)
  • Launch R4. (requires COP shaders to work correctly, otherwise expect bugs)
• Lua Scripting
  • Return deleted script export
• Main menu
  • Exit
  • Titles
  • Options
  • Load game
• UI
  • Actor inventory UI
  • PDA
    • Weird background stripes due to ui_pda2_fr2 texture fragments being in different files.
      It was supported in CS, but CUIFrameLineWnd was simplified in COP and this feature was removed. (885e2c1)
    • Nimble's PDA usage tutorial (c36d59e, c7693a6)
  • Elite detector doesn't show artefacts (e1a4a46)
  • Slightly different upgrade system (e2ef829, 2f9bbe5)
  • Return deleted UI functionality and script export
• Gameplay
  • Monsters inventory (670632a, 3dc9f5a)
  • Clear Sky task system
  • Fix some quest NPCs can't enter their animation smart covers (e.g. Cold, Novikov on Clear Sky base) (52ce001)
  • Few missing features from weapons and probably something else
  • Mutants AI
• Singleplayer
  • Launch it
  • Finish the game
  • Launch and finish some global mods
    • SRP
    • SRP-Lite
    • OGSM
• Multiplayer (no full support)
  • Traffic compression unavailable (9f8b4e9)
  • Multiplayer-specific UI works except missing captions from ui_custom_msgs.xml (bb894ad).
    • You have to import ui_custom_msgs.xml from COP yourself.

[collectioner]

@Xottab-DUTY please, create a small instruction how we can launch it. Simply copy binaries from OXR and replace original? Need guide.

[Xottab-DUTY]

Launch it as usual with this gamedata:
gamedata.zip

[Xottab-DUTY]

Main menu was launched quite a few months ago, but if someone interested:

(You can see red text on top of the screenshot, that's because screenshot was made on a Mixed build)