• While being swallowed, the prey first sees their predator's hands to the sides of their view, grabbing them and drawing them in. The maw itself now appears after halfway swallow progress.
  
  
• When swallowing other players, you will now see your stomach slowly bulging outward. This uses a different view model based on the front side of the body, which works just like the mouth and glides forward from behind the camera. Currently it represents either your predator progress or your stomach load, whichever is the greatest.
  

(03-14-2017, 07:13 AM)MrTobyVee Wrote: Well, found you again, if you remember me. This seems abit more in-depth than on your FA, owo

(03-14-2017, 08:26 AM)-z- Wrote: Impressive work, MicreaKitsune. Very good at immersing the player in the ideas Vore Tournament was founded on

• Column sorting (client): https://gitlab.com/voretournament/data_voretournament/blob/master/mod/client/vore/vore_main.qc#L256
  
• Row sorting (client): https://gitlab.com/voretournament/data_voretournament/blob/master/mod/client/vore/vore_main.qc#L275
  
• Chain cutting (server): https://gitlab.com/voretournament/data_voretournament/blob/master/mod/server/vore/vore_main.qc#L58
  

• Hyper-realistic renderer containing new settings for bloom, iris adaptation, offset mapping, motion blur, shadows. The configuration can be found in: https://gitlab.com/voretournament/data_voretournament/blob/master/renderVT.cfg
  
• The vore system has a better understanding of vehicles. Previously there were a few bugs which are now safeguarded against, such as players floating above their vehicle due to a vore function overriding player hiding. You can also optionally make it so that predators cough up their prey when entering or exiting a vehicle.
  
• The dirty screen effect from the old VT is back. After being eaten or swallowed, your screen gets covered in droplets and yellow goop, which slowly fade away over time.
  
• Prey reorientation also makes a comeback. When a predator grabs you for the first time, you will be spun around to face the opposite way from them. Unlike the old VT, the effect is only applied once and not continuously, which was bandwidth costly as well as annoying.
  
• Fixed neighboring prey not showing. The internal model no longer uses NODEPTHTEST which caused it to be rendered on top of everything else, instead the world is hidden when a prey's view is obstructed.
  
• Fixed 1st person weapon model scaling. Both static and animated weapons now grow or shrink as the player becomes bigger or smaller.
  
• New default font: http://www.dafont.com/peace-sans.font
  
• New default settings for countless builtin cvars, which now differ from those of Xonotic. This includes a whole new weapon balance designed specifically for Vore Tournament!
  

• Download and install the latest version of Xonotic from http://xonotic.org You might want to try a vanilla game first, to make sure the base game is working properly.
  
• Download the archive of the latest Vore Tournament release from this repository using the download button provided.
  
• Unpack this archive inside the base Xonotic directory, so that the "data_voretournament-*" directory is sitting next to the "data" directory.
  
• Rename "data_voretournament-*" to "data_voretournament", deleting the extra names and numbers from the directory name.
  
• Launch the Xonotic executable with the parameters "-customgamedirname2 data_voretournament" from the command prompt or a modified shortcut. Example: "xonotic.exe -customgamedirname2 data_voretournament".
  

(07-16-2018, 06:36 PM)Archeo Wrote: Sorry to be the thread necromancer here, but I had a question about the game- I just installed and played it for the first time today.
This is a pretty stupid question, but I just couldn't figure it out- what are the controls? I can't eat anyone, or at least haven't found the proper buttons. I've checked in "inputs" in the menu but haven't found anything vore related... also, are people supposed to have guns still? wasn't it only grappling hooks, or was that the original version? I'm sorry I'm so clueless, I hope it's not too much trouble.

• Scripts for launching Vore Tournament under Windows and Linux are now included. Users of those platforms should no longer need to manually create a shortcut and add the parameters by hand.
  
• Proper micro / macro bounding boxes. Previously we were unable to change the scale of the actual collision box, only the visual size of the player model was altered... having only the illusion of smaller / larger size caused many issues. Large players may now be too big to fit in some areas (without crouching) whereas small players can be tiny enough to enter tight spaces inaccessible to normal size players.
  
• Machine learning for bots. The AI learns which players are usually a predator or prey during the match, and are more likely to chase or avoid individuals based on how they perceive them against the vore traits desired by that bot.
  
• Recursive vore is now allowed. Predators can maintain their prey after being eaten, allowing players to be the prey of players who are themselves the prey of other players.
  
• Convert the team healing system to reverse digestion, instead of automatically healing team mates when they're the prey of an ally. This allows team mates to safely eat enemies while also healing their allies.
  
• Allow peeking outside the stomach and through the predator's mouth when using the zoom key as prey.
  
• Fix prey being released at the respawn position of the predator instead of the location where the predator died.
  
• Add a new set of default bots, based on characters with specific personalities and likes / dislikes. Each character is briefly documented inside the bots.txt file.
  

• Download and install the latest version of Xonotic.
  
• Download and unpack the 2.0.1 tag of Vore Tournament from its Gitlab repository.
  
• Place the directory inside the root Xonotic folder, then rename it to remove the version from the end of the directory name so that it's called just data_voretournament.
  
• Run voretournament-windows.cmd on Windows or voretournament-linux.sh on Linux: This should launch the game on all 64bit versions of the OS.
  

(07-28-2019, 07:14 PM)Lyberta Wrote: How hard is it to sync to Xonotic master? I too have plans for a fork but want to contribute reusable code back.

(10-24-2019, 05:46 PM)I Darkstar X Wrote: Hello, it’s me again.

I have a question about cooperative mechanics, and also a bit about the AI, which is what I mainly play with. Firstly, I am away you can intake and enter teammates, but I am not exactly sure what this does. In experimentation, after carrying an ally around for some time, they seem have a shield when expunged. But only if they were inside for an extended period of time. My question as far as this goes is it this intensional? If so, how long does it take to enable the shield buff? I can imagine this being useful for bullrushing, ie having certain team members act as basically APCs while rushing the enemy and ejecting the now shielded allies to play havoc on their foes. 

I also have some questions about the AI. AI is fascinating to me, especially Machine learning and the use of AI in cooperative settings. If it is at all possible, I’d like to know how the AI uses the vore mechanics, and how the ai difficulty setting works in conjunction with that, and particularly the exact process of team healing and other such support mechanics with bots.

One last thing, as I’m sure you’re more than sick of me by now, but during experimentation I found I could enter an ally, but could not exit them without force-respawning. On the contrary, though this occurred irregularly, allies I was carrying would exit me without input from me. Additionally, I noticed healing was very inconsistent in either circumstance. Is there something I’m missing, perhaps?

(10-24-2019, 06:57 PM)Sorry MirceaKitsune Wrote:

(10-24-2019, 05:46 PM)I Darkstar X Wrote: Hello, it’s me again.

I have a question about cooperative mechanics, and also a bit about the AI, which is what I mainly play with. Firstly, I am away you can intake and enter teammates, but I am not exactly sure what this does. In experimentation, after carrying an ally around for some time, they seem have a shield when expunged. But only if they were inside for an extended period of time. My question as far as this goes is it this intensional? If so, how long does it take to enable the shield buff? I can imagine this being useful for bullrushing, ie having certain team members act as basically APCs while rushing the enemy and ejecting the now shielded allies to play havoc on their foes. 

I also have some questions about the AI. AI is fascinating to me, especially Machine learning and the use of AI in cooperative settings. If it is at all possible, I’d like to know how the AI uses the vore mechanics, and how the ai difficulty setting works in conjunction with that, and particularly the exact process of team healing and other such support mechanics with bots.

One last thing, as I’m sure you’re more than sick of me by now, but during experimentation I found I could enter an ally, but could not exit them without force-respawning. On the contrary, though this occurred irregularly, allies I was carrying would exit me without input from me. Additionally, I noticed healing was very inconsistent in either circumstance. Is there something I’m missing, perhaps?

That's the team healing mechanic: You heal team mates when you eat them. As of 2.0.1 this works as reverse digestion... previously they'd be automatically healed.

I don't use anything as advanced as machine learning... at least not in a complex setting. 2.0.1 did in fact add something similar for the bots: During a match they learn who is usually a pred or a prey, and will chase or avoid other players based on that status and their preference. You will see a message saying "X considers you a vulnerable prey / dangerous predator" when this happens.

You're able to exit team mates with the Use key, same one used to leave vehicles IIRC. However I don't know what that's bound to by default, you may have to set it manually.

And I don't mind questions unless it gets too much. Thanks for asking and I'm glad you like the mod and game

(10-24-2019, 11:14 PM)I Darkstar X Wrote: Thank you for your response, it is very informative!

I seem to recall that when set to the lowest difficulty, bots will not use the vore mechanics. It made me wonder if there were other interactions of the difficultly level there is.