A new engine. One for the Christopher Lloyd fans.

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A new engine. One for the Christopher Lloyd fans.

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Just noticed the new Toon engine when updating my source.
I wish the team luck with the process. Needless to say I assume it's pointless trying it out right now.
Where there any other games that used the engine?
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Re: A new engine. One for the Christopher Lloyd fans.

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Red_Breast wrote:Just noticed the new Toon engine when updating my source.
I wish the team luck with the process. Needless to say I assume it's pointless trying it out right now.
Where there any other games that used the engine?
Actually, the game is already completable. From my brief testing so far, I noticed some minor graphic glitches, but nothing major.
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:shock: Adding support for Toonstruck is great news! Big thanks to those who have worked on the engine implementation.
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Post by Longcat »

wow, I've been waiting for this but I wouldn't have expected it to have been developed so far.Big thank you to the dev!:)
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Re: A new engine. One for the Christopher Lloyd fans.

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Red_Breast wrote:Where there any other games that used the engine?
No, but it does share some resources with Kyra. Not enough similarities to be in the same engine, though.
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How can I add the game. I tried the newest svn but it fails to detect the game.
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Sordid wrote:How can I add the game. I tried the newest svn but it fails to detect the game.
Make sure that when you click on the About button that the 'Toon' engine is listed. If you're using a downloaded daily build, it may still be on the 1.2 release branch, which doesn't have the engine. Apart from that, I just copied the contents of both CDs into a folder on my hard disk, and it detected the game. The folder should have four subfolders: act1, act2, burst, and misc.
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Post by McKnallski »

This is a Link to the always newest Daily Build for Windows.

http://buildbot.scummvm.org/snapshots/t ... st.tar.bz2

Toonstruck should work on this.
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dreammaster wrote:The folder should have four subfolders: act1, act2, burst, and misc.
At least on my CDs, the "burst" folder doesn't seem to contain anything directly related to the game. Of course, I could be wrong about that.
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I can't run it myself, it asks for a toon.dat file which says can be downloaded from the homepage, but I can't find it.
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kelmer wrote:I can't run it myself, it asks for a toon.dat file which says can be downloaded from the homepage, but I can't find it.
get here for lastest version.
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kelmer wrote:I can't run it myself, it asks for a toon.dat file which says can be downloaded from the homepage, but I can't find it.
Browse the SVN (click "Subversion Tree" on the main homepage) and navigate to dists/engine-data/. The file can be downloaded from there.
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Thanks, it works beautifully now :)
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My mistake. I now copied the second disc into the directoy and it works. Thx
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Post by pacifist »

First of all I'd just like to say stunning work guys... I've been waiting patiently for months and now it's working almost flawlessly!

I do have a question though if I may...

Where does the data for toon.dat come from? Presumably it wasn't hand written by the ScummVM engineer, as it contains locations not in the final game... but I am a little confused as to why 'Flux Wildly' is misspelled... It shows up correctly when playing the game through DosBox, but in ScummVM it appears as 'Flux Wildlie', I'm guessing as a result of this file?
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