w23/bepct4k

4k intro framework in pure assembly. No Visual Studio required!

bepct4k's Issues

Wrong intro time calculation

Calculation time with Samples per tick works wrong, if you have 140 bpm music.

push SAMPLES_PER_TICK * 8 * 4
This time doesn't match anything real usesefull ;)

It's mutch better to to calculate time in real seconds not in strange ticks.
push SAMPLE_RATE * 2 * 4; ; SAMPLE_RATE = 44100

Add glslangValidator before minifier stage

Print current time/tick and fps in window title

Intro application closes on Windows 7

The problem with GetAsyncKeyState, MSDN says:

Determines whether a key is up or down at the time the function is called, and whether the key was pressed after a previous call to GetAsyncKeyState.

You need to call

	push 01bH ;ESC key code for GetAsyncKeyState
	call GetAsyncKeyState ; RESET KEYS STATES

Before asking a key for exit from application

call GetAsyncKeyState
jz mainloop

Linux as development platform

Make it possible to work on shader and build final intro exe on Linux.

Linux version.

I really want to have a Linux version of this wonderful tools . =)

Document kiyanka usage

Solve binary dependencies

This framework/toolchain needs the following tools to work:

• Shader Minifier: https://github.com/laurentlb/Shader_Minifier
• NASM: https://nasm.us
• Crinkler: https://crinkler.net

Figure whether their licenses allow them to be bundled with releases of this framework.

If not, add a script to download all deps

Add music dumping tool

Make a single-click bat file to dump 4klang music into wav and raw files.

This utility needs to be written in assembly to not introduce additional dependencies.

Add progress bar and loop region display to the tool

User needs to see roughly what is current position in into timeline and what is the looped region.

Allow for easy build configuration

The ideas is to make it possible to quickly make builds with any combination of these configurations:

• sound/no sound
• sync/async sound
• fullscreen/windowed
• don't/check gl calls
• don't/check shader program compilation results
• fast/slow crinkler

Adding scripts for all of these combinations would be prohibitive. Maybe a simple config file loaded by bat file would be enough?

Add video capture tool

We need to be able to make a perfect 1080p60 video+audio capture regardless of machine performance with good compression quality w/o major artifacts.

Run a bat file and get a result mp4/mkv after a few dozen minutes.

Pipe video frames to ffmpeg and audio being fed as a pre-recorded file.

Debug build is broken

Showing shader program log is unconditionally commented out. It should be compiled in in DEBUG mode, but only show if there was something to show. Debug build should not exit if there were no errors.

Can linebreaks be inserted back for debug build?

Add sample 4klang music project

• Renoise/OpenMPT/... "project" file
• 4klang instruments data
• Add basic documentation on how to load, edit and export music

Make a simple shader editor tool

Do not depend on bonzomatic/shadertoy.
Make a simple (assembly?) shader editing tool which:

• Gives the same GL context and inputs as release intro will get, no manual editing required prior to intro build
• Monitors and reloads shader file that is being edited in an external text editor
• Provides shader compilation diagnostics
• Reads/synthesizes exported 4klang music and allows shader-music sync
• Supports timeline navigation
• Supports loops

Possible advanced features:

• Basic OSD: timeline position, framerate
• Resolution switch