[Forge]

Scott_AW, on Mar 4 2011, 09:58 PM, said:

How about keeping it from falling through objects? I've put a caldron ontop of a pillar, but the fire falls right through. I also don't have my barrels fall, because when stacked they fall through eachother. Know any way around this?

Find something the barrels don't fall through and make it invisible. As for fire; good luck.

[Scott_AW]

@ Gambini - When its done it'll be stand alone, but right now its just a mod.

@ Forge - Well damn, but I guess I can worry about that another time.

[TerminX]

Fire doesn't actually fall through anything, the renderer just draws it directly at the floor z coordinate of the sector it's in, with no regard for slopes or sprites it might be on top of. This seems like a bug or significant oversight to me, so I'm going to fix it.

[Skulldog]

The Commander, on Dec 3 2010, 02:50 AM, said:

Minor annoyance,
If I launch my mod with the "-server" command it goes straight into game so I can not set video modes etc. (I would like to use Polymer)
So I have to end up turning it on in the console.

"-server -setup " 3 Months

[Scott_AW]

cstat 257 solved my barrel problem.


*However, can't stack more than 4 without some problems with them falling through eachother, not a clipdist issue apparently because I played with that value. Better then nothing.

[The Commander]

Skulldog, on Mar 5 2011, 06:20 PM, said:

"-server -setup " 3 Months

Doh, I should have known that.

[Mark]

TX, on Mar 4 2011, 10:52 PM, said:

Fire doesn't actually fall through anything, the renderer just draws it directly at the floor z coordinate of the sector it's in, with no regard for slopes or sprites it might be on top of. This seems like a bug or significant oversight to me, so I'm going to fix it.

It was about 8-10 months ago I had brought this up in a thread about my mod and no one at the time had a fix for it. I ended up having to make new flame textures and put them in the game with defs.

[LeoD]

The default skill level is always 'Let's Rock' unless you start a map via the commandline '-s# -map [file.map]'. -s# should set the default skill level for new games started from the menu as well. Or this could be stored in the configuration file.

When started through gdb, edue32.debug.exe crashesfreezes when taking a screenshot via F12.

My preferred screen/HUD size is not saved correctly. Pic1: ingame. Pic2: after restarting eduke32.

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[Gambini]

save a a savegame, load it again and the music is gone.

[Danukem]

Gambini, on Mar 5 2011, 12:16 PM, said:

save a a savegame, load it again and the music is gone.

Oh, that must have been caused by an attempted fix that TX did recently for a music related bug that I reported.

[Danukem]

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<Roma_Loom> TerminX: have you ever considered to make fire with pal 1 cast blueish light instead of default?
<TerminX> sure, I can do that

If you are going to do that, how about consistency for all sprites that are hardcoded to cast light?

pal 1 is blue
pal 2 is red
pal 4 NO LIGHT
pal 6 bright green
pal 7 yellow
pal 8 green

Unless someone is using altered palettes, those colors should be fine (and if they are using altered palettes, they should be savvy enough to disable the hardcoded lights and make their own)

Admittedly, as a practical matter, this won't make much difference, since the vast majority of the sprites hardcoded to cast light are going to be pal 0

[Stabs]

any chance of getting the savegame files to save a proper picture of your game? alot of HRP based art with no 8-bit art tile gets drawn as nothing in that picture

[Plagman]

Yeah, that's going to come at the same time as viewscreen support for Polymer, since it uses the same tech.

[Stabs]

interesting, so is that going to take some time to implement?

btw did you find out why lights where doing strange things with fogpal sectors?

[Plagman]

No, sorry, haven't looked at it yet; had you sent me a map?

[The Commander]

Plagman, on Mar 6 2011, 12:28 PM, said:

No, sorry, haven't looked at it yet; had you sent me a map?

He uploaded a map in this post.
http://forums.duke4.net/index.php?s=&s...ost&p=74707

[Skulldog]

When recording a demo in game. It always puts the file in eduke32 root directory. Can you make it use the
Custom Game Content Directory, when None is not selected?

[TerminX]

See r1840. It's untested but there isn't much of a margin for error there.

[Skulldog]

That worked! Demo recording goes to the Custom Game content directory. Thanks

[Gambini]

This is not a minor annoyance, this is a serious problem: Several monsters have been dissapearing in my map, they just vanishe away in front of my face. At first it happened with Dukeplus, I blamed DT and forwarded him a complaint letter signed by a notary, but now it happened with vanilla Duke too. I saved a debug map just after the monster dissapeared and looked for it in the whole level, but could not find it. This has been happening at least with Lizmans, newbeasts and battlelords. And once, about a month ago i´ve been attacked by an invisible newbeast where there should not be any. I know it´s happening only in my map, but since i´m working on it can´t play other maps to check if it´s a particular problem. This is very difficult to reproduce i know, but there must be something wrong with monsters...

There´s something that may help though. After this last monster dissapeared, I kept playing and fought a battlelordstayput. In the top left corner of the screen a text with a very small font read "blocked -16 long -32" or something like that, that text hasn´t been recorded in the console for some reason. That may be either the stayput battlelord being blocked by its containing sector or the other monster fighting to get out of the void.

EDIT: the text keeps popping up once the battlelord is dead. it says locked- *random number long- *random number block- *random number. those numbers look as coordinates for some reason.

[Helixhorned]

Could this be related to the lowered default cache size TX introduced a while ago to make EDuke32 run better on handhelds? I've had a related issue once in IW2, where after completing the first episode the game exited with "ALL CACHE LOCKED UP"...

I'd suggest running with "-cachesize 32768" and seeing whether the problem disappears.

[TerminX]

No, but it could be related to creating a bunch of sprites in the editor with improper sectnums.

[Gambini]

And i knew you was going to say that

For your information there are no sprites with improper sectnums. yet

[TerminX]

No? I thought you said that you had used LEBuild to add some before the change to Mapster32 to allow them was made.

My only other idea is that you're playing in an area of a map that's beyond what current Mapster32 revisions allow with "editorgridextent".

[Gambini]

Yes i used Lebuild to change sectnums in some sprites. But just as part of a test. I kept a safe version where i´m still working on. The sectnum operation will be performed when the level is finished. It is obvious also that Mapster32 fixes the sectnums every time you save the file, so either way there should not be any.

The map is fully within the new grid limits. That time i complained about the grid was when i was fixing DPCB, which was made before that change.
In any case i can send you that debug file i saved just after the monster dissapeared.

I didn´t know there was already possible to edit sectnums! gonna update my copy right now!

[Danukem]

Are there any slimers around when the monsters disappear? They can't eat battlelords, but they can certainly eat the other monsters you mentioned and when it happens they disappear pretty fast.

[Helixhorned]

TX, on Mar 13 2011, 04:53 PM, said:

No, but it could be related to creating a bunch of sprites in the editor with improper sectnums.

I know you didn't mean it entirely serious, but my guess was not completely baseless: The only place where the message could come from is
game.c:591, G_ShowCacheLocks:

Bsprintf(tempbuf,"Locked- %d: Leng:%d, Lock:%d",i,cac[i].leng,*cac[i].lock);
printext256(0L,k,31,-1,tempbuf,1);

[TerminX]

Yeah, those messages are just debug output for sounds. They got enabled when he typed DNDEBUG to dump the map.

[Wolf]

I know things like this could be avoided with extra bits of code, but..
Is it intended to let soundoncevar play other sounds called by it while the first one might still be playing?

For example,
randvar SPEECH 10
addvar SPEECH MERC_HEAVY_PAIN1
soundoncevar SPEECH

Will play MERC_HEAVY_PAIN1 - 10 very fast, bunched together, until (I'm assuming) they all have one instance of them playing, until this section where the sound is supposed to play is passed. What I thought it was supposed to do is not let anything else play that was called by the SPEECH var until that one sound was done. Is it a bug or working as intended?

[Gambini]

It is possible that very thin sectors could be the cause of these dissapearances?

I had another situation and this time dndebug confirmed that the monster was somewhere above the sector where it was. Let´s try to explain it. This liztroop was right behind a glass locked door trying to get me, suddently dissapeared, i wrote dndebug and seeked him. He was in the building´s roof which is just on top of this door as a sector over sector thing NOT ROR. These two sectors don´t share wall coordinates, their shapes are clearly distinguishable, but the glass door has a thin surrounding sector that serves as a plinth, it has blockable walls. But still I draw this presumed conclusion that, since the monster could not fit inside this sector, it moved to the next one, wrongly taken as the on top sector.

In the previous cases there wasn´t sector overlapping but there was some very thin sector around.