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#10394: Re: Lack of Ati support

by jbuk2k7s cookie has gone on 04/19/2008 13:22, refers to #10393

What is an 'ATi Radeon 1100'? I've never even heard of one of those.

Oh. Quick google reveals that it's an integrated chipset, so you're never going to get much performance at all.

Also, the ATi support is fine. All -real- cards work without hiccups, and the latest CVS has also developed a fix for the evil 'sparklies' which have plagued ATi cards on sauerbraten for ages.

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#10395: Re: ..

by jbuk2k7s cookie has gone on 04/19/2008 19:29, refers to #10395

He's on a laptop though. Basically he's screwed.

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#10395: Player Speed

by tman_elite on 04/20/2008 04:29

I'm working on a mod (mostly just for my own pleasure. Don't worry, I read all the liscenses and stuff, and I expect to do all of the work myself.) There are just a few things I'd like to know:

Is there a (simple) way to change the code so that the player speed is taken from a cfg file, instead of just being a concrete number? Or, an alternative, is there a way to have triggers disable movement (temporarily)?

My mod is mostly singleplayer, and in some levels you fight monsters and in some you fight robots. I tried disabling blood (for levels with robots) in the map config but it says something like "cannot override persistant variable." Any ideas?

Is there a way to have a trigger activated at the end of a level (after you kill the last monster)?

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'll probably come up with a few more questions later.

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#10396: Re: Player Speed

by SheeEttin on 04/20/2008 04:54, refers to #10395

It's certainly possible to freeze the player. Just look at the /taunt command and rip some of it out and use in in (e.g.) a /killmovement command.

For disabling blood, you'll find "IVARP(blood, 0, 1, 1);" in fpsgame/weapon.h (line 268ish). Just change that to "IVAR(...);" and it should work fine.
It might also be possible to change the blood texture (e.g. to transparent) if the above doesn't work.

As for a trigger activated after killing all monsters, you can certainly do that in the source. (Just poke around in fpsgame/monster.h, start from the bit about "only %d monster%s remaining".)
For CFG-only, you'd have to set up a button that you could only get to at the end.
Or you could create a new read-only var called monremaining or something, and only let the button work if monremaining == 1.

I should probably be going to bed, though...

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#10397: Re: Player Speed

by tman_elite on 04/20/2008 05:30, refers to #10396

Thanks for the tips. I looked for the taunt command a little but I couldn't find it. I'll try again tomorrow. As for the blood thing, nothing really changed, but I'll try to recompile using the "clean" thing, because sometimes changes don't seem to work unless you do that (in my experience, at least.) I'll look into the code for the monsters thing tomorrow as well.

As for now, it's off to bed for me. Thanks again for the help.

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#10398: Re: Player Speed

by yetanotherdemosthenescomputer on 04/20/2008 06:35, refers to #10397

For the blood, you might have to change one of the ones to a zero, because I think one is the default value and the other two are the range.

Am I right, code experts?

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#10399: HELP PLEASE!

by BlackGold on 04/20/2008 11:56

This game looks awesome, and runs on my old comp. sweet. but one problem, when i get in the game, everything is blue or grey. i can see like bullet holes and stuff but i really want to play this game. PLEASE HELP!

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#10400: Re: HELP PLEASE!

by jbuk2k7s cookie has gone on 04/20/2008 12:19, refers to #10399

Specs?

What does the console output when you start the game?

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#10401: how to play sound on hit/kill ??

by bbkr on 04/20/2008 14:32

I love sauerbraten instagib but I miss one feature from Q3 - playing sound on hit and better frag notification by displaying info in the middle of the screen.

It's especially iritating when playing on big maps on long distance or when you shoot someone in the window (you don't know if he's dead or if he just hide).

Notification in upper-left corner is not enough.

How to change it?

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#10402: Re: Multiplayer crashing

by k7991_ on 04/20/2008 19:53, refers to #10385

ah, its actually the latest version of Cube, sorry for not being clear, but my PC, as i said, isnt very high-spec, its a laptop with 512mb RAM, 1.7Ghz processor and Intel Integrated Graphics card, i am running Windows XP Pro, i hope this helps.

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#10403: Re: how to play sound on hit/kill ??

by yoopers on 04/20/2008 21:19, refers to #10401

Not sure about sound notification because I don't really pay attention to sounds, but hit notification via the crosshair is in CVS.

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#10404: Re: how to play sound on hit/kill ??

by rancor on 04/20/2008 21:42, refers to #10403

Hitpings would actually be a really nice feature, I find them extremely useful in UrT, UT2k4, and Q4. In UrT, it's actually gotten to the point that I subconsciously count the pings to tell if I'm about to kill someone.

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#10405: Re: how to play sound on hit/kill ??

by SheeEttin on 04/21/2008 00:35, refers to #10404

Pfft. Real gamers know if they hit something based on their target's reaction, whether it be the model doing something or the player's behavior. :)

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#10406: Re: how to play sound on hit/kill ??

by rancor on 04/21/2008 01:58, refers to #10405

Yeah, but it allows you to use auditory processing power to deal with the feedback, leaving more visual processing power for the surroundings, in particular letting you focus less directly on hitting, and more on noticing other incoming and such.

Also, in UrT a kill is maybe 4 hits, and when you're trying to spray someone unscoped from halfway across the map, every bit helps.

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#10407: ..

by SanHolo on 04/21/2008 11:23

I actually like those hitpings in UrT also a lot. Doesn't help you to tell when one is dead IMHO, because they have hitboxes which damage differently, but it's nice to have the feedback that your weapon is not too inaccurate to hit anything.

And it's fun with the SR-8, *ding* dead, *ding* dead, ... :D

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#10408: Duomo / Akroseum

by tentus_ on 04/21/2008 18:40

Hey, I just checked out the newest version of CVS and I have some comments on Duomo and Akroseum. In general I like what has been done to it recently, but the replacement of some of the jumppads with teleports really sucks some of the fun of the map out. I liked hurtling across the map, scared out of my mind that I was going to fly right past the approaching platform.

I'm starting to think that teledests should have an "exit velocity" setting so that mappers can adjust the speed at which players exit. It'd also be helpful to be able to change the vertical orientation on exit. That way mappers could have much more control on how players are moved around the stage.

Also, in Akroseum, I really like the new ladders and stuff, but I'm kinda surprised that the fence tips have been unclipped. It's really easy to jump onto the fence beside the crate-area flag, and then you're stuck for a couple of vulnerable seconds. Just a slight annoyance though, nothing huge.

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#10409: Can't play AC

by Mort on 04/21/2008 22:21

When I launch AC the loading screen comes up and it's a long long wait, but it seems not to run or start as it should. But it did run the previous night.

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#10410: Re: Can't play AC

by jbuk2k7s cookie has gone on 04/21/2008 22:42, refers to #10409

http://assault.cubers.net/forum/

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#10411: Benchmarking with Sauerbraten...

by DKottmair on 04/22/2008 16:40

Hi there! I'm just putting together a Linux-benchmark-suite for our magazine (Linux User/Magazine/easyLinux), and while I have more than enough stuff to cover the CPU aspect, I'm a bit lacking on the GPU side. Right now i have SpecViewperf, Nexuiz and gtkperf (for 2D), but none of that does more than merely draw polys, mostly even untextured (Viewperf). I would like something that tests more modern aspects, like shader performance. Sauerbraten seems to be quite well suited, having a rather modern engine (unlike e.g. Nextuiz, though that's pretty impressive, too!), but from what I see it totally lacks a way to benchmark it automatically, like run demos and log the fps into a file.
So I wonder if you know a way to do it? The only thing I found on the forum is some external fps-measurement-tool for Windows, but that's obviously out of the question...
Ofcourse, I could always use Doom3, Quake4 or Quake Wars Enemy Territory, but I'd prefer to use community projects instead...

The Sauerbraten-Engine is really nice, have you guys ever thought about making a 3D benchmark along the lines of 3Dmark for Linux? ;-) That's one thing the Linux world is in quite desperate need of, Viewperf more than covers the professional aspect of 3D gfx, actually even way better than the popular Cinebench!...

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#10412: Re: Benchmarking with Sauerbraten...

by DKottmair on 04/22/2008 17:38, refers to #10412

Thanks, so the demo-aspect would be solved. However, the problem of not being able to log the fps remains...

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