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#11574: Multi threaded?

by Speculant on 01/09/2009 03:50

is sauer a multi threaded app, i.e. will it run faster on a dual core (take full advantage of both cores)

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#11575: Fatal Error

by Bearzor on 01/09/2009 11:57

Hello (^_^)/

I'm trying to run Sauerbraten on my laptop which is running Vista, however I'm getting the error "Sauerbraten Win32 Exception: 0xc0000005(0x8)".

Installed the game on my desktop running XP and it worked flawlessly.

I searched and found several other people had this error, however no one seemed to have a response for it.

My Computer is an HP Pavillion, Dual Core Processor 1.5ghz, 32-bit Vista, 2GB Ram. The video card is integrated I believe. It's not Radeon or anything like that.

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#11576: ..

by Acord on 01/09/2009 15:10

Needs OpenGL drivers?

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#11577: Fatal Error

by Bearzor on 01/09/2009 19:52

Thanks for responding. ^^

I'm looking up OpenGL and I'm not fully clear on what it actually is, but I found this site that has .dll, .lib, and .h files that it says are OpenGL Drivers.

The page I am looking at is here:
http://www.swiftless.com/tutorials/opengl/gldrivers.html

I have installed the .dll files to my Windows/system folder. The site mentions folders to put the .lib and .h files in, but I've searched my pc and I cannot find the folders it mentions.

Am I on the right track here? xD

I also got a screen shot of the error message. The log is shown as well.
http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/KageGT/?action=view¤t=xz.jpg

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#11578: Re: Fatal Error

by demosthenes on 01/09/2009 21:41, refers to #11577

Nothing on that page is a driver. They're all libraries to be used with compiled programs or for compiling a program.

What you want are drivers. Since you have an intel graphics unit, it's not likely that you'll be able to play Sauer particularly well, but you ought to go to the intel site to get the latest graphics drivers from them.

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#11579: \(^_^)/

by Bearzor on 01/09/2009 22:36

I got it working!

I went to the Device Manager in Properties of My Computer and found that I have a Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family. Went to Intel to update the drivers and it worked. It's running at very good frame rate as well.

Thanks guys. =D

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#11580: BTW...

by tentus_ on 01/11/2009 08:07

To anyone who kicked my arse this night, my apologies for being in such poor (and non communicative) form. I was playing around with different button configurations in Xpadder for the Harmonix Wii Guitar.

Conclusion: not effective /at all/, but kinda fun in a weird way. I found myself tapping out these weird little rhythms on my frets to turn and fire just enough, while straining my pinky to strafe whenever I could, which unfortunately doesn't hold up very well against kb/mouse. Sacrificing the ability to look up/down conveniently also came as a huge drawback. If it was a slower game, perhaps an rpg with autotargeting of some kind, it could probably work out.

For anyone who is interested, my most successful config was as follows:
Green: turn left
Red: fire
Yellow: Jump
Blue: turn right
Orange: right-click (I have mouse2 bound to zoom, so it worked for me)
Fret Down/D Up: forwards
Fret Up/D Down: back
D left: strafe left
D right: strafe right
Plus: Scroll up
Minus: scroll down
Whammy: look up/down (didn't work so hot)

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#11581: Re: BTW...

by demosthenes on 01/11/2009 08:12, refers to #11580

I wasn't aware awesome could be distilled to such a degree. Thank you for enlightening.

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#11582: Re: BTW...

by tentus_ on 01/11/2009 08:49, refers to #11581

Interesting choice of words... I've run out of songs to play on RB2 on my tired old Wii, so I've been playing some Frets on Fire X recently, because Harmonix has yet to get their long-awaited Wii store working (what's up with that, anyhow? bad public relations the whole way around...). It seemed logical to give the guitar a chance at my favorite open source game (just as logical, in my mind, as using a more traditional gamepad... that is to say, only worth doing for a temporary amusement).

Mixing and matching elements from games like this does produce some interesting ideas though. We've all heard the idea of music swelling dramatically based on the situation (Shadow of the Colossus springs to mind), but playing around like this makes me wonder about the feasibility of a more direct connection. Imagine an SP map that is scripted so that you get bonuses for timely actions, from door openings to shooting enemies. At the very least, it sounds like a good premise for a flash game to me, if trying to code up such synchronization is too difficult starting with the sauer engine.

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#11583: Re: BTW...

by demosthenes on 01/12/2009 03:53, refers to #11582

That would certainly be an interesting game to play. By timely actions, do you mean happening-on-beat-synchronously-with-the-music? If so, how would you add balance such that syncing up your actions with the beat would be at least mildly challenging?

What about a game in which to win you must simply match your actions exactly in timing and duration with cues on screen (a la gitfiddle hero, etc), but you are also free to deviate from it? Perhaps it could be set up to stream the highest score stream, the quickest completion stream, or an average just-do-the-objectives stream by player choice. The most difficult part there is adapting the stream as the player deviates from it such that they can re-enter it at will.

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#11584: Re: BTW...

by tentus_ on 01/12/2009 05:00, refers to #11583

Happening on beat, yes, probably indicated by a horizontally scrolling iconographic bar (because some actions would require a bit more forewarning than vertical allows). I played around a bit in flash with some ideas, and it looks like a playable game would have to be a combination of player matching the song, and the song matching to the player's actions. For example, I had the best results when I split a song up into multiple parts and had each part play only when a condition was true (think kind of like Auditorium). The parts each had an array of numbers that were used to create the event track, by summing them up (for my testing flash I used 0-9 as my "action icons", which were kind of arbitrary).

It's not hard to envision how you could turn this into a simple but enjoyable game. Give the player freedom by letting them roughly guide how they want the music to go (similar to switching into Overdrive mode, but more different modes) but have the music at the time be based on what's going on. This in turn creates the series of actions that you are rewarded for.

Some things that worked in my flash test: having running be a series of hammerons. having critical hits when the player attacks enemies when the music encourages it, as opposed to as frequently as possible. rewarding the player for dramatic deaths by doing a deus-ex-machina (i wrote the situation and i still got a kick out of it).

Things that didn't work: really long notes. frequently recurrent fret sequences. trying to focus both on the screen and on the track (I should have made an 'observation' mode that slows down time or something). music tracks that weren't an interval of 30 seconds.

I think that making the game sound and look decent would greatly overstep the conventional bounds of flash (my swf was over 10 megs with just little text graphics running around and basically two songs broken into parts). Still, it could make for a fantastic little timewaster.

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#11585: Re: BTW...

by demosthenes on 01/12/2009 05:07, refers to #11584

It could indeed! Is there any relative of MIDI capability in flash coding? That might help cut down on the music size (it may even cut down on the music content size if you have to code it yourself (which would be a monumental pain)), and I think it could easily get by with MIDI or similar format (which makes event synchronization easier, too!).

And I lost my train of thought. Darn my overly long parenthetical statements!

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#11586: Re: BTW...

by tentus_ on 01/12/2009 13:57, refers to #11585

No, flash has no MIDI support, which has always puzzled me. You can (and in a few instances I have) sit down with each individual note and plug them in to the timeline in a MIDI style, but otherwise there's no support at all for the format.

I tried streaming the music, but having so many song clips made it impractical: it'd be too easy to max out a solid connection.

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#11587: How do I make Cube 2 load up one of my maps on load?

by Alster on 01/12/2009 18:19

Let me elaborate.

When you open cube2 it automatically loads up metl4 (or metl3, but it loads up a metl map). How could I make cube2 load up a map called Garden instead.

Also when you press escape and you click load map (or select map) and it gives you a load of maps how can I delete them? I've deleted the map file but they still appear in that menu!

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#11588: ..

by ZGMF-X20A on 01/12/2009 19:13

edit the bat file add -lmapname.ogz

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#11589: Bat file?

by Alster on 01/12/2009 21:43

Where is this bat file? Sorry if it sounds a bit stupid!

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#11590: Collision meshes

by Goober on 01/17/2009 19:27

Is there any way using the current Sauerbraten game (CTF Edition) for me to cancel the box collision and instead use full mesh collision, or a collision mesh (a low poly invisible mesh used only for collision)?

If not, how would I go about coding this in?

Yes, I've already tried the elliptical collision setting and it does not suit my needs.

Thank you,
Goober

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#11591: Re: Collision meshes

by tentus_ on 01/17/2009 21:10, refers to #11590

The code that you're proposing would end up being quite complex and resource intensive (comparatively... what we have work very very fast). Have you considered using the clip material in conjunction with a minimal collision box? I found that it worked well for fairly complex shapes, even when working with pretty minor details (I was able to accurately clip the wings and support poles of a biplane model, for instance).

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#11592: Re: Bat file?

by MeatROme on 01/17/2009 22:31, refers to #11589

It's in the main game (sauerbraten) directory .. you might not see file-extensions with your file-explorer (better to switch this on anyway!!) .. it'll have an icon like a window with a cogwheel in it .. right-click it and select "edit". HTH

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#11593: Re: Collision meshes

by Goober on 01/18/2009 06:44, refers to #11591

Your idea is good, but it would only really be worth the time if you could save prefabs and load them into any map at any time. I'm not really liking the idea of modeling a collision mesh out of volumes for a gigantic water tower every time I go to use it :P

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