NEW RELEASE: 2007-04-13 spring edition

by Aardappel_ on 04/13/2007 10:23, 170 messages, last message: 10/07/2007 19:55, 218726 views, last view: 11/01/2024 05:28

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=102911

from history.html:

* scoreboard now displays mode, map, and time remaining
* bases now produce ammo in capture mode (take ammo with R key or "repammo" command)
* added reflective water in fixed-function mode
* added reflective glass in fixed-function mode
* made waterfall top/bottom correctly align with water surface
* player vs. player collisions now use ellipses instead of bounding boxes
* added new functionality to the rpg prototype (WiP)
* added planar shadows for most dynamic entities
* added -o option for servers to disable "locked" and "private" mastermodes
* dead players now colored gray on scoreboard
* changed experimental movement speedup code to include both jumping & forward independently (see game.html)
* added F key support to heightmap editing.
* improved "fastshader" system to support more than 2 performance levels
* added environment-mapped geometry shaders (via "bumpenv*world" shaders)
* added ambient sound entities (via "mapsound" and "newent sound")
* added alpha-masked shadows for mapmodels with alpha-channel skins (via "calclight 3")
* added animated caustics effect to underwater geometry
* added experimental animated grass system
* added support for GLSL shaders
* added entautoview, entitysurf and selectionsurf
* added Marc's latest 8 tracks, for a total of 31 now!
* added visual entity box handle. allows easy choice of orientation. hovering over an ent now replaces closest ent as implicit ent selection.
* added smoothmap command for heightmaps. (default press H when already in hmap mode) executes a moving avg filter over hmap
* added context sensitive entity menu (default TAB)
* added a scale parameter to the "texture" command, for changing the apparent size
* texture combining now scales combined texture to match size of base texture
* command "showtexgui" (default F2) allows for comfortable texture browsing
* made gui stick to player's Z
* fixed server lockup (in patch)

Enjoy!

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#85: ..

by Geartrooper on 04/20/2007 23:19

bobofett try getting it from cvs.

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#86: Crashes on linux + nvidia...

by enigma_0Z (lost that darn cookie) on 04/21/2007 00:00

Yup. There's some graphical problems & crashes on linux...

I've got an nVidia GeForce 7200 Go in my laptop.

Sauerbraten occasionally gets this horizontal "artifact" like there's some polys or some object going through my view. Nothing specifically triggers it except music and map changes, even then it's random...

Furthermore, it just segfaulted with this:

OH SNOT! I lost it. Well, it was complaining about a bunch of nVidia modules, and it said "glibc corrupted pointer" or something at the beginning.

Anyways, I've got the newest driver, but I haven't tried reinstalling it... if it dumps again, i'll try to get it

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#87: ..

by Grogan on 04/21/2007 09:38

"Sauerbraten occasionally gets this horizontal "artifact" like there's some polys or some object going through my view. Nothing specifically triggers it except music and map changes, even then it's random..."

I can confirm that I've seen that artifact a few times, but that was with the gui edition. It only seemed to happen at certain times, like while playing multiplayer in killfactory.

I thought I had that one solved by compiling my own client, but I saw it once more after that. In killfactory again. I chocked it up to a network related thing, or possibly players with varying degrees of lag all hopping around.

I've never seen it playing single player games.

I compiled my own spring edition client as well (didn't try the supplied binary), and I have not seen that artifact. I probably have not used it long enough to see it though, because it was rare for me.

About the segfaults... with the gui edition precompiled binary I had that happen a few times. That was strange to me, because I'd never had sauer mess up on me before. What I got was the game freezing up. That's it, no more input. The only way out of it for me is to ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X, ctrl-alt-f1 to drop to another virtual console and kill shit, or ssh in from another box.

If I ctrl-alt-backspace I saw a segfault message on the screen. (because of the way I start sauer from an XFCE panel shortcut, that's where the output goes, into garbage land)

This problem (the segfault and game not responding) has NOT occured again since compiling my own client. (The only thing I edited was the Makefile to get it to compile). It has been some time too, because this was the gui edition.

My Linux system is a "from scratch" kind of thing so it didn't surprise me that compiling it on my own system solved a problem.

I wish I'd have taken note of details at the time, but I didn't think it important because I thought it was more of a system specific problem. It's too occasional to try to reproduce now with the binary too.

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#88: Re: ..

by Drakas on 04/21/2007 09:46, refers to #87

I can confirm horizontal lines on latest nVidia drivers both on Spring nd GUI editions. Using Xorg 7.1

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#89: ..

by CrazyTB on 04/21/2007 15:48

I can confirm horizontal "polygons". I can't say what actually causes them.
Sauer spring edition has not crashed for me yet. (In fact, I guess only once) So, for me it is pretty stable.
I've not tried the GUI edition.
Using sauer binary on Gentoo/Linux, Pentium III 800, GeForce FX 5500, nvidia driver 1.0.9631.

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#90: Re: 2007_04_15 Spring edition Linux download.

by CrazyTB on 04/21/2007 15:54, refers to #83

bobofett, try running the md5sum command more than once on same file. Also, try that on big files (like an ISO image).

When I had a failing RAM chip, running md5sum two times in a row on the same (big) file gave me different results.

Test your RAM with: http://www.memtest.org/

Also read: http://tldp.org/FAQ/sig11/html/index.html

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#91: Re: ..

by kurtis84 on 04/21/2007 17:18, refers to #89

Try the command line parm /floatvtx 1. If this stops the "horizontal polygons" you can put the command in a autoexec.cfg, to load every time you play sauer. I have to run with floatvtx 1, and I'm running a gf6800gt. For me, it's not a driver version issue, it's always been there.

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#92: Re: ..

by enigma_0Z on 04/21/2007 17:19, refers to #87

I had not had a problem with the gui edition...

I don't run LFS, I have ubuntu, but I've got a 64-bit system running 32-bit... I'll try and recompile it and see what happens...

Oh yeah, system specs for reference:

Ubuntu Linux 7.04 (beta?)
nVidia GeForce Go 7200, 9755 Driver
Sauer Spring Edition...

--also--
Should I copy this into the bug reports thread?

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#93: Re: ..

by kurtis84 on 04/21/2007 17:19, refers to #91

erm, not command line, it's for the console...Sorry.

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#94: ..

by enigma_0Z (lost that darn cookie) on 04/21/2007 19:37

I knew what you meant. Didn't work. I'm recompiling now.

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#95: ..

by enigma_0Z on 04/22/2007 02:58

OK. New binary doesn't work, /floatvtx doesn't work.

But I'm not the only one having the problem, right?

Seems to also happen _only_ online.

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#96: ..

by voldemar on 04/22/2007 10:46

Yes! Nice release, cool grass =)

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#97: awsome

by {DA}Wincha on 04/22/2007 19:18

I continue be impressed by your guys dedication to sauerbraten. Good job guys, HOOAH!

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#98: yes, ownage

by ringostarrowns on 04/23/2007 06:35

Great release, any possibility of changed the way the grass sways in the map cfg in the future?

100 post btw :D

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#99: ..

by noerrorsfound_ on 04/23/2007 13:53

Why do the files say 15 when this was released on the 13th?

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#100: Re: ..

by Passa on 04/23/2007 14:08, refers to #99

Couple of bugs in the initial release, so they quickly whipped up a patched version.

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#101: ..

by randomcivilian [just found linux] on 04/24/2007 00:10

i downloaded mine on the 13th right when it came out (oooh friday the 13th, probably why it had bugs!!) so does that mean i need to download the newer version or can i just download the patch?

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#102: ..

by randomcivilian [just found linux] on 04/24/2007 00:10

i downloaded mine on the 13th right when it came out (oooh friday the 13th, probably why it had bugs!!) so does that mean i need to download the newer version or can i just download the patch?

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#103: Re: ..

by eihrul on 04/24/2007 01:57, refers to #102

http://sauerbraten.org/patch/physics_patch_2007_04_15_win32_linux.tar.gz

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#104: Bug

by PunDit@work on 04/26/2007 04:48

Ok I thought I was crazy but now I have 6 people supporting my claim so far.

I have this issue with the new version. Normal gameplay is fine but when I get close to an opponent or they are in sight the game hiccups. Like the framerate drops and becomes very choppy. This only happens for about 1-2 seconds but its enought to get fragged.

I am running a Dell D810 ATI Radeon X600 / SuSE Linux 10.2. The previous version running on the same hardware did not have this issue. Other people have reported the problem on OSX, Windows and BSD.

Please help Thanks.

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