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#1628: Re: Excessive latency?

by Thalion on 06/20/2003 01:32, refers to #1627

It's a known bug in Cube.

Actually, since most calculations are done client-side, you hit people _immediately_. There's no delay regardless of your lag and/or packet jump. So, as soon as you hit someone in instagib, he should die (for you, at least).

Sometimes, however, it happens so in instagib that a player becomes invincible. I had experienced it myself for two times. Dunno why it happens at all, and why only in instagib and not in any other mode (or maybe it does, I just haven't seen it?). Anyways, the best thing you can do in this case is to restart the match.

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#1629: Re: Excessive latency?

by D.plomat on 06/20/2003 10:31, refers to #1628

Well, i think the client shooting validates the hit, send it to the client shooted, which calculates the health amount he loses, eventually dies and send it back to other players, so you can see a player dying 2*ping later after you shoot at him. this explains "mutual kill", in insta, even if the rifle is direct hit. Also if a player have a HUGE lag, he is stalled here, each time u shoot at him, you send him the info that he was hit, and he'll die only when it's connection gets back to normal -or disconnected ;)-. I may be wrong, but i think shooting at him is useless, and he may even already have been fragged by another player, just that he didn't had time to die ;)
For the invincibility, i experienced it one time... i began wondering when i used my 99 rifle ammo, and finished the round using the gauntlet, and tryed to get killed to start a new life with plenty ammo :)
In this case, you can just... notice the player, most of the time he will disconnect/reconnect

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#1630: Re: Excessive latency?

by Jorge on 06/20/2003 12:08, refers to #1628

> why only in instagib and not in any
> other mode (or maybe it does, I just
> haven't seen it?)

I think the others modes are affected too, but i am not sure (it's easier to see it in instgib).

In ffa/default or /duel head-to-head, sometimes i've done "good shoots" and i haven't saw "blood particles" or listened his "death scream". Maybe it is the same problem.

By the way, it isn't "global invulnerability" in instgib: the player is partly invulnerable to my shoots, but another player can kill him sometimes. if i shoot him *many* times (15, 20... continuously), he dies.

The other player sees me shooting all time.

I thought that it was a problem of latency or packets loss, but others have the same ping time, and i am not lossing packets.

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#1631: Re: Excessive latency?

by Jorge on 06/20/2003 13:47, refers to #1630

HEY!, SP mode fails too, i think

In kartoffel or sp_stalingrad maps, where you start behind the monsters, i shoot them but the mosters don't die and don't attack me (well, if i don't go to them).

The crosshair is over the moster, but i shoot and anything doesn't happen. If the moster runs to me, it die when i shoot.

Maybe it is "other incarnation" of the same problem (instgib invulerability).

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#1632: Re: Excessive latency?

by Thalion on 06/20/2003 19:41, refers to #1629

Mostly right, one thing though. YOU tell another client how bad you've hit him, not he calculates it.

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#1633: Re: Aard, you're a smart guy. riddle me this...

by Piglet on 06/21/2003 10:50, refers to #1626

I think I have a solution for you problem pushplay. As I see it the key to the operation is to make completly new menus (as once made they cannot change) but only make them when the user first requests them, the below solution should work (though i havent tested it fully), also if you want the same for triggers a copy -n- change should sort it out.

====

alias tagon 1
alias tagmade 0

alias maketagmen [

alias tagmade (+ $tagmade 1)
concat "Tags" $tagmade

newmenu $s

loop 9 [
alias temp (+ $i (* (- $tagmade 1) 9))
concat edittag $temp
menuitem $s
]

menuitem "More..." "nextmenu"

]

alias nextmenu [

alias tagon (+ $tagon 1)
if (> $tagon $tagmade) [maketagmen] []
concat "Tags" $tagon
showmenu $s

]

alias tagmenus [alias tagon 1; showmenu "Tags 1"]

maketagmen

====

simply put this somewhere where it will be loaded, and use "tagmenus" to load up the first menu and the more button to load the later ones. If you've got any problems/questions just ask.

Enjoy... Piglet

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#1634: arrrhhh visual c++ 6.0

by Fish HF on 06/21/2003 13:17

i need help compiling cube in vc++6
i searched here and i found http://www.oa3d.com/cube/cube.zip
but the link is dead :'(
anyone has it? thanks

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#1635: Re: arrrhhh visual c++ 6.0

by Thalion on 06/21/2003 15:59, refers to #1634

What's the problem anyways? I think it should compile, you just need the project file, which is basically as simple as putting all the .h and .cpp into a newly created console application project. Just don't forget to add SDL*.lib, fmod.lib and enet.lib to the external modules list.

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#1636: ..

by Fish HF on 06/21/2003 17:42

theres too many problems....maybe u or others can make the project file for me? thanks for your reply :D

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#1637: Re: arrrhhh visual c++ 6.0

by Jorge on 06/21/2003 18:43, refers to #1634

If you only need a non official Win32 client (e.g. compiled) i built one yesterday... Althoug i don't compile with VC++ 6.0 but with a cross compiler for Linux.

You can dowload the client in ftp://lilo.uah.es/pub/cube/

"cubewin.zip": i added some *excellent* maps by Pushplay and extra music from cube-city.

"cube_lilo.exe": the client only. You need the orginal package for graphics, maps, models, music, etc (and change its name, too)

Disclaimer: win32 binary built from Linux => CAUTION!.

Save all your work before you run it!

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#1638: Piglet

by pushplay on 06/22/2003 00:35

Yes, that should work, but I wanted something a bit more generalized. You did tag, but that leaves 3 types of triggers, teleport and teledest.

I hate global variables.

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#1639: Removing hud

by Gordon on 06/22/2003 02:07

Hi there!, I have a couple of maps done, really cool, but I wanna get screenshots of them WITHOUT the hud, I simply think it looks better. I hope someone can help me so I can release these maps :)

Thanks

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#1640: Re: Removing hud

by D.plomat on 06/22/2003 02:51, refers to #1639

type: T, then
/hudgun 0

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#1641: Boy Am I Glad I had the Cube Source

by pushplay on 06/22/2003 11:02

While screwing with the lighting I accidentally created a monster of type 8. The game is kind enough to tell me so, but not kind enough to tell me where. I'm at 270 monsters already, so I didn't want to go through them one at a time. Fortunatly I was able to edit the source to have it give me more info on where it was, and in my compiled Cube I was able to track the bastard down and kill him.

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#1642: Re: arrrhhh visual c++ 6.0

by Fish HF on 06/22/2003 16:14, refers to #1637

it compiled :) x1000000

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#1643: Re: Removing hud

by Gordon on 06/22/2003 21:00, refers to #1640

Yah, that removes the gun, but I wanna get out the health, ammo and armr display.

Thanks anyway :)

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#1644: Re: Removing hud

by Goetzenzar on 06/22/2003 21:18, refers to #1643

try /hidestats 1

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#1645: ..

by ~zerro~ on 06/22/2003 21:39

http://zerroxy.cube-city.de/raiden.htm
the new cube mod Raiden 0.5

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#1646: Re: ..

by Case on 06/23/2003 01:39, refers to #1645

This problem has probably been asked a thousand times, so please forgive my n00bage. I am new to linux, I only installed it this week.

How do you install this game? I found two of the required dll files in the folder where i decompressed it, but where do I find the opengl and all? I am running Slackware 9.0. Thanks for your time.

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#1647: Re: Raiden

by D.plomat on 06/23/2003 10:14, refers to #1646

Raiden doesn't contain linux binaries, you've got to copy the bin_unix dir of original Cube into Raiden install dir.
Then normally, if Cube works on your machine, you can:
# cd /where/you/unzipped/raiden
# bin_unix/linux_client
to launch it.

P.S: I know it should be run under non-root, but if you're a newbie, first try to run it as root, then when ok try with other user ;)

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