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#8908: Re: Plain

by Titanic12ship on 08/29/2007 20:54, refers to #8905

My website started out pretty plain. just a title page and the levels pages. Now, it has a lot more features and looks better. I know it is the content that matters, but how come Quadropollis has different colors and a lot of features? This is what I never quite understood.

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#8909: Re: Plain

by Titanic12ship on 08/29/2007 20:54, refers to #8905

My website started out pretty plain. just a title page and the levels pages. Now, it has a lot more features and looks better. I know it is the content that matters, but how come Quadropollis has different colors and a lot of features? This is what I never quite understood.

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#8910: Problems With Vista!

by Dimo on 08/29/2007 23:40

Hey Guys! I just downloaded the latest version of Sauerbraten (2007_8_19), and installed it on Windows Vista Home Basic. Unfortunately when I tried to start it, I always get an error while creating the acticvation context, saying the manifest file in the bin/ directory conflicts with another already active manifest file in windows. Do you have any idea how to deal with this?
Thank you!
Dimo

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#8911: Re: Problems With Vista!

by SanHolo on 08/29/2007 23:58, refers to #8910

I have no idea about your Vista-Problems, but there already is a newer version, the one from 2007_8_27. ;-)

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#8912: Re: Plain

by tentus_ on 08/30/2007 00:16, refers to #8905

Hey hey, a site that checks out with Tidy, how rare! :) I see so few sites that actually pass 100%, it really makes my day. It's surprising too, I've never had any trouble with tracking down bugs and fixing them (other than youtube embeds, there's no good way around that).

Titanic, you seem to misunderstand KISS. A site can have a developed theme and lots of features, but if they're not consistent and in harmony then you're going to suffer. This very site (cubeengine.com) enjoys a simple but effective system- the tried and true navigation to the left, a low-key color scheme, and a logic pattern for content.

As a starting place, consider Sauerbraten's already established color scheme- brown and orange on every load. Obviously, cubeengine uses the same colors, and then quadropolis uses quite similar colors (more grey, but orange and brown are present). Ask yourself how you would like to deviate from these patterns to create a new look without doing something radically different- perhaps a more steely blue would go well with the black you've been using, without being to glaringly opposed to the orange sauer logo.

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#8913: Re: Problems With Vista!

by eihrul on 08/30/2007 02:59, refers to #8910

Delete Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest file in the bin directory

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#8914: Re: Help a long time user of sauerbraten

by darkwade on 08/30/2007 04:13, refers to #8885

what do you mean a pause the word PAUSE or
a space.

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#8915: ..

by Muki Hyena on 08/30/2007 07:30

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a142/KamunouHyena/crosshair.png Have a relatively flexible crosshair... feels good in close range, but it doesn't have so much on the screen that it obstructs sniping.

Works best with crosshairsize = 30.

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#8916: Re: ..

by eihrul on 08/30/2007 08:14, refers to #8915

There is a loadcrosshair "file_name_here" command in CVS if you can compile from CVS.

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#8917: Re: Plain

by Drakas on 08/30/2007 11:13, refers to #8907

seems like you don't know what XHTML is.... http://www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml

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#8918: Models questions

by FireDragoN on 08/30/2007 15:59

Why are the weopon-models using md2 and all other models md3? I can\'t export with milkshape 3d the md2 files, only md3 (and all other)

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#8919: ..

by makkE on 08/30/2007 16:27

Because they come from a time when cube only had md2 support.

You can export them, you just need to have at least one joint that all vertices are assigned to.

It doesnīt matter where it is. Just add one, click "select unassigned" in the joint tab, then "assign".

But you donīt need to do it, in fact, donīt use md2, itīs a crappy format.
If you donīt leave the original tris.md2 in the folder (means be sure to delete it), you can use a md3 in the folder.
Sauer only looks for "tris.md2" first, then for "tris.md3" or if a cfg exsists, it loads whatever filename.md3 it specifies.

Check the wiki on further info on md2/md3 and configs.

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#8920: Re: Plain

by rancor on 08/30/2007 18:12, refers to #8917

I'm actually aware of these issues, however I determined that the future proof aspect of XHTML outweighs them.

The article is somewhat misleading in implying that the typical end result of any mismatch is having the content parsed as 'tag soup'. Even if the content is served with the text/html type (which iirc is still correct for XHTML 1.0), all browsers, including IE, will still parse the page in standards compliant mode, which is markedly better then quirks mode, which is what would be used for 'tag soup'.

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#8921: Re: Plain

by Drakas on 08/30/2007 19:06, refers to #8920

W3 have made a bad mistake, that's all. If you are looking at making future-proof XHTML sites, then perhaps work with XHTML 2.0 (which no browsers support yet)! That's called future-proof.

That article is not misleading at all, by the way.

Many problems for webpages can be fixed simply by changing the doctype from xhtml to html.

the (very funny) thing is that the w3 validator will say that your xhtml documents are valid, but they are really not valid when interpreted as html (with you render "xhtml" in quirks mode). This brings what you can call a tag soup that in cases converts <img src="blah.png" /> to <img src="blah.png"><br> (write an XHTML document and give to the browser as HTML).

I don't really see any advantages of >TRYING< to use XHTML in comparison to writing clean and future-proof HTML. So far HTML is actually supported by the market-dominating browsers, so why go the opposite direction?

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#8922: Re: Plain

by SanHolo on 08/30/2007 19:15, refers to #8920

I'd second that. The good thing about XHTML is that you won't forget closing tags, otherwise the page won't render. I do serve one XHTML 1.0 strict page as "text/html", though, because the maintainers there want to be able to write their own HTML-tags (instead of BBCode), which are not always correct.

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#8923: Re: Plain

by Drakas on 08/30/2007 22:02, refers to #8922

blah blah.... your reasons make it look like writers of XHTML are idiots.
I wonder why does validator.w3.org exist at all? What about Tidy, an application that can sort out all HTML problems?

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#8924: Re: Plain

by rancor on 08/31/2007 00:24, refers to #8921

I've never noted any problems nearly as drastic, honestly. I don't count IE6 problems, since it requires too many hacks to begin with. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode

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#8925: Vista Problem

by wierdoom on 08/31/2007 01:27

I have just installed Sauerbraten (I have Vista), and I getting a weird error when i try to start it, then it crashes. Pic: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8105/sauererrerfe1.jpg
Help would be appreciated.

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#8926: Re: Vista Problem

by MeatROme on 08/31/2007 02:19, refers to #8925

patches have been submitted ... see the "side-by-side" thread ... here : http://cubeengine.com/forum.php4?action=display_thread&thread_id=1516

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#8927: Re: Vista Problem

by ThomasX on 08/31/2007 12:43, refers to #8925

You have Vista?
Get XP, It's better then Vista in anyway.

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