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Bug reports / Re: Trouble with colorpicking in 3.9.0

« on: 24 November 2013, 03:58:33 »

Feel free to review the class: BaseColorPickEntity in model.cpp to see if you can find something wrong with the color assignment. I cannot find anything wrong.

Thanks

*UPDATE: I committed some code to hopefully make this impossible to happen again. Let me know if you are able to reproduce this using svn head.

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Closed bug reports / Re: crash with missing tech tree (in v3.9.0)

« on: 23 November 2013, 19:43:38 »

Fixed in svn

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Closed bug reports / Re: [invalid] v3.9.0 fails to start with translation option set to an invalid value

« on: 22 November 2013, 16:50:33 »

At this point no. There are a number of properties that only need to be set in special cases (like this one). I am not totally sure that some of the properties added are needed anymore and i need to do some testing to weed out older properties that are no longer required.

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Closed bug reports / Re: [invalid] v3.9.0 fails to start with translation option set to an invalid value

« on: 21 November 2013, 21:49:47 »

I just removed it from the english file so it will no show up anymore for other languages once transifex gets the update.

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MegaGlest / Re: 3.9.0 feedback

« on: 21 November 2013, 20:34:39 »

You made add this to glestuser.ini:

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DisableVBO=true
Glad to hear its working somewhat on a eepc

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MegaGlest / Re: Move repo to git?

« on: 21 November 2013, 20:32:54 »

We would really like to move the history with us. pabs (from the debian games team) worked on this a while back and i ftp'd the scripts to an archive at:

http://softcoder.megaglest.org/megaglest-svn-to-git-scripts_only.7z

If possible please see if you can modify the svn and git urls to use a) the new sourceforge svn report url and b) a test git repo and see if the script does what we need.

Once we know the state of that we can start looking at these other steps. (I don't have the bandwidth to be able to run these scripts)

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Closed bug reports / Re: Can't start the game, after installing the 3.9 version Ubutntu 13.04 64 bit

« on: 20 November 2013, 22:41:37 »

Look in hebrew.lng for:

FONT_RIGHTTOLEFT_MIXED_SUPPORT=

This line should NOT contain and hebrew. I am assuming you have a hewbrew.lng file you edited yourself?

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Bug reports / Re: [Rev4773 ] FPS dropping over time and hitting 10-15 fps at worst time.

« on: 20 November 2013, 02:36:09 »

What we need to know is:

a) does this only happen in network games (we must be sure)
b) if network only, does this only happen when a windows player is client only, server only or both?

With this info we could try to track this to its source.

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Bug reports / Re: [Rev4773 ] FPS dropping over time and hitting 10-15 fps at worst time.

« on: 20 November 2013, 00:28:35 »

Is this still relevant given the 3.9.0 release?

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MegaGlest / Re: 3.9.0 feedback

« on: 19 November 2013, 17:32:48 »

Edit glestuser.ini in ~/.megaglest and add this line to see if if helps fix this crash:

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PreCacheCRCThread=false
Thanks

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MegaGlest / Re: 3.9.0 feedback

« on: 19 November 2013, 17:10:34 »

'AI Replacement Multiplier' is shown when 'Advanced Options' is checked. The AI is always a CPU Normal player but you can adjust the resouce multiplier (Default is 1.0). So the player is regular AI by default.

The stack trace doesn't appear to show much useful info. You could try running with the: --verbose parameter and see what the console shows at the time of segfault.

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MegaGlest / Re: Egypt & Roman?

« on: 18 November 2013, 17:34:13 »

Romans have the best defence of all factions, but their attack strength is not even close to Egypt in my opinion. Each faction has strategies you can use to win though in my opinion as long on you have enough resources on the map. With low resources, egypt or Indian usually win.

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MegaGlest / >>> MegaGlest 3.9.0 release! <<<

« on: 18 November 2013, 02:21:22 »

MegaGlest 3.9.0 release - come and get it while its hot (svn revision 4846)
Downloads are below



Installation files are available on sourceforge at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/megaglest_3.9.0/

Linux 32 and 64 bit full and stand alone archives, Windows full and stand alone archives.

Please be aware that there are several mirror servers for sourceforge. After clicking on the file you wish to download you will see a page with fine print allowing you to go to a special page where you can then select a mirror server close to you which has the given file. For example, if you wanted to download MegaGlest-Installer-3.9.0_i386_win32.exe and are from Brazil, you may want to click on said link, ending up on
http://sourceforge.net/settings/mirror_choices?projectname=megaglest&filename=megaglest_3.9.0/MegaGlest-Installer-3.9.0_i386_win32.exe
As a Brazilian, your best choice is probably the mirror server in Brazil, so you would click that one, and restart the download. This time you should get forwarded directly to the brazilian server and thus get a faster download.

Note that we also provide Bittorrent downloads now (click the magnet icons on the download page), this may work better if your Internet connection is less reliable for downloads from far away.

Changelog:

v3.9.0
- we hopefully now really solved the last out of sync problems for cross platform games.
- animated tileset object support. ( like trees moving in the wind )
- new tileset texturing possibilities
- new tilesets birchforest, desert4 and updated mediterran using animated objects and new texture system
- greatly improved textures and animations for the roman faction
- new maps
- better network game performance / management to handle slower clients.
- easier ability to download game content from host and masterserver( if available there ).
- new arranged options menu with several sub menus
- menu gui improvements
- attack hotkey toggles through all attack types
- single player games can be sped up incrementally in steps.
- color picking is greatly improved and the default selection mode now for better compatibility
- greater ability to translate game content into your native language. (including techtrees)
- Added Hebrew, Arabic, Vietnamese (and others).
- screenshots for savegames without annoying menu in screenshot.
- addition of google-breakpad to better track down bugs.
- many new lua functions for scenario modders.
- cell coordinates are shown in the mapeditor
- tilesets can set default air unit heights
- added ability for stand alone mod's to customize more of the engine like about screen.
- performance improvements.
- and as always many bugs were fixed
- improved textures for tech faction

v3.7.1
- bugfixes reported in the bugs forum since 3.7.0

v3.7.0
- bugfixes reported in the bugs forum since 3.6.0.3
- display requirements when a player cannot execute a command
- improved IRC connection handling
- auto word wrapping for message boxes
- headless server can run in local lan mode (does not broadcast to master server)
- Added lua security sandbox
- third person view allows you to follow a selected unit. Select one unit anf press f4 to enable (deselect anf f4 to disable).
- cell markers allow players to create markers anywhere on the map and associate a note with them. All team players see the markers.
- quick sonar signal to tell team players where the action is happening
- admin player can disconnect other network players in game
- saving / loading games.
- when placing a new unit, we display a 'ghosted' model while units walk to the build location to show the space it will occupy
- video playback support (using libvlc)
- network multi-player scenarios
- campaign scenarios
- Integrated language translation support (translate / update your favorite language @ https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/megaglest and pull the files into the game via advanced translation options to test your changes)
- play a sound when player mentions your name in chat mode
- more game data validation for commandline modders, see --help for more info
- many new lua commands for scenario modders
- enhanced AI management (logging and modding) and added more intellegence to decsions
- enhanced game data downloads now allow for downloading data from the mod center instead of game server if available.
- Quick keys in game lobby, SHIFT+<letter>+listbox arrow to jump to that letter in a list
  or Hold CTRL when clicking listbox for network control type to change all non human control values
- enhanced unicode support for non-ascii characters
- customizable unit, resource and upgrade language files
- tilesets support animated models
- scenario factions may now be 'neutral', meaning not on any players team.
- new command action mouse cursors
- resources are selectable showing info about the resource
- particle colors are now affected by the time of day
- new game hints are displayed while loading a new game
- linked faction support (and new techtree MagiTech for classic Glest play)
- added runtime checks to ensure cpu supports expected optimizations of the binary used (sse, x87)
- lots of code cleanup from static analysis such as cppcheck and valgrind
- experimental big endian and non x86 architecure support (need testers to give feedback)

v3.6.0.3 - this is primarily a bugfix release AND IS COMPATIBLE with 3.6.0.2 (only the binaries have changed, data is still the same)

- cmake build fixes (for newer libircclient 1.6 support, custom data path's etc)
- fixed vbo bug causing numerous clients to crash for certain video drivers
- g3dviewer fixes + ability to specify image size of auto screenshots on commandline
-  battle end screen no longer chopped off for 8 player display
- proper use of fontconfig so various linux distros will find the fonts specified regardless of actual location
- Windows headless server hosting is now fixed



Edit (tomreyn): We do not currently provide Bittorrent downloads for 3.9.0, but may do so upon request.

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MegaGlest / Re: Rock Solid Stable - Release Time

« on: 17 November 2013, 01:39:49 »

We are preparing a release v3.9 tonight (GMT -8) or tomorrow. All is in great shape, and testing has been fantastic. v3.9 will be a classic for a long time to come.

Keep watch for release details.

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MegaGlest / Re: Rock Solid Stable - Release Time

« on: 16 November 2013, 21:40:54 »

The problem is that we switched to a 2 digit version system after 3.7.0, but we did not properly reflect that during the beta's for 3.8. We SHOULD HAVE set version #'s to 3.8-dev, 3.8-beta1, 3.8-beta2 and finally 3.8 on release. I think we  will need to set the release to v3.9 to correct this and then remember to use the 2 digit system in the future. This was intended so that the 3rd digit is just a marker indicating minor changes but still compatible. I have added unit tests in svn to describe how versioning is expected to work for future reference.

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Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: Island Survival. (Adventure Scenario)

« on: 14 November 2013, 07:05:35 »

A campfire could set enemy speed to 0 for a certain radius make it a 'safe' zone.

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MegaGlest / New command line command to create data archives

« on: 14 November 2013, 07:04:03 »

I added a new comandline parameter this evening that allows you to have megaglest use 7z to create 7z data archvies for: a) techtrees, b) tilesets or both.

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megaglest --create-data-archives=all
This is useful for sharing techtrees and tilesets that you have locally but other network players (nor masterserver) do not.
This is a convenience command only and i don't want to expand its usage much beyond what is already there (a shortcut for calling 7z for soem game data)

Its a good way to refresh your shared data archives when working on mod data.

Thanks

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Closed bug reports / Re: [fixed] Hebrew translation wrog menue order, Beta.3.8.0_beta1

« on: 13 November 2013, 07:57:58 »

I fixed (i think) the multi line problem. Regarding 'mixed' right to left and left to right lines of text, i added an experimental way to display this, but its not perfect and may slow things down. Using a current svn build you would set this in the language lng file:

FONT_RIGHTTOLEFT_MIXED_SUPPORT=true

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Bug reports / Re: [bug] Hebrew translation wrog menue order, Beta.3.8.0_beta1 ubuntu 13.04 64bit

« on: 12 November 2013, 13:59:36 »

The problem seems to occur when you mix Right To Left and Left To Right together in the same line.

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Bug reports / Re: [bug] Hebrew translation wrog menue order, Beta.3.8.0_beta1 ubuntu 13.04 64bit

« on: 11 November 2013, 22:17:27 »

Sorry but your image is not showing in the post so we cannot see the problem

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Closed bug reports / Re: SVN 4682 $ crashes after 4,5 min on WIN7 64-bit Binary

« on: 9 November 2013, 21:41:46 »

Try the latest win64 on softcoder.megaglest.org/megaglest64.exe and report back on results.

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MegaGlest / Rock Solid Stable - Release Time

« on: 9 November 2013, 07:31:12 »

We have been testing 3.8.0 all week and I just wanted to say, that network play is finally incredibly stable! We are able to play cross platform games with 5-6 humans and 2 CPU's for 60 minutes with no lag and no out of synchs. We will be releasing likely tomorrow (Saturday) and look forward to hearing about your experiences with 3.8.0.

Enjoy!

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Closed bug reports / Re: SVN 4682 $ crashes after 4,5 min on WIN7 64-bit Binary

« on: 8 November 2013, 17:04:17 »

More bug fixes, try again same location.

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Closed bug reports / Re: SVN 4682 $ crashes after 4,5 min on WIN7 64-bit Binary

« on: 8 November 2013, 16:29:51 »

I think i found the root cause of your issue. Please download again and test:

softcoder.megaglest.org/megaglest64.exe

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Closed bug reports / Re: SVN 4682 $ crashes after 4,5 min on WIN7 64-bit Binary

« on: 8 November 2013, 15:37:17 »

Please grab the latest from here and try again (more tracking of the problem)

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[url=http://softcoder.megaglest.org/megaglest64.exe]softcoder.megaglest.org/megaglest64.exe[/url]