[Not a bug] possible bug rev979 cloaking not working :(

[wciow]

I just downloaded the rev979 snapshot and invisible daemons file to see if the cloaking works but nothing seems to happen  

[John.d.h]

I just downloaded the rev979 snapshot and invisible daemons file to see if the cloaking works but nothing seems to happen 

I don't know about you, but I had a problem with the archive, so maybe it's just not loading the add-on.  Extracting it and re-compressing fixed it for me.

[Omega]

This probably sounds totally nooby, but.... What cloaking?

[Yggdrasil]

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/glestae/ticket/206

Cloaking is implemented in svn trunk. The snapshots are from the svn branch 0.3.x. So the snapshot doesn't support cloaking. You need to compile svn trunk on your own to test this very new feature.

[Zoythrus]

wow! its actually happening!!!!!

[silnarm]

Here you go then,

http://sourceforge.net/projects/glestae/files/snapshots/gae-win32-trunk-rev992.zip/download

In order for the invisible daemons to work, you will need to run the game once, quit, load up glestadv.ini, and set RenderUseShaders=false, Hailstone's new shader code doesn't know about alpha for cloaking or fading corpses.

[wciow]

Cloaking is working now, thanks 

Shaders are not working, it make no difference whether shaders are on or off, cloaking still works but buildings look the same.

Also found a bug related to screenshots. When I take a screenshot Glest crashes with "cannot create screens directory" but screens is already present in the user/glestadv folder 

[Yggdrasil]

silnarm most likely didn't include the shader code and normal maps in the snapshot, so it falls back to the normal render path even with shaders enabled.

If you really want to follow development closely you need to learn how to compile svn trunk. It's difficult to provide snapshots as data changes too.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/glestae/wiki/CompileGuide

[Zoythrus]

also, detecting doesnt work. what's the point of cloak if you cant counter it?

also, units that are cloaked will remain cloaked even if they morph to a non-cloaked unit.

[silnarm]

silnarm most likely didn't include the shader code and normal maps in the snapshot, so it falls back to the normal render path even with shaders enabled.

Yep, I remembered the shaders, but not the normal maps.

also, detecting doesnt work. what's the point of cloak if you cant counter it?

A. Work in progress.
B. detectors seem to work just fine for me (in terms of game mechanics anyway, the graphical representation of this needs changing...).

also, units that are cloaked will remain cloaked even if they morph to a non-cloaked unit.

Thanks, will fix.