[fixed] r4034: Selection issues with color picking

[nig]

happening on megaglest v3.7.2-dev
Compiled using: VC++: 1600 on: Jan 16 2013 21:34:05 platform: Windows endianness: little
SVN: [Rev: 4034] - using STREFLOP [SSE] - [no-denormals]

selection via rectangle having strange effects. Wrong items are selected too. See screen at http://megaglest.pzt.me/86wg

sometimes even complete different kinds of units are selected: You selected three initiates and an behemoth is selected too. This is weired because the ordering options are different then of course.

another thing is, that it is nearly impossible to attack a ornithopter by rightclick, when he is above trees. you will always select only trees and all your fighters will be gone, before they did any hit.
all thios happened in scenario "one hope"

greets

[nig]

its really boring... is this the new colourpicking you talk about here:  https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=8579.0  ?

its bader then ever. You cant select egyptian workers standing on Buildings theay build befor, you cant select your own ornithoper above trees. its just not working. And: selection seems to take quite a longer time if a bigger amount of units is selected.

jee.. thats bad.

Greets

[nig]

Yes, seem to be the colour-picking. if the strange behaviour described above appears, you can try to put the following line in your glestuser.ini and restart glest.

Code: [Select]

EnableColorPicking=false
worked fine for me.

[softcoder]

I've tried to fix svn for color picking and improve its performance. Please try out rev#4037 and let me know if it works better for you?

Thanks

[nig]

seems to be a little better in 4039. But still:

cannot select an initiate standing on dead summoners coat.
really hard to klick an persian castle in the desert.

the mysterious zwGet +18 seems to better now too - but now there is a delay up to 3 secs between order and reaction of MG in networkgame.
Maybe it have to switchof debug-logging again?

Greets

[nig]

4040: green snake on green gras: difficult to select.

Greets

[tomreyn]

Maybe it have to switchof debug-logging again?

Please don't use the main debug logging setting (Debug=1/true) unless you are trying to reproduce a specific issue. It will slow down gameplay, increases the chance of timeouts and is not meant to be used in normal games. The DebugNetwork setting comes with the same side effects, just to lesser extent.

Back on topic:
For me (atibox, and if I recall correctly, I should have reported on IRC last night, on i915, too), r4050 (or rather r4048, I think) introduces new problems with color picking. Selecting buildings by simply clicking on them is no longer possible (you need to draw a box across them), right-click attacking with multiple own units selected rarely works, instead units will just walk to some spot which you did not click on.

[nig]

Please don't use the main debug logging setting (Debug=1/true) unless you are trying to reproduce a specific issue.

well, I am hunting ZwGetContextThread!ntdll (null)(0) +18, right?

I am logging to ramdisk now and hope this will work without too bad sideeefects.

Greets

[softcoder]

try 4051

[titi]

this is fixed for sure now since revision 4234