EDuke32 thread part 3

[TerminX]

That might be possible in the future but it's not a high priority right now.

[The Commander]

Originally Posted by TerminX

That might be possible in the future but it's not a high priority right now.

Thank you for that, because it will still be a while (ETA March) before id be happy with a proper release of Duke Theft Auto.

[TerminX]

Okay, importing 8-bit tiles via the .defs is possible now. Death to editart.exe!

[240-185]

I'm playing a lot of user maps, but it seems that I can't go further in this one, because Eduke32 crashes at a certain point of this map. Here's the log: HERE

and then Eduke32 exits. I'm using the 11/22/2008 snapshot, the HRP and DukePlus mods. What's wrong with them?

[TerminX]

Upgrade DukePlus I guess.

[240-185]

The problem is that I use the latest version (1.91) :/

[The Commander]

I think it's the map its self. I didn't see anything in the log saying it chrashed any hows.

[DeeperThought]

Originally Posted by 240-185

The problem is that I use the latest version (1.91) :/

Is there some specific point in the map where it always crashes? If so, it might help if you could provide a saved game file from right before the crash.

[240-185]

Yup, it's a specific point of the map.

Here's the save. You have to jump into the hole, you will fall into the water and three monsters should say hello to you...

[DeeperThought]

Originally Posted by 240-185

Yup, it's a specific point of the map.

Here's the save. You have to jump into the hole, you will fall into the water and three monsters should say hello to you...

It does indeed crash, and I don't know why. I hope TX can help with this.

But I also noticed that using the latest snapshot, there are tons of log errors. When I tried an earlier snapshot, there were no errors but it still crashed. A little investigation revealed that in the latest snapshot, when the player uses espawn, sometimes RETURN is set to -1, so when the player tries to set things on the RETURN sprite, invalid sprite ID errors are generated.

[LoneFox]

The latest snapshot (20081121) crashes when switching weapon.
Backtrace from gdb:

#0  0x000000000043044e in P_AddWeaponNoSwitch (p=0x134ef400, weapon=6)
    at source/actors.c:113
#1  0x000000000043063a in P_AddWeapon (p=0x134ef400, weapon=69)
    at source/actors.c:159
#2  0x00000000004a0b0d in G_HandleSharedKeys (snum=0) at source/sector.c:3030
#3  0x0000000000415f0f in G_DoMoveThings () at source/game.c:12740
#4  0x000000000042c057 in app_main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff35722338)
    at source/game.c:12044
#5  0x0000000000518999 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff35722338)
    at src/sdlayer.c:204

My system is self-compiled linux x86_64 (CRUX/LFS hybrid), gcc 4.3.2.

[Hendricks266]

Has the loading an .art file from a .zip file bug been fixed?

Why can't I increase my anistropy when I can in SWP?

[Jblade]

Originally Posted by TerminX

Okay, importing 8-bit tiles via the .defs is possible now. Death to editart.exe!

Nice I'm sure it could come in handy for me at some point.

You recently added a feature that plays a midi with the same name as the usermap you're playing - is it possible to do this with def files or cons as well? It's not something I need at all myself but I imagine something like that could be really handy for usermaps that use new art and stuff.

In anycase though thanks for all the work you're putting into Eduke lately, it's making modding much easier.

[TerminX]

The crash when falling into the water is a legitimate crash which has been fixed. Going to need more information from LoneFox to fix anything with the other one.

[Another Duke Fan]

Originally Posted by TerminX

The crash when falling into the water is a legitimate crash which has been fixed. Going to need more information from LoneFox to fix anything with the other one.

I must admit that this latest version seems to bring some improved caching management or so. It runs like butter on my machine without any stuttering or mouse movement locking. Whatever it is, it is a real improvement over the gameplay to me. Thank you TX.

[Sobek]

*edit* Removed my wall of text. It seems the latest snapshot (eduke32_snapshot_20081121) semi-screws up OGG audio playback. Only half or so of my custom OGG tracks play, the rest seem to be ignored and the game just plays the stock .mid file instead. I can still however manually change songs until I reach my custom replacement, and it works fine.

All previous snapshots play all OGG files fine.

[TerminX]

A lot of stuff got changed internally... upload the defs and the oggs somewhere and I'll take a look.

[Sobek]

Happy to upload whatever you need, though the OGG replacements I use are all without DEF modifications. At the moment they're just sitting in their own \highres\music folder in the main Duke3d directory (it's just the easiest/fastest way for me to test the influence of different music scores on maps). They're all 128kbit/s CBR OGG's that replace existing audio, like dethtoll.ogg, stalker.ogg, grabbag.ogg and so on, all retaining the same names.

[LoneFox]

Originally Posted by TerminX

Going to need more information from LoneFox to fix anything with the other one.

I start the game, load a saved game, try to switch weapon, and segmentation fault happens.

Now, when I was writing that sentence I realized something and tested a bit more. The crash happens only with savegames from previous version. If I start a new game, or load a game that is saved with this version, it doesn't crash. So, it appears to be savefile compatibility problem.

[DeeperThought]

Originally Posted by LoneFox

I start the game, load a saved game, try to switch weapon, and segmentation fault happens.

Now, when I was writing that sentence I realized something and tested a bit more. The crash happens only with savegames from previous version. If I start a new game, or load a game that is saved with this version, it doesn't crash. So, it appears to be savefile compatibility problem.

Savefile compatibility gets broken frequently with updates and I doubt there is any way to avoid it as long as EDuke32 is undergoing major changes.

[TerminX]

I guess I forgot to prevent old saves from being loaded when I last did something which changed them. I hate it when I forget to make everyone's savegames and demos incompatible.

[Usurper]

It's a shame you changed your avatar, seeing as how your next snapshot is going to make us all your bitches again.

[Hendricks266]

I have an idea.

I was looking at http://wiki.eduke32.com/wiki/Palette_data_files. Is it possible to add more in-game global palette switches to LOOKUP.DAT/TABLES.DAT at index 1+(num_tables*768) for use with setgamepalette?

For example, if I wanted to have the Doom palette after the VICTORY1 palette, then I would have a rotatesprite screen-cover that loaded that palette.

Another example is adding in palettes to allow for correct rotatesprite replication of the addon cutscenes.

[TerminX]

Snapshot discussion will be continued at http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=33763. Please post any bug reports or legitimate feature requests in their own threads with an [EDuke32] prefix from now on. Thanks!