No rendering on screen (and no way to fix it without accessing newer assets)

[Hamlet]

Hello all,

I am trying to compile and play The Dark Mod under my platform (Gentoo Linux).
After patching the patchable to make it compile, it turns out that no rendering is shown on screen at all: black screen (with resolution change), mouse is responsive and I can hear the reaction of the GUI to its movement (clicks and all); also the background music (soothing, charming, beautiful... but that you know already) cuddles my ears.
I started the bisection of the code from version 2.05 (I think... it was r6753) to r7203. It took me a while (none of the commits compiles out of the box, and different ones require different patches), and in the end I found that r6834 works for me (at least the menu screen!), while r6835 does not any more (as above).
I have the output to screen of two runs. In thedarkmod-r6834.txt, I started it with no arguments, and then quit. In thedarkmod-r6835.txt, I started it with no arguments, then I switched to a text console and killed it (because I could not see the GUI to quit). The only files that changed between the two runs are thedarkmod.x86, gamex86.so and tdm_game02.pk4.

Any suggestion for me to have this work?

Edited November 3, 2017 by Hamlet

[duzenko]

You need the new glprocs from the assets svn

[Hamlet]

O, I see... I think. The updater log reports updating to version 2.05, and SVN code requires "assets" newer than that.

 

My peruse of the forum search suggests that the assets repository is not public. Anything I can do to work around that?

[duzenko]

I already voiced making the assets svn public in the internal forums.

Can't do anything beyond this other than suggest bumping this thread monthly.

[Hamlet]

Thank you for the answer.

[nbohr1more]

I'll try to get you a pack of assets when I get a chance. I agree with Duzenko though. We need public read only assets for SVN builds. Even if it's just for glprogs and material defs.

[duzenko]

I'll try to get you a pack of assets when I get a chance. I agree with Duzenko though. We need public read only assets for SVN builds. Even if it's just for glprogs and material defs.

And scripts, importantly.

[VanishedOne]

And scripts, importantly.

Seconded; SteveL once had to PM me some bugfixed scripts after I pointed out there was no public access to them.

[freyk]

just for my info,

have you played/runned tdm yet, whithout compiling the code, hamlet?

 

edit:

i have tot read the ts better.

without compiling code,

to me, its a video driver problem.

Edited November 2, 2017 by freyk

[duzenko]

just for my info,

have you played/runned tdm yet, whithout compiling the code, hamlet?

 

edit:

i have tot read the ts better.

without compiling code,

to me, its a video driver problem.

No, it's missing glprocs

[Hamlet]

just for my info,

have you played/runned tdm yet, whithout compiling the code, hamlet?

 

I successfully run with version 2.05 (downloaded binaries), and with compiled sources (with some patching, up to commit r6834).

[nbohr1more]

I thought you already got SVN asset access?

 

Anyway, to confirm Duzenko's assertion, here are the glprogs:

 

glprogs.zip.txt

[duzenko]

I thought you already got SVN asset access?

 

Anyway, to confirm Duzenko's assertion, here are the glprogs:

 

glprogs.zip.txt

Might also need the new scripts, depending on where the breaking change happened.

[nbohr1more]

Might as well hand over GUI and Scripts:

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6148kl3nrg4VUFkQ3RDN1VVcmM

[Crinkelite]

I'm having the same issue, where do I place the files from the glprocs.zip?

[teh_saccade]

I might be wrong but...

Backup your tdm_base01.pk4 and tdm_gui01.pk4

the scripts will go into the tdm_base01.pk4 (as zip) /scripts, overwrite all

and the guis as... tdm_gui01.pk4/gui, overwrite all.

 

 

 

 

// that was terrible english... corrected.

Edited December 17, 2017 by teh_saccade