Darkradiant 1.0 Roadmap

[Fidcal]

Thanks. I'll take one of each please.

[Fidcal]

Quick sanity test and 64 bit version up and running with no obvious problems. I'll copy the other version over to my old machine and check it out in the morning with the release.

[Mortem Desino]

32-bit looks and operates just fine.

I spent about 5 hours on it creating new maps, editing bits of old maps, and expanding on my WIP.

 

New tiny features and tweaks are very useful (clone creates its copy offset from the original, Entity Inspector no longer retains info in the textbox when selecting a new entity.) The new color coding is also nice. I can now differentiate between path (purple) and lightswitch (orange) targets! Color-coded light entities are also a very useful feature for matching the color of a light with the color of a fixture.

 

Most importantly: no bugs, anomalies, or nitpicks to report so far.

[OrbWeaver]

Entity Inspector no longer retains info in the textbox when selecting a new entity.)

 

Wasn't that added intentionally, to allow copying keyvalues between entities? Or is there a better way of doing this now?

[greebo]

Yes, I think it was an actual feature request to leave the textboxes unchanged when changing entity selections. I haven't checked, doesn't this work anymore?

[Mortem Desino]

Not anymore. I was selecting a path_corner_1's "name" keyvalue so I could promptly enter it as the target of path_corner_2.

 

Reproduction method

 

1. Select ent_1.

2. Select ent_1's "name" spawnarg. (text boxes change to show "name" "ent_1")

3. ESC to deselect ent_1. (textboxes still have "name" "ent_1")

4. Select ent_2.

5. Textboxes have changed to "name" "ent_2"

 

 

I could get used to either method, but the previous is useful for quickly setting up path_corner targets and adding noshadows spawnargs while optimizing.

[greebo]

Hrm, so this needs fixing, I like that (previous) functionality.

[SneaksieDave]

Damn, confirmed. Property name is retained, but second selected entity's value populates the field.

[SneaksieDave]

Another thing I wanted to mention but forgot to: you can symmetrically drag-resize a light to have negative values for dimensions. Not sure whether this would cause any problems for D3 or TDM. Significant enough for tracker entry, or already examined and determined non-problem?

[greebo]

Yes, please report.

[greebo]

Damn, confirmed. Property name is retained, but second selected entity's value populates the field.

It's fixed now. This was due to another bugfix I added to address the entry boxes not being updated when a property is changed using the specialised editor below the fields. Expect it to be fixed in the final 1.0.0 release.

[Fidcal]

No success with the 32 bit. I get a configuration error message if I try to run it. I uninstalled and deleted the folder from documents and settings and tried again but with the same result. I notice it hasn't created a new folder in documents and settings.

 

Is there something else one needs to do when first installing?

[greebo]

The VC++ redist package, perhaps?

[Fidcal]

OK, got it. downloaded again. Hope it doesn't need internet connection on my other machine.

 

 

Getting a 30 metre ethernet cable this weekend so that will help instead of transferring by flash drive.

[Fidcal]

Yes that fixed it thanks.

[greebo]

Oh my, that sourceforge website has gained at least three levels of crappiness since the last DarkRadiant release. There is no proper file management system anymore (instead they went crazy with useless AJAX features) and I seem to be unable to send out the release announcement on the mailing list. That, and a completely illogical navigation approach makes that site nearly unusable. What a fail!

[Tels]

Oh my, that sourceforge website has gained at least three levels of crappiness since the last DarkRadiant release. There is no proper file management system anymore (instead they went crazy with useless AJAX features) and I seem to be unable to send out the release announcement on the mailing list. That, and a completely illogical navigation approach makes that site nearly unusable. What a fail!

 

At least I am no longer alone in hating SF Just a few days ago I ended up with a few HTML files because I quickly clicked "Save link as", "downloaded" a few things, and hurried of - only to be fooled by their "you have choosen to download blah from blurg" intermidiate page.....