Pre-release Testers needed

[greebo]

Thanks Komag for hunting that one down, I'll look into that. Hopefully I can reproduce that easily.

[greebo]

Oh crap this is yet another issue related to the TransientWindow stuff. I get the feeling that's the twentieth bug I tried to fix with these damn windows - there is some double-deletion going on somewhere, maybe some shared_ptr deletion gets in the way. Argh.

[greebo]

Ok, I was barking up the wrong tree here. The crash was due to the "map valid callback" not being reset after ~XYWnd was destroyed. The bug is fixed now and we should be ready for release!

 

The new installer is uploaded to the FTP: http://208.49.149.118/TheDarkMod/DarkRadia...diant-0.9.5.exe

 

That's it for me today, Happy Christmas everybody!

[Komag]

Other than that one thing, I've been using DR for a couple days, a lot, and have not noticed any other issues. (besides the dos window being gone, but I like that!) So it seems that it works fine. It would be better if there was one other person testing too, but oh well.

[greebo]

Angua is also using this release candidate in Vista, so I guess it's safe to release it. If people are running into serious issues - well that's the only way to find it out.

[OrbWeaver]

I guess if the bugs are mostly ironed out I should jump in now and do a final QA, as promised (where "now" means "in the next couple of days"). I'll also see about getting a DEB constructed for Ubuntu.

[OrbWeaver]

Hmm, I get a consistent crash when performing a Shift-Drag select (select partial tall) in Top view, in both haunt_city and mansion_alpha maps. The size of the box does not make a difference. Interestingly this does not happen in bonehoard, although I may be using an old (and much smaller) version of the map.

[greebo]

Yes, I can reproduce that in blackheart_manor.map, but only in the main mansion area. I'll fire up the debugger.

[greebo]

Ok, this is fixed in SVN. I've assembled a new installer with that fix:

 

http://208.49.149.118/TheDarkMod/DarkRadia...diant-0.9.5.exe

[Komag]

I couldn't reproduce it on my own maps... Maybe it was only a problem if a certain type of thing is selected?

[greebo]

It was probably related to selecting degenerate faces, i.e. windings with 0 vertices. These things can happen when clipped brushes are drag-resized or so.

 

(I recently changed the data structure of the Winding class to std::vector, which doesn't like de-referencing the front() reference.)

[OrbWeaver]

(I recently changed the data structure of the Winding class to std::vector, which doesn't like de-referencing the front() reference.)

 

Do you mean this is a problem for empty vectors? I would expect front() to be invalid in this case, but it should work for non-empty vectors.

[greebo]

Erm, yes that's what I meant. I guess I was finished thinking before I was typing.

[Komag]

After a few more days there's one thing I've noticed. My Texture Browser window doesn't remember it's size and location between DR sessions.

 

I use "Split" view and only open the Texture Browser floating window by hitting T when I want to use it, then I close it. I can open it again later and it does remember the adjusted size and location, but when I close DR and start it again that's when it goes back to default, a tiny window in the wrong place for me.

 

I believe that it used to remember it, but now I'm not sure.

[greebo]

Please add this to the tracker. I'm far too busy with the objectives GUI and other stuff, so there's no chance I'm going to look into this before the 0.9.5 release.

[OrbWeaver]

@Greebo: I'm assuming that you are concentrating full-time on the Thief's Den release, so I haven't been doing the Windows QA testing for the 0.9.5 snapshot. After the release, we will probably want to create an updated installer since there are a couple of minor bugfixes it would be nice to have in 0.9.5.

[greebo]

I can create a new installer package this evening, if you want me to.

[oDDity]

I'd give it a go, but since updating SVN I get this error on starting Doom

 

C:\doom3\base\game00.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
Addon pk4s:
file system initialized.
--------------------------------------
Unknown command 'vid_restart'
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...shutting down QGL
Couldn't load default.cfg

[greebo]

This isn't exactly a DarkRadiant problem, but it sounds like the game can't load your base/pak000.pk4. The default.cfg file is in that package and D3 is missing it obviously.

 

I assume you are starting D3 with +set fs_game darkmod?

[OrbWeaver]

I can create a new installer package this evening, if you want me to.

 

I wouldn't worry about it for now, I almost certainly won't have any time for testing this week (starting a new job tomorrow), and it's probably better to wait for the Thief's Den release in any case to avoid extra divisions of labour.

[oDDity]

This isn't exactly a DarkRadiant problem, but it sounds like the game can't load your base/pak000.pk4. The default.cfg file is in that package and D3 is missing it obviously.

 

I assume you are starting D3 with +set fs_game darkmod?

 

Can you upload that pk4 somewhere. I seem to have lost it, and its also on Doom CD 3 which I can't find.

It's only a small one with a few text files in it, right?

[greebo]

Um, can't upload it, it's 344 MB!

[oDDity]

I deleted all the big pk4 files from doom, because I didn't think you needed any of the default doom content to play TDM.

[Crispy]

TDM does use a fair amount of stock D3 content.

 

The zombies are reskinned D3 zombies, some maps use "Hell" textures, and a lot of the "utility"-type textures (light falloff maps and such) are from Doom 3. Also some placeholder sounds, and probably a bunch of other things I forgot.

[Tels]

TDM does use a fair amount of stock D3 content.

 

The zombies are reskinned D3 zombies, some maps use "Hell" textures, and a lot of the "utility"-type textures (light falloff maps and such) are from Doom 3. Also some placeholder sounds, and probably a bunch of other things I forgot.

 

Most of the code, a lot of virtual shader materials (_black, _white), a whole set of sounds for night/machinery. There is probably a lot more.