TDM 1.02 broke my mousewheel!11!

[ungoliant]

so i finally booted up Awaiting the Storm to play it, (first time playing an FM since 1.02) and made a strange discovery. My mousewheel is now dysfunctional. Very odd behavior.

 

Both mwheel up and down are set to scroll up and down weapons. When I have no weapons equipped, neither button works. If I manually select a weapon, I can scroll DOWN through weapons with mwheel down until i get to blackjack, and then the next click will deselect all weapons, and won't recycle from the top. If I manually select any weapon and then use mwheel up, my weapon is unequipped, no matter which one i'm equipped with. When using the TDM main menu to set bindings, both buttons will assign bindings perfectly.

 

I thought maybe this might be an FM specific bug, so I reinstalled Return To The City, and ran it. Exact same behavior.

 

Any clues on this???? (Outside of TDM the mousewheel functions perfectly)

[Serpentine]

Yup, it's a known issue :/

 

http://bugs.angua.at/view.php?id=2234

[greebo]

I'll be looking into it.

[greebo]

Ah, this has been caused by the requested change to have inventory items stacked at the top of the category (to have newly acquired keys appear first when browsing through the inventory) - as a consequence weapon items were added in reverse order and this broke the NextWeapon() / PrevWeapon() logic.

 

I've fixed this in my local working copy by adding double protection to make the selection code immune to any order changes. Though I can't commit to SVN right now, the server is down.

[LEGION]

So what to do with the .patch-file?

Or do I have to wait for the next update?

 

For me this is a serious bug because I´m playing with GamePad and have no space for the direct weapon-keys.

[Berny]

I also have this problem... Just to say it

 

 

[LEGION]

So, is there a way one/me could patch this him-/myself with this ominous .patch-file on the Bugtracker-page there or do I have to wait for the update?

[Mortem Desino]

So, is there a way one/me could patch this him-/myself with this ominous .patch-file on the Bugtracker-page there or do I have to wait for the update?

 

If you've got the TDM source code from the website, and you know basic C++, you can easy patch the code yourself.

 

Or you can patiently wait for the next update.

[Komag]

I've just learned to live with it

[LEGION]

Due to my GamePad-use this is really a problem (I´m not playing from a desk, and my keyboard is at the moment on my legs, but while playing this is really uncomfortable so I place it in a vertical line left of me and in almost complete darkness it was really hard for me to find the water arrow last night...) for me so I´ll at least try...

 

//downloading Sourcecode

//looking into it

 

Ähem, I guess I should copy the content of the .patch-file into DarkMod/Inventory/Category.cpp? I haven´t done anything yet. And if so, what then? For now I´ve created a folder for the content of the code in the DarkMod-folder. I know, this won´t do anything.

 

Are you willing to help me out, Mortem? All I know about C++ is that it is all text (not 0´s and 1´s) and with // you can add comments.

 

If it is a long way so I´ll be patient but if it will be a few steps I would really like to (let you do me) do it.

 

edit: I just looked into a tutorial for C++ and it is really not my world. They say it is really easy, but I don´t even know C.

 

So if this will cost me more than one day than I´ll step back to be patient. I could try to play without the use of weapons...

Edited July 9, 2010 by LEGION

[Mortem Desino]

If you don't know your basics around Visual C++, then I wouldn't recommend patching it yourself. It's rather difficult to explain to a beginner. Sorry.

[LEGION]

Ok, never mind. I (feared) thought so.

[aidakeeley]

They say it is really easy...

 

They lie.

[Komag]

I also play with a gamepad (an Xbox 360 controller), without issue - what program are you using to set it up? I use Pinnacle Profiler - so many advanced options, and shifted commands, make more than enough buttons for everything I've found.

[LEGION]

Pinnacle scared me away, cause it wants payment. I know, it´s very good and have the walk/run-feature for the analog-sticks. Actually I´m using JoyToKey, that is very simple. I tried much some time ago and really Pinnacle was the best, maybe I look into it again, don´t remember the prize...

[LEGION]

I´m right now testing Pinnacle again, or I should say fighting. Is it possible to make combinations on my Pad to emulate a completely different key?

 

for example: Button 5 I want to be the combo key. So, button 6 is for 'next weapon'. I want 'prev weapon' when I press button 5+6. Is that possible?

 

ATM I´m experimenting with press/hold button commands. This is good for my two crouch-heights but I don´t know what to do with the weapon keys. I know the program has a help-file, but as I search for 'shifted' it shows me nothing useful.

 

edit: I found it, this new Quad Shift -thing seems to be the key...

Edited July 10, 2010 by LEGION

[Komag]

It's a very complex program, and sometimes hard to set up, but I've used it to great effect with Mass Effect 1 and 2, all Thief games, Morrowind and Oblivion, and others. You can basically set up anything to do anything if you learn it enough.

[LEGION]

Yeah, just bought it. It´s cool than you can even add ForceFeedback-effects to things like Jump/Mantle and Attack. Really powerful. Though, DarkMod and the Thief´s are the only PC-games I use right now it seems to be worth the buy...

[ungoliant]

I also play with a gamepad (an Xbox 360 controller)

 

:o

 

with TDM?!? Blasphemer!!!!!

[Komag]

No way man, it's way more comfortable! I can get more "into it" because I don't have to look at the keyboard ever to make sure I'm pressing the right thing, but can sit back and relax and focus on the game, very nice

 

[LEGION]

Yeah, that´s my man! The speed-sensitive Analog-sticks are the best, simply damn good play-feeling. So, thank you KoMaG for 'tipping' me to Pinnacle and now the DarkMod-Team don´t have to bother anymore for the Joystick-support I continually cried for. Instead you guys can now work on releasing the next update.