Fidcal
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OK, thnks.
How do I scale a texture on a patch? I've just searched the net and as far as I can tell it should be possible the same as a brush but the surface inspector always feints out and disables scaling at 0.25. Pressing the inc/dec buttons seems to have some effect but I'm not certain what as I am working on a tiny cylindrical patch and the values remain at 0.25.
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I'm seeing phantom caulk blocks appearing for a second or so while saving the map in DR. I'm aware that while saving, entities (I think) are not rendered revealing what is behind - presumably just because the rendering process performance is compromised while saving. This is only a niggle during autosave and I am not too concerned. But the phantom blocks make no sense. I can detect no such blocks behind where I see them (around the garden gate.) Again, they are no problem but need I be concerned that there is some forgotten obsolete brush somewhere that might come back to haunt me later?
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The trick seems to be to first rescale manually and then rotate using the DR tools in the normal way.
[EDIT] As you were. The above is only true for 90 degree turns.
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Got it. thanks. What delayed me earlier was you don't even see the rotation values until you use the rotate tool and then you see something like 0.100146 -0.528522 -0.842992 -0.363242 0.769351 -0.525504 0.926297 0.358838 -0.114934 so it was not clear what did what.
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Thanks SD, Is there any way to change the height and width separately? I've been experimenting all afternoon and got double width and once I saw double height but lost my setting! Also got thicker railings in the gate for the same size gate!
[EDIT] Hang on - I think 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 might be what I want. I'll experiment more later. Many thanks.
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I can get this super slowdown problem in either Doom or in Dark Radiant. I'm sure now I've had this before but dismissed it as a memory glitch. If anyone else gets this problem, the 'rules' to avoid it seem to be...
. It may or may not be Nvidia graphics card related.
. It only affects the loading phase of either Doom or Dark Radiant.
. So far I've only noticed it if a grass texture is being used but I'm sure certain other textures will have the same effect.
. Always open doom first BUT DON'T OPEN AND SHOW A MAP IN WINDOWED MODE (ie, if you DO open a map then go to the Dark Mod menu so it does not show.) THEN open Dark Radiant.
. If you should open Doom first in windowed mode and also open and show a map in Doom and then open Dark Radiant then Dark Radiant might slow down so close it, switch Doom to the Dark Mod menu and THEN re-open Dark Radiant.
. If you accidentally or for whatever reason open Dark Radiant before Doom with a map showing then select 'new' map from the file menu and (IMPORTANT) use the 'flush and reload shaders' button on the texture browser and THEN open Doom. When Doom is running then re-open the map in Dark Radiant.
Once both are running OK then there seem to be no further problem so it's workable.
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Yes - its' fine now thanks.
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Can someone explain to me exactly how to do this please? Specifically I need some large wrought iron gates so I want to enlarge the model provided then add an unrendered brush to block the player. The gates are purely decorative and will not be opened in game. But I can't find anything about rotation parameters nor do I understand how to do this tweak.
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Undo after rotating model causes DR to crash. Quick look on bug tracker shows a similar issue with lights that was resolved but can't see one about models. Is it known? Or shall I add it?
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OK, thanks for suggestions. Went back to guru3d and got the forceware drivers but I still get the error with the grass texture. The card itself was made by prolink at http://www.prolink.com.tw/ - they do have drivers but they are the same version I got last February from the nvidia site.
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I'm inclined to leave this problem for now as I'm sick of it. I do have another better non-Nvidia card but it needs a psu upgrade I need to search and research and a different type of power cable I've not been able to identify. I had already wasted half a day on that trying to find info some weeks ago and I can't face another day like yesterday too soon. I once estimated I spend greater than 75% of my computer time maintaining/fixing the hard/soft/ware and less than 25% actual leisure or productive work. Those are the good days.[/gloom]
For the time being I'll experiment with opening doom before DR or starting with a blank map in DR when I open doom. The problem seems to only be with a map with grass on it actually open in DR when doom is launched. Once doom is running OK then it seems alright I think. I assume there must be other textures that cause the error so I'll watch for that. This may explain various inexplicable crashes over the months I've blamed M$oft memory mismanagement on before.
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Yeah, it's been a bad day - several sessions and not achieved anything at all today. zero. The drivers for the FX5900 card on guru3d seem to be 3 years old. Searched google. Another timewasting website at driverfiles.net. The FX5900 page claims a latest driver of 6th July, 2007. Oh yeah! right! What a coincidence. They just put it in today especially for me. File size 0 bytes. No actual download link that I can find only misleading other links. They just generate these pages to get click throughs. Oh well, that rounds off a useless day perfectly.
:angry: And of course none of this guarantees it would solve the problem anyway!
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Just downloaded the latest Nvidia update. It extracts all the drivers into its own default folder but then crashes 'can't find any drivers compatible with your hardware'. The download clearly gives my card FX5900, XP Home.
I see my last download (v93.71) was in February and the same filename except the version number is later on the new one (94.24). No doubt in my mind it is the correct download.
Searching, searching for info. On Nvidia's website 'support' (haha!) it describes a completely different route and probably obsolete way to install its drivers via the Windows driver update route. Worth a try. Too late! At last click I realize it's just re-installing part of the previous drivers. Forced reboot. Lost all my settings carefully tweaked over months - Thief 2, Oblivion, Dark Mod, etc etc. An hour wasted. Screw drivers and screw you Nvidia.
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Yes, first thing I tried was a reboot.
I just tried a different texture and that fixes it. In fact to force the error you need only start with a blank map, drag out a brush and texture it with textures/darkmod/nature/grass/short_dry_grass. No need to even save the map. Just open Doom in windowed mode and it crashes.
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I should underline that the map works in Doom - it is only that Doom crashes if the map is open in Dark Radiant.
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It's textures/darkmod/nature/grass/short_dry_grass. Now you mention it, that's what they have in common; the other big patch that is OK has some other texture. But mine's an Nvidia card gforceFX5900.
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If I open my map in Dark Radiant then Doom crashes when I open it in windowed mode.
In my betamapper repository folder is m896.map. You might try the following to see if it does the same on your system. With doom NOT running, open the map in Dark Radiant. Then open darkmod/doom in windowed mode. I find it locks up into super slow mode. The in-game curse does not move and the start menu appears very very slowly. If I press the console key it does eventually appear after half a minute or more and every keypress takes half a minute or more. I have to use Task Manager to get out of doom. If I do it the other way round, open doom first so its running OK, then load Dark Radiant and m896 then no problem.
Now, if it does that on your system, in Dark Radiant, in plan view, zoom out to see the whole map. At left in the top half are 5 big patches. Delete them then resave with a new name say M896B.map. Then close Dark Radiant and re-open with this changed map. Then try doom again and it should work OK.
Note that the patches are not yet in their final positions or shapes but just placed roughly where I want them. The big patch at the bottom was there before and does not seem to cause this problem.
I tried deleting the 5 patches one by one and testing every time to see if it was one particular one but only when all 5 were deleted did I get the error.
This is Dark Radiant 0.9.2 Build date: June 21 2007 17:11:46.
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Sometimes the camera icon faces the opposite way. In the screenshot you see the selected red triangle is viewed in camera view but is behind the camera icon in orthoview. If I turn up and down in camera view then the icon tilts up and down so it is updating OK but pointing the opposite way I am facing:
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I think we should make the standard shortcuts compatible to the UK keyboard anyway. I only used the values I found hardcoded in the GtkRadiant code and moved them into the input.xml file, but if they are not working on the majority of keyboards, it should be changed.
What shortcuts did you choose?
I used Ctrl-KP_Subtract and Ctrl-KP_Add which seems to work OK.
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OK, got it working on different keys.
Odd but I did originally have it working on +- but must be some keyboard glitch. -
Mmmm... I can't get it to work at all now. I enabled it in prefs and saved it then tried Ctrl +/- on the keypad but without success. Then I tried Ctrl +/- on the Qwerty board and this worked. But at some point it disappeared and no amount of pressing Ctrl +/- has any effect. Just reloaded and still the same. But mine is only a small map so it may be out of range. Any way to read where it's set at?
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Seems there's already a stand alone comment entity called 'text'. Shows as a little arrow you can point and I think optionally the text can appear in game.
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It's not just the audible comments but the concept of a player identity. This has been coming to my attention while trying to think of a story for my FM; so often with T2 you work it into the Garrett background to give it more meaning for potential players. A generic thief has advantages that one is not constrained to certain behaviour (though most T2 FMs probably strayed where they wanted anyway, including mine) but I am having reservations. Kinda nice to have some kind of common identifiable start character.
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The visportal filter also hides nodraw.
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Hey you're right!
However the 0 and 1 are oriented the piece is removed to their right viewing them with the 0 at the top and 1 at the bottom...0
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Or regarding 0 as 12 on a clock and 1 as 6 then the 3 is always the direction that will be clipped however the clockface is turned. Good one.
Thanks MrMike.
Discrepancy if applying a scaling factor to rotation matrix
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That's just what I was thinking earlier SD when I was wondering how to calculate it on a calculator. I'm considering doing a short wiki on rescaling with do's and don'ts once I've learnt a bit more about it. I've wasted hours on this when a few sentences on the wiki would have been enough. My wrought iron gates look great now and without this rescaling I would have to do something with brushes and patches. I consider this immensely important.