DarkRadiant Camera Issue

[Xaeman]

Hey!

I hope this is the right section for this. I'm currently working on my first mission, entitled The Joyau Rouge. I haven't really got anywhere with it yet apart from the planning, because of what's either a bug or me being stupid. I'm running Siduction (a Linux distribution based on Debian unstable) and I don't seem to be able to free-look using the camera in DarkRadiant. I've attached a video of it—the context menu and dialog box are invisible in the recording, but at the start I'm adding a prefab. I hope someone can help me get around this issue.

Thanks!

—Xaeman

2020-11-26 21-46-44.mkv

[greebo]

It seems the crosshair is appearing in the middle of the camera view, which means that you entered the free look mode. But it seems, you aren't able to rotate the view using the mouse, is that correct?

Is there something to see in the map in the first place? The ortho views seem terribly empty to me.

[Xaeman]

8 hours ago, greebo said:

It seems the crosshair is appearing in the middle of the camera view, which means that you entered the free look mode. But it seems, you aren't able to rotate the view using the mouse, is that correct?

Is there something to see in the map in the first place? The ortho views seem terribly empty to me.

Correct. And as I said in my original post, I added a prefab at the beginning of the video, although I may be doing something wrong.

[greebo]

Ok, ok. I need to know more about your setup. Which DarkRadiant version are you using, and where did you get it from? Did you compile from source? What wxWidgets version is it built against? Are there any other steps you had to perform before you got it running? This is running on an actual PC, I suppose, or are you perhaps using a virtual machine? Any warnings in the console, or the command line?

I know nothing about that distribution, but if it's Debian-based, it should work in principle.

[Xaeman]

5 hours ago, greebo said:

Ok, ok. I need to know more about your setup. Which DarkRadiant version are you using, and where did you get it from? Did you compile from source? What wxWidgets version is it built against? Are there any other steps you had to perform before you got it running? This is running on an actual PC, I suppose, or are you perhaps using a virtual machine? Any warnings in the console, or the command line?

I know nothing about that distribution, but if it's Debian-based, it should work in principle.

• I'm running DarkRadiant 2.8.0
• I got it from the Debian repository
• No, I didn't compile it from source
• I'm not sure what wxWidgets version it's built against
• There were no other steps I had to perform before running it
• Yes, this is an actual PC, not a virtual machine
• I'm getting some warnings and errors in the command line:

(darkradiant:30793): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 21:02:33.497: gtk_distribute_natural_allocation: assertion 'extra_space >= 0' failed

(darkradiant:30793): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:33.498: Negative content width -6 (allocation 2, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node toolbar, owner GtkToolbar)

(darkradiant:30793): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:33.498: Negative content height -7 (allocation 1, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node toolbar, owner GtkToolbar)

(darkradiant:30793): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:33.585: Negative content width -6 (allocation 2, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node toolbar, owner GtkToolbar)

(darkradiant:30793): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:33.585: Negative content height -7 (allocation 1, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node toolbar, owner GtkToolbar)

(darkradiant:30793): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:33.585: Negative content height -6 (allocation 1, extents 3x4) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkToggleButton)

(darkradiant:30793): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:33.586: Negative content width -6 (allocation 2, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node toolbar, owner GtkToolbar)

(darkradiant:30793): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:33.586: Negative content height -7 (allocation 1, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node toolbar, owner GtkToolbar)

(darkradiant:30793): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:33.586: Negative content width -14 (allocation 1, extents 7x8) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkToggleButton)

(darkradiant:30793): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:33.587: Negative content width -7 (allocation 1, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node toolbar, owner GtkToolbar)

(darkradiant:30793): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:33.587: Negative content width -7 (allocation 1, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node toolbar, owner GtkToolbar)

 

[greebo]

Hm, everything sounds pretty normal to me. The wxWidgets version of your system can be seen in the Help > About dialog, but I assume it's something like 3.0.4 or 3.0.5, since the debian package is referencing those.

There is a newer DR 2.9.1 package for Debian sid: https://packages.debian.org/sid/darkradiant - is this available for your distro too?

Apart from those things, I don't have any idea what might be going wrong. I'd need to set up that distro of yours in a VM to check it out myself.

[Xaeman]

18 hours ago, greebo said:

Hm, everything sounds pretty normal to me. The wxWidgets version of your system can be seen in the Help > About dialog, but I assume it's something like 3.0.4 or 3.0.5, since the debian package is referencing those.

Yep, wxWidgets is at 3.0.5.

19 hours ago, greebo said:

There is a newer DR 2.9.1 package for Debian sid: https://packages.debian.org/sid/darkradiant - is this available for your distro too?

Just tried updating to that via the command line but to no avail.

19 hours ago, greebo said:

Apart from those things, I don't have any idea what might be going wrong. I'd need to set up that distro of yours in a VM to check it out myself.

Yeah, sounds like the best idea. Thanks for your help so far.

[greebo]

Ok, what was your installation experience with siduction like and how long have you been running siduction? I've failed two times now trying to install it and update it to the latest packages - the installation medium is from 2018, and it's full of old packages. Running updates / dist-upgrades (downloading almost 1.5 gigabytes of new sid packages everytime) etc. manoevred my system into a state where I cannot get past the login screen anymore (I can only log in through the Ctrl-Alt-F2 TTYs). It happened twice now, and I don't know what I could have done wrong, didn't find any solutions either.

This is really frustrating. I've seen quite a few distro installations and installers in the meantime, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware, Arch, openSUSE, Mageia, countless Ubuntus - but this is by far the worst of it all.

[Xaeman]

1 hour ago, greebo said:

Ok, what was your installation experience with siduction like and how long have you been running siduction? I've failed two times now trying to install it and update it to the latest packages - the installation medium is from 2018, and it's full of old packages. Running updates / dist-upgrades (downloading almost 1.5 gigabytes of new sid packages everytime) etc. manoevred my system into a state where I cannot get past the login screen anymore (I can only log in through the Ctrl-Alt-F2 TTYs). It happened twice now, and I don't know what I could have done wrong, didn't find any solutions either.

This is really frustrating. I've seen quite a few distro installations and installers in the meantime, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware, Arch, openSUSE, Mageia, countless Ubuntus - but this is by far the worst of it all.

I'm afraid I don't remember what it was like—it was about a year ago now. I don't know what's going wrong with the installation for you but I do have a development on the camera issue. Upon opening the main map file for The Tears of St. Lucia, I was able to move the camera around and see everything. I'm following Springheel's New Mappers Workshop on YouTube, and in the episode I'm currently on, he adds a prefab and is able to view it in the camera. I'm assuming the issue is the prefab, so I don't understand why Springheel was able to do see it and I'm not. Either I'm doing something wrong or it's just a bug.

[greebo]

Might be the cubic clipping setting which might hide the prefab if it's too far from the camera.

[Xaeman]

15 hours ago, greebo said:

Might be the cubic clipping setting which might hide the prefab if it's too far from the camera.

Just tried disabling that (I think) and it doesn't seem to be doing anything.

[OrbWeaver]

Can you confirm that there is something rendered in the 2D views after importing the prefab? If the 2D views are empty then there will be nothing to see in the 3D view either.

Does this happen with every prefab and every model you import, or just a specific one? Is anything ticked in the Filters menu that might be hiding particular objects?

[Xaeman]

5 hours ago, OrbWeaver said:

Can you confirm that there is something rendered in the 2D views after importing the prefab? If the 2D views are empty then there will be nothing to see in the 3D view either.

All I can see in the 2D views is a point labelled with some co-ordinates which I was assuming was the prefab.

5 hours ago, OrbWeaver said:

Does this happen with every prefab and every model you import, or just a specific one? Is anything ticked in the Filters menu that might be hiding particular objects?

It seems like all prefabs from what I can tell.

[Xaeman]

...Any more advice?

[greebo]

On 12/5/2020 at 9:18 PM, Xaeman said:

All I can see in the 2D views is a point labelled with some co-ordinates which I was assuming was the prefab.

If it's just appearing as point, can you confirm you've appropriately zoomed in? In the video above, I notice you're almost completely zoomed out with coordinates around 8k to 16k. That's awfully large, a prefab is usually just a few dozen units.

[IZaRTaX]

Press P > Camera, uncheck "freelook mode can be toggled" then you have to keep pressing RMB to have the camera free mod, try it

 

Edit: as Greebo says your prefab has x5467 and y-9519 it's a complete map ?

Edited December 12, 2020 by IZaRTaX

[Xaeman]

On 12/12/2020 at 12:02 PM, IZaRTaX said:

Press P > Camera, uncheck "freelook mode can be toggled" then you have to keep pressing RMB to have the camera free mod, try it

That seemed to work. Any idea why it wouldn't work when free look mode could be toggled?

On 12/12/2020 at 12:02 PM, IZaRTaX said:

Edit: as Greebo says your prefab has x5467 and y-9519 it's a complete map ?

I don't understand what you mean.

Edited December 13, 2020 by Xaeman
Accidentally posted without finishing

[HMart]

It means if you have a prefab in the scene then it is very big, a entire map big. But I don't know if that is correct, imo looking at your video it just looks like you were extremely zoomed out, like looking to a house on the ground from space. 

[Xaeman]

Sorry, I totally forgot about this. Thanks to all of you who mentioned zooming in—that was why I couldn't see the prefabs in the map. I guess that's everything sorted then. Should I mark this as solved, or...?