Itches, Glitches & Anything Else...

[greebo]

I think there's no reason not to introduce an intermediate entityDef "atdm:moveable_barrel_base" in between moveable_base_barrel and the actual moveable.

[Fidcal]

OK, there's already a atdm:moveable_barrel_base. I'll add it to that. Is it possible to add something like:

 

"editor_color" "_default"

 

...to override the inheritance and get back to the original default?

[greebo]

Not possible, but I guess that can be added. Not much benefit for the effort though, is it?

[Fidcal]

No, probably not. OK, I've changed moveable barrels to be the same as other moveables. I'll leave the AI alone - though I might change it on my local copy.

[PinkDot]

I don't know whether this one has been raised already - Reloading commands in Dark Radiant reload only models/defs/scripts used in the map or maybe present at the time of launching DR (not sure about that). But they won't find any new assets added. The only way to add new asset to map is by restarting DR, which takes time for any medium or large map.

 

Could that be changed, so apart from reloading, DR also looks for new ones?

[greebo]

Which specific reload command are you referring to? The reload shaders command should definitely find new stuff too, as should the reload models command.

[PinkDot]

DR didn't find my new entity added - that's for sure. I'll double check the other ones.

[greebo]

So you hit "Reload DEFs" and your new entityDef has not been listed?

[PinkDot]

That's right - entity didn't appear on the list. But it did after restarting DR.

[greebo]

Ok, please put that on the tracker then, the entityDef should be listed after reload. Probably it's just a matter of clearing out the Create Entity dialog after reloading the defs.

[PinkDot]

Done.

[jdude]

Any news on fixing the decal issue in the renderer?

[greebo]

Nope. I'm working on better scripting support for brushes and patches currently, which takes quite some reorganisation and refactoring.

[jdude]

K no worries then I can keep using 9.12 for decal work.

[Theothesnopp]

just a quick question because i dont think its darkradiant that is a problem just.

goth this after the last update.

when i toggle preview (f3) nothing happens except that the the grey "vacuum" turns into black.

is there a new key for it or is it a bug?

[greebo]

I've tagged a couple of issue reports on the tracker with "Feedback". @SneaksieDave: could you review these sometime? I guess most of these are not an issue anymore or might be obsolete by now.

[SneaksieDave]

Yep will do, just looking for a decent chunk of time (running around a bit frantic with end of year stuff).

[Fidcal]

With a big map it can be hard to move the grid view around. Typically I zoom out and find the area I want to work, drag the view to centre it, zoom in, then regionsSetXY. I have key R set to that. But now I'm sometimes trying with a zoomed in view, drag, R, drag, R so I am pulling the view around to find what I want but it only ever shows that region so it moves smooth. I'm just wondering if there is a case for an 'auto-regionSetXY' mode. When set, the grid view would automatically set regionXY on release of the RMB. Ditto if zooming in or out. Since you can't see anything outside of the view anyway, why waste processing time on it. [EDIT] In fact the only time you would want to disable this mode is if you want to refer to something else in camera.

 

I've not put this on the wishlist as I'm unsure myself. Just wondered if anyone else had tried this drag and region idea.

[greebo]

What you described is already happening in the code behind the scenes. Only the parts intersecting a certain view volume are rendered, everything else is culled. This is happening for both the cam and the ortho, dynamically.

[Fidcal]

Yes, sorry. Wasn't thinking. I tend to scroll, hit R for regionXY so I can more easily view sideways.

[Fidcal]

Browsing the Dark Radiant console I saw:

 

LoadLibrary failed: 'G:/DarkRadiant/modules/wavefront.dll'

GetLastError: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail.

 

WARNING: Failed to load module G:/DarkRadiant/modules/wavefront.dll:

The only log I can find is darkradiant.log in the users folder. This also has the above error and further down:

 

ModuleLoader: Loading module 'G:/DarkRadiant/plugins/wavefront.dll'

Module registered: WaveFrontExporter

 

What would this error affect?

[greebo]

Do you have the File > Export Selection as OBJ... menu item? Then you don't need to worry about anything, the console warning is probably due to a packaging error on my behalf.

 

edit: Yeah, I had the output folder for the wavefront plug-in set differently for x86 and x64 builds, so you probably have a 32-bit module leftover in your x64 package. My bad, but it won't do any harm, it will be fixed in the next release.

[Fidcal]

OK, thanks. Yes, that menu item is there but I've not used it.

[Fidcal]

Rarely needed but Dark Radiant crashed when I tried to move an entire map (using Alt + arrows) but it worked OK if I first dragged out a brush and imported the map (probably the same if I just opened and added a brush then selected only the main map.) This was a big map. Not tried with a small one.

[greebo]

Rarely needed but Dark Radiant crashed when I tried to move an entire map (using Alt + arrows) but it worked OK if I first dragged out a brush and imported the map (probably the same if I just opened and added a brush then selected only the main map.) This was a big map. Not tried with a small one.

Any steps so I can try to reproduce that?