0.2.8.0_rc3: Release process and bugs

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 4:41 pm

Sources are tagged and my builds are almost done. I'm waiting for the 64 bit packages to finish so I can upload everything in one go.

Edit: Uploads done, both to SF and AABeta.

I submitted an update for our happy penguin entry and am working on an update for freshmeat. I guess it's time to announce our work to a bigger audience.
Err, were there any Non-Unix update sites we have an entry on?

Edit2: Cool, just found out about freshmeat-submit, a small tool that allows automatic updates of fm entries. I think I'll integrate it into armagetronad-build/Makefile.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:37 pm

I'm merging the changes up to rc3 back into the trunk. The first step, merging the changes up to rc3 from b0_2_8_0 back into b0_2_8 worked fine without problems. The second step, merging the combined changes from b0_2_8 back into the trunk, also worked fine, with one exception; gHud.cpp has been refactored too much for a merge to be successful. It's not important now because the only change in the trunk was already a feature backport, so merging it was not required. But I guess it's better to consider gHud.cpp from the trunk and the 0.2.8 branches to be decoupled.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:16 am

I suspected that would happen with gHud.

Fonkay · Post by **Fonkay** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:06 pm

The first and only bug I've encountered. When I enter a server, doesn't matter which one, the camera always freezes. It spawns in the middle of the area, and wont move (other than glances). But it goes back to normal when a new game starts.
This happened on occasion with most, if not all of the other versions. But this is everytime.

Windoze rc3_vc6

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:11 pm

Ahh, that happens to me too. I've been ignoring it because I'm running off the trunk, didn't know it was in the rc too. You're stuck in external cam, or whatever cam it is that has a fixed location. Switch cameras (default is "c" to do this) until you get to the one you want.

Fonkay · Post by **Fonkay** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:12 pm

I can't switch.

EDIT: and of course, now the I want to try a recording it wont get stuck.... stupid ga ::mutters::

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:01 am

I got lucky and caught one of them camera init bugs on tape. Switching both the center and the camera mode fixed it for me then, and it won't happen when you're alive. The fix is small and shouldn't do anything bad while you're alive, so it's clear for 0.2.8.0.

joda.bot · Post by **joda.bot** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:53 am

After AA tried to download a non-existent map from resource.armagetronad.net, the nice error log message was displayed, but then ArmagetronAd died after pressing a key to confirm the error report.

0.2.8.0_rc3.vc6 => CRASH
0.2.8.0_rc3.gcc works!

.../nNetwork.cpp:2286
Assertion !sn_Connections.socket failed

Steps:
1) set map_file to "rubbish"
2) Host a LAN game (internet game might also be affected)
3) wait for the error message
4) press a key
5) wait for AA to exit

CHECKED: Removed non-standard env "PATH" folders - some folders contained a custom set of MFC* DLLs. Did not fix it...

joda.bot · Post by **joda.bot** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:11 am

Just figured out my FPS problem (I guess)...
An autoexec.cfg with dedicated_fps will affect the client too ?

Also I'm still trying to reproduce the wireframe bug I encountered after installing 0.2.8_rc3.gcc and disabling SDL OpenGL.

I also pinned it down to this user.cfg the new user.cfg was ok (also with similar settings), I'm not sure which line is responsible...

EDIT: Uninstaller does not remove settings_visual.cfg

, otherwise it now keeps the folder, thanks

Also the missing resource reports are easy to read now. excellent.

Post by **Tank Program** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:01 pm

I get the wireframe visuals whenever I have Polygon Antialiasing enabled in linux with a nVidia card.

joda.bot · Post by **joda.bot** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:07 pm

@tank: I messed with that option AFAIK, so that's probably it. GeForce3 (here)

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:26 am

Eek, I'll look at the recording.

No, the client ignores DEDICATED_FPS, so that can't be it.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:55 am

OS 10.2.8 version built yet?

MaZuffeR · Post by **MaZuffeR** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:45 am

Noticed a bug yesterday.

The enemies/friends thingy isn't always correct. On the screenshot you see that it shows two enemies are alive and one friend, but actually it's two friends and one enemy as you can see from the alive statuses.

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:13 am

It shows the statuses as viewed from the perspective of the player you're currently watching. So, if you watch a blue player the "Enemies" will be the gold players, if you're watching a gold one it will the blues.