Yes, I'm aware of the fact that if you turn alpha blending on, you wont see it. But I want alpha blending off. How do I get normal sparks, like in 2.8?
Sparks problem
Sparks problem
When I turn sparks on, this happens:
Yes, I'm aware of the fact that if you turn alpha blending on, you wont see it. But I want alpha blending off. How do I get normal sparks, like in 2.8?
Yes, I'm aware of the fact that if you turn alpha blending on, you wont see it. But I want alpha blending off. How do I get normal sparks, like in 2.8?
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Re: Sparks problem
Is vsync off? Turn it on.
Re: Sparks problem
If that fixes it then I'd love to do that, but I'm on a mac and I have no idea where to turn vsync on. (I have an ATI Radeon 2600 Pro if that helps)
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You can force vsync from armagetronad itself: System Setup -> Display Settings -> Screen Mode -> VSync ("wait" means enabling)
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Re: Sparks problem
By "sparks problem" you mean the distortion? Or you mean the "never-dieing sparks" bug? If you mean the latter, it's a known bug that has been there since the inclusion of the new particles engine. Sure, that needs fixing, but no need for duplicate threads :)
Re: Sparks problem
The never-dying* sparks, the distortion was just a screenshot freeze or something.. but yeah the sparks-shower has got to go. I didn't know this bug wasn't fixed yet. 
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Re: Sparks problem
⇧⌘3 has done that to me countless times on SMP machines running ≤10.5. Either it freezes the screen while taking the screenshot or the screenshot becomes rather fragmented. It seems 10.6 finally switched to a proper technique, which neither freezes nor fragments.vogue wrote:the distortion was just a screenshot freeze or something.
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Re: Sparks problem
Epsy: Did someone take the new particle engine and actually rewrite sparks using it?
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Re: Sparks problem
And fixed! Blame goes to z-man 
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Hmm? I don't remember touching the new particle stuff, ever. Was it in a merge? 'cause my work avoidance policy for those is 'compiles, runs, plays, check in'.
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Re: Sparks problem
This bug is with particles disabled.Z-Man wrote:Hmm? I don't remember touching the new particle stuff, ever.
You removed the updating of the lastTime variable for some reason...svn r4679 wrote:revno: 31
svn revno: 4679 (on /armagetronad/trunk/armagetronad)
committer: z-man
timestamp: Wed 2006-05-31 19:57:05 +0000
message:
Fixed warning with particles enabled.
Disabled particle code on the server to avoid linker errors if the stupid
builder builds the server with --enable-particles.