Client RC available.

[Entropy]

Instructions:

Make a copy of the whole EL folder.

Download http://www.eternal-lands.com/el_update_133_rc.exe

Install it in the NEW EL folder (the one you just created)

Edit el.ini and change the port address to 2001

Click on el.exe in the new directory.

See if there are any problems, see if you can go in the new maps (don't ask where they are), and so on.

Post here any problems you might have.

 

P.S. The Linux and Mac client are not available yet, but if you really want to test, compile the CVS client and use wine or something to extract the new files. However, what we now test is mostly data, so if it works on Windows, it should work on the other OSes as well.

[scafativ]

 

Post here any problems you might have.

 

 

I copied the entire directory over to a new one, and unzipped the new file. When I ran it, it hiccuped, like it was doing an auto-update.

 

#ver gives me 1.3.2p9

 

Here's the rub. I'm completely, and permanently invisible. To myself, anyhow.

 

scaf

 

Update:

 

When I was in the first room of Vermor, I was getting a resync every second step.

 

Also, when I tried to create a character, it bombed.

 

Final Update(it's late):

 

I tried Acelon's suggestion of rerunning the update. No improvement on the invisibility.

Interestingly, when I sit, the perspective doesn't change, but I know that I'm seated.

 

Really Final Update:

 

How to get it to work

 

Do everything that ent said to do, but before starting the client the first time, delete (or rename) mirrors.lst.

 

If you already ran it once, rereun the update and nuke mirrors.lst before you start the client.

 

I can see again! It's a miracle!

 

scaf

Edited December 16, 2006 by scafativ

[luciferx]

 

Post here any problems you might have.

 

 

Here's the rub. I'm completely, and permanently invisible. To myself, anyhow.

 

scaf

 

I am invisible also and when I harvest i see no floating experience #s. I assumed this was a new 3rd person point of view... not sure though.

[Acelon]

Happened to me as well, then I reinstalled the update test, and it works fine now.

[darky]

I am getting following error

 

[21:02:37] Unable to read actor definition file actor_defs/actor_defs.xml

[21:02:38] Downloading http://www.eternal-lands.com/updates132/files.lst from www.eternal-lands.com

[21:02:51] Illegal/missing enhanced actor definition 1

[Quimbly]

all chars are invisible to me, i reinstall the update but as soon as the chars load the client restarts then invisible again.

[Acelon]

Oh! I renamed mirrors.lst for now, that's the other thing I did to fix it xD

Edited December 16, 2006 by Acelon

[luciferx]

Oh! I renamed mirrors.lst for now, that's the other thing I did to fix it xD

 

What did u rename it to? I renamed it to _mirrors.lst and it did nothing different when i ran the executable.

[PhilDaBurn]

Irsis: 130,137 / 130,136 and others - able to walk through buildings.

 

Standing at 130,136, I can click on 135,122 and my path walks me through the building.

 

(I'm hoping this is the kind of thing you're looking for?)

 

PhilDaBurn...

 

 

Edited by Roja: You're going to have to post some screenshots, because from what I see you cannot walk through buildings at these points.

[Acelon]

Oh! I renamed mirrors.lst for now, that's the other thing I did to fix it xD

 

What did u rename it to? I renamed it to _mirrors.lst and it did nothing different when i ran the executable.

 

Then I reinstalled the update, so the autoupdate didn't occur.

[luciferx]

I checked some of the new maps and things seemed OK except for Thelinor

 

I got this red-text error when I went in the map:

 

[22:22:58] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

[22:22:58] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

 

But I was able to walk around and sightsee.

 

Edited by Roja: Fixed I guess...I never got this message so it's strange that it happened. Also this obj was fixed a long time ago, no idea how it resurfaced.

[darky]

I checked some of the new maps and things seemed OK except for Thelinor

 

I got this red-text error when I went in the map:

 

[22:22:58] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

[22:22:58] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

 

But I was able to walk around and sightsee.

 

I also got same error twice

[22:36:24] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

[22:36:24] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

[MikeH]

no xmas IP this year??

 

Edit by Roja: No because we have no way to taking it out without another client update.

[jammie]

I download the client i had no problem i made a copy of the old version and i installed it then after i log in

i could not see anyone

After i lagged out i could not log on after my computer then would not let me on aol mc afee internt explore

then my computer crash i loaded back and and it just would not let me on the game so

I did the sever port to 2001

I re-unistall the game and it was work fine

[smalul]

See if there are any problems, see if you can go in the new maps (don't ask where they are), and so on.

Post here any problems you might have.

I hope this is the right place for this, as this is a very minor thing - North Redmoon 102,136 - there is a big dark square on the ground, as if a house is casting its shadow, but there is no house. The same for 98,161, 115,155, and other places. It seems like a shadows problem, so it could be a problem with my video driver.

 

Edit 1:

You can enter Irsis from the Emerald Valley Trade Route map, and exit to Emerald Valley Trade Route Idaloran maps, but you can't enter Irsis from the Idaloran map.

 

Edit 2:

The exit from the blacksmith cave in PV is no longer working (it used to work in the past).

 

Edit 3:

The bridge to that island is WS is nice, but my chars still walks next to it in the water, and not on it.

 

Edited by Roja: Can you please be more specific with "edit 3"? I don't know where you mean so I can't possibly fix it.

Edit 1=fixed.

OK, I mean the bridge between WS Riven sea's coast to the island which lead to C2 - in the new client you can see a half-sunk bridge (there is no bridge in the previous clients), which I assume the character should walk on, but instead my character walks alongside it on the water.

Edited December 18, 2006 by smalul

[Suessie]

Is now mentioned in smalul edit 2:

There is an entry to the blacksmith cave on Palon Vertas (purple dot) but no exit, when you try to get out of this cave.

 

One more thing. I don't know if it's supposed to be or even important, but all the teleports on Idaloren are gone.

Edited December 17, 2006 by Suessie

[PhilDaBurn]

From Palon Vertas to Thelinor - I got this, but could not make it happen again.

 

[06:58:18] Welcome to Thelinor!

[06:58:19] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

[06:58:19] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

[06:58:30] Warning! You just entered a PKing map! This means other players can attack you!

[06:58:40] Welcome to Palon Vertas!

[06:58:46] Welcome to Thelinor!

[06:58:48] Warning! You just entered a PKing map! This means other players can attack you!

 

 

similar thing happened last night when using the ship from NRM to Thelinor.

 

[00:05:19] Welcome to Thelinor!

[00:05:19] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

[00:05:19] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

[00:06:17] Welcome to North Redmoon Island!

[00:06:47] Welcome to Idaloran, hope you had a nice voyage aboard the Rickshaw!

[00:07:05] Welcome to North Redmoon!

[00:07:34] Welcome to Thelinor!

[00:09:29] Welcome to Zirakinbar!

 

 

PhilDaBurn...

 

Additional occurance. Entered a tent at 104,336. Got this as I exited the tent:

 

[07:05:29] Beehive

[07:05:31] You need to wear a Leather Gloves in order to harvest this item!

[07:06:11] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

[07:06:11] Bad object: ./3dobjects/structures/watchtower1.e3d . Two or more materials with the same texture name!

[07:06:12] Warning! You just entered a PKing map! This means other players can attack you!

 

It did not reoccur when I entered and exited the tent at 125,336.

Edited December 16, 2006 by ksjedilink

[smalul]

I want to post my error_log.txt file:

Log started at 2006-12-16 11:04:17 localtime (Jerusalem Standard Time)

 

[11:04:19] Error: Can't open file "mirrors.lst"

[11:04:19] Error: Can't open file "commands.lst"

[11:27:14] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

Last message repeated 976 times

[11:41:40] Error: Can't open file "./particles/blue_rise_test_7.part"

Last message repeated 5 times

[11:43:10] Error: Can't open file "./maps/cont2map15_insides.bmp"

Last message repeated 1 time

[11:43:48] Error: Can't open file "./particles/blue_rise_test_7.part"

[11:43:48] Error: Can't open file "./maps/cont2map15_insides.bmp"

[11:44:31] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

Last message repeated 1326 times

[11:45:49] Error: Can't open file "./maps/cont2map15_mountain.bmp"

Last message repeated 9 times

[11:49:22] Error: Can't open file "./particles/blue_rise_test_7.part"

Last message repeated 1 time

[11:50:54] Error: Can't open file "./maps/cont2map15_mountain.bmp"

[11:51:17] Error: Can't open file "./maps/cont2map15_caves.bmp"

[12:03:14] Error: Can't open file "./maps/cont2map15_mountain.bmp"

Last message repeated 4 times

[12:03:43] Error: Can't open file "./particles/blue_rise_test_7.part"

[12:04:18] Error: Can't open file "./maps/cont2map15_mountain.bmp"

[12:26:24] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

Last message repeated 779 times

[12:39:11] Incorrect node type - could not copy.

Last message repeated 9 times

[12:43:44] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/leather.bmp"

[12:44:25] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

Last message repeated 1332 times

[12:49:58] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/leather.bmp"

Last message repeated 6476 times

[12:51:39] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

[12:51:39] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/leather.bmp"

Last message repeated 5336 times

[13:01:47] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

[13:02:38] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/leather.bmp"

Last message repeated 3 times

[13:10:58] Error: Can't open file "./maps/cont2map11_insides.bmp"

[13:11:00] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/leather.bmp"

[13:11:05] Error: Can't open file "./maps/cont2map11_insides.bmp"

[13:11:11] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/leather.bmp"

Last message repeated 11 times

[13:53:45] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

Last message repeated 476 times

[14:51:07] Unable to add command 26 - 2648

Last message repeated 1 time

[15:27:35] Error: Can't open file "./tiles/tile192.bmp"

[15:42:26] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

[15:42:27] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/leather.bmp"

Last message repeated 2 times

[16:00:37] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

[16:04:50] Error: Can't open file "./maps/cont2map6_caves.bmp"

[16:18:54] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

[16:21:52] Error: Can't open file "./tiles/tile192.bmp"

[16:28:34] Error: Can't open file "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

Last message repeated 511 times

[16:29:33] Client closed

 

There seems to be a problem with "./3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp"

 

Also, when I used the #exit command, it took the client a lot of time to close - I got a black screen and the hard drive was working for about 30 seconds. This never happened with the other clients.

[Learner]

I'm guessing you installed the update in a file by itself instead of on top of a copy of the current client. That is a partial update that does not include a lot of files that is part of the normal game.

 

Reread Entropy's instructions, step 1 is to make a copy of the EL directory.

[smalul]

I'm guessing you installed the update in a file by itself instead of on top of a copy of the current client. That is a partial update that does not include a lot of files that is part of the normal game.

 

Reread Entropy's instructions, step 1 is to make a copy of the EL directory.

Of course I did it - I made a copy of the entire EL directory, and then installed the new update there. This directory included all the files the current client has, plus the new files from the update, so this isn't the problem (all the maps in the game worked).

 

Edit:

Also - there is no /3dobjects/structures/locks.bmp file in the normal client directory, and the error log doesn't show this error.

Edited December 16, 2006 by smalul

[Kazoo]

In Irsis at 152,152 the house is weird. There is a flower bed covering the door, inside some windows float off of the wall and the balcony has a big hole in the floor with a floating lamppost and door.

[Athel's]

went to try north redmoon (wasnt sure if i would be able to or not) got message saying

Unable to switch to map ./maps/cont2map15.elm!

Using an empty map instead.

Edited December 16, 2006 by Athel's

[LadyPetra]

I don't know if this is a problem of my site, but i don't see any animals/monsters/npc's on any of the new maps.

 

i also got the bad object error messages that were announced in before post on Thelinor

[Aduard]

When you enter Kusamura from Emerald Valley you still get the message: Welcome to Kusamura! -Warning- this is a PK map!

 

When you enter AA from Willowvine you get the PK warning for the Giants' territory, but there is still no warning when you enter the PK zone in the fortress.

 

Irsis: 130,137 / 130,136 and others - able to walk through buildings.

 

Standing at 130,136, I can click on 135,122 and my path walks me through the building.

 

I confirmed this. Here is a screenshot:

 

In Irsis inside Antiques of Tomorrow [147,124]: There is a gargoyle statue floating in the air.

Edited December 17, 2006 by Aduard

[ttlanhil]

no xmas IP this year??

 

Edit by Roja: No because we have no way to taking it out without another client update.

actually, since the server sends the map file name to load, you'd only need to have both versions in an installer, then probably only a server config change and restart (to ensure everything is transitioned right) to go to a different one (there are probably a few server code issues, and the download would be bigger, but it should be reasonably easy if you were keen to do this)