Leeloo
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It seems (at least on IP in darkness) that draw_sky_background is where the problem lies. Commenting out glBegin(GL_QUADS) and the matching (I assume) glEnd() makes it stop flashing.
What does GL_QUADS do? Just tell OpenGL that it should expect 4 vertexes instead of 3? And in that case, can I just remove those two lines and send 6 vertexes instead (to make two triangles)?
As mentioned before, I know nothing about OpenGL
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I'm going for 13. I stand no chance for any of the others.If you ask nicely, I'm sure number 3 could be arranged
You want me to test before I commit?
That's what the test-server is for
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The musician should probably be done as a positional sound.
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The point is not that that you'll learn C anyway, but that C++ compilers accept C code, so if you start with C you will never learn C++ for real.you mean all those poor coders that learned C before c++ existed will never be able to put up with time?
I had a C++ teacher who mixed the two languages. Classes, char *, iostream for screen output, stdio for files. The result: I never liked C++, I ended up teaching myself C just to get away from that.
Another thing I've found out, (at least among the people I know) people who love Java and hate C++ have learned the same terrible mix of C and C++. When I had an argument with a friend who loves Java, I ended up showing her a C++ program written with std::* and everything, and she thought it looked like a Java program.
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Where would he get the IP adresses?Connections per user?
We're talking about Rolan4, right? I assume this is a bot, without any way of extract information from the EL server.
For the EL server itself, finding out when someone last logged in is as easy as checking the modified date of that users datafile (one file per user).
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The ping-pong method is not more network intensive per packet, but since it sends twice as many packets of the same size, it does generate twice the amount of network traffic
I'm not sure about your calculations, if the 160 is a rounding error, my (or rather Windows') calculater says about 170 (170 if you use 1024, 166 if you use 1000), and it's still bytes, not bits.
lag that leads to resyncs is caused by downstream data packets being delayed and then arriving in a group, if upstream data packets are delayed, you just don't move until the packets reach the server. Lag can be both, as you can't tell if the packet from the server is delayed or hasn't been sent because the packet to the server is delayed. However, as the protocol is TCP, there are also the ACK packets that complicate the matter, as they move in the opposite direction of the data packets, and can be a part of other data packets. And then there is the resyncs that are caused by the PC being too slow to keep up with the data stream.
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I'm going for 13. I stand no chance for any of the others.If you ask nicely, I'm sure number 3 could be arranged
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No, it's also to make the game less repetitive.
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The protocol is designed specifically to be low bandwidth. In the old days (ok, we didn't have that many users back then), the server ran on a residential ADSL, something like 512/128 I think.
An example: A simple thing like the server pinging the client to see when a a connection is lost (the grue) is normally implemented by the server sending a packet "ping" to the client, which then responds with a reply "pong". In the EL protocol, only the "pong" packet is sent, the client knows when to send it and the server will drop the connection if it's not received within 15 seconds after it should have been sent.
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Where would he get the IP adresses?
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http://www.eternal-lands.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12248 Here's my post on C++, from what I've learned it's better to start with C++, becasue in the process you'll learn C anyway and then you will better understand the diffrences.The point is not that that you'll learn C anyway, but that C++ compilers accept C code, so if you start with C you will never learn C++ for real.
Why use std::string when you are used to char *? And why use vector<int> when you are used to malloc(BUFSIZE*sizeof(int))? The C++ ones are easier to use, but if you already know C, the other ones are familiar, you know exactly how they work.
And then there is pointers. An important part of programming, but not something for beginners. In C, you can't to much without pointers, with a good C++ book, pointers should be reserved for the last two chapters. Even Java isn't this newbie friendly, because although Sun claims they got rid of pointers, they really just renamed them to references - which can be confusing to a C++ programmer, because C++ has something different called references - and you can't do much in Java either without pointers references.
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3. Most likely to be banned.Me?
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I am sure this is a problem with the drivers for Linux.On windows works fine on all the video cards with OpenGL support (except for some SiS and S3 cards that have various unrelated problems) and it works fine with Nvidia cards for Linux.
I don't know how your drivers are set up, but does it use MESA?
I know it's a driver problem (Or possibly a hardware problem, since other people have reported the same problem with the ATI binary drivers). But the point is it only happens in EL, not in other games, so EL must be doing something different. If we can figure out the difference, it should be possible to fix (or workaround if you prefer that word) the problem in the EL code.
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You mean KBITS... baud is something to do with modulation, not the data transfer speed.
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not accusing Aisllinn seriously I dont think it is the case for himSince when did it become so populat to call everyone "him"?
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I wasn't talking about you specifically, but about every high-level player who suggested that a stats wipe would be necessary.
As for your last comment: I worked for those stats. I didn't work for the items, they are only a means to the end (or completely useless).
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It looks like it's mostly the people who have high levels who want a stats wipe. I can think of a few possible reasons:
- They leveled up fast, they know they can do it again. While the rest of us who spent years to get to level 20 will have to spend years again
- They find leveling up fun and having high levels boring, so they want to do it once more (yeah right
).- They hope that by arguing for a stats wipe, they will get more people to vote no to random spawns
Being only about level 20 myself, I don't want a wipe. Not again, I haven't even reached my pre-crash levels yet. But I want random spawns, otherwise I will never reach them. I'm tired of spawn-camping wolves, but I can't take on a goblin yet. Random spawns would at least get rid of spawn-camping, giving me a reason to do start fighting again, so I can get away from the wolves. Where as a wipe would put me back to rabbits, training towards being able to fight wolves, instead of getting away from them.
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Seems I didn't wrote what I thought I wrote, no wonder I didn't get the expected replies :lol:
What does EL do different than other games when it comes to lighting? EL is the only one I have the problem with, all the other GL-based programs and games I tried work fine. I tried comparing the lights code with Armagetron, which use the some functions, but with different values for e.g. diffuse, but I didn't have any luck solving it.
Yes, I'm trying to solve the problem myself, but I don't know anything about OpenGL programming, so I need lots of help
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Yes, level 8 can be reached in a few hours by a power-gamer. Maybe it should be changed to something time-based. Like 56 hours, that will be a week if you play 8 hours per day, and two months if you play 1 hour per day
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Well, since only mods have access to it, everyone else will still have to post their ideas and reasoning here
The advantage of #hint is that it goes away once you reach a certain level, #bc doesn't. I believe most people are glad that they don't have to look at the same message over and over again once they reach level 8, and this is defeated by #bc'ing it. Basically, you send it out not only to the ones who need to know it, but also to the ones who already know, and who are tired of seeing those messages over and over again.
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when I say the #hints are confusing I mean they go by to fast and new players tend to forget to read them..the blue mess(ages) ARE noticed thoThey scroll by no faster than all the other text. And there's really nothing we can do about people who ignore helpfull information. Moving it from #hint to #bc only causes people to start ignoring #bc instead.
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If the #hints are confusing, they should be updated to a less confusing version. I.e. instead of broadcasting the same thing over and over again, let's put your text in the hints. And that's for any newbie info that's broadcast regularly.
I think the hints are server side, so they don't need to wait for the next client update, only a server restart, which happens a lot more often.
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It won't crash or freeze if your internet or video card or processor is faster than one of the other two. Not saying that it will otherwise, but I have never found a computer where internet speed, video card speed, and processor speed are the same speed.It doesn't have anything to do with speed differences. The CPU (well, except laptop CPU's) runs at a fixed speed, measured in MHz or GHz. It runs at this speed no matter if it has anything to do or not, and no matter if you have 1 or 100 programs open. EL will grab as much power as it can, but no matter how hard it tries, it can't grab more than there is, and this will not crash the computer unless something is wrong with it, usually overclocking or a cooling problem.
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I would have to make specific fight animations for riding on the animals. The normal fight animations can not be used, unless you want to kill your horse's head instead of your enemyBut there are some more major issues if we make fighting on animals possible (like, which side do you attack from? you have to be near your enemy, unles syou just want the animals to fight each other and you just ride the animal).
But in fact there's an even bigger problem that maybe you can help us solve, not related to cal3d: The creatures in the game only have ONE square that they take up, so for bigger creatures in the game(deer, bears, etc), half of their bodies go through each other if they fight, or fight with you, and also go through other objects. Would suck if you're riding a horse, and face off with another rider, both heads would be stuck inside each other.
The more I think about this one, the more I wonder who you meant in the last part. The first part is clearly a reply to my questions about riding+figting animations, and originally I assumed the question in the second part was directed at me as well. But the "not related to Cal3D" comment makes me think you meant Mikeman instead. On the other hand, Mikeman knows a lot about OpenGL and Cal3D, which are not interesting for this question at all (the server uses neither), and wasting his time on a simple problem like this would be silly when there are so many other things to do in the Cal3D area
I know it's a silly question, but I can't stop thinking about it, so it would really be nice to know who you meant.
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I tried two triangles, and the flashing almost went away. Before, I had constant flashing, each frame would have the opposite textures lighted wrong, that doesn't happen now. But once in a while (a few times per minute), a single frame will flash, but at my current framerate I'm not able to see if it's even the same kind of flashing.
So, it's a big improvement
I guess I'll have to do the same thing later with the cave function (right now I'm more or less in bed with a cold).
Interesting that OpenGL just sends vertexes without defining which are supposed to fit together... I had expected some kind of triangle function that would take three vertexes. Just sending vertexes makes it easy to remove one vertex and have everything screwed up because it just picks a the first vertex of the next triangle.