Engine Testing - 5. May 2013 (94.1.1-413-g7b0d1a7)

[abma]

Last testing release was quiet some time ago, so we need some tests to find remaining bugs and if no major bugs were found we hopefully can release 95.0 soon!

Changes mainly were bugfixes, only some small new features were introduced:

- add map border rendering
- allow lua ais to be selected with the menu

For details of changes since 94.1 look at the "95.0" section in changelog.txt.

See the Testing Release Wiki page for general info about how to obtain the release, and an archive of all testing releases since the last stable one.

If you find a bugs, please report to Mantis.

Remember to attach infolog.txt as file, if you crash!

Note: some bugs are already known: http://springrts.com/mantis/roadmap_page.php

(macosx build not ready yet)

[Silentwings]

The SL version installed with this (fresh portable install) crashes for me as soon as I click the exe. Here's a zip of the files it generated as its bug report.

edit: There was an empty springlobby.conf file in /Spring. I don't know if this was generated by SL or if it came as part of the isntall, but after I deleted that it stopped crashing. It doesn't seem to make a springlobby.conf file now, or at least if it does I have no idea where its making it. I would like to know where the .conf file is now since I can't test laucnhing from the lobby without putting DisableVersionCheck in!

[zwzsg]

And it's a crash.

[knorke]

seems I have to set useVBO=0 so it does not crash (in 94.1 too)
that makes the units look strange like in:
http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=3461#c10606
in 94.1 it is fixable with /shadows 0
in this version, /shadows 0 does not fix it.

[abma]

@knorke:

infolog.txt of the crash please, maybe we have a bit more luck this time...

[knorke]

have added it to mantis
http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=3461#c10625

[zwzsg]

Woot! 94.1.1-413-g7b0d1a7 does work on my machine!
(and I didn't even had to fiddle with the settings!)

But ... transparent maps are no longer transparent
Can this be considered as a bug, or was it never a feature?



Edit: talked too fast, it's still crash as previously, and anyway it's the same version....

However, maybe it can gives you a lead to know that this crash does not occur on (previously) transparent maps?


Also, with knorke's safemode I made Spring works on other maps.

Oh, and knorke's safemode also gives transparent maps their transparency back.

[smoth]

springlobby still crashes outright so i cannot setup a proper configuration.

Call stack:
6A19E95C SDL_GetAppState
6A19E88F SDL_GetAppState
6A1C573B SDL_GetAppState
6A0CAE95
6A209143 SDL_GetAppState
6A1F00C5 SDL_GetAppState
770198DA free
6A0D98B3
6A1C565F SDL_GetAppState
6A1019F8 SetSpringConfigFile@4
007859FE
005D2851
00599027
00599247
007FCB70
004010B9
0040129C
766733AA BaseThreadInitThunk
77639EF2 RtlInitializeExceptionChain
77639EC5 RtlInitializeExceptionChain

[jK]

try to use the unitsync with an old springlobby

[smoth]

try to use the unitsync with an old springlobby

copied the spring lobby files:
Springlobby.exe and the /lobby/ folder after deleting those files out of my spring (94.1.1-413-g7b0d1a7) dir with no luck still crashing.

[Jools]

I tested latest -413 release and I have some errors:

* The "range" parameter in unitdef seems to be nil. Is this because the name changed? Changelog doesn't mention this.

Code: Select all

local range = spGetUnitWeaponState(unitID,0,"range") returns nil

* The menu background when you launch spring.exe is black. Before there used to be nice picture of a tropical beach. Why was this removed?

[knorke]

new menu background is on purpose so it looks more neutral.
you can change yours like this http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... pg#p506811
(worked when linked post was written, didnt test now)

* The "range" parameter in unitdef seems to be nil. Is this because the name changed?

the weapons are now numbered starting from 1 not 0. So spGetUnitWeaponState(unitID,1,"range")
https://github.com/spring/spring/commit ... ab7a9f476e
http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=3702#c10571

[Jools]

new menu background is on purpose so it looks more neutral.

Ok, thanks. I like that beach, didn't they know that:

"Beach is the new black"

Black is so 2006. This year it's all about tropical beaches. So where can I find that picture? In spring 94 / basecontent?

the weapons are now numbered starting from 1 not 0.

Thanks. Just need to remember to change that when new spring is out. I'm too lazy to write code that checks spring version.

[Jools]

Ok, so I go to spring/base/spring/, rename bitmaps.sdz to bitmaps.zip. The I slip in a new background.jpg, then repack that archive.

And how should the average noob know how to do this? Wouldn't it be better to have something useful there as default?

Also I wanna know what you have against beaches? Maybe some childhood trauma? But don't take it out on the average John Doe out there who likes beaches. :)

[Silentwings]

Is there any docu on how this works? Like will it change background according to the selected mod/map?

[FLOZi]

Not yet... image was just switched out for a new one which is 'more neutral' (read: terrible JPEG compression should have been a png can we revert really?)

[smoth]

any ideas on the springlobby crash?

[abma]

@smoth:

does http://springlobby.info/temp/builds/abma/sl_master.zip work?

[abma]

@jools:
about the background image:
http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=3529
http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=3651

i dislike the black picture too, imo some community poll/"contest" should replace it...

[Silentwings]

Since zerver said on one of those mantis links that he was removing it to replace it with a 'more professional' looking picture and (I guess) will now not do so, could we just have the old screen back as the default? I for one thought it was pretty.