New version, 0.70b3

Generuler · Post by **Generuler** » 23 Mar 2006, 21:42

I can't connect to any of the servers anymore

any1 know what to do?
I pinged the servers in the console and they worked fine

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 23 Mar 2006, 22:24

Have you tried to reset the server to taspringmaster.clan-sy.com?

Generuler · Post by **Generuler** » 24 Mar 2006, 13:49

yes i have

Post by **Betalord** » 25 Mar 2006, 14:42

try either clearing your dns cache or lowering your firewall

Tweenk · Post by **Tweenk** » 25 Mar 2006, 15:10

This buildpic bug is more general, when you try to issue a reclaim area order to some con unit using not the left mouse button, but right mouse button, strange things happen... Center of the circle is a fixed distance off-screen no matter where you click and drag. This is when using rotatable overhead camera, haven't tested it with other cameras. LMB-issued order works OK however.

PS One very nice feature would be to have a rotatable overhead camera that has an option to rotate around the cursor (The point on the ground which is under the cursor)... It would make watching battles more entertaining :) . If such option exists and I simply haven't noticed, it should be switched with the existing mode of rotation - round-the-cursor mode is much more "natural" IMO (in term of ease of usage, not actual ability to view the battlefield like this in real world)

AF · Post by AF » 25 Mar 2006, 15:20

Rotating the camera around the point you're looking at? I believe thats the populous 3 camera, onyl it uses the <> arrow keys to control it. I have a camera like that on my machine but I havent got it working as well as I'd like it to, the rotational part isnt quite upto scratch yet.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 27 Mar 2006, 06:15

Yeah, when rotated, framerate really goes to Heck in a handbasket. Too bad, because if it only worked a bit better, we'd be that much closer to good FPS-control-mode game designs using Spring.

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 10 Apr 2006, 22:50

Yeah, Blame the designers ARgh

Tweenk · Post by **Tweenk** » 12 Apr 2006, 11:33

AF wrote:I have a camera like that on my machine but I havent got it working as well as I'd like it to

Can you host a modified part of source which does this? And which source file has to be tampered with?

I have some idea how can it be done (in general, you move the camera on the surface of an invisible hemisphere with its center at the position of cursor). I can't promise anythng though because my knowledge of winapi is currently zero.

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 12 Apr 2006, 12:39

you don't need to know any WINAPI stuff do make a camera, in the worst case a bit of OpenGL, but probably just the math to setup the camera and handle mouse input.

AF · Post by AF » 12 Apr 2006, 14:57

I was trying to rotate the camera in the same way that the total war mode does and got to the point where It's rotating about the camera axis I think

I need ti to rotate the target by angle x and rotate the cameras view by angle -x to finish the effect.

Adding camera modes or so on is easy as long as you know how your cameras motion should work....

I guess I should pass my mess of code over to you then..... It'd also be nice if you abstracted the cameras into dll files........

cyclerboy · Post by **cyclerboy** » 13 Apr 2006, 07:05

what we need in the next version is SJ's water. oh i cant wait

Torrasque · Post by **Torrasque** » 27 Apr 2006, 10:58

Just for the end-game statistic

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New version, 0.70b3