Galactica : Corsairs

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:29 pm

I've checked online and it seems to be a vista issue. Are you using Windows Vista? If yes... no idea for a fix yet

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:41 pm

jepp using vista.
what lib is causing this? can u take it out maybe?

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:42 pm

No... it's from Visual Studio itself.

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:43 pm

haha....thats awesome.
can u maybe compile with some other compiler(mingw)?

Pierre · Post by **Pierre** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:48 pm

Heya!

Could it be that you're giving us a debug version?
My dependency walker tells me that your exe tries to bind to msvcr90d.dll, which, msdn says, is a debug dll for visual studio 2008.

Maybe i'm wrong. But if it IS a debug it's normal no one can run it

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:09 pm

Nope, it's a release

It works on several other people's computers. Though I'll try again in the morning... thanks for the heads up!

Pierre · Post by **Pierre** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:20 pm

d'oh ! I get the same error as sudi though, despite having physX and the VC 2008 redists. Its on windows XP.

And i want to try it! now, not tomorrow morning !!!

...

Ah, Fine.

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:47 am

Sigh... hopefully it's fixed.
I've updated the archive online, over here.
If you already have the archive and only want the updated .exe, you can get it here.

As always, you need the Visual C++ 2008 Redist (get it here) and the PhysX 2.8.1 drivers... (they're here).

Thanks for your early messages and hope to see more!

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:31 pm

Still not working?

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:49 pm

works now.
but i don't get it. it just looks strange. sry to say that but if thats a playable version u have a long way to go. what is it supposed to be anyway?

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:44 pm

That's a nice concept demo. I look forward to seeing a game emerge.

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:05 pm

Sudi wrote:works now.
but i don't get it. it just looks strange. sry to say that but if thats a playable version u have a long way to go. what is it supposed to be anyway?

I am aware that it looks strange

It's not realy playable, but it's a inter-unit interaction tech demo and I wanted to know if it actualy works on other people's computers. I can't go on without a small round of testing to check current features, right?

Oops.. good point. What you should see is this: About 110 ships split in 2 teams (You and the enemy) fighting each other. AI is pretty basic... they try to dodge enemy fire in 1 on 1 combat while trying to fire their own weapons.
The only interactivity between you and the game at this point is the ability to select your ships and tell them to move somewhere else (buggy, I am aware).

The thing that frightens me most is that the 2 threads might screw the whole game on some systems...

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 7:57 am

night_hawk wrote:I can't go on without a small round of testing to check current features, right?

Mmm. I'd suggest that rendering is a minor part of your overall project, but YMMV.

night_hawk wrote:The thing that frightens me most is that the 2 threads might screw the whole game on some systems...

If you're not absolutely certain that it won't, then it almost certainly will.

If you are absolutely certain that it won't, then it probably will anyway.

Perhaps if you were to explain why you're using 2 threads for, and what synchronisation you're using, we might be able to help.

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:47 am

First of all, I wanted to separate PhysX updates from the rendering, to make the rendering faster on multi-core processors. Secondly, to break any rendering inconsistencies, any new nodes (Rockets, ships, etc) are added on a queue which is handled by the second thread (the one with PhysX updates). So, while the first thread renders and gives orders to the ships, the second thread updates physics for said ships and checks if new nodes have to be added, then adds them accordingly.

That's about it...

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:20 pm

i once tried t make irrlicht multithreaded.
but splitting rendering is somehow not possible or at least i'm not smart enough.