Hard Light Productions Forums
Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: CaptJosh on October 07, 2005, 10:06:10 pm
-
Ok, so I decided to take a crack at converting the MVE files from my FS2 discs. I got the tools I needed, then copied the MVEs to my hard drive. I have managed a conversion of intro.mve that is...acceptable. It's better than the preconverted version I downloaded a while back, but I'm seeing some pixelation, but it's rather large. It's not as obvious in some parts of the converted file, but it's always there.
I was wondering if anyone had run into this before and if so, could you please give me some tips. I'm sure the first question is what program and what encoding did I use, so here's the answer in advance. After converting with MVE2AVI, I used VirtualDub and saved with the Xvid codec, having set it for highest quality.
EDIT: I changed screen res to look at it again in 1024x768 and it looked different. Pixelation still there, but it looked smaller than before. Not nearly as obvious.
-
nm
-
There is a full set of AVIs available for download someplace, that seemed pretty good quality. There were two versions made...a somewhat crappy version, and then a more recent good version. I think the latter may have been by Sticks...not sure.
-
I guess I've only found the semi-crappy older version.
The copy I made of the intro I cut off the garbage with those frames of that line of color at the beginning. I also had to cut off everything from frame 10336 on because the program wouldn't read it, but that was all extra black screen frames at the end, so no biggie. I just wish I knew why there was so much compression artifact when I set it for such high quality. OTOH, it did start out as a 4+GB uncompressed AVI after conversion and it's now only 446MB, so I don't know...Maybe I should try the DivX codec instead of the Xvid one...
-
The first crappy version were mine and TurboNed made the improved versions by doing pretty much what I did but applying filters to the movie in VirtualDub.
Since I've got no idea what kind of arcane magic he did there I can't tell anyone how to repeat it. If you play the 4GB version you'll notice it's just as pixelated. It's something from the mve2avi process that is causing the problems.
The good versions are available here (http://207.38.10.121/~freespace/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34806)
-
Actually, the link in that thread is broken. :(
-
Yeah. Someone just posted to that effect on another thread. No real idea what I can do about it to be honest.
-
I'll just play with it some, later. At the moment, at least I have something better than I started with. It's unfortunate that nobody has ever come up with a decoder for MVE that isn't Interplay's...
-
Originally posted by CaptJosh
It's unfortunate that nobody has ever come up with a decoder for MVE that isn't Interplay's...
Who said there isn't one?
-
There isn't one available to the general public. And there certainly isn't one in FS2 Open. This led me to believe nobody had made a codec that could read MVE files except Interplay.
-
Originally posted by CaptJosh
There isn't one available to the general public.And there certainly isn't one in FS2 Open.
Yes there is, and, Yes there is.
The original decoder was written nearly 4 years ago (or more) but it was for non-Windows people who needed it for ports. Windows people just didn't care about it and still don't for the most part. There is also a stand alone player for Windows (if you can find it) plus nearly all major Linux and OS X open source media players support MVE now. Just don't use Windows and you'll be happy with your movies. :)
-
If these open source codecs existed, why wasn't the SCP able to use 'em?
-
Originally posted by Fenrir
If these open source codecs existed, why wasn't the SCP able to use 'em?
A) Questionable lagality
B) SCP was largely a Windows oriented group and didn't know about it
C) The original decoder was for 8-bit and didn't support the 16-bit Freespace movies supported by a special FS capable version released to a smaller audience
D) It's technically difficult to support 3 platforms properly when one (windows) deviates in functionality in certain critical areas (audio and video)
E) All of the above
Take your pick, but "E" is the correct answer.
-
Hey, I use Windows and Linux on the same machine here. Dual boot. I've just had a hard time with games under Linux in the past. Mainly due to video driver issues which I don't have anymore. I just wish I could get the CVS build of cedega I got to work. Maybe I need to run the DirectX installer in it... :D
Anyway, I'll try a Linux build of FS2O later. I don't have the time this morning.
-
Originally posted by CaptJosh
Anyway, I'll try a Linux build of FS2O later. I don't have the time this morning.
Just remember to get the official 3.6.7 tarball (from http://icculus.org/~taylor/fso/releases) to get that particular feature you're looking for.
-
Thanks, Taylor. I'll check into that later today, probably. With SuSE linux 9.3 actually detecting my joystick as a joystick, it should be fairly straightforward to play, too. Though I might just get 10.0 first... :D
-
Can't get this linux build to install. I get the following series of errors when trying to compile after running the configure script.
In file included from cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:33:
./sound/ds.h:174:20: error: AL/al.h: No such file or directory
./sound/ds.h:175:21: error: AL/alc.h: No such file or directory
./sound/ds.h:176:22: error: AL/alut.h: No such file or directory
./sound/ds.h:225: error: ‘ALuint’ does not name a type
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:65: error: ‘ALenum’ does not name a type
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:70: error: ‘ALuint’ does not name a type
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:71: error: ‘ALuint’ does not name a type
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:72: error: ‘ALuint’ does not name a type
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp: In function ‘void mve_audio_createbuf(ubyte, ubyte*)’:
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:248: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘format’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:248: error: ‘AL_INVALID’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:267: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘format’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:267: error: ‘AL_FORMAT_STEREO16’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:269: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘format’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:269: error: ‘AL_FORMAT_MONO16’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:273: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘format’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:273: error: ‘AL_FORMAT_STEREO8’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:275: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘format’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:275: error: ‘AL_FORMAT_MONO8’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:280: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘format’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:286: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:286: error: ‘alGenSources’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:290: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:290: error: ‘AL_GAIN’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:290: error: ‘alSourcef’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:291: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:291: error: ‘AL_POSITION’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:291: error: ‘alSource3f’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:292: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:292: error: ‘AL_VELOCITY’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:292: error: ‘alSource3f’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:293: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:293: error: ‘AL_DIRECTION’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:293: error: ‘alSource3f’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:294: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:294: error: ‘AL_ROLLOFF_FACTOR’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:294: error: ‘alSourcef’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:295: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:295: error: ‘AL_SOURCE_RELATIVE’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:295: error: ‘AL_TRUE’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:295: error: ‘alSourcei’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:297: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘audio_buffer’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:297: error: ‘ALuint’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp: In function ‘void mve_audio_play()’:
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:309: error: ‘ALint’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:309: error: expected `;' before ‘status’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:311: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:311: error: ‘AL_SOURCE_STATE’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:311: error: ‘status’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:311: error: ‘alGetSourcei’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:313: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:313: error: ‘AL_BUFFERS_QUEUED’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:313: error: ‘bqueued’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:313: error: ‘alGetSourcei’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:317: error: ‘status’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:317: error: ‘AL_PLAYING’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:317: error: ‘bqueued’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:318: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:318: error: ‘alSourcePlay’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp: In function ‘void mve_audio_stop()’:
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:329: error: ‘ALint’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:329: error: expected `;' before ‘p’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:333: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:333: error: ‘alSourceStop’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:334: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:334: error: ‘AL_BUFFERS_PROCESSED’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:334: error: ‘p’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:334: error: ‘alGetSourcei’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:335: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:335: error: ‘p’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:335: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘audio_buffer’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:335: error: ‘alSourceUnqueueBuffers’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:336: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘audio_buffer’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:336: error: ‘alDeleteBuffers’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:337: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:337: error: ‘alDeleteSources’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp: In function ‘int mve_audio_data(ubyte, ubyte*)’:
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:356: error: ‘ALint’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:356: error: expected `;' before ‘bprocessed’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:357: error: ‘ALuint’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:357: error: expected `;' before ‘bid’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:359: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:359: error: ‘AL_BUFFERS_PROCESSED’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:359: error: ‘bprocessed’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:359: error: ‘alGetSourcei’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:361: error: ‘bprocessed’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:362: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:362: error: ‘bid’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:362: error: ‘alSourceUnqueueBuffers’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:368: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:368: error: ‘AL_BUFFERS_QUEUED’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:368: error: ‘bqueued’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:368: error: ‘alGetSourcei’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:370: error: ‘bqueued’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:373: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:373: error: ‘AL_SOURCE_STATE’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:373: error: ‘status’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:373: error: ‘alGetSourcei’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:375: error: ‘status’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:375: error: ‘AL_PLAYING’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:375: error: ‘bqueued’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:376: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:376: error: ‘alSourcePlay’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:379: error: ‘bqueued’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:403: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘audio_buffer’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:404: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘audio_buffer’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:404: error: ‘alGenBuffers’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:407: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘audio_buffer’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:407: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘format’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:407: error: ‘alBufferData’ was not declared in this scope
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:409: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘source_id’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:409: error: ‘struct MVE_AUDIO_T’ has no member named ‘audio_buffer’
cutscene/mveplayer.cpp:409: error: ‘alSourceQueueBuffers’ was not declared in this scope
make[1]: *** [mveplayer.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jbelanger/fs2_open-3.6.7/code'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
After that it terminates and nothing's been installed. I know I installed openAL on my SuSE install, so I don't know what's going on...
-
going to take a wild guess and say you don't have the openAL SDK installed.
-
Probably not, as SuSE 10 does not come with the openAL-devel package. I guess I'll be hunting up an RPM...*sigh*
-
I should correct myself on that earlier post. The CD isos of SuSE 10 don't come with it. I found an FTP source and was able to compile, but now I can't figure out what to do after that. I didn't find an install dir. Only an install-sh script and I don't know what to do with it, exactly. I know it wants a source file, a destination, etc. I'm also pretty sure I need to use mkinstalldirs to create my install directory, unless the fact that it didn't install from the make command means I still have a problem? Also, I didn't see anything about a launcher in any of the directories from the source.
-
Here is a SRPM that I use: http://icculus.org/~taylor/misc/openal-0.0.8-0.cvs.20050329.1.src.rpm
If your user isn't setup for it's own RPM building then you'll have to "su -", enter the root password, and "rpmbuild --rebuild openal-0.0.8-0.cvs.20050329.1.src.rpm". I didn't really intend for anyone other than myself to use it so the spec file changes aren't listed. It shouldn't be system specific though and should work without modification on SuSE but if it doesn't let me know.
-
I'm probably still missing a dependency, but I'm not sure. I didn't see any critical errors, yet when I searched for it, I didn't find anything except in the source dirs and on my Windows drive.
I'll try this either later tonight or tomorrow evening. I should be able to use kpackage to install this, I think. Possibly even YaST.
-
Mmm, too bad you're not using a debian machine or you could use checkinstall to build a custom package file from source downloads.
There might be a similar tool for RPMs though.
-
There are, but I'm not sure I have all the deps. I found the correct openal-devel package, but I got a couple other errors the last time I tried to compile from source. Something about multi.cpp? I don't remember. I'll have to delete and try to compile again so I can get the errors to show all y'all.
-
First of all, I haven't tried the rpm. I wanted to see if any of these errors might have made it so that it didn't install from compiling the source.
Although the gcc seems to think they're trivial, as it continues compiling, the first significant set of errors are:
network/multimsgs.cpp: In function ‘void send_turret_fired_packet(int, int, int)’:
network/multimsgs.cpp:3645: warning: statement has no effect
network/multimsgs.cpp: In function ‘void send_ai_info_update_packet(object*, char)’:
network/multimsgs.cpp:5383: warning: statement has no effect
network/multimsgs.cpp: In function ‘void send_NEW_primary_fired_packet(ship*, int)’:
network/multimsgs.cpp:7911: warning: statement has no effect
network/multimsgs.cpp: In function ‘void send_flak_fired_packet(int, int, int, float)’:
network/multimsgs.cpp:8322: warning: statement has no effect
network/multimsgs.cpp: In function ‘void send_player_pain_packet(net_player*, int, float, vec3d*, vec3d*)’:
network/multimsgs.cpp:8436: warning: statement has no effect
Then it goes for a little while and gives this:
network/multi_dogfight.cpp: In function ‘void multi_df_debrief_init()’:
network/multi_dogfight.cpp:400: warning: unused variable ‘rescode’
Then again it goes for a little while and gives:
network/multi_obj.cpp: In function ‘int multi_oo_pack_data(net_player*, object*, ubyte, ubyte*)’:
network/multi_obj.cpp:408: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:414: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:422: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:428: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:439: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:446: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:468: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:482: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:489: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:496: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:517: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:571: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:574: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:577: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:580: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp: In function ‘void multi_oo_process_all(net_player*)’:
network/multi_obj.cpp:1277: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:1307: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:1319: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:1334: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp: In function ‘void multi_oo_send_control_info()’:
network/multi_obj.cpp:1474: warning: statement has no effect
network/multi_obj.cpp:1484: warning: statement has no effect
then after a while:
network/psnet2.cpp: In function ‘int psnet_send(net_addr*, void*, int, int)’:
network/psnet2.cpp:1122: warning: statement has no effect
network/psnet2.cpp:1123: warning: statement has no effect
network/psnet2.cpp: In function ‘int psnet_rel_send(PSNET_SOCKET_RELIABLE, ubyte*, int, int)’:
network/psnet2.cpp:1406: warning: statement has no effect
Then a couple trivial errors about thruster glows, anims, and contrails show up:
ship/ship.cpp: In function ‘void ship_init_thrusters()’:
ship/ship.cpp:5919: warning: unused variable ‘num_thrust_anims’
ship/ship.cpp:5939: warning: unused variable ‘num_thrust_glow_anims’
and
ship/shipcontrails.cpp:570:2: warning: no newline at end of file
Finally, further down and finally the last error, just before it completes the last steps to finish compiling, there is this error:
freespace2/freespace.cpp: In function ‘void game_flip_page_and_time_it()’:
freespace2/freespace.cpp:5289: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘fix
I don't know if any of this is helpful in determining what needs work in that source package or what I might be missing, but I included all of the errors just in case there's something I'm missing. Usually I'm pretty good at compiling and installing from source, so this is somewhat frustrating.
-
Originally posted by CaptJosh
.......
I don't know if any of this is helpful in determining what needs work in that source package or what I might be missing, but I included all of the errors just in case there's something I'm missing. Usually I'm pretty good at compiling and installing from source, so this is somewhat frustrating.
All of that was pretty harmless. No reason it shouldn't work based on what you posted.
The "statement has no effect" warnings only show up in release builds and a fix was previously in the code but Goober reverted it for some reason. Maybe MSVC hated it or something, he never said.
The thruster related warnings are just because of how Goober broke thrusters. He'll fix that eventually.
The last warning is harmless since "fix" is an int (in size at least) so no big deal there. I'm planning to go through and get all of that type stuff cleaned out and safety-checked in the not too distant future.
-
Then I must either
A) Not know what to do next to make it work now, or
B) be making some other kind of mistake.
And the INSTALL file doesn't say much at about installing on linux. Heck it doesn't say much about installing period. Just a few minor notes.
-
Is it building successfully? If it is then just copy code/fs2_open_r (or code/fs2_open_d) to where ever your game VPs are installed. The "make install" functionality isn't there in a working way since it's a single binary and I never felt the need to do that.
-
Um...Maybe you should include that bit of information in the INSTALL text file?
So I assume I need the vps from my FS2 discs plus whichever VPs I use from the SCP site?
-
Originally posted by CaptJosh
Um...Maybe you should include that bit of information in the INSTALL text file?
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I only just looked at the INSTALL file after my previous post so I didn't really how useless it was. I'll update it at some point today.
So I assume I need the vps from my FS2 discs plus whichever VPs I use from the SCP site?
Yep. If you have your windows drive mounted in Linux then you can just symlink the VPs rather than having an extra copy of them.
-
I'd rather have the extra copy. I've got windows on one drive and Linux on another. It'll be faster to have the actual files in place.
BTW, has anyone looked into having a launcher for the linux version? I'm going to have to try to find my command line switches that I always use and remember to append them all to the command line in the shortcut I'll have to make.
-
Originally posted by CaptJosh
BTW, has anyone looked into having a launcher for the linux version? I'm going to have to try to find my command line switches that I always use and remember to append them all to the command line in the shortcut I'll have to make.
I'm rewriting a ton of code that will get rid of most of the cmdline options, and mostly get rid of the need for a launcher (except for mods which I'm still trying to work out). As part of that a new launcher is going to be made which is cross-platform. I'm not going to make one for the current system since I'd just have to scrap it in a few months anyway.
Your video settings can be changed in ~/.fs2_open/fs2_open.ini.
Just add your most used cmdline options to ~/.fs2_open/data/cmdline_fso.cfg and it will automatically use them. You can add things specific to a mod or whatever in a shell script for calling the game. If you use something like TBP, which is best used in a separate directory, then you can just create a data/cmdline_fso.cfg there and it will use both your generic options in ~ and then TBP specific ones in that cfg file.
For instance, I have in my ~/.fs2_open/data/cmdline_fso.cfg:
-nograb -window -nobeampierce -targetinfo -dualscanlines -no_set_gamma -snd_preload -fps -allslev -spec_point 0.6 -spec_exp 11 -spec_static 1.2 -spec_tube 0.4 -2d_poof -spec -glow -loadonlyused -jpgtga -bitmap_cache
In my main FS2 game directory I have in data/cmdline_fso.cfg:
-ambient_factor 77
In the data/cmdline_fso.cfg in the TBP directory I have:
-mod tbp -tbp -3dwarp -ambient_factor 87
This way when I play TBP I don't have to do anything special. Since I like an ambient factor if 87 for TBP I specify it there and it doesn't conflict with the setting in my main FS2 game directory.
If the same setting is specified in the various places then the last one parsed will get used. So the value of -ambient_factor in the game directory will get overwritten by the value of -ambient_factor in ~ which will get overwritten by the value specified on the real command line.
That probably just confused you though. :)
-
Not really. I've seen stuff like that before. I'll see what I can do, but I can't even get it to run without any command line options so far. It makes like it will, but then it crashes. Maybe I should try telling it to run windowed?
-
Originally posted by taylor
The "statement has no effect" warnings only show up in release builds and a fix was previously in the code but Goober reverted it for some reason. Maybe MSVC hated it or something, he never said.
Which one was that?
I do remember a few fixes you added that were suggested by someone who doesn't post here. One or two of them seriously messed up MSVC, so that could be what happened. Though usually if I revert something like that I try to explain why in my commits.
-
Originally posted by Goober5000
Which one was that?
I do remember a few fixes you added that were suggested by someone who doesn't post here. One or two of them seriously messed up MSVC, so that could be what happened. Though usually if I revert something like that I try to explain why in my commits.
It was a multi_lag thing I believe, where it was just a define simulating a return value of (0). The problem is that it's basically invalid if you aren't testing for a return value since you would end up with "(0);". The fix was to enclose it in braces and I'm not sure why MSVC would have complained about that since GCC was totally happy with it but the fact that MSVC is so against spec I'm not really surprised if that was the case.
But this is only with release builds since the debug builds use the real function and I seldomly make release builds for my own use. I plan on doing a better fix when I get my Windows box going again and can properly work out any warnings so I don't really care if it's still giving warnings or not right now.
-
Ah, yes, I remember that. MSVC hated it; it threw about five errors on just that one line.
What was the final result, something like {(0);}? I can try to recreate the original error message if you want.
-
Originally posted by Goober5000
What was the final result, something like {(0);}? I can try to recreate the original error message if you want.
Nah, don't worry about it. I don't really like how all of it works so I'll just fix it in a better way than that when I get the chance. It's just a minor annoyance now and not worth the effort of doing the same old thing. I've already been going through and fixing the rest of the various warnings anyway.