[karajorma]

I've got to agree really. That bug is a real showstopper in that the only way to get around it is hideously arcane and won't come to most people immediately.

I've heard no complaints about the 29th April build or you can try my latest one which doesn't contain any of the loadout code at all (beyond a couple of non-working boxes in FRED).

[ShivanSpS]

Great, another 4 days quiout internet... and another 70 attempts to make a .rar working...

Damn, i should noticed this , I tested the CVS in all mods, but I have a pilot for every mod and those pilots already have the corresponding campaing selected ...

What about a .exe updater?

its not sense to give another big file which the same VPs... and the deltas... well... their have a lot of problems...

[tobiwan81]

Error: Invalid ship type "GVB Osiris" found in $Ship Choices: of campaign file
File:D:\C++\Freespace\fs2_open\code\Parse\PARSELO.CPP
Line: 2490
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------

I guess this is OBE then.

oh well, thanks ShivenSPS will try that out.

[karajorma]

Yep. That one is definitely my fault. This exe solves the problem. Download, unrar and select it from the launcher and you'll be good to go.

What about a .exe updater?

Hopefully Taylor's new launcher/mod downloader will be able to do that but until it's ready we're stuck with the current system.

[ShivanSpS]

ok, I will replace the torrent for the 1.6... thats easy... and ADD and updater from 1.5c to 1.6 for the direct download... (the people who downloaded frm direct download has to read the post anyway).

My idea from now on, is to give a new pack only when the new stable Vps be avalibe...

[neoterran]

Shivan, please wait until this weekends builds to do this... environment mapping will be enabled in builds after this weekend which is a major feature and will be worth getting in the torrent.

[ShivanSpS]

That need to be checked for crash first... well I will give the patch anyway... I will wait to se what the new build has to offer for the torrent later...

Emviroment mapping will avalible for OpenGL?

[karajorma]

Only OpenGL. D3D is still broken AFAIK and will probably be remaining that way.

[neoterran]

I think it's obvious at this point that OpenGL is the best renderer to use for SCP anyway

[ShivanSpS]

Ok, the patch is ready, here is the update file....

http://www.oxyshare.com/d/mtvfn9Iswb2/1_5c to 1_6 patch.exe.html

The only that is patch do is put the 29th CVS and delete the 25th ones...

I gain expeience which this program I can make those update .exes in 2 min XD

[karajorma]

I think it's obvious at this point that OpenGL is the best renderer to use for SCP anyway

Problem is that it's obvious to the community but not to those joining it. I'm tempted to recompile the launcher just to add a warning saying not to run D3D

[Mars]

environment mapping will be enabled in builds after this weekend which is a major feature and will be worth getting in the torrent.

Yeeehaaaw!

So when is the next "offical" build getting released? 3.6.7 is now so far behind its nearly impossible to get by without a CVS build.

Just a suggestion, I don't mean to give other people greif, but maybe somone should program a simple auto-updater that downloads the newest CVS builds automatically, or somthing; because the people using Shivans torrent won't nessesarially know what a CVS build is.

[ShivanSpS]

taylor is working on in... But I also have the idea of make a auto-updater for windows users, just for a while until taylor finish its task

The program that I using for make installers, also have a little Auto-updater ability... they can delete, move, download from a site, copy, unzip, find files, etc etc etc... but is not too easy to make the program to check what you have and them compare which the avalible on internet... My idea is to make an auto updater that update the CVS and add minor stuff... like the NTF Iceni when ready... But dont expect anything, I still got nothing...

OMG!
I just see a program called True Update, that is used for make Auto-updaters lol, I will check it out..

[ShivanSpS]

whooo, is very easy to use is the same company of the installer factory... well, basic, the TrueUpdate Program, whatthey do is, first check your vercion file which other vercion files in a server, and if dont mach they start to download a .exe from a server when finish, they run it, well, combaining the setup factory and true update i can make a Auto-update program for windows users... what your opinions?

[Mars]

Sexy, might help the newbie crowd, and maybe a few others as well.

[ShivanSpS]

Well its works, that for sure, anyway, everything depend on how far away is taylor to finish its launcher, and if I use this updater... will be no now. no until I release a new big file, which new Vps... (the updater is good for small modifications, CVS, add new HTL things, but not for a whole VP update...

[Mars]

Yeah, I thought there should be an updater because I get the impression that some folks are downloading the whole torrent over again whenever there's a new build, and there just has to be a better way.

[neoterran]

just include the updater in each torrent as a seperate file. you can download individual files in torrents if you just want to grab the updater out of the package you know.

[Mars]

Isn't the whole point to provide one full SCP download, as opposed to many scattered peices.

[neoterran]

I don't think you understand, one torrent can contain many seperate files. Most good clients (like www.utorrent.com) provide easy way for you to, once you have the torrent downloading, select only the files within the torrent for download. So you can get a 512kb file within a 1.72 GB torrent consisting of the main freespace rar and a smaller exe updater, for example.