[Huggybaby]

I know it's a small thing, sorry if it's been reported.

When you select your exe in launcher 5.5a, there's a freepspace typo:

[Nuke]

funny this should appear right next to a grammar inquisition thread

[FUBAR-BDHR]

And I thought I was overdoing it with the bug reporting.   

[karajorma]

Fixed in CVS

It's a minor bug but when you have a bug that you know will take a coder all of 5 seconds to fix you might as well report it

[MP-Ryan]

Fixed in CVS

It's a minor bug but when you have a bug that you know will take a coder all of 5 seconds to fix you might as well report it

Here's a dumb question:  where does one find the CVS builds?  redmenace's thread in the Recent Build forums looks severely out of date...

[karajorma]

They are out of date but you should only be running HEAD builds if you have a damn good reason (i.e you are making a campaign and using a feature from HEAD or you know enough about the game to troubleshoot and report bugs properly).

We went to a lot of trouble splitting into HEAD and 3.6.9 branches and we'd prefer it if people used the right one


If you're certain you can deal with HEAD builds the best option is to grab one of the builds that coders occasionally upload with new features. Most of those tend to be based on reasonably new version of CVS.

[Trivial Psychic]

Figured I'd mention this here.  I've noticed that new Head builds (both FSO and FRED) no longer recognize the -jpgtga command line option.  I seem to recall hearing that this would be coming about sometime or another.  That said, the launcher will still display the checkbox for it.  I know that if someone is using a Head build, they should have enough brains to recognize that if the build is complaining about it, then they should probably un-check it.  However, not all people who use Head builds are your experienced users, so this is something to fix, so that the -jpgtga checkbox is no no longer shown if the build doesn't support it.  BTW, typically when a certain command-line-enabled feature is switched to "always on", typically a "turn this off" command line is added, like with the "only load used weapons" thing.  Is there one for jpgtga textures?

[WMCoolmon]

The difference is that -jpgtga is only used if JPG or TGA files are present. So you can turn it 'off', by removing the files in the first place.

Since taylor is pushing DDS as the main fs2_open image format, and campaigns and mediaVPs have started moving in that direction, the effect of the command line is only going to decrease with time. And if it is making a significant difference, it's probably not a good thing.

Finally, it prevents problems caused by no PCX file existing for a ship with JPG and TGA textures, in any case.

[Trivial Psychic]

I'm not asking why its being removed, I'm just mentioning that the Launcher shouldn't be displaying a checkbox for a flag that isn't there anymore.

[WMCoolmon]

BTW, typically when a certain command-line-enabled feature is switched to "always on", typically a "turn this off" command line is added, like with the "only load used weapons" thing.  Is there one for jpgtga textures?

I was replying to that. In a word, "no".

[Wobble73]

They are out of date but you should only be running HEAD builds if you have a damn good reason (i.e you are making a campaign and using a feature from HEAD or you know enough about the game to troubleshoot and report bugs properly).

We went to a lot of trouble splitting into HEAD and 3.6.9 branches and we'd prefer it if people used the right one


If you're certain you can deal with HEAD builds the best option is to grab one of the builds that coders occasionally upload with new features. Most of those tend to be based on reasonably new version of CVS.

You should have just pointed him to your signature   


"Only developers should be getting HEAD" 

[karajorma]

I occasionally explain why we should be privileged that way