I didn't see that in the release notes so thanks for pointing that out. That is absolutely huge and I can't say thanks enough. That basically just gave us free billboard capability as well. Awesome!

Hi all,



I'm very pleased to hear that our hard work is helping most users. If you've any problems at all, I'm also available to help and assist. Please don't forget that we also have the bug board should you find any showstoppers.



SC

Sorry Lee, the occluder cache does nothing for me. Unfortunately, I can not email you a standalone from V1.007, as the standalone's I made were with smallg's brilliant occlusion script, which gave me huge frame rate boosts, and is not working anymore in V1.0071. Thus, you will have nothing to compare. I can send you a V1.0071 standalone, but problem there is the standalone's in V1.0071 are putting out unusable frame rates, which will not help anyone to win the competition. I'll see what I can send you... Good news is the terrible crashes I was suffering from before have ceased. Thanks for that...

I've been meaning to check that script out or write my own. I'm sure whatever is broken could be fixed by a script change. There's every reason to believe that an occlusion script of some sort could be functional with the current LUA capabilities. Have you asked smallg about it yet?

Lee,

Nice work on the rotate and playerhurt commands. Just a quick question since I'm at work. Can we damage custom characters?

Auger

Currently this is already working. If the custom character has ischaracter = 1 set in the fpe then it gets damaged when shot. I found that out a while ago. They even die automatically.

Faster and more robust than before. Still needs some memory issues sorting as my test map can crash after just one or two tests (if I'm lucky). Also entity spawning seems to have been broken or changed from 1.7. Great speed enhancements though! Certainly getting closer to the mark people expect! Although, you know, it still needs more

@tomjscott what is your PC setup and in what res are you running Reloaded? Can you post some screen shots of your Reloaded settings too?

Rick

I'me getting an improvment too. But isn't this too much AI? How did you get him to do all that climbing only with his feet?

Had to uninstall the previous version manually, otherwise the new program wouldn't install (the files did, but not the program itself).

@RickV, My system specs can be seen in my signature. My resolution is set to the recommended value of 1680x1050. I'm attaching my settings.

That's great. One thing that might be a problem is if your character doesn't have the standard death animations it might not work. What we really need is a HitEntity() command

Auger

Big problems while installing the software upgrade, getting install errors.

The install of all markers gives errors which I have to ignore to continue the installation proces.

See atachments , the installed v1.0071

Congratulations TGC dev team, this is your best release yet, not perfect but almost, I will expect perfect when Reloaded is due for full public release

Till then, keep up the good work.

Do this if your Executable will not respond - Right click on the FPSCreatorReloadedBETA-10071 file and in the GENERAL SECTION
you will see UNBLOCK click on it and your EXE will Boot.

Oke thanks, I uninstalled it manually and reinstalled v1.0071 and got no installation errors.
The new version is working fine and more faster.

Im getting less fps than i did before .. im losing fps in game.

Seeing great improvements on frame rate for older maps up 10 - 12 fps.

Fog and water still an issue on my machine. It seems that the water colors a bit but if you set the fog close near 3 and far 7, the water still does not fog for me.

AI seems to have all the soldiers running for the edge of the map in the same direction, no matter where there located. They are definitely not as aggressive as the are in the run to the river run map. I see in the script that they can be set to agro, but have not figured it out yet. Also the characters can and will run to the water level where they run under water. Taking the sniper rifle is fun shooting them from above into the water and watching them die. But probably not right.

occasionally the weapons do fire on there own when the mouse is manipulated a certain way. Check out madlads design post.

It seems that fresh maps are way more robust then maps made in previous betas. That is really good news.

Map editor speed is way better when the level is packed out during editing.

Memory meter says around 3/8th of use in my contest level, but of use of how much. might need some more calibrating.

Great improvements. Thank you. looking forward to the next set of updates.

Not really sure if this is a recent issue or if it has been around for a while.



In the editor, I set an entity to NOT be spawned at the start and to be spawned once something triggers it. It all works fine in the test game, however, once I build the game and then play the built version, the entities, that aren't supposed to be spawned until I tell them to, are just sitting there, bold as brass.



Is there a simple fix for this?



Cheers



Jay.

Rick, here is a map made with my editor. I just sent a blank map since sorting out all my own media would take too long. Blank map does the same thing, I have the start marker at x= 488 and pointed east. When I execute, I take a few steps forward, and it crashes. The same thing happens with a stand alone and with my competition map. Now when I uninstalled the previous version, I didn't delete any files that the uninstaller didn't. I understand that's not necessary any more. Also, I looked at all the files left behind and they didn't appear to be critical to functionality (just media and a few scripts I wrote). A blank map uses none of those, though. It gives me a corrupt fpm file message as it is recovering, though. What could corrupt it? I just made it with this beta, not a previous one.

I just tested your blank map Jerry and it doesn't crash with me i had a run about for around 3min :/

TattieBojangle-Did you walk straight forward? Or just "around"? If so, then it must be my install, which I've suspected, but I've installed it 3x. I'll try deleting everything and then reinstalling it, then manually add all my stuff. The uninstaller must not be catching something.







Update: Just reinstalled it a 4th time, deleted EVERYTHING, including the reloaded folder! Still same result. I'm gonna try downloading a new install. Maybe I'll have better luck.



Editorial: It downloaded in just a few minutes this morning, now it's telling me over an hour ETA! lol! I really hope this works because outside of this little bug, this is the most amazing update I think I've seen so far. I feel like I could throw almost anything in my level and it would work!

straight forward till i hit the edge then around m8

Well I went from 17 fps to about 40 fps in my wip so good job TGC.
Now if I only had a command to check if an entity was hit by gunfire I'd be really happy

Auger

I found a bug in the new version. When running a test game and hitting F9, most of the time it creates an infinite mountain the size of the editing cursor. It has forced me to quit without saving each time.

I am getting a slight FPS improvement, but I am also using the occluder script created by smallg.

Please fix this bug since the whole F9 toggle makes the occluder work better.

Mike

Thanks, TattieBojangle for checking it out. It's gotta be the editor, then; I'm still waiting for the download. I'm gonna try a complete, fresh install and see what happens. It's about all I can do, I can't ship my computer to TGC!lol





EDIT: Or could I?



UPDATE: Just downloaded and installed it in a naked directory. Does the same thing, so it's not the editor. It's something specific to my laptop. I'll try it on my desktop and see what happens. Downside is my best desktop is in my MAME cabinet and it's not really good for development.





UPDATE #2: Just downloaded/installed on my desktop, same issue.I'm done for now! Gotta go to bed!





UPDATE DAY 2: Still getting same issue. Strange that I would have 2 pcs doing the same thing when nobody else has this issue. At least the desktop points me to the SimonReloaded.dll. Now this does me no good, really, but at least I know who or what to blame! Lol. Gonna try it on one of my old laptops, then one of my other desktops.



UPDATE DAY 2.1: Just ran it on my old laptop and it runs fine, albeit at 9fps. Now I just gotta figure out what my new laptop and desktop all have in common. They both have Nvidia graphics, Win 8.1, i7 processors, McAfee (but that's on the other laptop as well), tons of other graphics apps. UU3d is on both, and that's caused issues in the past, but it's not running currently. Anyway, this is my only day off before the deadline, so I'm gonna spend it figuring this out, won't have time to work on my level, so I'm out. Best of luck to everyone else!





UPDATE DAY 2.2: I have a theory that SimonReloaded.dll has something to do with Physics, AI, or both. If I place my start marker at or beyond x= 491 and launch, it crashes immediately but the last thing it hangs on is initializing physics. I wonder if there is a conflict between that and Nvidia PhysX? Just tossing out ideas as I think out loud here. Unfortunately I can't disable PhysX to test that theory. But what would be the significance of 491?

@unfamillia

Could you send me an fpm with the relevant scripts for the spawning issue so I can investigate.

Many thanks,

SC

Will send it over now mate.

Cheers

Jay.

I tried 007.1 on my Dell Studio 17" with built in graphics (Intel 4000) and got 3-4 fps . So on a basic laptop there was no gain . On my desktop running i5 and gtx660 I got a 25 fps increase . 54fps to 75fps . Nice
Too bad for the laptop ,I was hoping to go back to it for game programming . The desktop is great but you can't hall it outside to enjoy the warm fresh air ..
Lance

looks like there is a major bug: not able to add a lot of scripts: at a certain point I think around the 12th script, the map crashes at initializing physics... Stopping me, once again, from completing my competition level. Talk about an endless up-hill battle... Others have been lamenting about this bug I have read, on the forums, and Lees blog, nasty....

Lee responded and there is a solution thankfully. If you add an init function at the beginning of your scripts then it doesn't happen. I verified this with a test map and my full map using the visibility script I made. It all works now.

Can you please add and example in terms of the code, as I have tried this, and I get an error: script\occlusion2.lua:28 'end' expected (to close 'function' at line 11) near <eof>. Line 11 is where the new inti function lives
Thanks