Pre-release of 0.8.3 (RC2)

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[July 06, 2010, 04:43:39 PM] Elvio: i just found out that someone deleted my account ! 

[July 06, 2010, 07:48:22 PM] C-D: which account do you mean? probably the one from netpanzer.info..but this forum/site(.org) has nothing to do with netpanzer.info....

[July 07, 2010, 02:37:00 PM] Elvio: oh yes ,  my account on netpanzer.info had been deleted by the hackers  or lohengrin . Don't know why   

[July 08, 2010, 04:26:07 PM] Elvio: does anyone know how to use the netpanzer dedicated server to create a server and amend the units reload tie 

[July 08, 2010, 08:00:22 PM] Elvio: how to transfer port 3030 to my machine ? 

[July 08, 2010, 09:20:29 PM] fu: Elvio you must access your modem/router control panel and look for "lan setup,nat, virtual server" or similar

[July 08, 2010, 09:21:24 PM] fu: look for "port forwarding" in Google and you'll find many examples

[July 09, 2010, 05:38:18 PM] Elvio: sorry Fu . I have searched many informations about the forwards port  thing , but it doesn't work on my pc , don't know what has happened . And  i don't know how to access to my modem / router control panel (i could but couldn't find the lan set up , 

[July 09, 2010, 05:38:35 PM] Elvio: since my OS is Window 7 , not linux 

[August 06, 2010, 01:28:09 AM] TEZ: Hey guys.   i just stumbeledacross this while looking for things to do on my linux laptop (mint, built from ubuntu)  i was wondering if anyone could give me a little help getting this installed?

[August 21, 2010, 12:28:56 AM] Lohengrin: elvio stop talking such rubbish

[August 28, 2010, 02:59:47 PM] nemeczek: go serwer Nemeczek

[krom]

Hi, currently uploading a prerelease of netPanzer 0.8.3, it has a suffix of "RC2".

That means it is a release candidate.
That means that it is meant to be tested.
The protocol is different, it means it won't be compatible with previous versions, it is meant to be that way.
It also means that someone must put a couple of servers with this version.

Now, if everything is good, come here (this post) and tell us your specs, we would like to know the smallest machine (in resources like CPU and MEMORY, not the actual physical size of the device) that netPanzer can run.

Then, if something is bad, come here (you guess which post, isn't it?) and say it. If you don't say it, we will never now and the final netPanzer 0.8.3 will have the thing that went wrong with you.

No new features will be added on this version, "new" means something that is not already in the prerelease.

Bugs will be fixed only if they render netPanzer unplayable.

If there is nothing wrong with it, it will be released as final version. On the other hand, if some changes needs to be done, a new release candidate will be done (RCX where X is the value of the previous release candidate incremented by 1 unit on the current measuring system) and we might or might not go back to the beginning of the loop.

I'm interested in the following machine tests:

• Windows Vista - Works, verified by fu.
• Windows 7(no idea if it works)
• Linux 32 bit using provided binary
• Linux 64 bit using provided binary(binary is 32 bit, will it work?)
• Mac OS X with PPC cpu
• Mac OS X with INTEL cpu(it works in mine, but how about others?)
• Linux 32 bit custom build (use svn 1209)
• Linux 64 bit custom build (use svn 1209)
• Other OS (FreeBSD, Haiku, etc..) custom build (you guess which svn version)
• GCC >= 4.4 build, it seems he likes to complain a lot

btw: key F9 does a screenshoot, it is saved as .bmp in .netpanzer/screenshoots

I forgot THE LINK: http://www.netpanzer.org/download/np/index.php?dir=Binaries/NetPanzer/Development/

[krom]

The Changelog since 0.8.2 more or less is:

Fixed:

- fix playing in 64 bit machines.
- fix many small bugs.
- fix production bug when loosing the base.
- fix problem of not able to capture some bases.
- fix bad colors on some systems.
- fix alliance, new alliance method (click to request ally).
- fix frag limit mode.
- fixed some flags and added Spain and Bulgaria flags.

Added:

- added a Mac OS X universal binary of netPanzer.
- added lua support, currently for configuration.
- added screenshoot function (press F9).
- added any resolution support (>= 640x480) and resizable window.
- added sound configuration (volume, enable/disable).
- added some new maps done by community.
- new unit selection modes, double and tripple click.
- player flags appears in chat messages.
- player name appear over tanks (configurable, press "n").

Changes in RC2:
- faster again in old hardware
- removed extra space that was making problems in server browser
- deselect timer reduced to 75ms
- fix adding many clouds after map change
- new image for player colors (by fu)
- new configuration to enable/disable use of directx in options->visuals

[krom]

List of bugs to be fixed in 0.8.3 RC2
- Old computers slow FPS, try different approach to fix colors, or provide some configuration variable
- Deselecting units too slow, reduce timer a little
- Clouds appearing on game restart

List of bugs to be fixed before 0.8.3 final
- Flags shown at game start for a few seconds on chat.

List of bugs/features found on 0.8.3 that will be fixed on 0.8.4
- Reenable minimap resize
- Reenable minimap different backgrouns
- Vista mouse handling over minimap, ranking view
- Trying to run the game under a folder with unicode characters (at least in windows) will fail to launch or to load the colors.

[fu]

Tried in Windows 7 - Everything worked fine

see .zip in attachment for full report


Also included an alternative pics/default/playerColor.bmp which I think it's more elegant.

[fu]

This one must be fixed in RC2.

I wondered why I could not see objectivelimit value in serverbrowser with last 0.8.3 RC1. All current serverbrowsers failed in displaying that variable.
I checked script with no success until I tried a "raw" query to a 0.8.3 RC1 gameserver (objective) and this is the result:

Code:

\gamestyle\Objective \units_per_player\55\time\150\timelimit\50\fraglimit\500\objectivelimit\3\final\

that unusual space after Objective in gamestyle entry is the "prime suspect"...

[krom]

aargh, yes, I know why

[krom]

But I have to say that, the serverbrowser has problem too, it can't handle the spaces.

[fu]

OK I've added some lines in sb script. Now everything is trimmed at the beginning. Changes will be commited to abitos' serverbrowser repository.

[krom]

to c-d: try this: http://www.netpanzer.org/download/np/index.php?dir=Binaries/NetPanzer/&file=npup.zip

uncompress and replace your 0.8.3 exe file with the one in this one.

It works as before and could have the colors problem. If you have the colors problem, quit the game (very important to quit first), go to your .netpanzer/config folder (where the netpanzer.ini is) open the config.cfg and set the

Code:

video.usedirectx = false

start the game again. The color problem may have been fixed for you.

If someone else can test it too, like UNGA (there is a linux binary inside too) the game speed should be fast again.

[C-D]

i tested it few times in different resolutions + windowed and fullscreen etc. it seems that it works fine with "video.usedirectx = false" and the fps was also constantly 50. "video.usedirectx = true" -color problems..

[krom]

now there is a RC2

[fu]

This morning I had the chance to make a test with an old PC: AMD Duron 1,2 GHz 256MB Ram and Win XP SP3

I used same screen resolution 1280x1024 and connected to same server.

with 0.8.3 RC1 = 13 FPS (unplayable)

with 0.8.3 RC2 = 21 FPS (playable)


notice: reducing screen size allows a better fps, also the quality of your connection (to given server) has some (minor) importance.


that's encouraging...



P.S. When using Windows binaries, on connection, I still see the first flag (Albania) before even motd in chat. That does not happen when using Linux.

[fu]

I made a test similar to my previous with kubuntu 9.10.
This time I used an Ubuntu 9.10 64bit live-CD

After installing sdl-mixer dev package I could compile without problems and then playing was OK.

Though I coudn't run the downloaded binary in no way (my fault or possible in a 64bit environment?)

[krom]

Though I coudn't run the downloaded binary in no way (my fault or possible in a 64bit environment?)

The binary is 32bit only, I haven't made a 64bit crosscompiler.

Nobody has complained in the last few days, it seems we can start preparing the final version. What do you think?

[fu]

I think it's time. Even two german senators like Mathias and Triple S - well-known "skeptics" hehe - said they're very happy with 0.8.3 RC2. Thx to your patience, now binary has almost the same requirements of last release so it shouldn't create big problems to players with old PCs.