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Bugs prior to release 2.3 / bug when entering battlescape

« on: February 14, 2010, 05:02:13 pm »

i've noticed a bug in v2.3 - after shhoting down a corruptor ufo i'm unable to start tactical mission on he place of the crash - game crashes back to geoscape.
here's tail of the console log
Calling subsystems
...subsystem 'base' - saved
...subsystem 'research' - saved
...subsystem 'campaign' - saved
...subsystem 'hospital' - saved
...subsystem 'market' - saved
...subsystem 'employee' - saved
...subsystem 'aliencont' - saved
...subsystem 'aircraft' - saved
...subsystem 'installation' - saved
...subsystem 'ufostores' - saved
...subsystem 'production' - saved
...subsystem 'messagesystem' - saved
...subsystem 'stats' - saved
...subsystem 'nations' - saved
...subsystem 'transfer' - saved
...subsystem 'alien base' - saved
...subsystem 'xvirate' - saved
...subsystem 'messageoptions' - saved
XML Written to buffer (2518272 Bytes)
------- Loading game.so -------
LoadLibrary (./base/game.so)
==== InitGame ====
SV_AssembleMap: Map assembly 'craft_crash_corrupter' not found
********************
ERROR: SV_AddMapTiles: Impossible to assemble map 'ufocrash' with assembly 'craft_crash_harvester'

********************
Shutdown server: Server crashed.
==== ShutdownGame ====
./ufo(Sys_Backtrace+0x1f)[0x819ed32]
./ufo(Com_Error+0xf6)[0x8146b0a]
./ufo[0x816cfbf]
./ufo(SV_AssembleMap+0x73e)[0x816dc5f]
./ufo[0x816841b]
./ufo(SV_Map+0x47)[0x8168974]
./ufo[0x816677f]
./ufo(Cmd_ExecuteString+0xcb)[0x813bb44]
./ufo(Cbuf_Execute+0x162)[0x813a7ae]
./ufo[0x807b4f6]
./ufo(CL_Frame+0xe7)[0x807b902]
./ufo[0x8148479]
./ufo(Qcommon_Frame+0x7b)[0x81488db]
./ufo(main+0x5c)[0x819db23]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x8b1b56]
./ufo[0x806c341]
music change to van_geoscape (from van_geoscape)
save attached, to reproduce bug you should find ufo crash site in artartic and direct a dropship there. after pressing Enter the mistake is observed.

32

Discussion / general feedback on 2.3

« on: February 14, 2010, 04:36:44 pm »

hello
i have played v2.3 for a while and i'd like to post some general feedback
overall, i find it is a great game, although playing it leaves a weird feeling because its unfinished.
i'll try to post bugs that i have observed in a "technical support" subforum, but there are also some strange things that are not bugs actually, but still confused me very much.

first of all, it's alien use of antimatter propelled aircraft. Upon completing UFO research, engineers report its fuel tanks to contain up to 1g of antimatter. According to a known formula, this results in total energy of 2m*c ² being produced during annihilation with another gram of matter. Even if we assume the alien engines to channel all resulting radiation back of the rocket, it would still only have gained momentum of 2*m*c. Given m is 1g, this momentum can only change the spped of a 100-ton aircraft (and UFOs look much heavier) to the speed of 2*c*m/M = 600 centimeters per second. But this is far too small a value to be able to maneuvre in athmospere or, even worse- to climb an orbit. UFOs should either have access to much larger amounts of antimatter or use some propelling scheme other than just channeling annihilation products back of the engine. Or, i may be wrong, but correct me, if so.

The second thing that confused me is that alien particle beam weaponry is claimed by my advisors as beeing poorly balanced and uncomfortable for humans and, because of this, inaccurate in human hands. However, according to research reports, PB weapons themselves are simple to build, and, if so, what prevents humans from building theit own version of PB rifle, comfortable and thus accurate for them. It would just be some other metal shape wrapped around set of lenses and magnets that channel particle beam from accelerator to target,

I have also found that i'm unable to research anything after 'XVI Census' and 'Enemy on Earth revisited' and XVI rate in all the globe doesn't seem tomove avay from 0.0% even after i allowed some corruptors and harvester to land, terrorize population and fly avay safely. Is it because of game version or i am doing something wrong?

The last thing is huge stockpile of alien materials which seems to grow and grow as you continue capturing and disassembling UFOs. they do not seem to be suited for anything other than eating storage space. Also it takes extremely long to sell them. i guess it's just because i play a development version and they are going to be used in production of some hi-tech vehicles in later versions, arent' they?

I also want to ask a question about user interface: is there any hope of a command-line user interface from game console, especally for base management, say something like
sell -base="HQ" -item="Alien Materials" -quantity=10000
This would help against piles of alien materials and help automate equipping/reequipping soldiers for different maps.

33

Discussion / Re: Problem with 2.3 trunk svn version.

« on: January 31, 2010, 12:02:45 am »

Ah disregard this. looks like i've wasted too much time googling for this mistake and debugging, and forgot to try a GUI restart. now i tried, and all works fine!
EDIT: thanks for reacting so fast Mattn.

34

Discussion / Problem with 2.3 trunk svn version.

« on: January 30, 2010, 11:52:29 pm »

Hello.
being a veteran of x-com123 series, i'm new to this particular game/ i played 2.2 for a while and liked it a lot but then i heard of 2.3 development version.
i am running a 32-bit ubuntu 9.10 linux on a laptop with some nvidia graphics card (don't remember exact model) and proprietary drivers installed for it.
following instructions on  http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/Debian ,
i installed dependencies with
 $ sudo apt-get install \
   libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libvorbis-dev zlib1g-dev gettext libtheora-dev \
   libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libncurses5-dev libcurl3-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev \
   libxml2-dev libopenal-dev ,

 $ sudo apt-get install \
   libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtkglext1-dev libgtksourceview2.0-dev ,
 
and

 $ sudo apt-get --reinstall install mesa-common-dev

packages were installed correctly. Then i checked out for trunk version as follows:

 svn co https://ufoai.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ufoai/ufoai/trunk
, configured with mere ./configured and ran make, make lang and make maps.
still i can't get the game running, here's the console output
linad@lance:~/ufosvn/trunk$ ./ufo

---- filesystem initialization -----
Adding game dir: /usr/local/lib/ufoai/base
Adding game dir: /usr/local/share/ufoai/base
Adding game dir: ./base
Added packfile ./base/0base.pk3 (8 files)
Added packfile ./base/0maps.pk3 (509 files)
Added packfile ./base/0materials.pk3 (41 files)
Added packfile ./base/0media.pk3 (10 files)
Added packfile ./base/0models.pk3 (1660 files)
Added packfile ./base/0music.pk3 (48 files)
Added packfile ./base/0pics.pk3 (2544 files)
Added packfile ./base/0shaders.pk3 (12 files)
Added packfile ./base/0snd.pk3 (214 files)
Added packfile ./base/0ufos.pk3 (98 files)
Added packfile ./base/0videos.pk3 (1 files)
Adding game dir: /home/linad/.ufoai/2.3-dev/base
using /home/linad/.ufoai/2.3-dev/base for writing
executing default.cfg
couldn't execute config.cfg

----- network initialization -------
libcurl/7.19.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.15 initialized.

------ server initialization -------
added 7 maps to the mapcycle

----- console initialization -------
Console initialized.

------- video initialization -------
SDL version: 1.2.13
I: desktop depth: 32bpp
I: video memory: 0
I: video driver: x11
I: setting mode 6
I: set swap control to 0
./ufo(Sys_Backtrace+0x1f)[0x819ed32]
./ufo[0x819ed9d]
[0xd12400]
./ufo(Sys_Backtrace+0x1f)[0x819ed32]
./ufo(Sys_Error+0x22)[0x819df15]
./ufo(Sys_InitSignals+0x0)[0x819edb0]
[0xd12400]
Error: Received signal 11.

linad@lance:~/ufosvn/trunk$

i am not much of a programmer, but i tried to perform diagnostics described in http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/Debugging

here's the gdb shell output:

linad@lance:~/ufosvn/trunk$ gdb ufo
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0-ubuntu
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /home/linad/ufosvn/trunk/ufo...done.
(gdb) run +set vid_fullscreen 0 +set vid_grabmouse 0 +set developer 1
Starting program: /home/linad/ufosvn/trunk/ufo +set vid_fullscreen 0 +set vid_grabmouse 0 +set developer 1
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

---- filesystem initialization -----
Adding game dir: /usr/local/lib/ufoai/base
Adding game dir: /usr/local/share/ufoai/base
Adding game dir: ./base
Added packfile ./base/0base.pk3 (8 files)
Added packfile ./base/0maps.pk3 (509 files)
Added packfile ./base/0materials.pk3 (41 files)
Added packfile ./base/0media.pk3 (10 files)
Added packfile ./base/0models.pk3 (1660 files)
Added packfile ./base/0music.pk3 (48 files)
Added packfile ./base/0pics.pk3 (2544 files)
Added packfile ./base/0shaders.pk3 (12 files)
Added packfile ./base/0snd.pk3 (214 files)
Added packfile ./base/0ufos.pk3 (98 files)
Added packfile ./base/0videos.pk3 (1 files)
Adding game dir: /home/linad/.ufoai/2.3-dev/base
using /home/linad/.ufoai/2.3-dev/base for writing
executing default.cfg
couldn't execute config.cfg

----- network initialization -------
libcurl/7.19.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.15 initialized.

------ server initialization -------
mapcycle add: '+africa default' type '1on1'
mapcycle add: '+frozen small' type '1on1'
mapcycle add: '+italy default' type '1on1'
mapcycle add: 'farm' type '1on1'
mapcycle add: 'estate' type '1on1'
mapcycle add: '+japan default' type '1on1'
mapcycle add: 'tower' type '1on1'
added 7 maps to the mapcycle
...using mo files from /home/linad/ufosvn/trunk/base/i18n/

----- console initialization -------
Console initialized.

------- video initialization -------
SDL version: 1.2.13
I: desktop depth: 32bpp
I: video memory: 0
I: video driver: x11
I: setting mode 6
I: set swap control to 0

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x078f935c in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
(gdb) bt full
#0  0x078f935c in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
No symbol table info available.
#1  0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
(gdb)


Please help me to understand my problem and thank you for your help and for making a nice game to remind us of childhood
No doubt 2.3 will be even better when i get it run.