The build machine wipes the build directory clean in order to make sure cruft from old builds doesn't stick around. Which means that the papa files all have to be regenerated each build. There are no time stamps in the files, so the only reason I can think of for differences is if how we process source assets isn't deterministic. We are using libsquish for the DXT compression on textures and using Autodesk's FBX SDK to extract model data from the .fbx files the artists export from 3DS Max. I could believe that either of those could be giving us different but equivalent results run to run. Or it might be our stuff. When I wrote the papa stuff, I wasn't thinking about trying to get a deterministic output from the same inputs. I'll talk to the team about changing the build process to only wipe the final output directory but leave the intermediate results intact. Then it would only regenerate a papa file if one of the source assets changes. Come to think of it, the launcher only downloads changed files. And if we are changing papa files for no reason, then the launcher is downloading more than it needs to. Which is bandwidth we have to pay for, you might have to pay for, and certainly time you have to wait. Okay, I'm just going to make that change to the build setup.
I for one love this Idea... One of the my fav things in SupCom was being able to change and take out certain aspects of the game if I wanted to have certain type of game, like only ground units, or only air units, no experimental units, no nukes or what not, so if you plan on doing this again for PA thank you very much in advanced. The ability to really tweak what sort of game you personally want to have is just an awesome option to have for me personally.
This will be the last edition of "Raevn's Build Notes" for a while I'm afraid, but it'll be back again in November! Happy planet smashing all, looking forward to the seeing the progress after a month!
If someone selects this it should disable the hotkeys those buttons where using automatically. I just tried a game and while panning around with WASD my command kept stopping building.
Unfortunately the same graphics error, which appeared in 54574 is still present, which cause black screen on startup - nothing is rendered. The 54497 works perfectly fine. I'm on Linux, AMD HD 7750, Catalyst driver Code: [11:41:55.543] INFO SystemReady 5470 09:41:55.647038 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:41:55.540678 [5472:5500:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(888)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation [5510:5510:INFO:renderer_main.cc(215)] Running without renderer sandbox [5515:5515:INFO:renderer_main.cc(215)] Running without renderer sandbox [5514:5514:INFO:renderer_main.cc(215)] Running without renderer sandbox [5512:5512:INFO:renderer_main.cc(215)] Running without renderer sandbox 5470 09:41:56.948281 W | PID: 5472 | 5472 09:41:56.940494 [5472:5472:ERROR:(0)] Failed to load /mnt/sam400/tmp/game/PA/host/ui_resources_100_percent.pak Some features may not be available. 5470 09:42:11.029968 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:11.024097 [5472:5500:WARNING:gpu_process_host.cc(483)] GPU process crash detected! 5470 09:42:11.127508 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:11.123335 [5512:5538:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(161)] Could not send GpuCommandBufferMsg_Initialize. 5470 09:42:11.145995 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:11.128815 [5515:5532:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(161)] Could not send GpuCommandBufferMsg_Initialize. 5470 09:42:11.220356 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:11.214863 [5510:5528:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(161)] Could not send GpuCommandBufferMsg_Initialize. 5470 09:42:11.709933 W | PID: 5472 | 5472 09:42:11.703280 [5472:5472:ERROR:(0)] Failed to load /mnt/sam400/tmp/game/PA/host/ui_resources_100_percent.pak Some features may not be available. 5470 09:42:24.025284 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:24.023657 [5472:5500:WARNING:gpu_process_host.cc(483)] GPU process crash detected! 5470 09:42:24.079931 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:24.062513 [5514:5524:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(161)] Could not send GpuCommandBufferMsg_Initialize. 5470 09:42:24.080442 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:24.072660 [5510:5528:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(161)] Could not send GpuCommandBufferMsg_Initialize. 5470 09:42:24.905995 W | PID: 5472 | 5472 09:42:24.904249 [5472:5472:ERROR:(0)] Failed to load /mnt/sam400/tmp/game/PA/host/ui_resources_100_percent.pak Some features may not be available. 5470 09:42:37.233113 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:37.224331 [5472:5500:WARNING:gpu_process_host.cc(483)] GPU process crash detected! 5470 09:42:37.233422 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:37.224376 [5472:5500:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(511)] GPU process crash limit reached! Rendering will stop on all hardware accelerated pages! 5470 09:42:38.102475 W | PID: 5472 | 5472 09:42:38.099752 Requesting resource read for coui://ui/mods/ui_mod_list.js with internal id 39 reported FAIL 5470 09:42:38.136417 W | PID: 5472 | 5472 09:42:38.128301 Requesting resource read for coui://ui/mods/ui_mod_list.js with internal id 40 reported FAIL 5470 09:42:38.136801 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:38.135321 [5515:5532:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(161)] Could not send GpuCommandBufferMsg_Initialize. 5470 09:42:38.180973 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:38.150280 [5510:5528:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(161)] Could not send GpuCommandBufferMsg_Initialize. 5470 09:42:38.185914 W | PID: 5472 | 5472 09:42:38.181866 Requesting resource read for coui://ui/mods/ui_mod_list.js with internal id 41 reported FAIL 5470 09:42:38.238888 W | PID: 5472 | 5500 09:42:38.208935 [5514:5524:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(161)] Could not send GpuCommandBufferMsg_Initialize. setOption medium [11:42:39.084] INFO Setting graphics to medium setOption medium setOption medium setOption medium [11:42:39.085] INFO Setting camera mouse pan speed to 1x [11:42:39.085] INFO Setting camera key pan speed to 1x [11:42:39.086] INFO Setting camera zoom speed to 1x [11:42:39.086] INFO Setting camera edge scroll to off (no mouse lock) [11:42:39.087] INFO Setting planet pole lock to off [11:42:39.219] INFO resetGameState [11:42:39.219] INFO Mouse constraint cleared. [11:42:39.220] INFO setMusic /Music/Main_Menu_Music
small annoying bug: when you click on the "B" and watch the video, when you close the video before ends, the entire game UI is frozen and you cant click anything enywhere. so the only solution is ALT-F4 to terminalte the game in windows.
Have reported this bug under. FS#2327 can only get it to launch once in a while. seems to be an error with how the gpu buffer is accessed
On Debian Linux; when the initial Accept/Deny dialog comes up, I click Accept and the shell spits out: Code: 16839 21:19:16.574900 W | PID: 16841 | 16841 21:19:16.574753 Requesting resource read for coui://ui/alpha/shared/css/images/ui-bg_flat_100_000_40x100.png with internal id 137 reported FAIL 16839 21:19:16.574941 W | PID: 16841 | 16841 21:19:16.574775 Requesting resource read for coui://ui/alpha/shared/css/images/ui-bg_flat_35_000000_40x100.png with internal id 138 reported FAIL 16839 21:19:16.574946 W | PID: 16841 | 16841 21:19:16.574786 Requesting resource read for coui://ui/alpha/shared/css/images/ui-bg_flat_100_000000_40x100.png with internal id 139 reported FAIL 16839 21:19:20.679105 W | PID: 16841 | 16841 21:19:20.662636 Requesting resource read for coui://ui/alpha/shared/css/images/ui-bg_flat_65_000000_40x100.png with internal id 143 reported FAIL XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0" after 67 requests (67 known processed) with 0 events remaining. And then the UI locks up.
Happens to me too if the window automatically closes before the video finishes. Win7 64bit. Steps to reproduce: start the beta video pause the video wait 1:20 for the window to automatically close try to reopen the beta video
