Testing [cplusplus] 12: Crash and LOD bug fixes + new block textures ;)

Combatman12 · May 18, 2016, 4:47pm

I think the 2nd and 4th blocks should stay while the 1st, 3rd and mould should be tweaked.

Bokke · May 18, 2016, 5:07pm

Glacier texture Looks cool to me. Like the light blueish colour with purple tones. Blocks with droplets on it look like place holders for rain drops and dew. Mould in large amounts looks statically arranged to a grid. From afar and even while standing near to it, it is not really recognizable what it is.
It probably depends on how the new blocks are integrated into the world. This goes along with creatures inhabiting a world where those blocks are spawning. It would be easier to realise what this fiber block is if it would be bound to something else. It is confusing that this material lays around like bushes but is not really arranged this way. The fibre texture is interesting and wavy. Defintiely gives the impression of a ressource ready for harvesting and crafting it into a rope or material for clothes.
What I have seend so far, i found it also interesting that there will be textures for transition of one landscape or biome or climate area to an other. Mountains for example have soil into soil and ice into ice. Thought of this as a good element.

dtebbs · May 19, 2016, 8:18am

@Stretchious could you try the macosx-debug branch (password: AhkbVYc6nYdSAXEK) and post the logs to a gist?

Stretchious · May 19, 2016, 9:48pm

Sorry been afk for a long while. Will give this a go now.

Ok, just tried and there is no difference. Still marshmallow land I’m afraid
Sorry, I’ve forgotten where the logs are on a mac too!

I tried toggling all of the settings in turn - they didn’t have any effect on the textures at all.

dtebbs · May 20, 2016, 7:00am

Thanks for trying this. The logs are:

/tmp/tblz_log.txt
/tmp/boundless_game_log.txt

(You’ll need to run the macosx-debug branch one more time to make sure the logs are not from another version).
The logs might give me a clue as to what is going wrong.

Thanks for your help.

Stretchious · May 20, 2016, 10:12pm

I only seem to have the tblz_log.txt file, not the boundless_game_log.txt one…

I’ve created a gist for the tblz_log file here https://gist.github.com/anonymous/bd9433467ed48594dfa7b9491e68920d

One thing I did notice this time around - I loaded the game a total of 3 times - the first 2 times, the game loaded fine and went straight in (still with white textures though), but the 3rd time, it got stuck on the “Loading…” screen with the spinning mac icon. Not sure if that is relevant?

Edit: 4th time loaded ok again (after I force quit the 3rd attempt), but upon quitting, I got a mac system error saying that boundless quit unexpectedly.

I did another gist, just in case this one holds any different information (sorry I didn’t have time to compare to see if this was the case). https://gist.github.com/anonymous/09e72d31e9547145f4efac9f400840e1

Boundless-Russia · May 21, 2016, 9:11am

Player Molibden reports about boundlessloader crash

Gateway to ucrtbase.terminate not found in DLL api-ms-win-crt-runtime-I1-1-0.dll

DxDiag:
file, gist
DxDiag_64:
file, gist

james · May 21, 2016, 10:09am

These logs are from the JavaScript version of Boundless not the C++ version that this thread is about.

Boundless-Russia · May 21, 2016, 10:14am

Yes. But with С++ version this log file are still unupdated

michaelb · May 22, 2016, 8:46am

Its possible its missing the Visual Studio 2015 redistributables that downloaded here.

Steam should be installing it but is you uninstall other apps people have reported them being removed.

dtebbs · May 27, 2016, 12:13am

Thanks @Stretchious. The logs do point to a possible issue, so that’s really valuable. I’ll have to look into possible fixes and get back to you.

dtebbs · June 6, 2016, 4:40am

@Stretchious I’ve just pushed a custom build to the macosx-debug branch. If you get the chance, could you try this out and let me know if it has any effect on the blank texture issue you’ve been seeing?

Stretchious · June 6, 2016, 7:36am

Morning @dtebbs!

Unfortunately no change I’m afraid

New gist in case there’s something new in there…

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/2ffd05b2e5d31afa6867c1b9fd84c173

tblz_log.txt

 INFO /Users/autobuild/turbulenz/src/appbase/macosx/macosxentry.mm:315 TryPixelFormats: Got NSOpenGLPixelFormat for samples:1, opengl32:true
 INFO /Users/autobuild/turbulenz/src/core/tasks.cpp:17 Initialize: Initializing TBB task scheduler. 5 threads
 INFO /Users/autobuild/turbulenz/src/browserfeatures/filecache.cpp:169 Initialize: Cache dir: /Users/fortifi/Library/Caches/com.turbulenz.boundless/
 INFO /Users/autobuild/turbulenz/src/appbase/standaloneplatformreaders.cpp:580 SetHttpCachePath: HttpCache: enabled (/Users/fortifi/Library/Caches/com.turbulenz.boundless)
 INFO /Users/autobuild/games.turbulenz/game/client/standalone/standalone.cpp:81 ApplicationStartup: GameCodeStaticInitialize
 INFO /Users/autobuild/turbulenz/src/graphicsdriver/gl/glgraphicsdriver.cpp:629 GLExtraInitialize: GLInfo:
 INFO /Users/autobuild/turbulenz/src/graphicsdriver/gl/glgraphicsdriver.cpp:630 GLExtraInitialize:  vendor     : Intel Inc.
 INFO /Users/autobuild/turbulenz/src/graphicsdriver/gl/glgraphicsdriver.cpp:631 GLExtraInitialize:  renderer   : Intel Iris OpenGL Engine
 INFO /Users/autobuild/turbulenz/src/graphicsdriver/gl/glgraphicsdriver.cpp:632 GLExtraInitialize:  version    : 4.1 INTEL-10.14.58
 INFO /Users/autobuild/turbulenz/src/graphicsdriver/gl/glgraphicsdriver.cpp:129 GLLogExtensions:  extensions : GL_ARB_blend_func_extended GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend

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dtebbs · June 6, 2016, 8:00am

@Stretchious Thanks for trying it anyway.

blake · August 12, 2016, 8:41am

@Stretchious assuming you’re still suffering this “marshmallow” effect on the testing branch could you try entering SBlJKXQDtsxwMmKGVqc7 as a Steam beta password and try out the macosx-arrays branch. This is a quick test of a version running against the testing servers which contains a sizeable change to how we’re doing the block texturing. I’m interested to see if it fixes this effect or not?

Stretchious · August 12, 2016, 9:05am

Ok, will give it a go during my lunch break and let you know the outcome this afternoon!

Stretchious · August 12, 2016, 11:53am

Good news! It works like a charm!

I double-checked on the current testing branch first and that was still having the issue, but the macosx-arrays branch was perfectly fine with all textures showing as expected! Not a single marshmallow anywhere!

blake · August 12, 2016, 12:19pm

Great, hopefully we’ll get this change into the next main update and hopefully it won’t break again.