Normally Q2 writes all persistent data (the configurations, saves, etc.)
into a subdirectory in the users $HOME. That can be a problem when the
game is installed onto an thumb drive or something like that. Therefor
provide a cvar fs_portable. When set to 1 the games uses it binary dir
as it's persistent storage location.
Examples:
./quake2 +set fs_portable 1
./quake2 +set basedir ~/games/quake2 +set fs_portable 1
fs_portable is _not_ saved into the config file. It must be set at
every start!
This closed issue #158.
Some people complained about the usage of non busy waits:
* I was told that there's an input lag with nanosleep(). I still doubt
that, but since the problem is easy to solve...
* Some Intel CPUs throttle the GPU if the selected CPU pstate is too
low. This is especially a problem on Haswell mobile CPUs. Keeping
a core busy works around that.
When the monster was already killed by another monster or a coop player
some references may be NULL and the game was crashed. This was observed
by maraakte, who reported it in issue #164. I've just merged his fix
from q2dos.
Repeat 10 times:
- strcat() is evil
- strcat() is evil
...
While here fix another small inconsistency: Vorbis playback should
stop when switching 'shuffle' on.
The overflow was reported by @tomgreen66 in pull request #168.
teleport_time has nothing to do with teleports, it's just the time
since the last player sound. Rename it accordingly. This was suggest
by maraakate in issue #162.
In ai_checkattack() is a check against AI_SOUND_TARGET. If the player
made a noice and the the monster noticed this noise it's true. If
that noice was more than 5 seconds ago the monster forgets that event
and continues with it's search for the player. Otherwise it informs
the surrounding monsters that something interesting has happened and
then returns false. So the problem is: Even if the monster heard the
player and can see him, it aborts at this point.
Fix this by adding an additional visibility check. Do the sound
checking only if the player is not visible, otherwise just continue.
This was reported by shoober420 and debbuged by maraakate. This fix
was DanielGibons idea. This commit fixes issue #162.
I don't think that this has any visible effect, but it's saver than
assume that in multiplayer all clients enter the intermission at the
same time. This was reported by maraakate in yquake2 issue #160.
Until now autoexec.cfg was a special case. It was read several
times, whenever the 'game' cvar was altered or when the client was
restarted. But only if it was in the right directory in the right
position of the internal search path... Remove this altogether and
replace it by an ordinary 'exec autoexec.cfg' at startup.
This may break some mods that depend on an autoexec.cfg if the user has
his own version in ~/.yq2/. Such mods should use default.cfg instead.
This closes issue #163.
Multitexturing was never part of any official Quake II release. It was
added in version 3.21, which was released only in source. Over the years
many developers tried to fix multitexturing, including myself. Yamagi
Quake II had it even enabled by default for several releases... But:
* Multitexturing is poorly implemented and **slow**
* Multitexturing leads to render errors, for example in city3
* Multitextring is ortogonal to the normal render path and adds a
lot of special cases to the renderer
Remove it for good. Ciao, it wasn't a nice time. :) The last version
before this commit was at least somewhat fixed, read some of the worst
problems were fixed. If someone's ever going to resurrect it, it would
be a good idea to start at that point.
If someone really want's overwrite OSTYPE on Windows it's much easier to
just alter one line in the Makefile than supporting setting it through
the command line.
In baseq2 there's no need to force a certain damage texture on gunners
since there's only one. Also gunners can't wear the powershield so
there's no need to turn it of.
This was noticed by Maraakate.
Otherwise at least one key may be still marked as down causing an
immediate abort of playback. While here be a little bit paranoid
and clean up key states when focus is gained. In theory that's a
no-op.
When the video is scaled through OpenGL we can just throw it on our
vertexes and everything's alright. But when we're softscaling the video
we must consider that the videos size doesn't really match the vertex
size...
especially in the intermission videos, the text looked broken, as parts
of the characters were missing.
This is because Draw_StretchRaw() converts the 320x240 video frame into
a 256x256 texture, without doing proper interpolation (just skipping
some pixels instead).
Now, if the GPU supports non-power-of-two texture sizes, the video
frames are uploaded as textures in their original size.
(Also fixed a harmless typo in common.h)
This crash was found by DanielGibson, he even guessed the right fix
without having a usable coredump. ;) In boss1.bsp Macron is waiting for
the player, despawning as soon as the player moves to him. After that
the player needs to press 2 buttons, each button triggers 3 flyers. If
the player is fast enough, the first bunch of flyers may spawn before
macron is despawned. Now there's a small chance that a flyer decides to
attack macron... If Macron despwans at the the next frame, self->enemy
is set to NULL (Macron is gone) but nevertheless flyer_fire() is called.
The correct fix would be to call flyer_fire() before Macron despawns,
but that's hard to impossible. So take the easy route and check if
self->enemy is not NULL.
This bug was "fixed" by id with removing two lines in the ground entity
check. When cleaning up the game I added them back... I don't know if
it's really correct to just remove them, but let's try it. This fixes
issue #157.
The old implementation had two problems:
* OSTYPE and ARCH are systemwide defines, overriding them may break
the global libc headers. This is a theoretical problem, I've never
seen it in praxis.
* Not all system set ARCH correctly when building in a chroot env.
For example on Linux ARCH is set to x86_64 when building in an
i386 chroot. Now the user can do something like "make YQ2ARCH=i386"
to get things right.
In lower mines you can drop a rock onto a tank by using a lever.
This was broken, the rock exploded instead of dropping, because debris
is spawned and that debris was solid.
Now the debris is not solid anymore (like it was up to
b4d16ab6b3
"Some additions to last commit:") and it works again
The original client crashed (or survived by pure luck) when muzzle
flash offsets >210 were send. Our fix was to bail out, but that broke
some buggy mods... So just return and print an optional debug message.
This fixes issue #153.
This step height is used by several evelators, leading to stuttering due
to misspredictions. Additionally half height steps weren't smoothed by
the synchronous client.
