Shoutbox Archive

Jan 17, 2016 8:08 AM - Tama: @Lazybum; use ImageMagick instead? No more annoying GUI's and multiple popups that lose focus and go off-screen; just clear, plain white text on a black background. Or use cool-retro-term if you want to be really cool about it.
Jan 17, 2016 2:02 PM - Lazybum: imagemagick is really bare bones, doesn't do what i need it to do
Jan 17, 2016 5:23 PM - Xyaminou: so, have you guys seen that there's a sourcemod being shown on steam's store page. How come Empires can't get the same? Maybe someone should ask
Jan 17, 2016 5:26 PM - Tama: that happens for new releases; the steamworks documentation says. It may be possible to get some extra marketing, but it probably costs money. Regardless, we should try to get that when the noob-friendliness & interface features are done, and we've fixed some of the growing pains we've had. I was planning to do more marketing around 3.0.0
Jan 17, 2016 5:29 PM - Xyaminou: well as long as you don't remove heat, I'm fine with that
Jan 17, 2016 58 PM - vipervicki: tanks move like on ice, I think its caused by the gas turbine engine
Jan 17, 2016 58 PM - vipervicki: it was horrible yesterday I quit within 5 minutes to sliding around
Jan 17, 2016 6:44 PM - Tama: it's probably caused by the weight not being constant; this was changed a long while back. Some scripter who did vehicle handling told me that weight is a pretty essential parameter, so the current system where the actual weight of items you put on the tank is also the physics weight, is impossible to make work. There's some work underway to fix this but it will take a while before it's ready
Jan 17, 2016 6:58 PM - vipervicki: glad its being worked on, it make sit impossible to drive well at a decent speed.
Jan 17, 2016 6:58 PM - vipervicki: makes it*
Jan 17, 2016 7:02 PM - Tama: I know; it annoys the hell out of all of us, I think. Just like the research and vehicle creation GUI. There's a lot to work on
Jan 17, 2016 7:14 PM - vipervicki: im sure
Jan 17, 2016 7:14 PM - vipervicki: thanks for working on it all tho

 

Jan 25, 2016 32 AM - James: Message of the month
Jan 25, 2016 32 AM - James: Allahu
Jan 25, 2016 32 AM - James: Akbar
Jan 25, 2016 32 AM - James: Bye

 

Jan 25, 2016 at 3:04 PM - Ranger: Bai
Jan 25, 2016 at 3:06 PM - Ranger: I changed weapon type of Plasma Cannon from Cannon to Missile and in-game no projectile or decals appear and no damage is done. Any idea why?
Jan 25, 2016 at 3:12 PM - Ranger: Nevermind I had forgotten to set the type of missile. Well, it seems missiles can't go over 3400speed units too. I thought it was broken only for cannons. It's funny though, the missile goes straight where you are aiming and the explosion happens somewhere else...
Jan 25, 2016 at 7:20 PM - A-z-K: Whatever happened to the Tesla MG
Jan 25, 2016 at 70 PM - Ranger: Not sure how a Tesla MG would work... I suppose what you mean is just a Tesla coil... for the mg slot that keeps firing until it runs out of power or overheats. Tesla Cannons are cool. Red Alert 2 stuff. Also microwave cannons are cool. I made one myself
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:10 PM - Trickster: I intended it as a constant damage weapon
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:10 PM - Trickster: I was sort of hacking it in by making it falloff super quickly and having the particle effect only go so far
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:10 PM - Trickster: I think I have a screenshot
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:12 PM - Trickster: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1034763/Empires screenshots/emp_arid0002.jpg
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:13 PM - Trickster: first I had issues with decals drawing regardless of distance, even if the weapon wasn't doing anything at that range, and when we hacked around that it turned out players were still taking impacts from it even when it was doing 0 damage
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:13 PM - Trickster: so basically I had problems range limiting it, at the time I had very little code support
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:13 PM - Trickster: but generally it was intended to work at about 1-2 rax lengths max
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:14 PM - Trickster: hold it over the target to deal X damage/sec
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:14 PM - Trickster: maybe a very small aoe
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:14 PM - Trickster: also didn't have a sound for it either
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:14 PM - Trickster: also did bio gl and static gl
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:15 PM - Trickster: but again code issues prevented biogl, it would reproduce the particle effect on every tick causing like 20 overlayed clouds and reducing fps to the point where your game started going backwars
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:15 PM - Trickster: backwards*
Jan 25, 2016 at 9:17 PM - Trickster: static GL worked to be fair, it was pretty much the same as biogl in practice but much shorter lasting, I wanted to try messing with the material physics (sticky or bouncy or someshit) of the actual grenade but that probably required code support as well
Jan 25, 2016 at 106 PM - Ranger: Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking about the tesla. Aaand I've seen those GLs in old scripts, I played with them too.
Jan 26, 2016 at 1:41 AM - Lazybum: plasma mg sound fired really fast is a pretty cool thing.

 

Jan 26, 2016 7:49 PM - Trickster: worth mentioning Ranger that the values for those weapons were entirely arbitrary
Jan 26, 2016 7:52 PM - Trickster: worth mentioning Ranger that the values for those weapons were entirely arbitrary
Jan 26, 2016 7:52 PM - Trickster: wtf internet
Jan 26, 2016 9:12 PM - Ranger: Btw yesterday I change missile speed of the Imperial RPG from 1500 to 6400. That is broken too so it's not just tanks that fire at wrong angles. Guided works fine though. Anyway, I think it has been mentioned it is an engine error? I refuse to believe that.

 

Jan 27, 2016 at 5:48 AM - Sgt.Security: Still can't edit posts.
Jan 27, 2016 at 6:23 AM - Trickster: When projectiles hit a certain velocity the angles fuck up
Jan 27, 2016 at 6:23 AM - Trickster: it was generally thought to be an engine error but at the very least it's a problem that has been in for a long time
Jan 27, 2016 at 6:24 AM - Trickster: I know because I tried to increase the velocity of rails and found it just fucked up
Jan 27, 2016 at 12:51 PM - flasche: are these things are handled by havok? are shells "simple" physics objects?
Jan 27, 2016 at 12:52 PM - flasche: couldnt you do what kylegar did - raytrace along the path and move the projectiles yourself?
Jan 27, 2016 at 12:56 PM - flasche: (i know its no task for scripters )
Jan 27, 2016 at 36 PM - Trickster: I don't know why things need to be faster anyway
Jan 27, 2016 at 3:48 PM - flasche: legit question
Jan 27, 2016 at 5:03 PM - Ranger: Cuz it's kewwwllll. Velocity broke after the 2013 port tight? So it's something wrong with Empurrs

 

Jan 28, 2016 6:15 AM - Trickster: no
Jan 28, 2016 6:15 AM - Trickster: we tried it as far back as 2.12
Jan 28, 2016 6:15 AM - Trickster: back in 2.12 you could edit values on the server and the next tank you bought would have the new values straight away, no restarting the server or the game
Jan 28, 2016 6:16 AM - Trickster: orangebox port changed that
Jan 28, 2016 6:16 AM - Trickster: but in 2.12 we used to test shit live on the server with new values, eth0 did it quite a lot
Jan 28, 2016 6:16 AM - Trickster: as a joke I'd sometimes change pistol to do 3000 damage, spawn, then change it back
Jan 28, 2016 6:17 AM - Trickster: but during that testing time with eth0 we raised the velocity of rails and sure enough, the projectiles started leaving the cannon at weird angles
Jan 28, 2016 6:17 AM - Trickster: orangebox = 2.2
Jan 28, 2016 9:08 PM - Tama: I heard there was a console command to reload all script values, so it may still (again?) be possible to test values while running the game. Probably one of the scripters can answer how this should be done.
Jan 29, 2016 1:06 AM - Lazybum: vehicle_flushscript will flush the vehicle handling scripts, but only the source stuff, not any empires stuff like engines. It's a cfg in the empires install already, exec flush for instant vehicle flush
Jan 29, 2016 1:07 AM - Lazybum: I have no idea about any other flushes though, but I have a feeling none of them will handle empires's custom stuff. Maybe it would work for the infantry weapons though, considering those are handled in a normal manner by source?
Jan 29, 2016 1:14 AM - Lazybum: strange though, that vehicle flush command I mentioned isn't on the source dev site, is it a empires command? I don't see anything related to flushing scripts except for one for some sound stuff

 

Jan 29, 2016 at 6:46 AM - ViroMan: find out... run HL2 and try the flush command.
Jan 29, 2016 at 9:45 AM - Trickster: the vehicle_flush stuff has nothing to do with the old method I was on about
Jan 29, 2016 at 9:46 AM - Trickster: you never had to flush or anything with that, every vehicle created just referenced the scripts at that exact time, they weren't preloaded when the game started, just on demand
Jan 29, 2016 at 9:46 AM - Trickster: as I understand it anyway
Jan 29, 2016 at 9:46 AM - Trickster: when we wanted to do script_manifest whereby servers could have different script sets and download them to the client, the issue we came across was that it required the game to be restarted to load new scripts

 

Jan 30, 2016 at 8:26 PM - Ranger: Test
Jan 30, 2016 at 8:26 PM - Ranger: Test
Jan 30, 2016 at 8:26 PM - Ranger: Test
Jan 30, 2016 at 8:26 PM - Ranger: Test
Jan 30, 2016 at 8:27 PM - Ranger: Test
Jan 30, 2016 at 8:27 PM - Ranger: Test
Jan 30, 2016 at 8:27 PM - Ranger: I think it's ok now.

 

Feb 1, 2016 at 4:49 PM - James:
Feb 1, 2016 at 4:50 PM - James: test
Feb 1, 2016 at 4:50 PM - James: test
Feb 1, 2016 at 8:15 PM - flasche: test
Feb 1, 2016 at 8:15 PM - flasche: 1
Feb 1, 2016 at 8:15 PM - flasche: 2
Feb 1, 2016 at 8:15 PM - flasche: test
Feb 1, 2016 at 8:16 PM - flasche: is this on?
Feb 1, 2016 at 8:16 PM - flasche: test

 

Feb 2, 2016 93 AM - Ranger: I failed at the exam I was supposed to pass and i passed the exam I would believe I would fail.
Feb 2, 2016 12:44 PM - flasche: better believe in failing the important ones then
Feb 2, 2016 11:20 PM - complete_: prolly the same as ranger once i get my exam results back

 

Feb 4, 2016 12:17 AM - Senor_Awesome: Wowee zowee this place died hardcore since I silently left
Feb 4, 2016 12:19 AM - Senor_Awesome: and away I go again
Feb 4, 2016 2:22 AM - Lazybum: nooooo senor D:
Feb 4, 2016 2:23 AM - Senor_Awesome: jk I returned again
Feb 4, 2016 2:23 AM - Senor_Awesome: can't stay away -_-

 

Feb 5, 2016 12:09 AM - Ranger: Noob

 

Feb 5, 2016 at 3:02 PM - Sgt.Security: ya'all newbs.
Feb 5, 2016 at 84 PM - Tama: A game is starting up; if there's anyone lurking here; join up!

 

Feb 9, 2016 1:40 AM - ViroMan: 24 hrs and nothing in the box? this place IS dead.
Feb 9, 2016 1:42 AM - ViroMan: just a bunch of parasites on a dead corps. With the dev team being the doctors half trying to perform CPR.
Feb 9, 2016 1:58 AM - vipervicki: then why are you here?
Feb 9, 2016 3:10 AM - ViroMan: the food is good.
Feb 9, 2016 3:10 AM - ViroMan: ;P
Feb 9, 2016 4:57 AM - CRITAWAKETS: I see some things.
Feb 9, 2016 4:57 AM - CRITAWAKETS: Celebrate my return for 2 minutes.
Feb 9, 2016 4:59 AM - CRITAWAKETS:

 

Feb 9, 2016 at 12:55 PM - vipervicki: lol viroman
Feb 9, 2016 at 9:43 PM - James: I NEED SOMEONE
Feb 9, 2016 at 9:43 PM - James: I need someone who knows Java*
Feb 9, 2016 at 9:43 PM - James: Specificaly someone who knows Minecraft Bukkit Plugin development
Feb 9, 2016 at 10:48 PM - CRITAWAKETS: James. I know something about java
Feb 9, 2016 at 10:48 PM - CRITAWAKETS: Its that it made minecraft
Feb 10, 2016 at 12:12 AM - vipervicki: I like my java with alot of milk and sugar.

 

Feb 11, 2016 19 AM - ViroMan: another 24 hours with nothing new...

 

Feb 11, 2016 at 8:42 PM - A-z-K: You feelin lonely bud?
Feb 11, 2016 at 8:55 PM - Ranger: Tomorrow I'm taking my last exam. Wish me bad luck.
Feb 11, 2016 at 8:59 PM - A-z-K: Bad luck?
Feb 12, 2016 at 12:53 AM - complete_: hey ranger i fucking failed my exams too lol. see you in hell
Feb 12, 2016 at 3:10 AM - vipervicki: aww sorry complete, can you ask for a make up test?

 

Feb 12, 2016 7:55 PM - complete_: probably not. wont bother to ask anyways, prefer to take my failures in stride

 

Feb 14, 2016 8:04 PM - McGyver: FOREVER ALONE DAY
Feb 14, 2016 8:09 PM - Tama: aww cheer up McGyver
Feb 14, 2016 8:10 PM - Tama: it's weird here, seeing posts from tuesday on the same page, lol
Feb 14, 2016 10:56 PM - CRITAWAKETS: POWER OF...
Feb 14, 2016 10:56 PM - CRITAWAKETS: SOMETHING
Feb 15, 2016 12:56 AM - Lazybum: The tower?

 

Feb 16, 2016 at 7:26 PM - vipervicki: tama sent you a pm
Feb 16, 2016 at 111 PM - CRITAWAKETS: Empires is deaaaaaaaaad.
Feb 17, 2016 at 12:55 AM - vipervicki: Long live empires!
Feb 17, 2016 at 10 AM - Lazybum: It's hibernating, come back in spring to the see the majestic empires run wild again.