Gamestudio 7.80 public beta

The new version 7.80 is now ready for public beta test. Please download it here:

http://opserver.de/down/gstudio_780.exe

This version contains the new GED ingame editor, improvements for the level and model importers, the begin of a lite-C library with endless terrain and vegetation functions, a screensaver example, functions for remote controlling external programs, maximize and resize features for the engine window, new angle/matrix/quaternion functions, as well as many other new features of the engine and editors.

You can install version 7.80 as an update to any previous Gamestudio/A7 version. About installing and using the new features, please read:

http://manual.conitec.net/newfeatures70.htm

Please test everything carefully and if you find a bug, please report it to the bug forum.

That's great ... download starts.

Oh my gosh. This is awesome, downloading. *tear*

Very, very excited about this one anyway, but didn't realise this would come with GED! Nice one team

Downloading now.

Jibb

" LC Error messages now indicate the erroneous function itself, rather than the function last called before the error. This makes it easy to find the problem by single stepping through the given function."
sounds like I'll be having less headaches from now on... thank you
downloading.

engine_gettaskinfo works great. nice job

Does 3dgs Install Microsoft visual c++ redistributive 2008 (is that what it's called?) or was it something else I installed recently?
Because it was in my H:\ directory, where I didn't want it, at all. I installed 3dgs to H:\ArtTools\GStudio7\
The other thing I installed yesterday, I installed to the C:\ drive, so it shouldn't have installed that visual c++ in my H:\ drive, that's why I thought it was 3dgs...
If it does that, why? I believe I already had it somewhere on my C:\ drive anyways.

I didn't want to post this in the bugs forum cause I don't even know if it's 3dgs or something else...

I noticed while installing that the installer installs the redistributable with this update, although it has been installed before, AND has been installed again with the last update before this update.
A dialog, whether this already has been installed, would be nice.

That redistributable is necessary for using GED, apparently.

Jibb

Yes, the redistributable is required for GED. If you already have it on your PC, it installs nothing - at least that's how it's supposed to work. It was made by Microsoft though, not by us.

Maybe, the redistributable needs already as much time to prove whether everything is in place as it needs for installing.

Nice release, the features are definitely interesting

Cheers

Frazzle

Hey Jcl,

I cannot build levels anymore i get this:



Thanks for the update.

Hi Jcl,

I cannot import .obj and .dae models from WED

I have the PRO GameStudio version.

Thanks

Quadraxas: Maybe no palette.pcx file exists, or it can not be accessed due to some attribute setting? When you assign a palette under Map Properties, make sure that it can be found in the work folder or in the WED folder. By default, Gamestudio contains a palette.pcx in its folder.

Locus: 3DS and OBJ models should work, I tested them here successfully. I haven't tested DAE import, therefore it doesn't appear in the feature list. But it should work also, at least according to Discreet who wrote the filter.

Does the .OBJ file import in MED? If so, can you send it to Support?

Very cool Update ^^
Now we just need the correct line in the error.. because searching through hundrets of functionlines to find an error.. is horrible work.

.OBJ import works with MED. I'll post the WED export problem to support

@JCL: Hey, thanks for the input. Wed creates palette.pcx which seems to be corrupted, copying over the original one works.

older versions worked fine...

why does palette.pcx needed anyway?

pallete.pcx is not always corrupted. I noticed that pallete.pcx causes problems only after you have imported a level from .FBX or any other format, and you try after to compile. At least this is what happens with me.
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I use GS PRO.

I had that problem, too. I just replaced the palette.pcx in the gs folder with one of my projects and it worked. (with the corrupted palette I wasn't able to build my levels)

Very good a new update with GED nice. Thanks

Bye
White_Wolf

Thanks, nice update!

Bugs:
GED does not save "Position"s !
If I select an object, I won't be able to type in letters that are GED shortcuts (for example into the "Action" field).
Selecting a terrain (/model) without texture causes an error.
The dialog box "No correct material assigned" for the terrain paint mode pops up everytime you select the terrain, this is kind of annoying.

Hello,

I would like test the new file a7_screensaver.c but I don't find this in the folder samples.

Thanks for your help

http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=284035

thanks for the link ^^

impossible to launch GED
Error Programme Config
And it's not visible in WED

OK now it works I installed A7.8 on Pc with W2k then to copy / paste folders gamestudio and winsxs on Win XP
I think that he had to miss libraries others than that distributed

Whaaahooo! MONSTEROUS update.
Its going to take months just to test it all.

sys_malloc, sys_free = EXCELLENT, but some form of diag function would be nice...

effect_lod = finally rid of those long-distance FPS eaters! Does this work in Commercial? Or pro only?

ent_buffers = beauty! a shortcut into the DirectX meshes.

engine_gettaskinfo, engine_getscriptinfo = definately useful...

infinite_terrain.c = requires study, but potentially groundbreaking!

All Hail Conitec!!

I got an error about using CLIP1 and CLIP2.

An other model is clipped away as i have assigned.

I guess you mistyped - there is no CLIP2.

I've uploaded a new version:

http://server.conitec.net/down/gstudio_780.exe

This is version 7.80.1 that contains two fixes:

- there's no limitation with shaders on sky cubes
- the client buffer can't overflow anymore in a multiplayer system.

The overall version number is the same, but the engine should now report as 7.80.1.

Sry, CLIP0 and CLIP1.

What s the different?
CLIP0 = 75%
CLIP1 = 50%
?
And only this 2 lines?

Thx

Great news, thanks

"Sky shader problem" was solved with 7.80.1.
You're really fast.
Thanks.

Yeah, awesome work At first I was worried it would be ~6 weeks before this one was out of the way.

Cheers!

Jibb

Thanks for the update ...

I played around with GED and it appears that it does not find MDLs that are not in the same directory as the WMB ?

I have IntenseX installed and when I load a level, it tells me it can not find the MDL files.

Bug or Feature ?

Cheers,
Andreas

Question:
Dunno how you planned the 2D particles.
But is there a chance to show the particles like panels ( my game is panel-tile based. ). Panel-particles would be really helpful in making fire or magic in my game.
When du you plan to release this feature?

I can't install this update. After unpacking the installer keeps crashing, and GED.exe resides in the gamestudio folder with 0kb in size...
I'm on Vista.

Hey Joozey, maybe not 100% on the download or your virus scanner is interfering?

That's what happens to me on some updates.

Indeed NOD32 is interfering when the isntaller is unpacking, it places GED.exe in quarantaine. I deactivated my virus scanner, restarted, deinstalled gamestudio, then attempted to install the 7.8 version. It unpacks fine, then starts to install, but it keeps hanging on GED.exe. The installer wont progress.

What can I do?

As soon as NOD32 quarantines GED, bring up NOD32 and tell it to restore the file from quarantine, then continue the install. Same thing happened to me...

@Joozey:
I have NOD32 too, and it was hanging on GED also. Just copy the installer to your Gamestudio directory and make the folder in the exclusions list.

Indeed that helped! Blasted antivirus isn't really shutting down when shutting it down, is it.
Thanks for the help

also, installer leaves a lot of trash in main system drive directory, looks like vc++ redist install files. Better use a folder in temp directory.

Hi jcl,

I tried installing the 7.80 Beta on several XP SP3 machines yesterday and on all of them GED crashed with a "damaged application" message after the install. However, manually reinstalling the VC runtime distribution (I think I used VC2005 SP2) fixed the problem. During the install the VC2008 runtime installer was executed, so either there is something missing in the runtime or GED requires some library that is not included with the vc08 dist, I guess.

Stefan

I had no problem here with GED and XP SP3. The PC had no VC++ installed. Maybe some DLL was damaged on your PC?

Installer leaves VC++ redist files in main folder: We have no influence on the behavior of the VC++ redist module, but we also have no trash in the main folders of our PCs here. Maybe this is caused by something special on that PC, like having an unusual Windows folder location. Can you post a directory listing of c:\? This could give us some idea.

"Damaged application" on XP SP3 - this has certainly nothing to do with XP SP3. More likely is some missing module, however then this should also happen on other people's PCs. If someone else is also getting this error, please don't fix it but contact support. We'll send you some modules for finding out which one is damaged or missing.

"Installer leaves VC++ redist files in main folder"
I have the VC++ installed already, but on the C: drive, and GStudio is on the H: drive. The Gstudio installer places files (24, to be exact, many called eula.xxxx.txt, where xxxx is some number and another called Installer leaves VC++ redist files in main folder VC_RED.MSI) in the main H: folder.
I think that's what Quadraxas meant.
You must be able to say where the thing is installed? Or, if it is temporary files, why did it delete them when I install VC++ without Gstudio?

windows is installed on c:\ drive (as you can see.)

and Gamestudio is installed in default directory ( C:\Program Files\Gstudio7 )

using windows 7

I can confirm what Quadraxas and Germanunkol are experiencing.
After installing the new update, my C drive contained the same files as the screenshot shows
I'm using Vista Ultimate SP2.

Cheers

Frazzle

Great Job for this update. But I found a Bug which doesn't exist in the previous version.

The "IGNORE_YOU" flags for the "c_move" function doesn't work.

This is my simple bullet code and the bullet entity hit the wall_ent but it should not do this. In the previous version A7.77.4, the bullet has passed through the wall entity.

Your code looks correct, but I can not reproduce the problem - IGNORE_YOU works with my test projects.

Maybe the problem has some different reason, such as a wrong wall_ent pointer. Can you contact support (at) 3dgamestudio.net, and send them your project where the problem happens? They'll look into it.

7.80 was officially released meanwhile, so please post any further problems in the bug forum. I'm closing this thread.