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Support => Linux Specific Issues => Topic started by: AljoshaNL on July 15, 2006, 12:16:37 pm

Title: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: AljoshaNL on July 15, 2006, 12:16:37 pm: (http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7065/shot01wy4.th.jpg) (http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shot01wy4.jpg)

It's almost impossible to play, how can I fix this?
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: peeg on July 15, 2006, 12:19:29 pm: It looks the same way here.
Maybe a "relight" would fix it -- no clue. I'll wait for the official client.
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Bereror on July 15, 2006, 12:41:29 pm: By some reasons it is black for Linux users and (I guess) it is the same for Mac users.

Relighting makes it better, but doesn't fix all the black areas as can be seen on this screenshot (http://www.vaikene.net/img/sh02.jpg).
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Beladoor on July 15, 2006, 12:51:47 pm: Quote from: Bereror on July 15, 2006, 12:41:29 pm
...and (I guess) it is the same for Mac users.
...
You're right, Bereror, I'll try to /relight next time I go to the Bronze Doors region.
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Wired_Crawler on July 15, 2006, 01:52:40 pm: Try to log in, while your char is on bdroad map (i tested it on bdroad1). When I log in there and go to bronzedoors, the ground is ok. This (and all other lighting/checkerboard isuues) are because textures are not organized well. It is already reported on bugtracker.

Relight probably won't fix it, but I can't check it, because 512MB of ram + 512MB of swap is not enough to relight bronzedoors :(
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Constrabus Gegami on July 15, 2006, 05:45:55 pm: For me, the left of the map is normal and to the right is black..
I suppose just wait untll things are fixed.. be patient and know that people
are working hard for us. :)
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Thedrish on July 19, 2006, 07:38:22 am: I don't think people are impatient, but rather confused.

At least I was when I went to the waterfall yesterday. Looked awesome, but between the valley and the waterfall area there was much blackness. I didn't proceed because I wasn't sure it was safe for me.
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Wired_Crawler on July 19, 2006, 09:18:46 am: Have You tried to run updater ? The map was relighted several days ago and the ground looks much better now.
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Thedrish on July 19, 2006, 02:37:30 pm: Tried it yesterday before playing since I got a "there are updates" message.

Afterwards (nothing to update), I ran the game again and got the same message.
This time I ignored it and played PS. Then I noticed the "black earth".
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: peeg on July 19, 2006, 02:59:52 pm: Same for me. I updated a couple of times but it didn't solve the problem.
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Thedrish on July 20, 2006, 12:44:19 pm: I've tried it again yesterday evening,
this time the script from Xordan came in (ran it) and now I don't have the "you need to update" - message anymore.
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Venae Rell on August 14, 2006, 08:10:32 am: It removes a lot of ambience, but I was able to get the black terrain to display normally using the -fullbright setting...
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: peeg on August 14, 2006, 11:06:41 am: The -relight option fixed it for me.

1. Start PS and log on.
2. Travel to the bronze doors region
3. Log out
4. Start PS with -relight option and log on again
5. Wait! Loading took around 1,5 hours on my system. ( AMD Athlon64 3200+, 1024 MB )
6. Everything should look fine now. Log off again and start PS without -relight

Hope that helps.

Greetings
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Venae Rell on August 14, 2006, 09:00:50 pm: Thanks, Peeg, that did fix it for me as well, though it took a wee bit longer (1 hour, 45 minutes :) ). Hurrah for the green, green grass!
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: sesmi on August 15, 2006, 12:36:15 am: This isn't a linux specific issue. I get it on my mac.
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Bedire on August 23, 2006, 09:20:04 pm: how can i relight it?
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Bereror on August 23, 2006, 09:24:35 pm: Quote from: peeg on August 14, 2006, 11:06:41 am
1. Start PS and log on.
2. Travel to the bronze doors region
3. Log out
4. Start PS with -relight option and log on again
5. Wait! Loading took around 1,5 hours on my system. ( AMD Athlon64 3200+, 1024 MB )
6. Everything should look fine now. Log off again and start PS without -relight

Pay extra attention to the point 5, it will take long time.
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Bedire on August 23, 2006, 09:26:18 pm: this isn't my problem. i don't know where to set it
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Bereror on August 23, 2006, 09:32:09 pm: Since this is a Linux forums I assume that you are using Linux.

Start the console (konsole on KDE) and go to the directory where PS is installed, which should be /opt/planeshift in most of the cases. Then enter ./psclient -relight and wait couple of hours.
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Bedire on August 23, 2006, 09:34:01 pm: thx :thumbup: :thumbup:
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Thedrish on September 04, 2006, 12:26:27 pm: Any idea when a (real) fix will be available?

Of course the relight option will work around it, but isn't a true fix :-\
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: FyreBrand on September 11, 2006, 05:52:58 am: I have the same "black textures" near the waterfall. So I ran the psclient from the terminal with the relight switch. I typed it exactly as follows:
Code: [Select]
./psclient -relightI don't think the operation worked because it only took a few minutes and those of you who have performed it report it taking over an hour.

My system specs are as follows:
Dell Dimension 8400
CPU: P4 3.0 Ghz
RAM: 1GB
Video: ATI X300 128MB ( driver/fglrx ver 8.28.8 )
OS: Ubuntu 6.06

I'm a very long time Windows user and I'm still learning Linux so I still don't understand everything that's going on under the hood. Each stage PSClient load was successful but several files weren't found, able to be opened, or deleted. This makes me wonder if I was suppose to run this as sudo.

I have the terminal output saved as a text file but I didn't post it in code blocks because it was really long. I do have it though. Sorry I'm such a noobie about this.
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: peeg on September 11, 2006, 12:51:11 pm: /me mutters something about Ubuntu with quite an angry face

sudo ... no! No game should need root-access to your system to run!
Running alpha-software as root is .... well, crazy ::|

Did you travel to the bronze doors before you started PS with -relight? You have to - the engine only relights the current sector your char's onto.

Greetings
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: LARAGORN on September 11, 2006, 01:35:06 pm: Quote from: FyreBrand on September 11, 2006, 05:52:58 am
I have the same "black textures" near the waterfall. So I ran the psclient from the terminal with the relight switch. I typed it exactly as follows:
Code: [Select]
./psclient -relightI don't think the operation worked because it only took a few minutes and those of you who have performed it report it taking over an hour.

This method only takes a few minutes. If you use Relight in setup, it takes a very long time, depending on your system and system settings.

Video: ATI X300 128MB ( driver/fglrx ver 8.28.8 ) I suggest a driver rollback, try the 8.26.3 instead.
I had some other issues with the latest driver, but when i use the previous version, everything worked great :)
Trying wont hurt anything.

Edit: actualy the 8.17.2 was the most stable for me :)
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: FyreBrand on September 11, 2006, 10:23:58 pm: Thanks. I will go to the bronze doors area and run it. When I originally ran it, I was in town. Thanks for the help.
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: Skatty on September 13, 2006, 06:36:25 am: hehe I never thought to try and fix the issue. i was having to much fun navagating in pitch darkness.. although there was one hill a came across that proved deadly :(
Title: Re: Ground is all black in Bronzen doors section (is PS a goth game :P ?)
Post by: FyreBrand on September 13, 2006, 11:11:33 am: It worked fine. There was one small area that looked like the ground was invisible. I thought, hmm, the ground was black and I could walk on it so why not try invisible. Note to self: invisible ground doesn't seem as solid as black ground. It was an interesting way to visit the DR though.