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Hi,
as i had a lot of these random client crashes since 0.4.03, i tried to run the windows version of planeshift using wine on top of linux. and it worked! Here are the step by step instructions on how to install it:

If you already have wine installed, you can skip the steps 1-3.

1. Install the latest stable version of WINE using your distro's package manager
2. Install the package cabextract
3. Run WINE's configuration utility 'winecfg', it will create the directory ~/.wine/
4. Go into this directory and execute 'wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks'
5. Run the command 'sh winetricks vcrun6 vcrun2005 corefonts'. I'm not sure if you need a license of Windows to do this legally! I'm neither sure what exactly the winetricks script does; i didn't write it
6. Download and install the Windows version of PlaneShift into wine. To run the installer type 'wine name_of_the_installer.exe' in the directory where you downloaded it.
7. Run your new PlaneShift client: Go to '~./wine/drive_c/Programs/PlaneShift' (or however these directories are called on your PC) and execute 'wine psclient.exe'

You can even symlink your ~/.PlaneShift directory to the Windows version's PlaneShift directory to use the same settings and logs with both clients.

The WINE client runs stable for me, Thob from my guild uses it too. However, we both have a completely transparent GUI under wine. That means, you can't see any window backgrounds and buttons without text. But it doesn't crash

I don't know if that works for everyone, try it ON YOUR OWN RISK!



Firiban

i can confirm this issue here using an ATI mobility radeon x1400 with the fglrx 9.8-driver and the 0.4.02 client.

hm, i think i'll do the latter... i'm not that talented in compiling things from svn

thanks for your explanation

Thanks for your reply

i already run ps in windowed mode, perhaps i should try fullscreen

What is adaptive camera? the bug doesnt depend on whether i use first person view, third person view or anything else. Neither texture downscaling nor any other options in pssetup have any influence on it.

on http://docs.huihoo.com/crystalspace3d/cs/manual/cs_B.html i found something:

# Q: My objects are rendered incorrectly. It seems as if parts of it sometimes appear and sometimes disappear.

A: Incorrect rendering of objects can be caused by bugs but there is one common cause of this problem which is Z-buffer related. It is important to realize that Crystal Space does NOT clear the Z-buffer every frame (nor does it clear the screen). By default Crystal Space depends on the geometry itself to clear the Z-buffer. For example, if you have a room with a single object in it then you should use `ZFILL' mode for the room polygons (so that the Z-buffer will be filled but not read) and `ZUSE' for the object (so that the Z-buffer will be both updated and read).

In many cases levels are closed (meaning that there is some exterior object which blocks the view into infinity). If you have such a convex closed object at the boundary of your level you can use `ZFILL' for that. However, there are occasions when this is not possible. Either because there is no exterior object, the exterior object is not closed, or the exterior object is not convex. In that case you better use `ZUSE' for all objects and enable Z-clearing every frame. In world files you can do this by using the `settings' block and enabling the `clearzbuf' option.

Note that you should invoke the method engine->GetBeginDrawFlags() in your call to g3d->BeginDraw() to ensure that this Z-buffer clearing will actually work (in fact you should always use GetBeginDrawFlags()).

Might this have to do something with my problem? I already tried to compile ps myself just for fun a few weeks ago, perhaps i'll try again if nothin else helps.

Thanks again
Firiban

the licensing problems are self-made. why can't an artist post a new item/house/tree/etc and write "published under the Atomic Blue License version 1.0 as published by atomic blue inc." or whatever? To prevent the board of beeing flooded by many similar items (let's say 20 new short swords), the team could give out a list of things needed ingame.

Or equally unfortunate, the artist does not agree with our license and so we cannot use their work

Make a sticky Thread in the artwork forum that explains the license. if an artist doesn't agree, he shall contribute to another game or (i don't know if that's legally possible) dual-license it under atomic blue and a more free license, so it can be used by ps as well as by other games.

If you don't want to give people mega axes of death or much tria, then some useless and non-RP-relevant item could be given as a reward, so the artist can be recognized as an artist by the other players. Such an item could be a belt, a hat, an armor in a different colour, ...