Current Mac Status

[buddha]

Most of the update information revolves around the PC version.  As far as I can tell, there are still these mac issues:

1. The updater for mac does not work.

2. Many people do not get the buttons at the top of the screen.

3. libcal10.dylib is not installed in the proper place by the installer.  This is a general problem, but there is a fix out for the PC version.

4. A soft link must be created to get the client to not crash.

5. There is a mouse button issue.  I don\'t know the fix.

Could one of the developers let us mac people know how this is coming along?

Despite all of this, I\'m having a great time in this game.  You guys are doing a great job and we thank you.

[buddha]

pardon me, but it\'s

libcal3d.10.dylib

Currently that file is in ~/planeshift 3d/psclient.app/resources/

and it needs to be in

/usr/local/lib

Jolly has a fix posted in CrystalBlue problems/mac os package

Further, there are these issues

6. The death realm is too dark.  (I was not able to make a posted fix work)

7. There is no file called pssetup.  (likely, this is intentional)

8. Mac users seem to be downloading 0.3005 but the screen says 0.3004.  Not sure if this is signficant, but hard to tell since the updater doesn\'t work

once again, let\'s thank the developers.  it seems like a difficult job.

[Vulgoris]

Hey, i\'m a n00b to planeshift but i somehow got it to work. I\'m enjoying it but still experiencing loads of weird errors.
1. Sometimes when i click \'tell\' on the buddy list it just opens up my inventory
2. The death realm is way too dark and i can\'t see the thin path so I keep falling to my death, over and over.
3. The corpse bug in which my alive body appears to look like a corpse.
4. Sometimes after i\'ve died and come back, i walk into some steps, and when it would normally go up the steps, it goes THROUGH the steps. So i pressed Space to Jump and it catapulted me into the air and i couldn\'t get back down.
5. Sometimes when i click on the chat box i simply cant type into it but if i click to move the box it allows me to then type in the box.
6. The area outside the magic house thing where you mine gold appears to just be black where i presume there should be dirt/earth. On the way back to town from this area there\'s sometimes the black ground/wall problem and it makes it nearly impossible to try and get back to town.
7. Sometimes when I\'ve started typing in the chat box and i move my character he starts running around crazily and sometimes off cliffs and stuff. lol

That\'s pretty much it really. I can solve most of these problems by just rejoining but it just gets a bit annoying when you keep dying in the death realm.

[sinclair44]

The death realm problem (and the problem with random black polygons overall) is a lightmap issue. Apparently the Mac version ships with partially broken lightmaps for some maps (magic shop, death realm, akkio, arena, laanx dungeon). You can use the CS opt \"-relight\" to fix at least the death realm... the others are harder due to PS\'s networking. I couldn\'t get PS to fix them, but cslight (from a local CS build) fixes them fine.

If you have no idea what I just said, here\'s how to fix the death realm. For the other maps, you\'ll have to wait for an update.

When I say to type something into Terminal, leave the quotes off.
1. Die and leave you character somewhere in the death realm.
2. Sign off.
3. Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
4. Type \"cd /\" and press return.
5. Control-click on psclient.app in your \"PlaneShift 3D\" directory.
6. Open Contents -> MacOS and select psclient
7. Drag the psclient app to the Terminal window. Don\'t press return yet.
8. Type \"-relight\" into the Terminal window, after the bit that the drag a moment ago put in there.
9. Press return. PlaneShift will start.
10. Log in and select the character in the death realm. It will take an *insane* amount of time to load with *no* indication of activity whatsoever. Give it a long time... five minutes on a fast computer, twenty to thirty minutes on a low end computer. Be patient.
11. You should be able to see everything now.
12. LOG OFF AGAIN BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE!!!!! If you accidentaly load the main area, you\'re pretty screwed. It\'ll have to relight that entire map, which takes several times longer than the death realm... and you can\'t stop it, because if you do the lightmaps will be screwed up anyways and you\'ll have to do it again.
13. You can start PlaneShift normally and you should be able to see the death realm on any character on that computer.