Planeshift 0.4 (Steel Blue) ready for OSX

[Trymm]

Planeshift 0.4 (Steel Blue) available for OSX:

http://www.psmirror.org/PlaneShift-v0.4.00-OSX.zip
http://download.xordan.com/PlaneShift-v0.4.00-OSX.zip

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Known issues:
1) Some graphics cards have problems with texture compression. If you experience problems loading the game disable texture compression by doing the following:
-Open the file data/config/r3dopengl.cfg in a text editor.
-Locate the following line and delete the leading semicolon:

;Video.OpenGL.UseExtension.GL_ARB_texture_compression  = false

should be:

Video.OpenGL.UseExtension.GL_ARB_texture_compression  = false

-Save the file (be sure the file is saved as text only).

2) By default, PlaneShift will go into pause-mode when the window looses focus (ie: is not the top most window). If you want Planehift to keep running when the window does not have focus (ie: when you switch to another window), do the following:
-Open the file psclient.cfg in a text editor, and add the following line at the end of it:

System.RunWhenNotFocused = true

-Save the file (be sure the file is saved as text only).

3) Sound appears to be playing at incorrect speed on PPC-based machines at the moment.

4) By default, shaders use the Cg toolkit from Nvidia. We have seen some problems with this toolkit on machines with X-1600 graphics card from ATI. Furthermore, the supplied version only supports OSX 10.3 (Panther) and 10.4 (Tiger). If you experience strange graphics behaviour, or crash when attempting to run PlaneShift,  disable the Nvidia shaders:

Open the file psclient.cfg in a text editor, and add the following lines at the end of it:

Video.OpenGL.Shader.Cg.Enable.Fragment=false
Video.OpenGL.Shader.Cg.Enable.Vertex=false

Save the file (be sure the file is saved as text only).

Alternatively, you can try to download version 2.0 of this toolkit from http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cg_toolkit.html
Version 2.0 should support OSX 10.5 (Leopard), though it is unknown how well it supports the X1600 graphics cards etc.
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Finally: please report problems back on the PS forums. Your experiences are invaluable in continued development and support of the OSX platform.

Enjoy!
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PS development team.

[smba44]

yay thank you! it was worth the wait! thank you guys for all your hard work 

[Shadow1490]

 
Thanks

[DeepestBlue]

Thanks for this...uploaded it, but the application is automatically closing whilst trying to connect to the server.  Will try this on another mac tonight..might be me as it will be my first foray into the world...but thought you might like to know...

MacOSX Version 10.4.11 Dual 2Power PC grphics card NVIDIA GeForce 6600LE G5

[lostpoet]

Wow. FInally! Thanks you guys. Downloading now. Will let you know how it goes.

[iriss]

GREAT! Back playing on the Mac! Thanks Trymm! 

[Chloii]

  You're awesome...

[Net_Creator]

*screams and cheers* *… and one faint*

Thanks, Trymm (and anyone else!)
Downloading now!

[Kisame Posiedon]

Yes i can play

but when i play the graphics are killed

im in castle area where i started and all the tutorial people are

then the background keeps changing from green mountain to the castle and back again
and i cant see myself

can you help

[Caarrie]

can you help

If you tell us about your system we might be able to help more

[Kisame Posiedon]

I have leopard Mac OS 10.5.2

and i have the version of PS that was on the top of this string
and i use xordan

[ThomPhoenix]

Xordan's feeling used here

[Goldenfire]

OS 10.5.2, macbook pro.

I just downloaded 0.4 (steel blue).  It worked for about 5 minutes of character creation, and now my cursor position doesn't visibly update unless a mouse-button is depressed.  The cursor still MOVES (and will display in its new position, when I click), but I can't SEE it move.

Tried fiddling with various graphics settings (only after it broke, so I know it wasn't said fiddling that broke it) but no joy.

[Csophae]

Is anyone going to make a torrent of this? (Is there already one floating around I don't know of?) Unfortunately due to some internet issues I can't sustain a connection long enough to download a normal zip.

[Csophae]

Hey! I managed to get it all downloaded! I did need to implement the graphics changes to get the client to load, so thanks for having those up too.


Edit: I've been made aware there is a torrent file now floating around. Keep an eye out here or check the IRC channel if you need it.