Mac Testing?

#1 Markus we have far more options now for the Mac OSX than we have before.

Timothy Downs has volunteer himself to help test it on a Mac that he owns or has access to and we also have access to Ed Gardner at MaxGaming (who has been doing the Mac builds, testing and deployment for Lore).

#2 Hey, Logan, that are good news ;)

#3 Indeed it is since it should allow us to now get a proper Mac OSX client out there when it comes time :)

#4 Heyas,

I downloaded the RealmWars CVS (HEAD) for use on OS X and I have a few questions.

1. What version of TGE was RW branched off of? I have about three or four files that are throwing errors when I compile; the TGE versions are correct and will compile if I replace the files in question with the latest version in Torque (I know, not proper but I was curious). I'm going to run diff on the files in question to see what exactly the differences are and resolve them. Which brings me to my next query :

2. What has been added to TGE specifically for RealmWars? I see there are a couple of patches - is there a list somewhere? I'd like to be cautious not to clobber them when trying to compile or resolve TGE to RW versions.

Thanks

#5 Hi Charles.

I recently merged RW with Torque Release_1_2_2.
And I already added a few post-1_2_2 changes into RW as well.

During the merge I did not remove any files. So you are right, that there are some files in the CVS that are not needed anymore.

Of the head I would say, fxLightDB is such a case, since the fxLight stuff has been merged by Melv into one fxLight object.

If you post up a list of files, that are causing trouble I can tell you if they are still needed and can even start deleting them from the CVS.
(Just in case Logan confirms this)


Regarding the changes to the source:
There are some files, that are RW exclusive only. E.g. the motion trails stuff and some other.
However, a couple of the original torque files are modified for RW. During the merge with 1_2_2 I tried to mark all these code locations with:

// RW ----------------------------
// <Name of author> --> Short description
... Code goes here
// <Name of author> <--
// RW ----------------------------

This helps merging in the future
But I may have missed some locations.

-- Markus

#6 Thanks!

I can grep on the tags you inserted in that case.. =)

Did you use the provided XCode project file that's in the CVS to compile ?

#7 Since I do not own a Mac, I haven't compiled it on one.
I just merged the engine and the example folder.

I haven't touched the lib stuff and I think I haven't touched the project files.
Not quite sure here, since it is some time, since I did this.

In any case feel free to use and modify the project file that best fits your need.

-- Markus

#8 I'm starting on compiling. I'll submit the new PB / XCode project when I'm done.

I'm not sure if I got a crossed wire in the CVS download, but the precepitation.h file appeared to be old. I replaced it with the current one in TGE 1.2.2 and got on with my compile.

#9

Quote:
I replaced it with the current one in TGE 1.2.2

Hm.. that sounds like a bad idea.

I already merged the latest precepitation code from torque HEAD (post 1_2_2) into RW.
It already has the small fix, I reported to GG after they announced the new precepation code on the website.

So overwriting it with the 1.2.2 is not a good idea.

#10 Ahh.. sorry, I had thought that you had merged WITH 1_2_2 - my confusion. I'll restore from my backup copy.

#11 Yes, I did a full merge with 1_2_2 and already merged some post 1_2_2 changes like precepation and stuff like that.

I tested it all on Win32 before checking in, so there should be no problems with the core RW/Torque code.

However there may be problems with the Mac platform code, with I just merged, but not tested.

I probably will do a full merge, when Torque 1_3_0 is labeled.

-- Markus