TSE "Milestone 3.5" Update

#161 @Florian

I solved that by simply building the library and copy/pasteing it into the vs8 debug folder instead of the vs7 debug folder.

#162 I've been peeking at the render batch changes. It's awesome! We're using a custom mesh-based solution for building interiors, and I was about to add support for transparency using some ugly hacks, but seems I can simply use the render isntance manager and let it sort the transparent primitives for me.

#163 Has anyone successfully created Atlas or Atlas2 terrains with this version yet? If so, which process did you use?

#164 Alright, the missing vc8 project is up, and the atlas code change is also up, so it should build ok starting.... now. ;)

Sorry about that guys, I actually got VC2k5 installed on my machine on Monday, grabbed Florian's project files, made sure they compiled ( had to fix some minor things ), etc. I unfortunately ran out of CVS bandwidth (happens to us too) and Rick wasn't around to reset as it was late afternoon right before major holiday. So I couldn't pull down clean CVS to test against. It was broken anyway, so I figured worst case, it was still broken.
Had I known the chaos that would follow, I would have waited for today ;)

#165 The exact code snippet I used to create the demo terrain is located in this article: tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/TSE/Atlas/Using_Atlas2

#166 Grabbed a fresh CVS version and it compiled right out of the box :)

#167 Just grabbed it off CVS and compiled succesfully as well.

The terrain is all black in the terrain_water_demo though. I remember seeing something about this being mentioned somewhere in the thread but I'm not finding it.

#168 It happens on some 128MB cards. What card do you have?

#169 For me the terrain isnt black but white <.< ... i have a 128MB Geforce 6800

#170 The card on the machine here in the office is a Radeon 9600 256MB. I installed the latest Catalyst drivers for it earlier, but it was doing the same thing before those were installed.

#171 ATi Radeon x600 256MB card. Old Atlas terrains looked fine. If I load up the original smalltexture terrain in a legacy Atlas block, it comes in as a very tall skinny fuzzy line in the corner of the terrain boundary.

Otherwise, all black terrain, white/gray from a distance.

This happens right out of the box with the terrain_water_demo.

#172 Ok heres the console...what does this error mean...how do I make it go away..I made a raw file and made shure it worked with MS3 just to be shure but when i try it with the new system I get.......

==>atlasOldGenerateChunkFileFromRaw16("terrain_water_demo/l3dt/atlas_htmp.raw", 1024, 1.0, 1.0/512.0, "terrain_water_demo/geometry.chu", 1.0, 5);
PlatformMemory: allocating new page, total bytes allocated so far: 38241584 (total bytes in all pages=50331648)
Generating chunked geometry (depth=5, baseMaxError=1.000000)
o Calculating activation levels...
- done.
o Propagating activation levels...
- done.
o Writing file header...
- done.
o Generating empty TOC...
- done.
o Generating meshes...
AtlasOldActivationHeightfield::generateNodeData - Max exceeded! May have paging issues!
AtlasOldActivationHeightfield::generateNodeData - Min exceeded! May have paging issues!
AtlasOldActivationHeightfield::generateNodeData - Max exceeded! May have paging issues!
AtlasOldActivationHeightfield::generateNodeData - Min exceeded! May have paging issues!
AtlasOldActivationHeightfield::generateNodeData - Min exceeded! May have paging issues!
AtlasOldActivationHeightfield::generateNodeData - Min exceeded! May have paging issues!
Fatal: (c:\tse\engine\atlas\editor\atlasoldmesher.cpp @ 299) AtlasOldMesher::writeCollision - empty bin, crap!




that last line..I know it means "NO DICE" but why when I work with the old system what should i be doing to insure that i get a good hightfield....or is this a bug caused by other stuff..i got the impression from the notes in AtlasOldMesher.cpp that part or this isnt working or done...any feedback will be helpful...Thakyou in advance

#173 BTW - the new and old versions of the .raw and .chu generators are (or should be) identical. The important thing is calling the importChu code.

Even though an empty bin ought never happen. ;)

I'll have to look at this in a bit.

#174 It works properly at 1.0 / 256.0 or below, from what I can tell. I had had this problem too.

#175 I have white terrain with an nVidia 7800 256 MB card.

#176 Ditto, at home with a brand new GeForce 7990 GTX XFX 512MB card, 2GB RAM.

#177 If I could, I'd upload a picture of my 9600xt card, to show why it won't run torque, maybe tomorrow, worth a nice giggle! :P

#178 @Dave Young

WHAT?!!?! you have a 7990 512MB!!!

I don't like you :P

#179 Got it all compiled ok, but I'm getting white terrain on the water demo too :(

GeForce 6800GT 128Mb
AGP 8x
84.21 drivers

and if it matters
XP3200+ win2k SP4 1Gb ram

Hewster

#180 Okay, its obviously not just our video cards. almost everyone is having this black/white terrain issue. lets just wait for Ben and Brian to solve the issue.

Got a ATI Extreme AX550 256MB DDR
PCI Express.