Posts by red51

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  • Some start-up error messages grab mouse / hide mouse cursor

    In case of doubt you can kill the Java/Rising World process in your task manager, then you should get rid of any hidden dialogs. In general I'd recommend to disable fullscreen mode and use the undecorated mode (disable fullscreen mode, adapt the resolution to your desktop resolution and check the "undecorated" box), this usually works much better when switching no another process.
    However, I guess it would be helpful to move the error dialog to another frame anyway ;)

  • Game running slow after 20 mins

    Do you play singleplayer or multiplayer? Eventually you can provide a report file, to do that, open console (key ~ or `) and type "report" (without quot. marks), now a file called "report" followed by a number should appear in your game directory. Please open this file with a texteditor, copy the content and paste it here.

  • Game crashes at start up

    Looks like Steam cannot be initialized, please restart Steam completely (shut it down by rightclicking on the small Steam icon in your tray -> Exit) and try to start the game again.

  • 0.7.2 Whitelist Troubles

    The whitelist and permissions look fine :) What happens exactly when your friends try to connect to the server, do they get kicked with a message "You are not whitelisted" or are they unable to establish a connection at all? In case they get a "not whitelisted" message: Can you eventually upload the whitelist file here ("More options" at the bottom -> "Attachments")? Otherwise, if there is no such message, do they just return to main menu instantly (without notification) or are they stuck at "connecting" (or do they even get a message like "Unable to connect")?

  • problem

    Bei dieser Ausgabe "false false false" handelt es sich um eine Debugausgabe (solange man ein platzierbares Objekt in Händen hält, zB Möbel, oder ein Lagerfeuer wie auf den Bildern zu sehen), die wird mit dem nächsten Update entfernt ;)
    Ansonsten ist der Log unauffällig. Das "im Kreis fliegen": Grundsätzlich sind Seen oder Ozeane derzeit mehr oder weniger rund, d.h. wenn du die Küste entlang fliegst, wirst du irgendwann wieder am Ursprungspunkt rauskommen. Um deine Bauwerke zu finden, solltest du es wie oben vorgeschlagen mal mit dem findbase Command probieren.

  • What is a voxel?

    It depends on the context. When talking about rendering (or "voxel graphics"), there are barely any games out there which are really voxel based. Most games (including Minecraft, Crysis, but also Rising World) use polygons to render the game world. Having a voxel based rendering is a completely different approach, for example Comanche or Outcast used voxels for rendering.
    But the term "voxel" can also describe a datapoint in a three-dimensional grid (as you suspected), for example containing terrain information. Most games use heightmaps to describe the terrains (basically like a two-dimensional array which contains the actual height value for a given X-Z-coordinate), unfortunately heightmaps are quite limited (although sufficient for most games), since it's not possible to have overhangs or caves this way. When the terrain is stored in a three-dimensional data grid, you have full freedom to describe various terrain features precisely. Minecraft or Rising World use a three-dimensional datagrid for the terrain, Crysis uses a mixture or heightmaps and three-dimensional grids. That labels those games as "voxel based" (referring to the fact that the world information are stored in a three-dimensional data grid).
    Another advantage of a three-dimensional data grid is that this is basically the only way to have a truely modifiable terrain. It's nearly impossible to store those information in a heightmap (unless you just want to have something like craters on the terrain surface). On the other hand, a big disadvantage of a three-dimensional data grid is the *much* higher memory consumption (it's basically like multiple layers of heightmaps: if you have a total terrain height of 256 units [or "blocks"], the memory consumption is 256 times higher compared to a simple heightmap).

  • Normal and Specular maps

    Normal and parallax mapping are planned, but currently it has a relatively low priority, especially since additional normal/displacement/specular maps would cause a high memory consumption due to the high amount of textures the game uses. We reduced the memory consumption the lasts months though, so there is some room for such additions now, but first we want to get other things ready (dungeons, new playermodel etc)

  • Ofen/Neuer Ofen

    Das ist merkwürdig =O Als was werden dir die Erze im Inventar angezeigt bzw. was für einen Namen haben diese genau, wenn du mit der Maus darüber gehst (Name eines Erzes reicht aus, welches du nicht in den Ofen legen kannst)?
    Kannst du ggf. einen Screenshot davon senden während du mit einem Stück Erz in der Hand exakt auf einen der Slots zielst?

  • Changelog 2016-06-29: Fuel requirement for furnaces

    Quote from YakMe

    I hope your AI and mobs patrol in those dungeons your working on since I want to see people cry when they die


    Later there will be definitely some hostile mobs in dungeons ;) Unfortunately there are no monsters or new enemies with the first dungeon release (although it's a pity, since dungeons can only reveal their full potential when there are some challenges), since we have to rework the animal behaviour first (and we won't get that done in time for the dungeons release)...


    Quote from ArcaneDesmond

    Is there a place in the forums I'm missing that has the planned updates for the game?


    The feature list (the link provided by @YakMe) is indeed a little bit outdated, it only contains the "major features" and it gives no clue when the particular features will be implemented exactly.
    The next "big update" will be dungeons, once they're in the game we will implement the new playermodels and items, then it's our intention to focus on more survival elements (rework recipes, add more challenges etc) :)

  • Mit Mausrad durchs Inventar scrollen

    Eine Einstellung fürs Mausrad wird auf jeden Fall noch ins Einstellungsmenü kommen :) Die müssen eh nochmal etwas angepasst werden.
    In der Zwischenzeit kannst du die Belegung aber manuell ändern (betrifft aber alle Mausradeingaben im Spiel): Gehe dazu ins Spielverzeichnis (Steamversion: Rechtsklick auf RW in Steam -> Eigenschaften -> Lokale Dateien -> Lokale Dateien durchsuchen), öffne dort die "config.properties" Datei per Texteditor and ändere den Wert von "input_scrollup" zu MOUSEAXIS_WHEEL_DOWN und von "input_scrolldown" zu MOUSEAXIS_WHEEL_UP. Speichere nun die Datei uns starte das Spiel erneut, jetzt sollte das Mausrad invertiert sein.

  • database locked

    Where do you run your server? Is it on your local machine? Usually the "database locked" error indicates that it has problems accessing or writing to the world file. Please provide a full server log, it contains more information about what's going wrong exactly ;)

  • Crash Steam Java

    Thanks for the errorlog! This crash is caused by an outdated Intel driver. Unfortunately the old Intel drivers have a lot of bugs when it comes to OpenGL :( Please go to the Intel homepage and download and install the latest driver for your Intel HD Graphics 4000, that should solve the problem.