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Troubleshooting / Re: Game failed after only 3 months?

« on: August 13, 2019, 05:53:12 am »

You can lose from negative score: https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Scoring#Losing_The_Game

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Troubleshooting / Re: Go to predicted UFO location

« on: August 12, 2019, 11:44:48 pm »

Sup,

i'm not sure but ...

might be worth a shot,

Nice catch. I'm pretty sure we always use reachDestination first but can't hurt to add an extra check. I don't wanna add too much though because this is code that has to run repeatedly each tick.

In most cases a NaN will just return false anyways so it's mostly harmless.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Go to predicted UFO location

« on: August 12, 2019, 10:06:44 pm »

It's hard to reproduce and fix because the behavior changes very subtly between platforms, and even if we can reproduce it we can't exactly determine why it happens, nobody knows how to implement the feature 100% effectively. Perhaps I should add an (experimental) to the description.

Anyways let me know if the latest round of "fixes" helps. If not post your 100% reproducible save.

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Open Feedback / Re: Subforum settings

« on: July 31, 2019, 02:06:55 am »

It's a global setting to control spam. Every user's first post has to be approved by a mod, afterwards they are free to wreck havoc.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Nightlies install problem

« on: July 19, 2019, 06:17:18 pm »

Patches are here: https://openxcom.org/downloads-extras/

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Suggestions / Re: New release is needed

« on: July 17, 2019, 03:00:23 am »

I guess that can be arranged now that we have a new mod portal.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Nightlies install problem

« on: July 09, 2019, 10:26:18 pm »

It means the installer couldn't download the Data Patch. Either you were disconnected or it was a fluke and you can just try again later.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Video settings are not saved -=UGLY WORKAROUND FOUND=-

« on: July 06, 2019, 10:46:42 pm »

Post your openxcom.log. If OpenXcom can't change the display (this includes resolution and mode) it will fallback to a safe default, something like this:

[INFO]   Attempting to set display to 1728x1000x8...
[ERROR]   Failed to set video mode
[INFO]   Attempting to set display to 640x400x8...
[INFO]   Display set to 640x400x8.

If so, not much you can do, something in your system is going "I can't do that, Dave".
You can try enabling OpenGL (in Display Filters) or updating your drivers, sometimes it helps.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Reversed text and question marks instead of text

« on: June 28, 2019, 05:41:32 am »

We currently don't have any RTL translations. I've disabled RTL support until this changes.

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Open Feedback / Re: Command Line Parameters

« on: June 19, 2019, 07:19:32 pm »

Yeah it's easy to enable masters because "there can be only one". Resolving a whole mod dependency chain is much more complicated, and would easily block the game from starting if anything was missing.

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Open Feedback / Re: Command Line Parameters

« on: June 17, 2019, 01:54:52 am »

You can now! Use "-master xcom1" or "-master xcom2".

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Troubleshooting / Re: How do I use custom music?

« on: May 29, 2019, 07:10:41 am »

If it's not packaged up as a mod, you can just do it yourself by putting all the music files in a mod SOUND folder.
Eg. Documets\OpenXcom\mods\Sycraft_Music\SOUND
Then you can just enable it from the Mods menu.

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Suggestions / Re: UFO and TFTD in the single sequential campaign

« on: January 11, 2019, 11:26:31 am »

The holes are caused by some shore regions using color #5. If you remap the shore regions to use color #12 instead, you would solve the issue. If you map them to closest match, it shouldn't have any terrain scars in the water--I think.

It's a limitation of the globe shader. It doesn't actually check if it's shading a polygon, it just uses the color to decide if it's land (use 16-color shading) or ocean (use 32-color shading). So if polygons use ocean colors, bad stuff happens.
I tried moving the ocean color to an unused zone but that messed up the "flat" coloring. So I've just added an option to disable the 32-color shading via "oceanShading", will have to wait for OXCE to merge.

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Suggestions / Re: UFO and TFTD in the single sequential campaign

« on: January 10, 2019, 01:33:02 am »

You can fit TFTD textures into the UFO palette by reusing the (now useless) flat ocean with some TFTD blues and remapping the new textures accordingly:



Now you get day-night shading, just with an unfortunate side-effect of the "holes" looking even more obvious (since the old "flat shading" is leaking through):



Only feasible solution would be hiding all the holes or disabling "flat shading" entirely.

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Tools / Re: Ruleset Validator for VSCode

« on: January 04, 2019, 12:25:03 am »

OpenXcom Extended support is here! It's a Christmas New Years miracle! After updating the extension (should happen automatically next time you run VSCode) just go into your Settings and pick your preferred version. If you run into any bugs let me know.