Error when using setSky() on 3.2 master

[aubergine]

I've edited rules.js to contain just this:

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function eventStartLevel() {
  setSky("clouds01.png");
}

Error in logs is:

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error   |10:17:01: [pie_AddTexPage:130] pie_AddTexPage: non POT texture clouds01.png

I've no idea what a "POT" texture is?

[NoQ]

I think you need to specify a full path to the texture on physfs.

[aubergine]

Already tried that:

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function eventStartLevel() {
  setSky("texpages/clouds01.png");
}

But got:

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PHYSFS_openRead(texpages/texpages/couds01.png) failed with error: File not found
error   |11:13:01: [iV_GetTexture:259] Failed to load texpages/texpages/couds01.png

It seems setSky() prefixes the filename with "texpages/".

If I remove .png from the original attempt I get this:

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function eventStartLevel() {
  setSky("clouds01");
}

Gives:

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error   |11:19:04: [iV_loadImage_PNG:85] pie_PNGLoadFile: PHYSFS_openRead(texpages/couds01) failed with error: File not found
error   |11:19:04: [iV_GetTexture:259] Failed to load texpages/couds01

So it seems it was finding the file, but was not happy with the format for some reason.

[Per]

POT = Power Of Two. Early OpenGL versions have a requirement that a texture has to be a size that is a power of two in each direction.

PS Not sure why the error message is missing an 'l'...

[Goth Zagog-Thou]

Another PhysFS bug, perhaps? Remember you need to either upgrade or downgrade PhysFS to either 2.0.1 or 2.0.3, or else things like this start happening.

If you're on Ubuntu (or a variant) Linux I'll provide the new PhysFS files I compiled myself an hour ago .. solved all my issues on 3.1_RC3 -- if indeed that's the issue.

[aubergine]

@Goth: I'm on Mac OS build and dak180 applied physfs patch already, so probably not a physfs bug.

Anyway, while I was offline I tried making skies 512x512 rather than 1280x800 and that fixed the bug I was getting. So, as Per mentions above the skybox currently has to be "POT".

I then did some experimenting with animating the skybox, basically I got a video of some clouds moving, resized to 512x512 and then exported it to a sequence of .png files. It seems the setSky() function causes custom textures because after about 300-500 frames the game crashed with what appeared to be an OOM error.

I noticed that there is some weirdness happening when setting sky - sometimes the minimap gets replaced with the sky, and sometimes the sky gets replaced with the minimap! I managed to catch the minimap being replaced with sky in a video:

Animated sky in WZ 3.2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvO6Q7l7fYc

P.S. Happy holidays!

[aubergine]

Oh, and regarding the missing 'l' that was a typo on my part.

[NoQ]

Animated sky in WZ 3.2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvO6Q7l7fYc

OMG.

[aubergine]

Another experiment, this time with a slightly more suitable sky video. I was hoping to catch the sunrise but unfortunately the game crashed 30 seconds in to the sequence (OOM error again). For this experiment I used 1024x1024 tile size, which started to have a noticeable impact on game performance (loading a >1MB image every 100ms).

I cropped the video this time so that only one panel of the skybox is shown, I think this really gives some idea of the stunning effect that could be achieved in the long run. The video is in HD -- be sure to set quality to 720p for best quality.

Sunrise over a warzone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnYoqB9iRYs

[Per]

Wow, pretty impressive. I'll try to hunt down that bug...

Can you make a bug ticket and post your mod there so I can use it to reproduce the bug? Thanks

[aubergine]

Commander, Alpha base evacuees have sent us this recording of the nuclear strike. It is imperative that we evacuate Beta base before we meet the same fate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiFbUekdh0 (remember to set HD).

@Per: Yup, I'll create a ticket. Will try and compress the mod to a reasonable size (currently it's 343 MB).

EDIT: Now down to 194 MB....

EDIT: Now down to 69 MB

EDIT: Bug ticket: http://developer.wz2100.net/ticket/3842

[aubergine]

Also, managed to capture the minimap appearing in the skybox on the very first frame of that nuke video (you'll have to pause it then drag playhead to start of vid to see it).

[NoQ]

Amazing work, even i got inspired (:
Emm, shouldn't the alpha base be in arizona tileset? Also you can probably use some fancy things like Jorzi's trees in your vids.

[Jorzi]

Doesn't it use up huge amounts of video memory when having animated textures like that, or is it streaming from the harddrive?

[NoQ]

As far as understood (aka blind guess), it loads each frame into video memory, even if the same png file was already loaded, which causes out of memory (?)