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Paintball 2 Discussion / Re: Ubuntu debian package
« on: May 04, 2008, 02:33:52 AM »
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure which libraries need to be installed, so I copied the dependencies from AssaultCube's debian package.

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Paintball 2 Discussion / Ubuntu debian package
« on: May 02, 2008, 10:01:43 PM »
I made a quick debian installer for the Linux binaries. You can get it here:

http://yellosoft.us/index.php?id=63

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I now have a habit of quiting whichever game I'm playing immediately after configuring the settings. I was just finished tweaking Paintball when it crashed while loading Archaic Fields. My settings were forgotten again.

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Natch, I can't Alt-Tab whether in full screen or not, gl_mode 21 or 4.

Also, when I change to another program and return to Paintball's console, the letters become uppercase until I close and reopen the console.

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"snd_device alsa" did it! I think everything is moving from OSS to Alsa, so maybe the Linux default should be changed.

I'm not able to Alt-Tab even when the option to do so is chosen. But, I can Alt-Tab if the console is open. For right now, that's enough for me :) Though the OpenGL screen stays up when another program, e.g. Firefox, GEdit, OpenOffice is selected.

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1. Haha. I was going to add that I thought maybe this bug was really a feature! I just haven't played at servers that did this.
2. I see a command to restart the sound engine (snd_restart) at http://digitalpaint.therisenrealm.com/reference/commands, but I don't think pball has a way to use other devices yet, as there is only snd_alsa.so and snd_oss.so. Even if I could find the command to specify the device, I would have to copy some snd_pcm.so file over to the pball directory.
3. This sort of things happens a bunch. I've even used the tilda names trick to hack my brother while playing Liero Xtreme. If this isn't related to map corruption, then I guess there's some underlying process that really crashed pball.

Yes, I am running this on a Mac. Actually, I'm running pball twice, as I have Mac Leopard, Linux Ubuntu, and Windows Vista included in a simple triple boot. I wish I knew more about developing on Macs, as I'd love to be the one to port Paintball to Mac OS.

The only reason I prefer PCM to OSS is that Ubuntu/OSS currently doesn't handle audio well on MacBooks. The audio sounds terrible and I can't change the volume unless I specify the PCM sound device for every program.

I've managed to create an installer for Ubuntu, which I'll upload and submit a link to you guys as soon as my web host sorts out its RAID issues. The debian installer is a lot nicer than just a folder of binaries.

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The Linux binary works! I am so happy! There are a few problems with it in Ubuntu though:

1. Each time I am eliminated, until I respawn, the game dims. Not the whole screen, as I can still see my mask, team scores, and other things. But the environment blacks out.

2. PBall doesn't let me specify the audio device. Since I'm running this on a MacBook, I have to use PCM as the audio device or I can't control the volume--my roommate gets annoyed by the sound effects.

3. I think I was downloading a modified Shazzam map when PBall crashed. Though I had saved my configuration multiple times before starting the download, the conf. wasn't really saved. Upon restarting PBall, I had to reconfigure everything again. So 1) There's an element in that map which can crash PBall, and 2) The Save button doesn't really save immediately.

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Bugs, Feature Requests, and Feedback / crosshair/fire mismatch
« on: July 15, 2006, 06:57:49 PM »
The crosshair is not where the paintball hits, even right at an object. See attachmented screenshot.

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