Erg, sorry about that! :o Do you have the same effect from any of the other Xith demos?
Kev
So far this is the only one that has done that.
Damn it! 
I wonder what it could be. The demo only uses geometry and directional lighting…
Any of the Xith gurus have any ideas?
Kev
Huh, Suse9.0, NVidia 4800…all was running great with last demo (birdless one). It works now, but I cannot see FPS if I’m not jumping, and if I AM jumping on the screen with bird and that ugly oneeyed alien, well, very strange effect happens, part of screen pointing at my jumping direction becomes disorted. When just walking around, works fine. Would send you screen capture, if I could just find out how.
[quote]Would send you screen capture, if I could just find out how.
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Gimp.
Cool!
Runs perfect - Toshiba Satellite S5100-503, WinXP Home, GeF 440Go 32Mb, 1600x1200, 16bpp.
Yuri
[quote]Would send you screen capture, if I could just find out how.
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Atleast on redhat 9 when you press prtscn (or whatever it’s called on your keyboard) you get at nice looking “save screenshot as” dialog. This plus Gimp [as Jens pointed out earlier] should be enough 
If you won’t get the dialog you could use “copy clipboard into new image” directly from within gimp instead!
EDIT: I get the same as above btw
Seems like its something to do with Linux then… um… er… but the first version worked for some people on linux?
Kev
The first version worked for me.
worked for me too. Havn’t tested second version yet.
Will.
Guys, I do know how to take a screenshot, I just couldn’t figure out where/how to upload it :). Yep, Jens screenshot is what I get too. First version worked fine. That efect happens only when I’m jumping, and only when other two caraceters are visible (bird and oneeyed alien). When those two are out of the picture, everything works fine.
Thanks for the info, that points the finger squarely at my MD2 Loader ;D. I’ll attempt to fix it up tonight, I uploaded some new bits last night, however, I also noticed I’m only getting about 30 fps on my old GF2.
The hard restart I have to figure is a JOGL related issue since I can’t image how the high level application code could cause this.
Oh, has anyone seen the wierd effect (as seen by Selendic and Jens) on anything other than Linux?
Kev
On Solaris 8
Error:Couldn’t load resource blahmumbleblah jogl-solsparc.jar
Yeah, sorry about that, I took the solaris jogl support out. Must have forgotten to up the JNLP on the server…
I’ll attempt to put the support back in tonight,
Kev
Hi,
same effects like selendic.
SuSe 9.0 Nvidia 4200
About 170 fps
iiyama
Looks like this is going to be my project for a while.
Going to attempt to get a linux box up and running on the weekend, so I should hopefully make some progress on the bug. Although, I can’t quite see anywhere to start other than trying to see it myself. Can’t imagine what might be going on in linux.
Kev
[quote]Going to attempt to get a linux box up and running on the weekend, so I should hopefully make some progress on the bug.
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That’s a good idea.
Since Java apps should run on any (Java enabled) platform it’s a good idea to make this platform neutrality real right from the start of project. I’m wondering that a few (other) Java developers aren’t that sensible…
Btw there are some nice “Boot Linux from one CD” distributions (no harddisc partitioning). My favorite being Knoppix: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix
(If it’s still closed due to software patents there’s a clickable URL on the frontpage to go the old index)
Newer versions of such distributions allow the user to store the HOME dir on a writable device or mini swap partition.
However, I guess you already know all this, and furthermore I’m not fit with Linux either.
Hey all,
In case anyone’s interested there’s a new version of the demo/game here:
http://www.newdawnsoftware.com/martian/jnlp/martian.jnlp
It should be about twice as fast. Unfortunatly I’ve still not managed to set up a linux box to test out the bug, however the MD2 loader has moved over to using Morph nodes so the bug might have disappeared along the way.
I’m afraid I’ve moved the webstart to a new location which means re-downloading a bunch of stuff. This was to leave the old version intact.
If anyone who had the bug before could check to see if its gone I’d appreciate it.
Kev
EDIT: Fix URL
The link is currently dead.
Apologies, it should have been :-[ :
http://www.newdawnsoftware.com/martian/jnlp/martian.jnlp
I’ll edit it above also just to make life easier.
Kev
EDIT: Add smiley