despite Simon giving Ryoko textures that weren't from his project/his to give, the textures from Portal of Sigma are still legitimately from him and his team, yes? You buy a used stereo from a friend. "I've had it for years, but I'm upgrading," he says. Really good deal, you hand him the ...

Is this a signing issue or a sandbox issue? It's a sandbox issue. The binaries and disk images are fully signed and spctl claims everything is fine, but AFAICT, whenever Gatekeeper pops up a dialog box first, the app fails to launch. I assume something in the SDL startup is getting disrupted, but I...

Since you've said elsewhere that 1.4 will be about moving to a new graphics API (which probably won't be compatible with older hardware) is this a last call for OpenGL ideas? 1.4 won't necessarily drop any hardware compatibility. The libraries I'm evaluating for 1.4 provide a high-level API which g...

In 1.3b3, multiple keys are technically allowed by editing the XML preferences file. Unfortunately they will be reset if you enter the Controls preference dialog and click "Accept" there, so nobody can adjust mouse sensitivity, etc. without wiping out the multiple key bindings. Basically t...

Please test 1.3b3 This fixes several bugs with beta 2 (sorry, Windows metaserver players) and brings a few new items, including: The invincibility/teleport effect now glows when bloom is enabled. New mouse options for those who want a different mouse feel. Select "Classic" to get the same...

When Aleph One 1.3 comes out (or if you use the latest beta release), I recommend using Software mode over OpenGL. Set the resolution to 640x480, but you can leave it in fullscreen. Eventually, I'd like to add a "Classic" vs. "Enhanced" choice when you first run a scenario, to ma...

It has come to my attention that all of the starting terminals in Mararthon: Yuge (the bigliest scenario ever created) are broken in the beta version of AlephOne. They work just fine in the latest stable. The terminal code isn't finding a relevant group for the current level status. This suggests t...

Mouse: the "OS input" option is supposed to behave just like 1.2. A lot of the code was reworked to accommodate SDL 2, but I double-checked the scaling and acceleration code today, and it produces the same input flags given the same mouse-movement values. (There is one difference related ...

1.3b2 is out now, with (attempted) fixes for:

• No sound under Windows
• Broken Lua APIs including adjacent_polygons()
• Failure to launch when no theme is loaded
• Custom loading screen display
• Backwards scroll wheel behavior in lists
• Clip plane issues under Linux Mesa drivers

there's no longer separate horizontal and vertical mouse sensitivity!? Alas! IIRC the XML prefs are still there, you can edit them in text and they should stick as long as you don't use the Controls dialog. What values were you using before? Does this mean no using 3D models without the depth testi...

if I'm running/swimming while turning left, it switches me out of game to the desktop, and then control-right will switch me back. I'm guessing AO is using Spaces on OSX, which I don't really use Yep, that's it. You can go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control and turn off ...

Turns out the line in the shader which asks for clipping, was disabled due to a bug in old Mesa implementations. I took out that workaround and my Linux box no longer has untextured portals. Hopefully that fixes your machine too, treellama - it's the latest commit in master.

Classic renderer is indeed gone. Shader renderer handles both "3D perspective" options. SDL 2 brought features which required significant rewrites, plus all platforms are shifting from OpenGL to Metal or Vulkan, so maintaining two OpenGL-based renderers isn't feasible. Post-1.3, the focus ...

The Mac releases have been repackaged to address the code-signing issue. This isn't the first signed release (1.2.1 was signed), but several factors (including a bug on Apple's end ) broke the previous workflow. I'm still experiencing a problem running the applications directly from the disk image. ...

What's three years between friends?

Download from GitHub

UPDATE: 1.3b2 is now the latest.

Saving: You can reduce the number of unwanted saves in Preferences > Environment > Unnamed Saves to Keep. To keep a particular save forever, give it a name from the Continue dialog. The old behavior is no longer available. Brightness: Long story short, Apple broke the key brightness API we were usi...

Lj6014, do you see the same distortions if you turn off "Bloom Effects" and "Bump Mapping" in Preferences > Graphics > Rendering Options? I haven't seen this before, but it'd be helpful to know if either of those options are part of the problem.

Have you considered changing playback to instead just save the file as a standard video (mov, mkv, ogv, ect.). That will also make uploading youtube vids & live streams easier. Video export is such a good idea, I went back in time and added it to Aleph One a couple years ago. Hold down Option w...

reinstate nightly builds
i mean,
do your podcast

Of course weapon switching has been considered, along with a host of other actions that require additional keys. This could be done in a handful of lines of Lua, if you could bind additional keys to scripts. The issue is that the engine was built around a specific number of inputs and was not design...

The timed wait is built in: check "Penalize Dying" on the gather screen. (It's possible to build it in Lua, but this is simpler, if you're fine with the 10-second value.) Then you need to exit the game when all players are dead. Exiting the game from Lua is easy: you set "Game.over&qu...

See Asylum's work on Damage and PT.

when & how often do you play multiplayer? How often & when do other people play online? While it became semi-hidden in a site redesign, the metaserver home page includes a nice chart showing the busiest times of the week. You can also visit the game history section to see exactly when and h...

I don't know why anyone says this community is dead. Just look at all this activity lately. Once someone announces a contest we'll be back to the glory days.

PerseusSpartacus wrote:you should take this thread more seriously

mararthon w'rkncacnter is serious business
p.s. hopper + patrick 4-eva