Balle elma server bug reports

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 23 Jan 2007, 14:15

please report all bugs here

so far known bugs:
1. it freezes sometimes (i'll do some version where it will save the status every frame into some binary file and then i'll ez fix that)
2. some balleconf needed

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 25 Jan 2007, 11:16

ok bugs seem to be fixed, there are some other might-be bugs

1. it takes more PCXs when dumping - I think this is cause by window mode

2. some bug 00422d appeared a few times but not since I uploaded last version, if someone get any bug like that, report it here, I'll take a look

3. kd got some bug inside DLL, that might have been fixed, case it happened in some not really debugged version

anything else?

A.K.B. · Post by **A.K.B.** » 25 Jan 2007, 12:38

Occasionally mine freezes up for a second or two, really bad when like this: "was about to make Steppes WR with 9:xx but then freezE??!! OmFg?!?!"

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 25 Jan 2007, 13:07

so that crash before was caused by elma because it cant show kuski exactly in the middle of the turn or middle of handshaking
it happens very rarely in normal elma (but does) because time is double variable and its simply not very probable (i can fix it though)
in balle elma it happened because event data from other kuskis were packed to a few bits (4 + 4)

with that lagging :
there was one bug in odl version that caused sending data every frame (could be 1000fps) and server didn't really make it
SO IF THERE'S ANYONE STILL USING OLD VERSION, DOWNLOAD NEW ONE, OTHERWISE YOU CAN BE AN ASSHOLE KILLING OTHER'S FUN!

wjelo · Post by **wjelo** » 25 Jan 2007, 17:06

dunno if it's a bug or other shit but i kinda dont see right colours of teh custom shirts of ppl (somehow they get inverted or whatever- bright colours go dark and so on)

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 25 Jan 2007, 17:07

use default lgr or convert those bmps to your palette somehow

ElToto · Post by **ElToto** » 25 Jan 2007, 17:46

don't know if it can help you wieloryb, but i know that the background color of the picture, which is transparent in elma, is given by the left top corner pixel color of the picture.
so check that pixel's color

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 25 Jan 2007, 17:48

ElToto wrote:don't know if it can help you wieloryb, but i know that the background color of the picture, which is transparent in elma, is given by the left top corner pixel color of the picture.
so check that pixel's color

the problem is that highw.lgr there

wjelo · Post by **wjelo** » 25 Jan 2007, 18:44

now it's like a...

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 25 Jan 2007, 18:50

i guess the rest of the players are ok
you should have same paletter in the bmp as original bmp, ask some other guys how did they do the bmp, i havent done any yet

insane guy · Post by **insane guy** » 25 Jan 2007, 21:57

it accured to me twice that suddenly when i press "Play Again" that i was completely alone in the lev. That could be fixed by restarting elma.

It hapenend to me for several times (i think it hapenend a lot more often but i didnt recognize) that i didnt see one specific player until i restarted elma.

Otherwise (it has been said a thousand times in the last days) this is great fun!!!!

insguy

Sla · Post by **Sla** » 26 Jan 2007, 00:49

wieloryb wrote:now it's like a...

I think that the file bmp must weigh 16.x kb. When I did my bmp it was weighing 44.x kb and it was like your bmp. Later I did it again, it was weighing 16.x and worked perfectly.
Sorry for my bad english

Really nice work Mila, you are the best!

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 26 Jan 2007, 10:26

insane guy wrote:it accured to me twice that suddenly when i press "Play Again" that i was completely alone in the lev. That could be fixed by restarting elma.

the problem is that 'level played' is sent through tcp so it won't get lost, but it's much slower, and if it gets lost (there are some aknovledgements), it's resend automatically..
so if it gets lost, it takes a few secs till it's there, I had the same problem a few times and always thoe kuskis appeared after 10-20s
i might send that msg as udp and resend automatically each 20 frames..

culinko · Post by **culinko** » 26 Jan 2007, 12:36

milagros wrote: 1. it takes more PCXs when dumping - I think this is cause by window mode
anything else?

layer...i har fullscreen mode and it took 2 or 3 pcx'

and once when i started elma i had error message "SetDisplayMode (setresdd) did not succeed!
" and elma didn't start. it saved this msg to error.txt inside elma folder. but it happened only once

this happened in earlier version, before debugging, so i dunno if it is fixed now

edit: tested newest bs9 and it took 2 screenshots in fullscreen

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 26 Jan 2007, 14:19

CuLiNo wrote:
milagros wrote:edit: tested newest bs9 and it took 2 screenshots in fullscreen

just to make things clear :
in fullscreen mode pcx dump takes much more than in window mode
in old computers it took a secs or two so you always took one pic
in new computers if it's pretty fast, then it takes more pics, the better comp the more
and in window mode it takes more almost always becasue the dump is faster
it has nothing to do with this patch (i guess)

veezay · Post by **veezay** » 27 Jan 2007, 03:00

milagros wrote: in fullscreen mode pcx dump takes much more than in window mode
in old computers it took a secs or two so you always took one pic
in new computers if it's pretty fast, then it takes more pics, the better comp the more
and in window mode it takes more almost always becasue the dump is faster
it has nothing to do with this patch (i guess)

i wonder why "offline" elma 1.2 saved only one .pcx while ballelma saved 2, both 1024x768 fullscreen.

btw would it be pasibel to do .png instead of .pcx?

Kale · Post by **Kale** » 27 Jan 2007, 16:10

this is what happened:

I drove some laps in JEA2.lev, then swapped to steppes. And that's what i got. I think thats just some rare bug but anyway.

A.K.B. · Post by **A.K.B.** » 27 Jan 2007, 16:20

I've had that a few times as well.

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 27 Jan 2007, 17:04

ez corrupted packet, im not testing it at all, would require more bytes

DaFred · Post by **DaFred** » 29 Jan 2007, 13:05

I dont think it happens often but yesterday we played downhill and on my computer I was the one who was first but on palmes computer he was first.
And we started always when he turns 3 times. On my computer we started at the same time but on palmes I was starting 2 seconds later!?

Is that a bug or just a connection problem?

A few mins later everything was ok!

(And thanks for this greate version =) )

Juski · Post by **Juski** » 29 Jan 2007, 13:14

DaFred: did you expect your connection to have 0 ms ping?

DaFred · Post by **DaFred** » 29 Jan 2007, 15:37

No I haven't ;p
Normaly my ping is like 30ms (fastpath) and so I was wondering.
But I think you're right and some guy in my house has downloaded something.

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 29 Jan 2007, 16:51

you see others from the past and now its set to quite high value (375-500ms) so it runs smooth
this value wasnt ever changed (no tries) so it might be possible to lower it a few times
the min working value will be set when we move to jcl's server

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 26 Feb 2007, 23:06

list of reported bugs, requested changes and possible updates

bugs :
1. sometimes it's possible to spy others on other level (kd reported, I wasn't able to recreate) - should be fixed, dunno whats the problem
2. lists are doubled if connection crashed and you restarted elma till ping timeout. It's because data for different users are not recognizable yet - not really necessary to fix (add id to message - might be same for 1.)
3. kuski is twice in the list if elma crashed or he restarted - no need to fix
4. elma sometimes crashes - i'll increase the tolerance around 0.5 in turn to non-zero - should be fixed
5. lists have more columns one line before they should and last column is empty (i reported, noone else noticed

) - should be fixed - ez

requested changes :
1. first flower rename to first finish - ez
2. add same countdown for that first finish as for one-life balle - ez
3. add password check (after reg site is done) - ez, but need to implement some crypting
4. setup ftp for lev files - ez if i get the ftp site

possible updates :
1. autosave best balle rec file and do up/download via ftp - hmmm complicated
2. chat - even more complicated
3. add balle queue (or only one next balle) - ez
4. key to free fifnished times list
5. widescreen elmaconf

add anything you want... elma project is now 'on hold', i just started some other, but i might find a few minutes to do some changes over the weekends

ZeCone · Post by **ZeCone** » 27 Feb 2007, 16:26

Is it supposed to be liek this, with no ip showing, coz when im trying to start belma i just get a gray screen and nothing happens, then when i check the log file it says 'tcp connect error', so i guess it's not supposed to be liek this :/

dz · Post by dz » 27 Feb 2007, 16:42

The server is not working at the moment so I guess it's normal.

ZeCone · Post by **ZeCone** » 27 Feb 2007, 16:46

It was liek that when the server was up also...

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 27 Feb 2007, 20:48

ZeCone wrote:It was liek that when the server was up also...

there should be ip written.. i guess everybody else sees some

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 27 Feb 2007, 22:26

milagros wrote:list of reported bugs, requested changes and possible updates

bugs :
1. sometimes it's possible to spy others on other level (kd reported, I wasn't able to recreate) - should be fixed, dunno whats the problem
2. lists are doubled if connection crashed and you restarted elma till ping timeout. It's because data for different users are not recognizable yet - not really necessary to fix (add id to message - might be same for 1.)
3. kuski is twice in the list if elma crashed or he restarted - no need to fix
4. elma sometimes crashes - i'll increase the tolerance around 0.5 in turn to non-zero - should be fixed
5. lists have more columns one line before they should and last column is empty (i reported, noone else noticed ) - should be fixed - ez

requested changes :
1. first flower rename to first finish - ez
2. add same countdown for that first finish as for one-life balle - ez
3. add password check (after reg site is done) - ez, but need to implement some crypting
4. setup ftp for lev files - ez if i get the ftp site

possible updates :
1. autosave best balle rec file and do up/download via ftp - hmmm complicated
2. chat - even more complicated
3. add balle queue (or only one next balle) - ez
4. key to free finished times list
5. widescreen elmaconf

add anything you want... elma project is now 'on hold', i just started some other, but i might find a few minutes to do some changes over the weekends

bugs fixed 1., 4., 5. (2., 3. no need to fix)
requested changes 1., 2. added (will try ftp when upload)
possible updates 4.done - f8 key

new possible updates
6. irc announcement about balle
7. combinations of balles (onelife novolt, ..)

Kopaka · Post by **Kopaka** » 1 Mar 2007, 14:51

I wonder why you made it on the beta version and not the very final with normal intro pic.

8-ball · Post by **8-ball** » 1 Mar 2007, 14:57

Kopaka wrote:I wonder why you made it on the beta version and not the very final with normal intro pic.

huh?

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 1 Mar 2007, 15:47

Kopaka wrote:I wonder why you made it on the beta version and not the very final with normal intro pic.

it's done on very final

Memphis · Post by **Memphis** » 1 Mar 2007, 16:56

When me ciph and a few others were playing I set up a battle first to finnish the lvl on internal and I was the first to finnish on headbanger because everyone else kept going down pipe and when i hit f6 and at the end of the battle there was no results. Not sure if that is supposed to happen or not. Anyway Im loving ballelma! Can you save replays on ballelma?

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 1 Mar 2007, 17:01

Memphis wrote:When me ciph and a few others were playing I set up a battle first to finnish the lvl on internal and I was the first to finnish on headbanger because everyone else kept going down pipe and when i hit f6 and at the end of the battle there was no results. Not sure if that is supposed to happen or not. Anyway Im loving ballelma! Can you save replays on ballelma?

i remember when the server crashed (someone restarted jcl's server and didnt restart ballema) during your balle a few days ago (and didn;t work for whole day till i got home)
dunno what was the problem with results, i played a lot and didnt have any problems
you can't save replay of all players in ballelma (yet), you can save your run same as before

Memphis · Post by **Memphis** » 2 Mar 2007, 01:39

ya it was just that one scenario that it didn't show the results when i hit f6. anyway mali i'd like to congratulate you on making this program and tell you how great it is. Kinda gives the elasto game new life and i can't even think about how you made the program. Must have taken a lot of skill, time and effort. Anyway thanks again.

Kopaka · Post by **Kopaka** » 2 Mar 2007, 10:01

Well I get the beta intro screen :I

skint0r · Post by **skint0r** » 2 Mar 2007, 10:47

Most likely because your res directory contained the beta files.

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 2 Mar 2007, 14:37

Memphis wrote:ya it was just that one scenario that it didn't show the results when i hit f6. anyway mali i'd like to congratulate you on making this program and tell you how great it is. Kinda gives the elasto game new life and i can't even think about how you made the program. Must have taken a lot of skill, time and effort. Anyway thanks again.

some skills are needed but wasn't really hard, I guess many would do it if they really try
took around 2 weeks to get it to work and then month to add all those stats, balles and stuff, a bit more than I've expected
it was quite fun:)

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 4 Mar 2007, 18:05

fixed bug with across levs - wasnt possible to start balle with those
one other minor bug reported - map should be centered two when spying kuski or turn same way(centered easier, no need to change messages)
also found one balle bug that allow players to cheat, tested worked, deleted 'time' from db, might be fixed in some other version (nobody else knows yet)

Lukazz · Post by **Lukazz** » 4 Mar 2007, 19:40

no bug, but it would be nice if you could only see the dude you are spying, and not all the other's, that's extremely annoying on short levels.

niN · Post by **niN** » 4 Mar 2007, 19:52

Disagree, press the F1 if you don't wanna see them..

EDIT:
Just got ya

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 17 Mar 2007, 17:58

possible update list :

bugs :
1. dont show someone twice if he crashes and reconnects (ez when password done and impsy two players with same nick)
2. no empty positions - possible but will take a while to do
3. fix elma crash - possible but not that ez
4. fix possibility to ez cheat in balles, luckily noone noticed how.. will tell after its fixed
5. change ip box in cfg prog so it will work in all windows and also in linux
6. show also 0 apples in the results

updates :
1. irc bot on the server that says balle starts, who's online, results
2. chat
3. automatic best balle rec saving and non automatic upload/download to ftp of rec file
4. widescreen elmaconf
5. always brake / always throttle balles
6. possibility to combine balle types - onelife no brake, ..
7. password checking - after skint0r is done with site
8. clean top10 in lev file when uploading to the ftp (optional)

dz · Post by dz » 17 Mar 2007, 23:19

That list looks very delicious.

A.K.B. · Post by **A.K.B.** » 18 Mar 2007, 00:31

ye, fix that ez cheat in balles, because even I learned how to to that.

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 18 Mar 2007, 12:03

A.K.B. wrote:ye, fix that ez cheat in balles, because even I learned how to to that.

have you? let me know in irc..

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 18 Mar 2007, 23:25

A.K.B. wrote:ye, fix that ez cheat in balles, because even I learned how to to that.

if you mean by changing internals, then that's not it, you can't cheat in balles with that - diff lev crc

dz · Post by dz » 19 Mar 2007, 16:14

Long time ago I saw him having 19,93 on Uphill Battle. Maybe that was it?

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 25 Mar 2007, 16:41

dz wrote:Long time ago I saw him having 19,93 on Uphill Battle. Maybe that was it?

no, you cant cheat with that in balle, different crc of the lev (he changed internal in elma.res with soem hib's prog)
talli found one new bug - when you play balle with hidden others, it crashes if you press f2, will fix later

A.K.B. · Post by **A.K.B.** » 26 Mar 2007, 07:35

okiz, then cheat i not

but why cheat i do says everybody else?

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 8 Apr 2007, 00:45

btw jaytea got it (grats) so it should be fixed some day
dont tell anyone:)