Particle's Custom RPG

General => Common Topic Symposium => Topic started by: Newbie on March 4, 2003 11:17 pm CST

Title: Map Editing Question
Post by: Newbie on March 4, 2003 11:17 pm CST

I have a really important question.  How come everytime someone trys to join my server with my custom map, their Tribes crashes?  No.. It's not the RPGbutch5 problem.. it has to do with their Tribes.  Some people can connect though, I've asked a couple of people to test it out for me.. Some said that they could join, and others said their Tribes crashed.  Could this be because I have to many items, zones, spawnpoints... etc ?  Please help me out on this one.

::Edit:: It's up right now and will be for the rest of the night and morning "Dave's Custom Map".  If you could please try to connect, and tell me what the problem is.. then I would be appreciative  (LvL 4 admin is "shazbot")

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Post by: Nastas-DD on March 4, 2003 11:28 pm CST

if i were on my other comp, id know what...
but this things a piece of malarkey...
barely handles particles server

baah
takes ten mins to load parts server

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Post by: EVIL_INC on March 4, 2003 11:37 pm CST

I was able to join without any problem.

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Post by: Newbie on March 4, 2003 11:42 pm CST

Hmmm, shorty couldn't join.. Maybe its a video card problem


Evil, did you have your Vid car on when joining?

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Post by: EVIL_INC on March 4, 2003 11:54 pm CST

oh. no, i always leave it off for rpg.
But i went and retried it with my vidio card turned on.
I was still able to join. it lagged a little bit, but i was able to go on.

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Post by: Newbie on March 5, 2003 12:03 am CST

Thanks, I still wish I knew what the problem was though.. *sigh*

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Post by: Knyght on March 5, 2003 06:57 am CST

Quote from: "Newbie"

Hmmm, shorty couldn't join.. Maybe its a video card problem


Evil, did you have your Vid car on when joining?

What exactly do you mean by did he have his video card on???

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Post by: UnderGod on March 5, 2003 07:16 am CST

There are rumors that if the map gets past a certain size, it will overload the buffers and crash..

But then again.. The computers a few years ago weren't as good as today's.

Probably the only people who could connect would be the people who have tweaked settings..

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Post by: Darwin on March 5, 2003 01:45 pm CST

Tribes just has malarkeyty coding.  Thats all.  All those missing "]" mess it up.

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Post by: Newbie on March 5, 2003 04:31 pm CST

Quote from: "UnderGod"

But then again.. The computers a few years ago weren't as good as today's.

Probably the only people who could connect would be the people who have tweaked settings..

..Yeah, the only people that could connect where those with good computers and video cards...

Knyght, What I meant was, was it in Open GL..   Sorry, should have been a bit more specific.

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Post by: eViL on March 5, 2003 05:33 pm CST

not true oz =).

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Post by: UnderGod on March 5, 2003 06:46 pm CST

It wasn't anything that could be justified as true or not true...

I have never made a map that does that. I was just stating rumors I heard, and a possible reason why.

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Post by: EVIL_INC on March 5, 2003 06:48 pm CST

I dont know for sure how true/untrue that subject is. I have a decent speed computer, but my 3d capabilities are pretty low on the best of days and I didnt have much trouble logging in.
Although, i DID get a touch of lag.

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Post by: Newbie on March 5, 2003 06:53 pm CST

..Do ya think it would help if I removed a zone.. and some items?


I do have this one zone "Keldrin Graveyard" and it has a bunch of gravestones.. and other things added to it.  Maybe that's why player's Tribes crashes when they connect


I dunno though, I had two other people on the server... and it seemed to work fine.

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Post by: UnderGod on March 5, 2003 06:55 pm CST

I know for a fact too many textures connecting together in one spot will crash it..

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Post by: Newbie on March 5, 2003 06:57 pm CST

Quote from: "UnderGod"

I know for a fact too many textures connecting together in one spot will crash it..

Thanks, I'm pretty sure that's the problem.




Evil, the reason you where getting lag was that I was playing on Particle's and hosting a server at the same time =P

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Post by: eViL on March 5, 2003 08:09 pm CST

Newbie, where did you learn to map?  because it must not have been on earth or anywhere remotely close to it...

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Post by: Newbie on March 5, 2003 08:25 pm CST

I taught myself how to map... I just alternate from the editor to the word document (I read the FAQ on the old RPG forums on how to edit, and taught myself)


You have me curious, if you're so good at map making, will you make a sample map for me so I can see?

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Post by: eViL on March 5, 2003 10:40 pm CST

ha, i love n00bs, never have any clue...

want a map, do this, create a shortcut to tribes, and make its target +edit Broadside, and theres a map for u.

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Post by: Newbie on March 5, 2003 11:19 pm CST

.....Riight

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Post by: eViL on March 5, 2003 11:20 pm CST

hey, you didn't give any specifications so i gave u a map.

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Post by: Newbie on March 5, 2003 11:52 pm CST

I don't feel like going into map editor with Broadside, that's like the dullest map ever....

You're such a neophyte.

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Post by: UnderGod on March 6, 2003 07:27 am CST

The TRPG map used to be broadside...

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Post by: NatasD-DD on March 6, 2003 10:18 am CST

Quote from: "Nastas-DD"

if i were on my other comp, id know what...
but this things a piece of crap...
barely handles particles server

baah
takes ten mins to load parts server

Who in Hell is Nastas-DD? Guess someone who wants to be just like me...

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Post by: Darwin on March 6, 2003 06:54 pm CST

You can use rpgbutch5 or whatever its called.  Dont be mean eViL.  Coalchamber had pretty much the same problem.