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Howard Dortch's Forum Posts

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MSVC and cc filetypes Open another file up then switch back, did the same for me, close the fille then reopen it.... read more 11/29/2005 (11:02 am)
MSVC and cc filetypes Nm found it, Jason it's in vc6 directory called VC6.cc.compiling.reg thanks ben... read more 11/29/2005 (10:54 am)
MSVC and cc filetypes Ah yes that was the gig, been year and half ago. remind me which directory that can be found in plea... read more 11/29/2005 (10:48 am)
1.4 crash Yeah debug build on Win98. Win98 a problem? god I hope not I found the same issue in the bugs for... read more 11/29/2005 (10:45 am)
TorqueDemo.exe 1.4 illegal operation failure I made the change Jaimi suggested and now I get the error: FileStream::_read NULL Destination poi... read more 11/29/2005 (10:22 am)
TorqueDemo.exe 1.4 illegal operation failure Mine crashes exactly same place as Frankie... read more 11/29/2005 (10:10 am)
I didn't want anyone to miss this John are you going to create a full engine updated like you did before so we dont have to hand merge... read more 11/29/2005 (9:12 am)
Too many Lights It was set to 3 in all instances (find in files) for the whole project. /ponder... read more 11/28/2005 (1:45 pm)
Too many Lights You mean this? $pref::OpenGL::maxHardwareLights = "3";... read more 11/28/2005 (8:30 am)
Gun Animation The names you refer to are in ShapeBaseImageData as stateName[3] = "Fire"; ? The animation is name... read more 11/16/2005 (10:51 am)
Zip files Thanks for the reply, didn't find much using a search on this. So what yer saying is to have game/d... read more 11/14/2005 (8:46 am)
Soldier Pack quirk We got another little bug, when the character is exported with max 5 (only altered the base characte... read more 11/11/2005 (6:25 pm)
Caps Lock I see what you mean. However people are not used to doing things that way, my testers complain about... read more 11/11/2005 (12:53 pm)
Demo record and playback I can hear the entire game running in the background but the dialog is froze on the screen and the m... read more 11/08/2005 (6:27 pm)
Demo record and playback Well does anyone have a suggestion on how to debug it?... read more 11/08/2005 (4:46 pm)
Demo record and playback Please?... read more 11/08/2005 (2:18 pm)
Soldier Pack quirk Bump Any word on when this fix will be posted?... read more 11/08/2005 (2:18 pm)
Brave tree tank pack how to? I use the same ( winzip ) with the Jill pack and it all works ok, creates sub directories properly. ... read more 11/05/2005 (8:44 pm)
Brave tree tank pack how to? I had to download this again and when I unzipped it put everything in one directory with no subdirec... read more 11/05/2005 (5:44 pm)
Flicker in full screen Thanks for the response Stefan. Any ideas where to start looking? I have it happening on 2 different... read more 11/03/2005 (1:46 pm)
Flicker in full screen I wrote an app in DirectX full screen and didn't get any interruptions hence the question.... read more 11/03/2005 (8:35 am)
Demo record and playback Bump, any devs tell us if this is broke?... read more 11/02/2005 (4:56 pm)
Soldier Pack quirk So Josh have we reached "the next day or so" time frame for update?... read more 10/29/2005 (7:01 pm)
RigidShape shadow John U duh man! thanks... read more 10/04/2005 (6:37 am)
RigidShape shadow I made no changes to the resource. He mentions the derivation in the text. I might mention this is i... read more 10/02/2005 (4:35 pm)
Soldier Pack quirk I have the soldier pack and have a couple problems other than the gun pointing the wrong direction. ... read more 09/29/2005 (9:28 am)
Soldier re-export That worked, thanks.... read more 09/29/2005 (8:35 am)
DTS to DIF shadow problem If the light on the wall on the left is the actual light wouldn't the picture above the character ha... read more 09/28/2005 (1:43 pm)
FindFirstFile Yeah I do this SM_missionList.sort(0,true);... read more 09/28/2005 (11:48 am)
FindFirstFile SM_missionList is an array of sorts since I can index them. Another quirk is the SM_missionList::... read more 09/28/2005 (11:05 am)
MissionCleanup Bump. Another question here. When you create an object and use MissionCleanup.add(%obj) and later de... read more 09/26/2005 (7:10 am)
CommandToClient Crash This turns out not to be a problem, it just happens to be at this point in the code when another fun... read more 09/26/2005 (6:47 am)
UpdateCollision crash The schedule 0,0 doesn't solve the problem, still crashes. I have to bump that value up some like 10... read more 09/26/2005 (6:44 am)
UpdateCollision crash That seemed to work but I had to use 100ms delay. Someone there should really look in to the destruc... read more 09/24/2005 (8:02 am)
Engine Freaking Out Yes Ben the clocks have been affected but I can't remember now how. They invormed me during the 64bi... read more 09/24/2005 (7:59 am)
Get object ID from name Thanks Jacob.... read more 09/24/2005 (7:13 am)
Engine Freaking Out Those 64bit systems are a bit finikey with AGP system board drivers so be sure those are working pro... read more 09/23/2005 (4:17 pm)
Lightning sound I did that but none of the problems I found related.... read more 09/21/2005 (8:34 am)
Debris As the host, same computer same program. The rest of the game runs fine just wont create a Debris. Y... read more 09/12/2005 (5:54 pm)
Debris NetConnection* conn = NetConnection::getServerConnection(); returns 0 and exits... read more 09/12/2005 (9:02 am)
Debris Yeah I'd like to think that too. Here is what it looks like. datablock DebrisData(FireDebris) { ... read more 09/11/2005 (7:24 pm)
QuerySingleServer When you check for server on the lan it returns with "No Servers Found" Why doesn't querySingleServe... read more 08/30/2005 (2:35 pm)
QuerySingleServer Thanks Ben I havent been around computers much so wasn't sure what a crash was.... read more 08/30/2005 (2:19 pm)
QuerySingleServer Ok here is what I have this is called from a button press in the gui: function JoinServerGui::... read more 08/29/2005 (12:15 pm)
IP address from Join I now have an edit box that the user can put in the ip address of the server and it works great with... read more 08/29/2005 (9:25 am)
QuerySingleServer Bump this. I cant help believe there is a function that will return a failure mode or a structur... read more 08/29/2005 (8:55 am)
OpenWebBrowser @Mike I may try that just to see it work. @Philip other applications I have open the browser. Word ... read more 08/25/2005 (11:42 am)
OpenWebBrowser All I have is Name:(Default) and Data ""C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -nohome" ... read more 08/25/2005 (10:07 am)
OpenWebBrowser This box has 98SE on it and yeah mis spell on the c:\ and iexplore, couldn't copy/paste from regedit... read more 08/25/2005 (9:05 am)
OpenWebBrowser My Registry entry is as follows HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\command ""C\PROGRA~1\INTERN~\i... read more 08/25/2005 (5:04 am)