Wierd player shadow.

#1 Sounds like corruption. What you're seeing is probably the framebuffer.

#2 thanks for the rply.

I don't know what that means or how to fix it?

What to do?

#3 www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/84943

First bug on the page, including a fix!

-Dan

#4 Thanks Dan,

Unfortunately it isn't the bug I'm referring to.
The fix doesn't fix.

#5 my problem

[IMG]http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1305/picture1asu.th.png[/IMG]

#6 Try pinging Alex S. on it? He's the Mac guru around the Garage. He's probably really busy right now with GDC and all that, but it doesn't hurt to try. :)

#7 That screenshot is consistent with what the fix is supposed to, well, fix.

What graphics card do you have, and what version of OS X are you running?

#8

OS X version 10.5.6
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

after I change:

GFXGLTextureInternalFormat[GFXFormatD16] = GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16;

to:

GFXGLTextureInternalFormat[GFXFormatD16] = GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT;

in the gfxGLEnumTranslate.cpp and save it, is there anything else I need to do?

Thanks Stefan and Alex

#9

Quote:
after I change:

[...]

in the gfxGLEnumTranslate.cpp and save it, is there anything else I need to do?

Sorry if it's a stupid question, but are you re-compiling after you make the change?

#10 Definatly don't forget to recompile. ;)

#11 What I'm doing is opening the template build file in xcode,

searching for the gfxGLEnumTranslate.cpp file,

deleting the 16 from the line-
"GFXGLTextureInternalFormat[GFXFormatD16] = GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16;"

Then right clicking on the gfxGLEnumTranslate.cpp file and selecting "compile".

When it is all done it says "build succeded", then I launch template and... no change.

If I choose build and go it crashes and says something about how the textures need to be the same dimension or something.

If I just open the template build file in xcode and choose build and go I get the same crash and errors.

"build failed (338 errors 1 warning)"

#12 Okay, I'm sorta new to XCode too but I'm guessing that right-clicking on the cpp file and doing compile is just compiling an object file for that cpp and not building the executable.

That silly cubemap assert is annoying, I took it out of there, but instead of doing Build & Go, just go to the Build menu and choose Build, that should build the executable. It should build with the name Template_DEBUG in your game folder.

If you get errors on the build you'll have to look at the errors and see what they are :P

#13 Sweet Gerald.

MAC:
Bad shadows?
[IMG]http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1305/picture1asu.th.png[/IMG]

In Xcode:
Open TorqueGameEngineAdvancedSDK-Mac-1-8-1/Projects/Template(or yourgame)/buildFiles/Xcode/Template.xcodeproj...

Search "gfxGLEnumTranslate.cpp" find the line:
GFXGLTextureInternalFormat[GFXFormatD16] = GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16;

change it to:
GFXGLTextureInternalFormat[GFXFormatD16] = GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT;

Choose "Build" from the file menu and choose "Build" (not build and go).

Find and launch ...Projects/Template(or yourgame)/Game/Template_DEBUG (or yourgame_debug).

Ignore the cubemap assert:
[IMG]http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/4803/picture2f.th.png[/IMG]
by clicking "cancel" then "cancel" again.

Your shadows "should" be fixed:
[IMG]http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6033/picture3d.th.png[/IMG]

Thanks everyone.

#14 How do i get rid of the cubemap assert which opens upon launch?
[IMG]http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/4803/picture2f.th.png[/IMG]

#15 Open gfx/gl/gfxGLCubemap.cpp and find the line that reads:

AssertFatal((faces[i]->getWidth() == reqWidth) && (faces[i]->getHeight() == reqHeight), "GFXGLCubemap::fillCubeFaces - All textures must have identical dimensions!");

in GFXGLCubemap::fillCubeTextures.

And just comment out that line.

#16 Thanks Gerald.

Is this the best way to fix this problem or are there other ways?

#17 I think the problem is that one of the textures for the default skybox is 256x256 while the rest are 1024x1024. I haven't bothered trying it yet, but I suspect that if you resize data/skies/skybox_5.jpg to 1024x1024 it will shut up too. I really don't know what the implications are for the assert, since the skybox seems to work fine if you ignore it, but there must be some reason for it, so resizing the image is probably the safest bet.

#18 The skybox cubemap is used for water, not for the skybox.

All cubemap faces must be the same dimension, otherwise the cubemap is invalid and probably won't work.

#19 Do I need to change the cubemap face dimensions somewhere?
Why is the cubemap yelling at me?
Should I comment it out?

#20 I actually posted about this but it's the sky_z_neg.jpg texture that's 4x4 whereas the others are 256x256, I just resized that jpg and no more assert.