Bjossi on 15/10/2006 at 17:01
Kolya, even though most of those features are useless, they are still there, all that the author is doing is to make these features more accessible. I'd personally never use it, but could be useful for old farts that just can't get used to how SS2 was meant to be played, heh. :)
Kolya on 15/10/2006 at 17:02
When I last spoke to ToxicFrog (about two months ago) he was working on it.
Edit: Yeah Bjossi, I realise that it might be more of a useful program for some people than for me. So that was just my thoughts on it of course. ShockCFG in the current version lacks a killer feature. Something that can't be done better or the same way without going to unreasonable lengths.
ZylonBane on 15/10/2006 at 17:09
Quote Posted by Kolya
- respawning: Useless. We already know that the respawn variable in shock.cfg doesn't work reliable.
False. It is perfectly reliable. The caveat is that a very few AI ecologies aren't affected by it.
Kolya on 15/10/2006 at 17:13
Which makes the effect unreliable. Thank you, come again.
Bjossi on 15/10/2006 at 17:15
Well, at least it is somewhat reliable. ;)
Kolya on 15/10/2006 at 17:29
That's like somewhat pregnant.
Seriously, ZB has suffered at least as many newbies as me complaining about the respawn setting "not working". And we've been thru that ecologies talk many a times until Zygo made a mod to prevent this in future. So what's the point in being super pedantic here?
descenterace on 16/10/2006 at 05:36
Regarding the original topic:
CVS does per-file versioning. If you want a particular overall version... there is no such thing. You can either specify a date or hope someone tagged it. I used CVS a couple of years back and the system seems rather badly thought out. Maybe that's just me.
Subversion does per-commit versioning over the entire repo. Updating just one file will increment the version number of the whole repo; a single revision number can describe the state of the enitre source tree at a particular point in time.
I personally prefer Subversion. It's much easier to understand and work with than CVS.
There are two SVN repo database formats: BDB and FSFS. BDB used to have problems with locking which meant that, if an operation failed, it would cause subsequent operations to fail until the admin recovered it. This has been fixed in the latest release (1.4) making BDB an attractive format (due to speed) but I still prefer FSFS since it is more robust and does not involve the alteration of files containing previous revisions. Basically, if an earlier revision on FSFS is corrupt, you just copy that one file back from a backup instead of recovering the database and replaying transactions.
We use SVN at work. I'm in charge of backups and data recovery. The repo has gone down a few times in the past year, mainly due to hardware failures, but we've never lost anything, even when the repo server's disk died (shortly before I got these new responsibilities) and I discovered that the previous backup system did not, in fact, exist...
FSFS can endure a lot of punishment.
Cyberpunkgothic1 on 17/10/2006 at 21:58
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Originally posted by Vigil:So why didn't you say so to start with? That should be in the title of your thread if you want to solicit contributors.
I'm just looking for the files i have! but however:
I'm looking for programmers and translators! :cheeky:
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Originally posted by Kolya:- respawning: Useless.
respawning is reduced. :thumb:
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Originally posted by Kolya:- weapon degradation: IIRC ShockCFG has a slider setting for that which is nice. Setting it yourself in shock.cfg (gun_degrade_rate <0,0-1>) is still an option of course. And there's a mod by Zombe that came with the mod manager to set this to zero easily.
too since 1998 :bored:
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- Joystick: Useless.
yes!? for you!
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- Roger Wilco: Useless. Starts up Roger Wilco with SS2. Like you couldn't do that yourself or Alt-Tab.
why start it with alt-tab or by yourself when not only by once selecting!?
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- Intel 752/810 Chip's: If that's the dual-core setting, then that's nice for beginners who run into this problem. Salvage's solution is the alternative.
Intels 7xx/810 chips and dual-core are different things!
7xx/810 chips bug is disabled by shockcfg.
dual-core should be done by jens...
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- God Mode: Useless. Worst cheat ever. Takes the fun out of the game, cannot be turned off once saved.
once saved? what does that mean?
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- entering savegame names: Mildly useful.
only? its the same as the multiplayer option!
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Originally posted by Kolya:- screenshot viewer:
klick :thumb:
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Org by kolya:- change quicksave-slot and bind MP-messages to F-keys:
its tricky to program! mayby the programmer will get a systemshock2.de addy :angel:
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originally posted by kolya:It's not clear yet which settings can be changed for SS1
the same as in game and soundcards - how many soundcards are there?
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Originally posted by Bjossimeant to be played, heh.
slow!!!:cheeky:
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Originally posted by kolya:ShockCFG in the current version lacks a killer feature.
that's right! I thought about assinging f-keys to cheats, but that does not work :tsktsk:
the big thing is to become creative as fan and make artwork! :joke:
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descenteraceRegarding the original topic: ...
thanks for your statement!
the problem is that I dont have the time to read the open manual...
