User talk:Geyser

Hey Geyser

I sent you an email last week, perhaps you didn't get it.

I was wondering if you have time to take a look at the key binding issue with the OSX version of Oni where the RETURN and ENTER keys are disabled.

I've tried looking for the lookup table, but with no success.

Hope you are well,

EdT

^^

I've just turned twenty-f##king-six, and I'm in deep s##t.

Wiki maintenance is about the only hobby I'm allowing myself these days.

Your mail got lost in a heap of spam :

I may discontine the email address @oni2.net altogether in the near future.

There's still the other one I may have told you of.

I've checked out the last version of KP :

definitely a kick-ass proof of concept already,

but there's still much room for improvement.

Converters between FBX, SE3 and Oni are mostly planned out,

I just need to find myself with a free week or something

to actively code and debug it (easy to wish for, hard to get)

Dunno what Ky4yM is up for with his Java-based model/anim exporter

(like, what formats he'll interface with, when and if...)

I'll just try and document the way everything is stored

(basically just writing up Pierre's extracting code

in a human-readable way (thanks Pierre, BTW! ))

That would be my 2 cents for now,

active Oni 2 development will have to wait.

As for the key binding that OMNI screwed up and won't fix :

it's motivating to fix it up, but I can only succeed

if the table looks very much like the one on PC.

(I may even have to read up on Mac hardware a bit...)

If I come around to fix it, you'll be the first to know.

geyser 18:21, 24 November 2006 (CET)

Macs suck anyway ^^

geyser 18:21, 24 November 2006 (CET)

Almost said that KP still needs its coverage here on the wiki,

but perhaps you're not the right person to ask about that ^^

Take care

geyser 18:21, 24 November 2006 (CET)

I can see you have your hands full, lots of projects and things to do. I'm finding out more Mac Users are playing around with the Dev Mode and that's cool. (For awhile, I thought I was the only one).

Regarding the keybinding issue, can you make a screenshot of the PC lookup table, perhaps that could give me a clue. Something for me to try, until you have the time.

I know the "Mac version of Oni sucks" :-)

In the meantime, I've been having fun at the Oni Central Forums with the "Going places you are not supposed to" and "Trivia" threads.

Take care, don't let your age get you down. (This coming from a guy much older than you!)

EdT

Gee, how "much older" can you be? ^^

It's not my age that's getting me down,

but my lousy survival skills (sorta).

I'm having big trouble concentrating

on my professional life, even when

drastically cutting down on hobbies.

geyser 16:41, 25 November 2006 (CET)

I haven't checked on OCF at all since

my last post (two months ago? more?)

I'll be back as soon as I'm able. ^^

(more Dev Mode users is cool)

(more OTA players is cool, too)

I forwarded a Mac OTA fan to you this week...

(and I've written a new kick-ass core ^^ )

geyser 16:41, 25 November 2006 (CET)

As for key mapping, I really haven't

looked at it that much for a few months.

I may have to talk to SFeLi a bit,

he's not online much, and neither am I.

I have no Internet at home for the time being

and real-time Oni hacking at the office is,

well, not much of an option...

I'll see what I can do and let you know.

geyser 16:41, 25 November 2006 (CET)

How old am I? Have you seen my avatar? :-) Well maybe not that old...

Professional life... balancing it with hobbies can be hard. The solution is to have a 30 hour day, then you'll have enough time for everything. :-)

When you need to have the new OTA core tested on the Mac, let me know.

I got the email from the Mac OTA fan, he was trying to run the manplant script. I never got around to fixing it. So I just pointed him to the scripts on my site and that's the last I heard from him.

On OCF, we're doing silly but fun things, I just started a thread to find hidden rooms in the various levels and post screenshots of them. As you know some of those rooms where used for cutscenes, but othere are just there.

So Oni never gets old, there's always something new to do.

What! you mean at work they won't let you play????

I really appreciate your willingness to help with the Mac key binding issue.

EdT

P.S. how do you get the date stamp on your entries?

Hm, I sorta assumed you were one of the younger Oni fans ^^

Didn't expect anyone much older than myself, anyway.

(I know of a few exceptions, like Pierre, but I think they're rather rare)

I'm afraid I'll have to make an all different OTA core for you rebels, ^^

because my kick-ass functionality uses chr_focus a lot.

(basically, you focus to a remote "meta-character" every time you call up the menu)

Another limitation is that on PC we can watch show_performance and on Mac, we can't.

(calling up the menu with that built-in hotkey feels really good)

The show_performance-toggled menu is aimed at those who won't use the DevMode.

For those who will... we'll have to decide on what dev-mode variable we'll watch.

We should have a look at the few variables that are registered on the Mac (e.g., HERE)

and see which ones we can toggle with a dev-mode hotkey (hopefully ai2_showlocalmelee).

(you have to be careful about how you check on the state of a preset variable, though)

(on PC, at least, I got quite a headache before I got show_performance to work)

BTW, the functions are still underdocumented: HERE ^^

Oni never gets old: that's good to hear

(even if I don't think any of the hidden rooms would be much news to me ^^ )

As for the messed-up ENTER key, I'll really have to figure out just what to look for, first.

geyser 14:59, 27 November 2006 (CET)

I guess I'm still young at heart!

Oh well, I guess I can't enjoy the new OTA core until I get a new computer, probably sometime early next year.

Its kinda hard to test the functions since I can't use the console! :-)

Loser posted his melee patch on OCF, right now its for the striker_easy, but he intends to do more.

What's nice is that the patch works fine on the Mac.

EdT 04:56, 30 November 2006 (CET)

OMG, people are so spoiled... Did I have the console to help me do Oni Menu? ^^

RETURN doesn't work, but other dev mode hotkeys do, and that's all you need...

In order to actually know if they're detectable, you still have to actually script

load-time logic by hand : variable-watching forks, for one thing.

So the console doesn't really enter into it.

Unfortunately, I've done a bit of testing, and it looks like Ctrl+B

doesn't correspond to any script variable (I hoped for ai2_showlocalmelee)

That leaves cheatcode watching as the only alternative to direct hotkeys

(and autocompletion-powered console entries if we can fix RETURN)

Everyone should play Oni on PC, anyway.

geyser 17:55, 30 November 2006 (CET)

Like, I sat down and wrote a Rail Gun mode last night, that will only work on PC.

(crouching with a rifle makes you zoom in till you see the other end of the map)

It really rocks, but right now the plasma rifle is a lot more enjoyable than the MB

(I should add a long-range laser sight to the MB, and that means patched ONWC...)

It rocks so much it really makes me want to make a few squad missions.

(every member of the squad has special weapons and faculties : X-ray vision, sniper sight, reflex time, etc)

You can have none of that on Mac, because chr_focus is not registered.

(the Rail Gun mode relies on camera parameters (cm_...) and gs_fov_set)

geyser 17:55, 30 November 2006 (CET)

Loser's patch is good news (of course it works fine...).

There really oughta be a lot more of those BINA patches.

Alloc and I may craft a complete patch engine some time soon.

geyser 17:55, 30 November 2006 (CET)

Rail Gun mode sounds cool!

Hopefully early next year, I'll get an Intel Mac with XP, then I'll be able to enjoy Oni fully.

In the meantime, there's enough to do to keep me busy.

So keep coming up with new ways to play Oni!!!

EdT 00:05, 1 December 2006 (CET)

I was looking for the flag location information at:

http://geyser.oni2.net/OniTeamArena/flags/QuickList/

but I get a "not found" error message

Can you give me the correct URL?

EdT 02:06, 13 December 2006 (CET)

Late followup to the previous conversation:

On an Intel Mac, Oni should run fine with wine.

No XP needed, hopefully. Please try and report.

Rail Gun Mode truly rocks now. Whoo-ee.

All scripted, no ONWC modding required.

No Mac version though: that's a no-go...

I've had a look at the place in the English EXE where the SHIFT key was mistakenly mapped to mousebutton3.

and I'll be damned if I can see an array-like structure.

Actually, they are a bunch of ASM instructions here, another there...

SFeLi and his trusty disassembler were able to make some sense out of all that, but I'm helpless.

Things look even more bleak on Mac since we can't check conjectures.

Your only hope is a guy who can un-ASM the OSX port (SFeLi tried, but gave up because of the different format)

I'll try to catch SFeLi in ICQ, and ask him to "at least" try and find where RETURN is (not) mapped.

So, not much good news, eh? Don't cry. Have some wine instead ^^