New OpenBVE Build- Testers Please

Using your last auto generated build I still get some issues with Unload Unused Textures. When driving some textures appear white as they are approached and then render correctly when closer to the texture. Using F3 some of the time textures can turn white but at the camera position as well as further ahead along the route.

Timetable textures I can actually understand, and will see if I can fix.
The others, dunno- I managed to reproduce with one NWM routefile, and the new method solved that for me

Which routefile please?
(I'd like to take a closer look at the textures in use, and whether there are any animated objects in play)

This option is definitely becoming a pain in the neck.
Other than for testing purposes, please only enable if you need it, which AFAIK is *only* the Central Line on a Mac

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

leezer3 wrote:Other than for testing purposes, please only enable if you need it, which AFAIK is *only* the Central Line on a Mac

Does the Central Line (Latest) work on a Mac? I heard the plugin isn't compatible to run with it otherwise it actually works?

I haven't see issues with timetable textures because route I have run just have the default timetable. When I been testing my route (unreleased) it often been the same objects which are not animated objects. I get this with BWR 2015 "Ballyfeckin-Ballinamo 1A" route file and NWM "2006-2010 era\07.10 [323] Maybank-Riverside3car local". With that NWM route a large number of textures are affected. I have only used this option for testing.

Also I also mention that when testing the above NWM route that the program was stuck on loading at 78% and was fine I tried it again. The crash log is as the following:

24/03/2016 12:48:05 PM
OpenBVE 1.4.55.1003-travis Crash Log
Program is running on the Windows backend
Current screen resolution is: Windowed 900px X 600px
Current routefile is: C:\openbve\openbve Route and Train Content\Railway\Route\Network West Midlands 2014\2006-2010 era\07.10 [323] Maybank-Riverside3car local.csv
Current train is: C:\openbve\openbve Route and Train Content\Train\Cl323 3 car Refurb London Midland
The current routefile caused the following exception:
Failed to swap buffers for context 65537 current. Error: 6
Current program memory usage: 111.96mb
System memory free: 4987mb

I tested 1.4.29.1110 and it crashes on startup with

I tested on Brazilian Line 11 route, it has lots of big textures and animation. Btw I can make Russian translation 

This one?
http://superbvebrasil.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/linha-11-coral-v2.html?m=1

Will take a look later, probably my fault!

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

No crashes here
Are you sure you're on the most recent nightly build, as that build number is rather old?

http://vps.bvecornwall.co.uk/OpenBVE/Builds

Should be OpenBVE-2016-03-24.tar.gz
Build number should be 1.4.56.830-travis

If no luck, please open the UserData\Settings\ folder, and see if there are any crash log files- Post the most recent here.
(Note: On a default Windows install, you'll find this folder under C:\Users\**Your UserName**\AppData\Roaming\openBVE\UserData\Settings\)

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

leezer3 wrote:No crashes here
Are you sure you're on the most recent nightly build, as that build number is rather old?

Should be OpenBVE-2016-03-24.tar.gz
Build number should be 1.4.56.830-travis

If no luck, please open the UserData\Settings\ folder, and see if there are any crash log files- Post the most recent here.
(Note: On a default Windows install, you'll find this folder under C:\Users\**Your UserName**\AppData\Roaming\openBVE\UserData\Settings\)

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

Aw right, thanks    sorry for (probably?) false alarm, I just needed to scroll several pages to find the latest version and probably missed the link. Will test it and reply at once

Uhm... link to bve gives error 404

Trying again.....
http://vps.bvecornwall.co.uk/OpenBVE/Builds

Hi Leezer3

I just downloaded the latest version which is a .tar.gz and put the files into a folder in my OpenBve folder and tried running Openbve and it came up with these errors:




So i thought i would try the 2nd latest version on page 13 which is a .7Zip file and put them into a folder in my main Openbve folder and it worked perfectly so deleted the files and put the latest one in and it came up with these errors again  so not sure whats wrong probably something really simple my end i am not doing

Kind regards

Leyland1195

Oversight
Won't go into the technical details, but in the openBVE folder, there is a file named 'openBVE.exe.config'

Open this file with a text editor (Notepad etc.), and edit it's contents to the following:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<startup><supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/></startup>
<runtime><loadFromRemoteSources enabled="true"/></runtime>
</configuration>

That will fix that one.
I've also added the fix to the main source, so any builds with today's date or newer should be OK.

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

OK, so I've now found (I think....) the absolute root cause of the 'Unload Unused Textures' bug, and it's a little technical

Matt (You can reproduce easily!)-
Please can you try running with the following options:

• Unload Unused Textures==> On
  
• Disable OpenGL Display Lists==> On
  

I *think* that should now work without creating any white textures, but I'd appreciate confirmation before I set the options to work in that way.

A more technical explanation:
For certain types of static objects, openBVE can use OpenGL display lists in order to speed up rendering a little. These are created once when an object is shown.
Essentially they create a single batched set of geometry, which is calculated once, and then uploaded to the graphics card multiple times whilst the object is visible on-screen.
The existance of the textures in graphics memory is checked once when the batch is created, and not again, as they are then assumed to be present.

The current way 'Unload Unused Textures' works is to check the last access of the textures in openBVE's internal texture array, rather than in graphics memory.
Hence, it is currently possible for a texture to be accessed whilst in the graphics memory, but for this not to update the last access time

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

With those options all textures are displayed correctly with none shown as white.

leezer3 wrote:Trying again.....
http://vps.bvecornwall.co.uk/OpenBVE/Builds

Now works, thanks! Will test it and say what I get...

It works without problems (I used 2016-03-27 folder) in fullscreen mode. Also looked if that texture issue with objects like fences appear and it seems okay too. Good job!  I'm going to try bogie turn functions too soon

atimur wrote:It works without problems (I used 2016-03-27 folder) in fullscreen mode. Also looked if that texture issue with objects like fences appear and it seems okay too. Good job!  I'm going to try bogie turn functions too soon

'Proper' bogie turn functions are not yet complete, or in the current download
If you want to test them, you'll need to compile a copy of the branch 'BogieMotion' yourself.

Will let everyone know when they appear properly.

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

Note: This topic has been moved to the 'Sim In Time' section of the board, and a couple of stickies created

Please use this board for discussion of the current situation/ new development builds!

I'll leave this thread running for the moment, but I will try and create a new thread whenever a build with significant new features is created.

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

(sorry in advance if I'm writing in a wrong place)
I did some research and it turns out that bogie animated file (i.e. its frame and rotating axles) can't be attached into another .animated file of a car, it can take b3d/csv only, so if you write, for example:

Code:

[object]
States = bogie.animated
RotateYfunction = CurveRadius * 0.01

it'll throw an error and won't show models properly.
(Though I might be wrong about the latest build, I tested that on 1.4.5 by joeyfoo). Is it possible to implement "animated-in-animated" structure?

Joeyfoo's builds won't recognise the CurveRadius statement- That requires one of my nightlies

Animated files within animated files will also not work at present.
No real intentions of changing this at the moment- Requires a *lot* of complicated 3D maths to get right.

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

Out of curiosity, will there be any compression of add-on packages created by openBVE? This would ensure that download times are not excessively long.

Compression for packages created is zip (LZMA).
Not quite as good as is possible, but not bad at all.

It will (Should.....!) alternatively be possible to just add an appropriately formatted XML descriptor file to any existing archive and the extractor plugin to handle it.
Biggest problem at the minute is turning out to be file selection for adding to packages, as this is actually much more complicated than it looks!


Project name discussion split here:
https://bveworldwide.forumotion.com/t1267-project-name-etc

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

Feature request: Animated objects that can play sounds?

leezer3 wrote:Compression for packages created is zip (LZMA).
Not quite as good as is possible, but not bad at all.

It will (Should.....!) alternatively be possible to just add an appropriately formatted XML descriptor file to any existing archive and the extractor plugin to handle it.
Biggest problem at the minute is turning out to be file selection for adding to packages, as this is actually much more complicated than it looks!


Project name discussion split here:
https://bveworldwide.forumotion.com/t1267-project-name-etc

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

Thank you for the information!!! This feature would truly revolutionize the simulator, making it MUCH easier to install add-on content. The #1 issue I hear from people regarding program usage BY FAR is difficulties installing add-ons. Do you have an estimate on when this feature will be implemented?

Dj hammers wrote:Thank you for the information!!! This feature would truly revolutionize the simulator, making it MUCH easier to install add-on content. The #1 issue I hear from people regarding program usage BY FAR is difficulties installing add-ons. Do you have an estimate on when this feature will be implemented?

No, sorry

OK, so a few details on what actually is and isn't working at the minute:
Working:

• Package creation.
  
• Package install.
  
• Package uninstall.
  
• UI is *mostly* complete, but has a lot of issues to sort out.
  

Not Working:

• The basic framework for dependencies & recommendations is in place, but a lot of the UI is either incomplete or doesn't work perfectly.
  
• Adding files to a package is surprisingly hard- The route parser doesn't store a list of files anywhere, and this isn't really that helpful either, as different routefiles might want different objects. I've mostly been using a fixed path for testing purposes. 
  
• Extracting 'legacy' files- It's easy enough to detect an archive's contents and place them in the appropriate folder, but I haven't got that far yet- Sorry!
  
• Anything not mentioned as working  
  

The Github branch I've been developing this on is https://github.com/leezer3/OpenBVE/tree/PackageInstaller
I will also note that I've done 100% of my testing so-far on Windows. Things *should* translate to other operating systems, but until I've finished and tested this I make no promises.

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

Just tried the newest build on Mac OS. Same settings as before with a route/train combo that worked before as well. Program crashes when loading route. Crash logs attached.