Prerelease 3.082 (Heavy beam cannons, targeting+, balance+, fixed 3.080 crash)

[vonduus]

Perhaps I am wrong, and it is the tugs that are placing their  to-be-repaired vehicles where the FF  is. I have this situation now, and want to take a screenshot, but cannot find any reference to it anywhere (did a search of this site and the wiki, no such luck).

I am downloading fraps, then inn a minute you will have a screenshot.

[vonduus]

Here it goes: The FF is on its way, because it is forced out of position by either the tug or the bomber. The FF used to be a bit lower than the position of the bomber.

[keith.lamothe]

F12 should take a screenshot, though it may not work if you're running XP.

Print Screen is a good fallback, too.

[vonduus]

Thanks, I did an F12, but couldn't find the file.

A picture is worth more than a thousand words, so here is a highly improved version of the screenshot. The arrow shows the direction of the FF, the X shows where the FF was placed initially.

edit: I am on Win7

[keith.lamothe]

The F12 file should be dropped in a "Screenshots" directory that is sibling to your savegame directory.  If that's not happening, let me know; if it's an OS security thing there may not be much we can do about it... but the way we do it there really shouldn't be such a security conflict unless you can't even save games.

Anyway, I found the logic where it's conceivable that a tractored object could have had collision priority over a mobile object regardless of the actual assigned numeric collision priority.  I changed it so that a forcefield generator is counted as immobile for that specific purpose (note that this will not apply to Riots).  I can't really test the fix (which will be in 3.083), but I imagine you'll notice if it happens again

Thanks
Keith

[vonduus]

No screenshots directory. And there is no security problems, I play from an "Arcen games, LLC" folder that is located on my desktop, so AIWar writes whatever it pleases directly to that folder.

I hope you have fixed the moving FF, for now I have put my MRS somewhere else.

[x4000]

New version: http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,4330.msg29097.html#msg29097

[vonduus]

3.082

Yesterday I had two almost-CTDs: The cursor became the windows rotating blue circle cursor, and a text file appeared very briefly, and disappeared, and the game continued. I believe it was the unhandled error text, but it went away so fast, that I had no chance to save it or anything.

And now, when I am looking for the unhandled text file, I realize that I opened the game in the meantime, causing the removal of the file!  .

I don't care if I get a very big unhandled error text file in my game folder, why not bring things back as they were before?