AI War 2 v0.704 Released! "About that Flair"

[keith.lamothe]

Release notes here!

This one (0.703 and 0.704) includes a wide variety of changes:
* A ton of work on getting multiplayer functional again (still a ways to go, but it's much further along).
* A variety of quality-of-life improvements like edge-scrolling working despite UI elements, and selecting builders with B unsuppressing the build menu if you had suppressed it.
* Fixes for some multithreading issues that were causing the game to bog down exponentially faster than they normally would in certain intense situations (more coming on that front).
* Fixes for some bugs that were killing the OSX build.
* Alterations to make the "main menu ship" more visually interesting without you feeling like it was pressed up against the screen.
* Tooltips in the lobby (and making them show on top of other things).
* A couple more batches of unit models integrated.

But the main and most obvious change is that all the ship icons have been redone. You know those color strips under a bunch of the icons to tell the different turrets apart (same with starships, guardians, etc)? Those were the "flairs". Bye-bye flairs! Now all the turrets, etc, get a unique icon.

That said, the icons have to communicate a ton of information, so please tell us how they're doing at that.

Enjoy!
Keith

[zeusalmighty]

Still unable to start a new game with OSX

(although before I was unable to launch the game at all so that's an improvement  lol)

[BadgerBadger]

What errors are you getting?

[lessster]

When I click on "Tutorial" in the main menu of version 0.705 I get the following error message:

Error occured: 04.02.2018
Argument is out of range.
Parameter name: index
===PSEUDO INFO===
Method
Line 0
===STACK FRAMES (with file info)===
FILE   METHODIL_OFFSET
NATIVE OFFSET
LINE_NUMBER
COLUMN_NUMBER
/Users/builduser/buildslave/mono/build/mcs/class/corlib/System.Collections/Generics/List.cs
get_item 36120 635 0
C:\vcsprojs\arcengames_aiw_ulta\ArcenAIW2Core\src\Logic\GameState\World_AIW2.cs
...

...and so on...

Player.log says something about Memory Leaks:

##utp:{"type":"MemoryLeaks","allocatedMemory":26886600,"memoryLabels":[{"Default":792},{"NewDelete":7954033},{"Thread":40},{"Manager":824},{"FMOD":640},{"Serialization":11328},{"BaseObject":560},{"File":36360},{"Terrain":176},{"String":6711},{"DynamicArray":712},{"HashMap":18874368},{"PoolAlloc":-176},{"SceneManager":232}]}


I am using the latest version of Steam OS on my Steam Machine and Ubuntu 16.04 on my desktop machine. The error occurs on both machines.


(The above copy my contain typos, because I was only typing it hastily when I saw the message on the screen. By the way, is there an easy way to uploads screenshots directly here in the forum?)

[zeusalmighty]

2/4/2018 1:15:18 PM
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
===PSUEDO INFO===
Method
Line 0
===STACK FRAMES (with file info)===
FILE   METHOD   IL_OFFSET   NATIVE_OFFSET   LINE_NUMBER   COLUMN_NUMBER
C:\vcprojs\arcengames_aiw_ultra\ArcenAIW2Core\src\Logic\GameState\World_AIW2.cs   CreateGalaxies   156   388   929   0
C:\vcprojs\arcengames_aiw_ultra\ArcenAIW2Core\src\Logic\Sim\Mapgen.cs   WorkThreadOnly_GenerateNewGame   541   1310   62   0
C:\vcprojs\arcengames_aiw_ultra\ArcenAIW2Core\src\Logic\Engine_AIW2.cs   WorkThreadOnly_StartNewGame   13   56   804   0
===RAW STACK TRACE===
  at Arcen.AIW2.Core.World_AIW2.CreateGalaxies (Arcen.AIW2.Core.ArcenSimContext Context) [0x0009c] in C:\vcprojs\arcengames_aiw_ultra\ArcenAIW2Core\src\Logic\GameState\World_AIW2.cs:929
  at Arcen.AIW2.Core.Mapgen.WorkThreadOnly_GenerateNewGame () [0x0021d] in C:\vcprojs\arcengames_aiw_ultra\ArcenAIW2Core\src\Logic\Sim\Mapgen.cs:62
  at Arcen.AIW2.Core.Engine_AIW2.WorkThreadOnly_StartNewGame () [0x0000d] in C:\vcprojs\arcengames_aiw_ultra\ArcenAIW2Core\src\Logic\Engine_AIW2.cs:804