Recent content by Useott

excellent

metatables and metamethods are more advanced parts of lua, but you can do cool stuff with them once you learn how to use them (like read-only variables)

srb2 only allows certain names to be set in the global environment through regular means by using metatables, speficially with a __newindex metamethod which checks if a certain name is allowed if you want to add your own global variables, you need to add them to the global environment with the...

it has been a while since it happened to me, but there's a possibility the data wasn't saved properly there's a separate message for corrupted data in the source code, but i managed to get both errors depending on which byte i edited

i was not aware that was a thing making stuff myself is still fun though

while helping a friend out with srb2 modding, i suddenly got interest for modding srb2 again and now i have this: s3k/mania special rings replacing emerald tokens leaving the special stage puts you back where you were before, though i couldn't restore the timer also, the special ring will be...

i found out about this a few years ago, but haven't tested it myself: if one attempts to kick other players in netgames without being an admin or the server host, they get kicked instead in d_clisrv.c, line 373:

i don't know much about hardware, but i did compare your system info to mine (i use mint too) since the game runs mostly fine on my laptop, and i think the issue is related in some way to your cpu also i'm pretty sure internally the game runs at 35 tps

the camera can go through walls, but control sectors are visible and it doesn't look too good in software rendering when "clear before draw" is disabled (screenshots taken with noclip)

i love this lil guy

the reason i suggested it was that it would use a different set of save files, which even though it doesn't increase the amount of save files, it skips renaming files in the file system

try this, hopefully it should be useful to ya https://mb.srb2.org/addons/custom-gamedata-allows-you-to-create-save-files-with-addons.1969/

i'm still procrastinating on this addon specifically (i swear i'll finish it one day), but a few days ago i did a cool thing and i thought you might enjoy it (enable sound, sonic galactic's act clear theme fits perfectly) also i might turn this thread into a thread for all wip stuff i do since...

for flatpaks (linux), you can do it with flatpak run org.srb2.SRB2 -file MMILES_LightMap_V1.2.wad

once i stop procrastinating on this level's development, i'll do it