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.fluffrabbit 22 Aug 2019, 16:45

That looks awesome, but if you look at the interface they use on the old Soyuz capsules to dock with ISS, yours is way more complicated. I'd be afraid to slam into something if I were looking at all those shiny glowy lines. No idea what they mean.

smcameron 22 Aug 2019, 23:14

It's a lot more clear what's going on when it's in motion. That being said, you're not meant to drive the ship using this screen only. The main view is useful for avoiding nearby things. This is more for navigating among things at a medium distance. There are also 4 different camera positions ranging from very far behind your ship to almost right on top of it. Switching between these views (which it smoothly interpolates between) depending on circumstance can make things clearer as well.

fluffrabbit 22 Aug 2019, 23:53

It's good that you have different views. I'm so accustomed to single-screen games that I forget all the components involved with this. The source looks easy to build, but there seem to be several services you need going at once to play it.

smcameron 23 Aug 2019, 01:44

There are several services needed besides snis_client (snis_server, ssgl_server, snis_multiverse). You can run all 4 on the same machine. There's a script to help start them all, snis_launcher: 

scameron@sirius ~/github/space-nerds-in-space $ ./snis_launcher

     Welcome to Space Nerds In Space

------------------------------------------------------------
No SNIS processes are currently running.
------------------------------------------------------------

   1. Launch SNIS lobby server
   The lobby server allows clients to find servers
   There should be one lobby server total.
   2. Launch SNIS multiverse server
   The multiverse server stores player ship data
   There should be one multiverse server total
   3. Launch SNIS server
   There should be one snis server per solarsystem.
   There should be at least one instance of snis_server.
   4. Launch SNIS client process
   There should be one snis client process per player
   plus one more per ship for the main screen.
   ...

The first four menu items of snis_launcher start the necessary services.

Or, there's a "./quickstart" script that will just start everything. If you're just running the thing by yourself, that's probably easiest, but for a real session, snis_launcher is generally better, because most people will only be running snis_client and nothing else on their machines.

fluffrabbit 23 Aug 2019, 03:00

./quickstart it is. I'll have to try it some time soon.

smcameron 30 Aug 2019, 17:46 Short dev update 2018-08-30

fluffrabbit 30 Aug 2019, 21:48

<suggestions>

1. Put the build instructions in the source tree and link to that from the readme. (What if GitHub goes down? What if someone is building offline?)

2. Get all the C&H files out of the root directory so we can quickly see what is relevant to launching the game. I know there are some other organizational issues, but this would be a big help to the signal-to-noise ratio.

3. For your apt-get install commands, you should stack all the essential packages into a single line like so: 

    sudo apt-get install build-essential portaudio19-dev libvorbis-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtkglext1-dev liblua5.2-dev libglew1.5-dev libssl-dev libttspico-utils sox

I know there are multiple options regarding TTS, but I'll leave that to your discretion. </suggestions>

There appear to be some depth sorting issues with the main menu. (Ignore the disjointed lines; those are just a result of screen tearing.) This doesn't look like the ship in the pictures, so spherical cows seem to have replaced everything. It also won't run.

Here's some terminal output: 

Failed to read model from file './share/snis/models/docking_port.stl'
Assume form of . . . A SPHERICAL COW!
Failed to read model from file './share/snis/models/docking_port2.stl'
Assume form of . . . A SPHERICAL COW!
Failed to read model from file './share/snis/models/tetrahedron.stl'
Assume form of . . . A SPHERICAL COW!
Failed to read model from file './share/snis/models/warpgate.stl'
Assume form of . . . A SPHERICAL COW!
Failed to read model from file './share/snis/models/warp-core.stl'
Assume form of . . . A SPHERICAL COW!
Failed to read model from file './share/snis/models/cylinder.stl'
Assume form of . . . A SPHERICAL COW!
x = 289, y = 466, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 289, y = 466, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 289, y = 466, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 289, y = 466, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 289, y = 466, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 289, y = 466, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 289, y = 466, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 289, y = 466, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 289, y = 466, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 289, y = 466, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 291, y = 466, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 316, y = 452, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
snis_client: connect to lobby pressed
lobbyname = 'localhost'
shipname = ''
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
snis_client: connect to lobby pressed
lobbyname = 'localhost'
shipname = ''
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
snis_client: connect to lobby pressed
lobbyname = 'localhost'
shipname = ''
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 727, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 400, y = 724, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 409, y = 703, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
start lobby server button pressed.
execl'ing ./bin/ssgl_server
x = 296, y = 264, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 296, y = 264, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 296, y = 264, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 295, y = 265, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 296, y = 266, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 296, y = 266, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 296, y = 266, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 299, y = 270, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 301, y = 273, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 308, y = 280, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 311, y = 283, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
start game server button pressed.
snis_server(default):: Created lockfile /tmp/snis_server_lock.DEFAULT2, proceeding.
WARNING: lua enscript enabled!
THIS PERMITS USERS TO CREATE FILES ON THE SERVER
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
./share/snis/replacement_assets.txt: Warning:  No such file or directory
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
Reading starbase model specifications...done
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
fopen: ./share/snis/solarsystems/default2/assets.txt: No such file or directory
Unable to read solarsystem asset spec from './share/snis/solarsystems/default2/assets.txt'./share/snis/solarsystems/default2/assets.txt: No such file or directory
Failed reading solarsystem assets for 'default2'
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 284, y = 472, width = 296.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 367, y = 715, width = 272.000000, height = 32.000000
snis_client: connect to lobby pressed
lobbyname = 'localhost'
shipname = 'Thing'
snis_client: connecting to lobby...
Trying to connect to lobby.
snis_client: connecting to lobby
snis_client: Connected to lobby
lobby cancel button pressed
snis_client: ssgl_recv_game_server failed: ssgl_recv_game_servers failed: Bad file descriptor

x = 981, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 981, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 980, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 980, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 980, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 980, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 978, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 977, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 976, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 976, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 976, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 976, y = 607, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 973, y = 606, width = 464.000000, height = 32.000000
Trying to connect to lobby.
lobby socket = 15, done with lobby
start lobby server button pressed.
execl'ing ./bin/ssgl_server
x = 234, y = 269, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 234, y = 269, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 234, y = 269, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 234, y = 269, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 234, y = 269, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
x = 236, y = 273, width = 306.000000, height = 32.000000
snis_client: connect to lobby pressed
lobbyname = 'localhost'
shipname = 'Thing'
snis_client: connecting to lobby...
Trying to connect to lobby.
snis_client: connecting to lobby
snis_client: Connected to lobby
lobby cancel button pressed
snis_client: ssgl_recv_game_server failed: ssgl_recv_game_servers failed: Bad file descriptor

9811 frames / 345 seconds, 28.4377 frames/sec
server netstats: 0 bytes sent, 0 bytes recd, secs = 1, bw = 0 bytes/sec

smcameron 30 Aug 2019, 23:14

fluffrabbit wrote: <suggestions> 1. Put the build instructions in the source tree and link to that from the readme. (What if GitHub goes down? What if someone is building offline?)
Ok.
2. Get all the C&H files out of the root directory so we can quickly see what is relevant to launching the game. I know there are some other organizational issues, but this would be a big help to the signal-to-noise ratio.
Flat no. Will fuck up the git history.
3. For your apt-get install commands, you should stack all the essential packages into a single line like so: sudo apt-get install build-essential portaudio19-dev libvorbis-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtkglext1-dev liblua5.2-dev libglew1.5-dev libssl-dev libttspico-utils sox
Eh, maybe.
I know there are multiple options regarding TTS, but I'll leave that to your discretion. </suggestions> There appear to be some depth sorting issues with the main menu. (Ignore the disjointed lines; those are just a result of screen tearing.) This doesn't look like the ship in the pictures, so spherical cows seem to have replaced everything. It also won't run.

Did you run "make update-assets" or "make models" ? You have to do at least one of those.

You're missing asset files. I have seen openscad crap out on some systems leaving some assets unbuilt if you went the "make models" route instead of "make update-assets".

After fixing the assets, try running with ./snis_launcher and choosing option 1, then 2, then 3, then 4. Then there will be log files in snis_client_log.txt snis_server_log.txt. It looks like snis_server isn't started (might be due to lack of asset files, but very hard to tell what problems you've got. FWIW, I compiled it and ran it on 5 or 6 different systems a week ago with no problems ... did have some problems with OpenSuSE Leap 15.1 though, due to strange changes they made wrt pkg-config.)

A fresh clone and build looks like this for me: 

scameron@wombat ~/github/testsnis2 $ git clone git@github.com:smcameron/space-nerds-in-space.git
Cloning into 'space-nerds-in-space'...
Enter passphrase for key '/home/scameron/.ssh/id_rsa':
remote: Enumerating objects: 683, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (683/683), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (237/237), done.
remote: Total 21433 (delta 432), reused 604 (delta 369), pack-reused 20750
Receiving objects: 100% (21433/21433), 176.32 MiB | 4.35 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (14562/14562), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
scameron@wombat ~/github/testsnis2 $ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
scameron@wombat ~/github/testsnis2 $ ls
space-nerds-in-space
scameron@wombat ~/github/testsnis2 $ cd space-nerds-in-space/
scameron@wombat ~/github/testsnis2/space-nerds-in-space $ make
  COMPILE mathutils.c
  COMPILE snis_alloc.c
  COMPILE snis_socket_io.c
  COMPILE snis_marshal.c
  COMPILE bline.c
  COMPILE shield_strength.c
  COMPILE stacktrace.c
  COMPILE snis_ship_type.c
  COMPILE snis_faction.c
  COMPILE mtwist.c
  COMPILE names.c
  COMPILE infinite-taunt.c
  COMPILE snis_damcon_systems.c
  COMPILE string-utils.c
  COMPILE c-is-the-locale.c
  COMPILE starbase_metadata.c
  COMPILE arbitrary_spin.c
  COMPILE planetary_atmosphere.c
  COMPILE planetary_ring_data.c
  COMPILE mesh.c
  COMPILE pthread_util.c
  COMPILE snis_opcode_def.c
  COMPILE rts_unit_data.c
  COMPILE commodities.c
  COMPILE snis_tweak.c
  COMPILE rootcheck.c
  COMPILE corporations.c
  COMPILE replacement_assets.c
  COMPILE snis_asset_dir.c
  COMPILE snis_bin_dir.c
(cd mikktspace && make )
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/scameron/github/testsnis2/space-nerds-in-space/mikktspace'
  COMPILE mikktspace.c -c mikktspace.c
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/scameron/github/testsnis2/space-nerds-in-space/mikktspace'
  COMPILE check-endianness.c
  GATHER BUILD INFO
  EXTRACT DOCKING PORTS share/snis/models/starbase2.docking_ports.h
  EXTRACT DOCKING PORTS share/snis/models/starbase3.docking_ports.h
  EXTRACT DOCKING PORTS share/snis/models/starbase4.docking_ports.h
  EXTRACT DOCKING PORTS share/snis/models/starbase5.docking_ports.h
  EXTRACT DOCKING PORTS share/snis/models/starbase6.docking_ports.h
  EXTRACT DOCKING PORTS share/snis/models/starbase.docking_ports.h
  COMPILE snis_server.c
  COMPILE starbase-comms.c
  COMPILE power-model.c
  COMPILE quat.c
  COMPILE vec4.c
  COMPILE matrix.c
  COMPILE snis_event_callback.c
  COMPILE space-part.c
  COMPILE fleet.c
  COMPILE docking_port.c
  COMPILE elastic_collision.c
  COMPILE snis_nl.c
  COMPILE spelled_numbers.c
  COMPILE snis_server_tracker.c
  COMPILE snis_bridge_update_packet.c
  COMPILE solarsystem_config.c
  COMPILE a_star.c
  COMPILE key_value_parser.c
  COMPILE nonuniform_random_sampler.c
  COMPILE oriented_bounding_box.c
  COMPILE shape_collision.c
  COMPILE graph_dev_mesh_stub.c
  COMPILE turret_aimer.c
  COMPILE snis_hash.c
  COMPILE snis_debug.c
  COMPILE ship_registration.c
  COMPILE snis_multiverse.c
  COMPILE starmap_adjacency.c
  COMPILE ogg_to_pcm.c
  COMPILE wwviaudio.c
  COMPILE snis_ui_element.c
  COMPILE snis_font.c
  COMPILE snis_text_input.c
  COMPILE snis_typeface.c
  COMPILE snis_gauge.c
  COMPILE snis_button.c
  COMPILE snis_label.c
  COMPILE snis_sliders.c
  COMPILE snis_text_window.c
  COMPILE snis_strip_chart.c
  COMPILE material.c
  COMPILE stl_parser.c
  COMPILE entity.c
  COMPILE my_point.c
  COMPILE liang-barsky.c
  COMPILE joystick.c
  COMPILE thrust_attachment.c
  COMPILE ui_colors.c
  COMPILE snis_keyboard.c
  COMPILE pronunciation.c
  COMPILE snis_preferences.c
  COMPILE snis_pull_down_menu.c
  COMPILE snis_debug.c
  COMPILE xdg_base_dir_spec.c
  COMPILE shader.c
  COMPILE graph_dev_opengl.c
  COMPILE opengl_cap.c
  COMPILE snis_graph.c
  COMPILE snis_client.c
  COMPILE joystick_config.c
  COMPILE graph_dev_gdk.c
  (limited client)   COMPILE snis_graph.c
  (limited client)   COMPILE snis_client.c
(cd ssgl && make )
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/scameron/github/testsnis2/space-nerds-in-space/ssgl'
  COMPILE ssgl_sanitize.c
  COMPILE ssgl_sleep.c
  COMPILE ssgl_socket_io.c
  COMPILE ssgl_log.c
  COMPILE ssgl_get_primary_host_ip_addr.c
  COMPILE ssgl_get_gamelobby_port.c
  COMPILE ssgl_server.c
  LINK ssgl_server.o
  COMPILE ssgl_recv_game_servers.c
  COMPILE ssgl_connect_to_lobby.c
  COMPILE ssgl_register_gameserver.c
  COMPILE ssgl_register_for_bcast_packet.c
  ARCHIVE libssglclient.a
  COMPILE ssgl_gameclient_example.c
  LINK ssgl_gameclient_example.o
  COMPILE ssgl_gameserver_example.c
  LINK ssgl_gameserver_example.o
cp ssgl_gameclient_example lsssgl
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/scameron/github/testsnis2/space-nerds-in-space/ssgl'
  LINK bin/snis_server
  LINK bin/snis_client
  LINK bin/snis_limited_client
  LINK bin/snis_multiverse
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/disruptor.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/enforcer.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/starbase5.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/research-vessel.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/conqueror.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/cruiser.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/asteroid-miner.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/battlestar.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/wombat.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/destroyer.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/dragonhawk.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/tanker.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/swordfish.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/vanquisher.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/freighter.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/scrambler.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/spaceship2.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/spaceship3.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/skorpio.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/spaceship.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/transport.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/escapepod.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/mantis.scad_params.h
  EXTRACT THRUST PARAMS share/snis/models/missile.scad_params.h
scameron@wombat ~/github/testsnis2/space-nerds-in-space $ make update-assets
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And it runs. The very first time, you do have to check the "create ship" box on the first screen.

smcameron 31 Aug 2019, 00:35

Ok, I do see a problem if you do "make models" instead of "make update-assets" and run quickstart. 

snis_multiverse: SHUTTING DOWN SNIS SERVER for default
pid(985): readsocket other side closed conn
snis_multiverse: bad client, disconnecting socket 5

snis_multiverse decides to shutdown snis_server since it has no players... well, it shouldn't be but it is.

Ah, I think I see why, it's a bit complicated. The quickstart unilaterally exempted the snis_server instance for solarsystem "karado" from being shut down, but that is not always the correct one to pick for exemption.

I think this should fix that particular problem: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/commit/b741e232b75017f7e3537ae4490a38d6b07e8514.

Edit: With that, a fresh clone, make, make models, and ./quickstart works.

You do have to check the "create ship" and "main view" checkboxes the first time though.

fluffrabbit ยป 31 Aug 2019, 00:43

I'll test it when I have returned to the world of the living.

Also, I never manually ran "make models", just "make". What makes do I have to run manually?

smcameron 31 Aug 2019, 00:47

fluffrabbit wrote:

I'll test it when I have returned to the world of the living.

Also, I never manually ran "make models", just "make". What makes do I have to run manually?

Just "make" and either "make models" or "make update-assets". I recommend "make update-assets" rather than "make models" as it's more assets and it's quicker. "make models" runs openscad to compile a bunch of scad files to stl files, which takes forever, and can be problematic if you happen to have a broken version of openscad. As an aside, "make clean" will wipe out a bunch of .stl files, which will then need to be rebuilt either by "make update-assets" or "make models". There is "make mostly-clean", which does everything "make clean" does *except* make mostly-clean does not delete the .stl files.

GunChleoc 31 Aug 2019, 05:01

smcameron wrote:
fluffrabbit wrote:

2. Get all the C&H files out of the root directory so we can quickly see what is relevant to launching the game. I know there are some other organizational issues, but this would be a big help to the signal-to-noise ratio.

Flat no. Will fuck up the git history.

That shouldn't be a problem if you move them with the git mv command.

smcameron 31 Aug 2019, 15:04

GunChleoc wrote: That shouldn't be a problem if you move them with the git mv command.

If that were true, the "--follow" option to "git log" would not exist, because it would not be needed. And git log --follow doesn't even work in all cases. 

GIT-LOG(1)                        Git Manual                        GIT-LOG(1)

NAME
       git-log - Show commit logs

SYNOPSIS
       git log [<options>] [<revision range>] [[--] <path>...]

DESCRIPTION
       Shows the commit logs.

       The command takes options applicable to the git rev-list command to
       control what is shown and how, and options applicable to the git diff-*
       commands to control how the changes each commit introduces are shown.

OPTIONS
       --follow
           Continue listing the history of a file beyond renames (works only
           for a single file).
Let's try it: 
scameron@wombat ~/github/snistest/space-nerds-in-space $ git diff
scameron@wombat ~/github/snistest/space-nerds-in-space $ git branch testgitmv
scameron@wombat ~/github/snistest/space-nerds-in-space $ git checkout testgitmv
Switched to branch 'testgitmv'
scameron@wombat ~/github/snistest/space-nerds-in-space $ mkdir src
scameron@wombat ~/github/snistest/space-nerds-in-space $ git mv snis_client.c src/snis_client.c
scameron@wombat ~/github/snistest/space-nerds-in-space $ git add src/snis_client.c
scameron@wombat ~/github/snistest/space-nerds-in-space $ git commit -m 'test move'
[testgitmv 44d2cb4] test move
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scameron@wombat ~/github/snistest/space-nerds-in-space $ git log src/snis_client.c
commit 44d2cb46e4251a0009de9a9c3c89c98c0c9fb14c
Author: Stephen M. Cameron <stephenmcameron@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Aug 31 10:26:04 2019 -0400

    test move

scameron@wombat ~/github/snistest/space-nerds-in-space $
It definitely breaks the history.

GunChleoc 31 Aug 2019, 15:53

Meh. It works just fine with Bazaar, so it's a shame that they didn't implement it better in Git :(

smcameron 18 Oct 2019, 15:32

Code breaking mini-game idea...

Trying to think up some mission scripts, I had an idea for a coded message containing clues which the crew has to decipher. The code would be a simple substitution cipher, with each letter of the alphabet randomly switched with another letter of the alphabet. Given a large enough ciphertext and knowing the language of the plaintext (e.g. English), and knowing the frequency with which letters occur in the target language (e.g. ETAONIRSH...), and knowing a few common bigrams, (TH, HE, IN, ER,...) such ciphers are pretty easy to crack. With some help from the computer (e.g. automated frequency analysis, and allowing the user to try out substitutions easily), it might make a fun mini game that the whole crew might participate in.

What I'm imagining is two windows, on top, the ciphertext, and on bottom, the plaintext (or, possibly alternating lines of ciphertext and plaintext instead). Initially the plaintext window will just contain an underscore for every character. Below the plaintext window is the alphabet, and the players may type in possible substitutions for each letter, which instantly are displayed in the plaintext window. Additionally, the most frequently occurring 2 or 3 unsubstituted characters in the ciphertext are identified.

So it becomes a bit like a game of hangman, or "Wheel of Fortune", you make some substitutions and see if you can recognize what might be some words. You see a letter by itself, and you know it's probably the word "a". You see the most common letter, and presume it is most likely to be "e", the next most common is most likely "t", etc. A three letter word occurring many time is likely to be "THE". As you make substitutions, more and more of the message becomes apparent, and more and more obvious guesses for letter substitutions become apparent, and eventually the message is revealed.

Or, at least that's how I imagine it working.

I could code the entire thing in Lua (though the UI would necessarily be uglier and done entirely within the COMMS window) or I could do a little C programming and make a special "code breaking" computer that would be nicer to use, though it seems a bit too special purpose.

What do you guys think? Is this idea worth exploring?

Perhaps similar to this game: http://www.hanginghyena.com/cryptograms_casual

dulsi 18 Oct 2019, 16:22

I like crypto quotes so I would enjoy an addition like this. I have a idea for crypto quote game set in WW2 but haven't had the time to implement it. I haven't tried this game so I don't know how well it fits into your overall game.

smcameron 23 Oct 2019, 02:04

I have laid the foundation for the de-ciphering mini game, and here's a demo of it. No mission scripts yet take advantage of this system though.

smcameron 05 Nov 2019, 04:45

Nothing really new to report right now, except that today, SNIS is 7 years old.

Julius 05 Nov 2019, 11:11

Wow, time to get a divorce

smcameron 09 Nov 2019, 18:21

A little video of my process for debugging NPC ship movement.

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smcameron 19 Nov 2019, 00:12

Hunting NaNs

What are NaNs? A better question might be what aren't NaNs. NaN stands for "Not a Number", and NaNs are special floating point values that can occur when you attempt to do things like divide by zero or other "impossible" mathematical operations. Most typically in my experience, NaN generation due to dividing by zero happens when you attempt to normalize a vector with zero magnitude. Once NaNs are generated, they typically spread through any calculation in which they are used, corrupting all sorts of calculations and causing weird behavior for anything depending on those calculations (most typically, NPC ship movement.)

Since Space Nerds in Space seems to work pretty well for the most part, I sort of presumed that NaNs weren't really something I was bumping into much -- that my code was correct enough that I wasn't generally dividing by zero much if at all. And I suppose that must have been mostly true -- mostly true in that the game did work well enough, seemingly. But then I tried actually taking a look to see whether any NaNs were scurrying around down in there.

Oh my god... So many NaNs! So the way that you figure out whether you've got NaNs is to enable floating point exceptions to terminate your program and produce a core dump. The code to do so looks like this: 

feenableexcept(FE_DIVBYZERO | FE_INVALID | FE_OVERFLOW);

Then you compile everything without optimization and run it, and see what blows up. Well things blew up *immediately*, leaving a core file for debugging. For a day or so, this cycle continued: Compile, run, explode, debug, fix. Many NaNs knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the core that day, I can tell you!

After awhile, I slew enough NaN generating bugs that things no longer exploded immediately, but required several minutes of running before exploding. Now, I think I only have one NaN bug left (that I know of). And I have a fix for that one, I'm just not certain my fix is really right, so I want to think about it some more before I commit it (or some better fix).

In any case, if you're interested in the gory details, you can check out the bug report on github: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/issues/236

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