Unclipped Radar

QuantumBeep · Post by **QuantumBeep** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:53 pm

I use SciTech GLDirect to allow me to play BZflag with a DirectX-only video card. It's really handy, but it has an interesting bug:

My BZ radar doesn't clip inside it's little allotted box at the bottom left. I can see the entire thing, right on top of my game. It's got normal transparency and all.

Turns out, I really like it that way. I'm wishing I could do that with my other systems that don't use GLdirect. Is there a way to turn off radar clipping and let it live on top of my world renderer? That would be really useful.

Screenshot attached.

GMMan · Post by **GMMan** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:22 pm

Weird... You have an advantage there! Try updating your graphic drivers (as usual). Using Windows or Mac or Linux?

And, no, radar unclipping wouldn't be possible without somehow rewriting the source. And that's not recommended.

P. S. Fix it.

The Red Baron · Post by **The Red Baron** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:23 am

oh yes, Thats a fun bug, I have it on another computer.

As Trepan explained it, "Your scissors are dull."

QuantumBeep · Post by **QuantumBeep** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:03 am

I can't fix that. If it's enough of an advantage that I shouldn't play that way, well, then I can't play BZ on my only machine. Somebody give me an opine.

optic delusion · Post by **optic delusion** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:16 am

I can't see how it would be any huge advantage over others, it still displays the same information, just bigger.
Try the different ways to resize the radar... did you know about shift-mousewheel?

QuantumBeep · Post by **QuantumBeep** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:18 pm

No, I didn't know about that. Cool.

anomaly · Post by **anomaly** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:17 pm

QuantumBeep wrote:Somebody give me an opine.

I don't think it's a big deal. My radar size is almost that big using 'legal' resize methods. I say carry on.

BinarySpike · Post by **BinarySpike** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:04 am

I have the same problem, I'm running an onboard i810

Sometimes boxes have the outerwall texture as well, not to mention in certain texturing modes it seems like the blending is whacked out...

Gamma is messed up as well...

TRB, you have a link to what Trepan said?

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:57 am

sounds like your GL to DirectX thing isn't handle the stencil buffer we use correctly.

We use Standard GL calls for that, so acording to the standard it should work.

What card do you have that dosn't have GL drivers?

QuantumBeep · Post by **QuantumBeep** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:32 am

ATI Radeon 200M - Laptop onboard. Weak stuff. ATI doesn't provide a driver for it at all, and you can't get GL support.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:40 am

the laptop manufacture should provide one from ATI. Who makes the laptop?

if it dosn't do much, just the the MS software openGL.

but the problem is in that directX stuff, or your current buggy driver. Not much can be done about that, except replace the buggy code.

The Red Baron · Post by **The Red Baron** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:44 am

BinarySpike wrote:I have the same problem, I'm running an onboard i810

Sometimes boxes have the outerwall texture as well, not to mention in certain texturing modes it seems like the blending is whacked out...

Gamma is messed up as well...

TRB, you have a link to what Trepan said?

Binaryspike: I have the same graphic card in the machine that does that, and sadly, no, I do not have a link to what trepan said. It was in IRC, and I don't keep logs.