FTEQW default dir

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[Spike]

if you want dynamic ents then set r_ignoreentpvs to 0. that tweak tells the client that it can actually trust the pvs of various entities and thereby draw only the ents inside the skyroom for the skyroom, without drawing ents that should not be visible.
note that the cvar tweak will show any glitches in csqc where addentity was called without setorigining properly, etc, hence why 1 is the default value.

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[frag.machine]

Nice to hear it worked, Doctor (even if partially). Are you using the latest build ? I got the last update from SVN but still figthing with Visual Studio Express 2017 to compile it. Care to share your binaries ?

[toneddu2000]

No, man, use cigwin64 to compile fte (Just shove in there all the dev libraries you can using the lib installer like gcc, maketools,g++,etc)then edit the makefile to comment the opus lib, the Speex lib and It *should * work

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[Spike]

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[frag.machine]

[frag.machine]

[Spike]

at some point the cygwin and mingw codebases moved apart, such that a single gcc binary can no longer target either.
cygwin's gcc (which the makefile is falling back on) now supports ONLY cygwin as a target along with the dependencies etc that come with it.
mingw has its own separate gcc binary which targets only the win32 api and not cygwin's posix wrappers - one gcc binary for win32 and one gcc binary for win64. these mingw-only gcc builds are instead treated as cross compilers and thus have some big long prefix.

this means that in order to target native windows from cygwin, you need to install the 'mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core' or 'mingw64-i686-gcc-core' packages from cygwin's setup. hopefully this will include the appropriate binutils etc which is required for linking, while you already have bash/make/etc installed.

assuming I programmed it right, fte's makefiles will then notice the availability of the appropriate mingw-specific gcc build and use that (instead of trying to fall back on the default now-cygwin-only 'gcc' in the hopes that its an older version of cygwin which still supports targetting mingw directly).

[frag.machine]

Welp, looks like installing mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core did the trick. Now I am getting the opus error toneddu2000 mentioned. I'll comment the makefile and try again tomorrow... it's REALLY late to me here. Thanks for the support Spike!

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[frag.machine]

Yup, I mostly got it working, I still need to apply the makefile changes and try again, but got distracted with this... bug ? Feature ? I don't know...

https://imgur.com/FJRHRmg (I know, the image won't show inside this comment, just click the link to see)

As you can notice, this pic shows the same .mdl being rendered WITH and WITHOUT external textures (the red/blue is the embedded skin, the greenish one is formed external .pngs for luma norm gloss and diffuse). The non-textured one is the player model when I use chase_active 1. It's exactly the same model using the same skin.

EDIT: Regarding skyrooms: got the last build and finally tested it. Trippy! I can already see a space base map floating with low gravity and lots of scrags...

[toneddu2000]