Request build instructions

[JohnPaulHarold]

For those not super familiar with cmake, could you provide some build instructions in the readme.md

It's really easy to CMake it.

1. Install the Visual Studio 2017;
2. Install the CMake;
3. Open the CMake GUI, and select the VS2017;
4. Setup the Project Dir, and the Build dir, Configure, and it will show you some errors;
5. Fix the error, only need to setup the OpenAL, FFMPEG and SDL2's include dir and lib dir, and set a Install dir;
6. Try Configure agan, I think everything will be fun;
7. Generate the project, and using VS2017 open the project solution in Build dir (In 4. you setup);
8. Compiling a project named "INSTALL", and it will compiling everything and copy the Binarys to Install dir (In 5. you setup);
9. Copy everything in NOLF2 game dir;
10. Openning the game and enjoy :).

[revelator]

hmm some problems.

current FFMPEG is incompatible (abi changes).
SDL2 also seems to have made some changes so that even when i can actually build it with a rather old FFMPEG from zeranoe i cannot play NOLF2 using it since the characters are stuck in geometry :s

other than that it does start but as pointed out it cannot be used with the versions i tried.

[bibendovsky]

hmm some problems.

current FFMPEG is incompatible (abi changes). SDL2 also seems to have made some changes so that even when i can actually build it with a rather old FFMPEG from zeranoe i cannot play NOLF2 using it since the characters are stuck in geometry :s

other than that it does start but as pointed out it cannot be used with the versions i tried.

Updated FFmpeg API, should be compilable now.

Also, how to reproduce a problem with a character stuck in geometry?

[revelator]

Happens right in the start map, also in manually loaded ones.

Not sure what causes it ?.

[revelator]

clarifying the player character is frozen so cannot move, i can move the camera but the character cannot walk/run crouch etc.

[revelator]

and thanks for fixing the ffmpeg problem :)

[bibendovsky]

clarifying the player character is frozen so cannot move, i can move the camera but the character cannot walk/run crouch etc.

I suspect there are no bindings defined for character's movement.
Check section Bindings in file Profiles/Player.txt.
Empty binding has value " @ @ ".
I have managed to get such behavior (camera moves but not the character) by creating an empty file Profiles/Player.txt.

[revelator]

aye after pointing out the bindings i took a look and they are indeed undefined, unfortunatly even copying back the populated player.txt does not work for me as the engine seems to overwrite the bindings with empty values :S.

im using the NOLF2 project from nolfgirl which uses some mods for modernization so i suspect some incompatibility maybe ?.

[bibendovsky]

aye after pointing out the bindings i took a look and they are indeed undefined, unfortunatly even copying back the populated player.txt does not work for me as the engine seems to overwrite the bindings with empty values :S.

im using the NOLF2 project from nolfgirl which uses some mods for modernization so i suspect some incompatibility maybe ?.

Could you share unmodified Default.prf and Player.txt files?

[revelator]

ofc. not at home atm though ill send them your way as soon as im back :)