Release VCMI - A rewrite of the Heroes of Might and Magic III Engine

[ekianjo]

By the way does this build still crash when playing?

 

[yeoldegrove]

I have already put my installation folder to the specified directory, click OK and relaunch the PNG but all I get is the same 2 messages all over again...
What am I doing wrong. I am sure it is just a beginner's mistake but please could anyone explain what to do step by step to me??

I wasn't online for a few days, so here's my late reply...


try the following:

1. removing the whole "[appdata]/vcmi.yeoldegrove" folder

2. start pnd

3. let the pnd copy the initial files...

4. copy your whole installation directory to "[appdata]/vcmi.yeoldegrove/.vcmi" but do NOT overwrite any files.

5. start pnd again and see if it works

 

[yeoldegrove]

By the way does this build still crash when playing?

As said in the first post, this is still beta as announced by the VCMI-Team.

So it still has certain bugs...

 

[ekianjo]

these are pndora specific bugs?

 

[yeoldegrove]

these are pndora specific bugs?

No, these are BUGS in VCMI itself.

 

[ekianjo]

got it, thanks for answering

 

[Askarus]

Heroes of Might and Magic is on sale on GOG.com again.

Only this WE.

 

[rohezal]

Bought the addon .

 

[levi]

Yeah, I bought it over the weekend too. Is there any way to unpack the installer on Linux (preferably on my Pandora, and preferably not using WINE)?

 

[M-HT]

This forum topic on GOG mentions some unpackers:
 
https://github.com/dscharrer/InnoExtract (http://constexpr.org/innoextract/)
https://github.com/onitake/uninno
https://github.com/lkraider/innounpy
 
I haven't tried any of them so I don't know if they work or not (or if they can be compiled for Pandora).

 

[levi]

Thanks! I used innoextract on my laptop in the end - tried to get innounpy running on Pandora, but got stuck when it needed the pylzma module.


For reference, I unpacked the GoG exe using innoextract which gave me an app folder and a tmp folder. The tmp folder is just for the GoG instaler, so I nuked that, and from the app folder I copied the contents of the Data, Maps and Mp3 subfolders into the corresponding empty folders in appdata/vcmi.yeoldgrove/.vcmi that it had created when I ran it the first time. Quite easy to do in the end.

 

[yeoldegrove]

Is there any way to unpack the installer on Linux (preferably on my Pandora, and preferably not using WINE)?

The easiest way to extract the files of the GOG-installer is the "vcmibuilder" script provides by the VCMI-team:

http://svn.code.sf.net/p/vcmi/code/trunk/vcmibuilder

 

[levi]

That script uses innoextract, which is what I ended up using on my netbook. To be honest I didn't find putting the extracted data in the right format for VCMI to be very taxing, but I guess the script might be useful for some people.

 

[yeoldegrove]

Just uploaded a new PND...

# 20131208
updated to vcmi-0.94
see official vcmi forum for changelog:
http://forum.vcmi.eu...topic.php?t=766
removed resolution script (was to confusing)

 

[ekianjo]

are the crashes in-game still present ?

 

[levi]

According to the changelog, a number of bugs were stamped on. It talks about AI stability - now whether AI instability would lead to an engine crash or something more innocuous is not known to me. It also talks about bugs in battles - are the crashes you're having happening in battles?

 

[yeoldegrove]

I never really had crashes in battles.

More on the map or when entering castles.

I once experienced a bug where the AI got stuck.

But I hadn't time to test a lot...

 

[ekianjo]

i will try to test more this weekend

 

[asimov-solensan]

I have tried with the complete edition from GOG. When I run it plays constantly a "buzz" over the usual sounds, it's very annoying. The sound worked alright  running the game in a virtualized xp.

Has anyone this problem?

 

[Coccijoe]

Yes me too... I disabled the music