USEC Oil Rig (Alpha Release)

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(Image to come when I am not so tired... its 6am)

Download from Armaholic (Build 1.0.1a - 8mb)

The USEC Oil Rig has reached its first milestone release (5 hours late).  It is not as "feature complete" as I would like, but I am happy with the release so far.  In particular, it has samples of normal/spec mapping, and working ladders.

This is a public alpha.  The release is NOT feature complete, contains many known bugs, and has not been extensively tested.  In particular, the rig lacks AI pathways and is not correctly configured as a building.  This will be put in the Beta.  To see a complete list of features to be added, visit my trac/wiki site (details in notes below).

Notes:

- I have included a sample mission file, that you can place in your single player directly to have access to the rig.  This file should also work in multiplayer, with various playable soldiers over the rig (but no enemy).

- Please visit the Discussion thread for WIP issues and questions.

- Please visit my wiki and Trac site to participate in bug reporting, and for the latest updates.

- When posting a bug, please include the build version number (included in the readme file).

- Please feel free to edit the mission I included to your hearts content. Although I suspect not much can be done till I put AI pathways in.

Make sure you fully read the License, Readme, and Bugfixing text files included with the release.

[D.murphy man 0]

nice! i been waiting for this for a while, download now.

Keep up the good work matey!

[bravo 6 0]

thanks

[Guest RKSL-Rock]

Sorry but this just CTDs for me. Even with no other addons I get a "Surface Memory Error" everytime.

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Sorry but this just CTDs for me.  Even with no other addons I get a "Surface Memory Error" everytime.  

Le sigh! I'll see if I can replicate it. You on maximum settings?

[smiley nick 51]

Same here

Edit

Tried various settings, still the same

Specs

Radeon X1950 256mb

Dual Core

2gb Ram

[Guest RKSL-Rock]

Sorry but this just CTDs for me.  Even with no other addons I get a "Surface Memory Error" everytime.  

Le sigh!  I'll see if I can replicate it.  You on maximum settings?

Nope. Pretty much low settings all the way.

Here's a screenshot of my settings and the arma.rpt error report.

Rock's error Report

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It works here.

[Guest RKSL-Rock]

It works here.

You on Nvidia?

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Lol, I'm such a dofus...

Wiki: "This is caused by third party content using textures with non 2^n (32,64,128,256,etc) dimensions. It may not effect all video cards. "

My fault, I must have exported a texture wrong... will have a fix shortly...  not all users will be affected.  Should be ten minutes till I have it fixed.

[M.Andersson(SWE) 4]

Crappy DL servers but ill try

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Quote[/b] ]You on Nvidia?

Yes,Nvidia 8800GTX.

Quote[/b] ]Crappy DL servers but ill try

Mail sent to addon maker with mirror info.

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Many thanks to Big @ Armaholic for providing some better hosting. Also, for those users experiencing a crash with 1.0.0a, the latest build (hosted on all servers including Armaholic) should fix this, as it now has no non-standard textures.

Check for Build 1.0.1a in the readme file.

[bravo 6 0]

im using all very low and disabled what i can disable and i also get a CTD. (in less then 10 sec)

error is:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

Cannot creat system memory surface 1555,50 (size 6272 B)

Error code 8876086c

hope this helps to fix the prob.

[Guest RKSL-Rock]

Many thanks to Big @ Armaholic for providing some better hosting.  Also, for those users experiencing a crash with 1.0.0a, the latest build (hosted on all servers including Armaholic) should fix this, as it now has no non-standard textures.

Check for Build 1.0.1a in the readme file.

Thanks. Works a treat.

Just a couple of things. When coming down the step tot get to the well deck (2nd level from sea level) i get caught up in geometry. it might be an idea to make the deck deeper or increase the size of hole in the geo lod. But other than that I'm impressed.

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<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

Cannot creat system memory surface 1555,50 (size 6272 B)

Error code 8876086c

Suspect (with a certain amount of hope! that you have build 1.0.0a. I released a new build with a texture resolution error fixed, which should work. This has been uploaded to Armaholic and should also be faster to download. Other servers will remain up and also have the new version. To check your version, read the readme file included with the download.

Sorry for the delay guys and gals! Would be keen to hear ASAP if any of the folks who had problems are now able to work it with the new build.

[bravo 6 0]

going to download right away..

ill report later

[4 IN 1 0]

HOOYAH icemotoboy, awsome piece of work! just testing it to see if i could find any non listed bug

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HOOYAH icemotoboy, awsome piece of work! just testing it to see if i could find any non listed bug

I suspect it shall not take you very long sir  Please do feel free to submit any bugs and cool ideas to my Trac site/Wiki.  I've had some really good feedback so far and thats why I've been able to get to the point I am now.  Still a long way to go, but its a solid start.

[bravo 6 0]

i dled and tested.. i faced up with a graphic bug that i never had

Bug 00

Notice the black line that cross the soldier..(i think it belongs the Rig) because when i move around the line moves according the rig direction. It looks like a shadow but the shadows are in other direction.

ideas?

edit: if more pics are needed, ill do some more shots

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That will definately be a rig error.  Shadow geometry.  I didn't have time to remake the shadow geo for this release, and I figured I would probably be altering the geo so much as a result of this test that doing the fire and shadows would be a little redundant.

Good spotting though, I couldn't find any more of the shadow errors myself  Basically its piece of geo that isn't closed (aka sloppy workmanship ).

I'm actually thinking of completely redoing the internal stairs, possibly to spiral staircases but maybe just the same as the external ones.  Thoughts?

[bravo 6 0]

oh another thing,

i thought we were supposed to climb that ladder that gives access to the Rig from Bellow. Its not working, Can you make it work?

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ladder that gives access to the Rig from [below]

Getting off the rig is fine, but getting on the animation of swiming stays "stuck on". This may be due to the way I have configured the addon - it is not correctly setup as a building at this stage (in fact, it is a very large car radio at present).

Currently, when u exit a vehicle underneath the platform, you get put onto the roadway above (rather than in the water). I may end up doing a pontoon that is off to the side at this stage to solve this problem.

[bravo 6 0]

if you also set the Rig on land you can not climb as well. So it might be a problem with ID objects or something. An add activation menu should pop up when we get near that ladder.

I'm not the right person to solve the issue, but there are some around this forum that might be able to help you

wish you good luck

[oldbear 390]

As I have hosted Oil Rig on our Armed Assault.info server, I have tested it and got CTD after having a glimpse of an uncomplete rig and now, with the new buid I can have a full wiew of the rig ... still uncomplete.

I have just added usec_rig_a.pbo and usec_rig_a.pbo.usec.bisign files in my addons folder.

I am playing ArmA 1.08 with QG.