sear character type menu not functioning

[wesleybruce]

I think this is old but the fix On the forum is not understood by me. Opening sear and passing the first login and server selection sear asks for a character name and character type. The type is a drop down menu but is empty so I can't continue. I also need to know if the problems I have had with Ember will happen with sear? I'm looking for a hardware fix there by going for a newer video card.

[Alexey Torkhov (atorkhov)]

Some servers doesn't have rules loaded. Try "erikhj.cust.strongbox.se" or "amber" server.

[wesleybruce (wesleybruce)]

Ok I'm able to use that menu on strongbox but after clicking on create
character in does nothing. The numbers are changing at the top but
there's nothing else happening, The hard drive is quiet,then after a
15-20 seconds it deactivates with no fault message. Mmmm
Also Cant see amber on the server list but the font is tiny. Not sure
you should let me play with something called strong box.

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 08:13 +0000, Alexey Torkhov wrote:
> Some servers doesn't have rules loaded. Try "erikhj.cust.strongbox.se"
> or "amber" server.
>

[Simon Goodall (sgoodall)]

Sometimes Sear hangs when creating a new character. It doesn't seem to receive the correct trigger that the character has been created and we can enter the world.
However, restarting Sear should show your new character in the available list.

If you still have problems, try running a console command (press back-tick ` - you may need to make sure the text fields in the GUI do not have focus) and run the following command after you have logged into a server;

/create wesley settler male desc

This should accomplish the same thing as the GUI.

If you already have a character created try the "/take" command. This will use the first character in the available list.

In terms of graphics problems, my own ATI has huge rendering corruption with the opensource(mesa) drivers in Fedora 10.

[wesleybruce (wesleybruce)]

Nothing seems to happen even if I do that?? The last line of command is
workarea_open character after typing take with a character in the
list. Also tried /create etc etc no effect. I have an officially dumb
computer.
The next character I create will be called "Aaaagh *^$#*$"! lol
I think its some other fault. Hopefully I'm not wasting your time. How
do you work around the mesa driver corruption on you fedora 10?

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 11:59 +0000, Simon Goodall wrote:
> Sometimes Sear hangs when creating a new character. It doesn't seem to receive the correct trigger that the character has been created and we can enter the world.
> However, restarting Sear should show your new character in the available list.
>
> If you still have problems, try running a console command (press back-
> tick ` - you may need to make sure the text fields in the GUI do not
> have focus) and run the following command after you have logged into a
> server;
>
> /create wesley settler male desc
>
> This should accomplish the same thing as the GUI.
>
> If you already have a character created try the "/take" command. This
> will use the first character in the available list.
>
> In terms of graphics problems, my own ATI has huge rendering corruption
> with the opensource(mesa) drivers in Fedora 10.
>

[Simon Goodall (sgoodall)]

which version of sear are you running? The last release or current git?

[wesleybruce (wesleybruce)]

I think its sear (3D client) 0.6.3 February 6, 2007 from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11799

but I also loaded and uninstalled 0.6.3.11 fc 10 (i386) from the fedora
10 Add/remove. That did not work but that may have been because not all
the servers were ready for It. Should I uninstall and load another one?
I'm tempted to uninstall all world forge stuff and do a full reinstall
but need likes sent to me so i know for sure that I've got the right
ones.

So far nothings worked raising the possibility that my video card is
incompatible. I'm getting a new card next payday anyway. Any suggestions
on what works best?

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 10:49 +0000, Simon Goodall wrote:
> which version of sear are you running? The last release or current git?
>

[Simon Goodall (sgoodall)]

I would suggest trying the latest git version of sear. There have been many changes since the 0.6.3 release. I've been bad at getting a new release out.
Unfortunately there is a bug in guichan which causes character type selection to fail. Selecting the character type dropdown with the mouse will break it. However, tabbing to the combo and using up/down keys to select items works fine.

The latest guichan svn version fixes this problem, but has not been released.

It's been a while since I bought a new gfx card. I've typically found nvidia cards + binary driver to work well with sear. Most of Sear's devel has been against an nvidia card. I've always had problems with ATI's, lots of weird rendering problems and crashes. Both with the opensource and binary drivers. However all my cards are a good few years old, so I'm not sure how the current generation perform.

[wesleybruce (wesleybruce)]

git?? jargon attack. Where? Link please. got the rest. nvidia looks like
it'll get my next pay.

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 07:04 +0000, Simon Goodall wrote:
> I would suggest trying the latest git version of sear. There have been many changes since the 0.6.3 release. I've been bad at getting a new release out.
> Unfortunately there is a bug in guichan which causes character type selection to fail. Selecting the character type dropdown with the mouse will break it. However, tabbing to the combo and using up/down keys to select items works fine.
>
> The latest guichan svn version fixes this problem, but has not been
> released.
>
> It's been a while since I bought a new gfx card. I've typically found
> nvidia cards + binary driver to work well with sear. Most of Sear's
> devel has been against an nvidia card. I've always had problems with
> ATI's, lots of weird rendering problems and crashes. Both with the
> opensource and binary drivers. However all my cards are a good few years
> old, so I'm not sure how the current generation perform.
>

[Kai Blin (kai.blin)]

Git is the source control tool Sear (and other WorldForge components) uses. See the guide at http://wiki.worldforge.org/wiki/Using_Git on how to check out the sources. Or, if you only want one tarball of the current development version, simply go to http://git.worldforge.org/?p=sear.git;a=summary and click the "snapshot" link of the topmost check-in.

[wesleybruce (wesleybruce)]

Should I uninstall anything first?

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 08:02 +0000, Kai Blin wrote:
> Git is the source control tool Sear (and other WorldForge components)
> uses. See the guide at http://wiki.worldforge.org/wiki/Using_Git on how
> to check out the sources. Or, if you only want one tarball of the
> current development version, simply go to
> http://git.worldforge.org/?p=sear.git;a=summary and click the "snapshot"
> link of the topmost check-in.
>

[Simon Goodall (sgoodall)]

You should uninstall the old version of sear and media. There are some start-up files in each version which can conflict with each other. Also check your $HOME/.sear directory for files ending in ".script". You should remove those.