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i'm not from nadeo, i'm just someone who has been around here for quite some time already. just because there was a lack of a central topic for bug reports, i created it.

i won't fix anything, it's just a place to post bugs. every now and then i'll summarize them in the first post (which i haven't done for a week or two since i'm terribly busy right now). it's completely up to nadeo to fix the bugs. this topic would make listing them just a tad easier for them, and give us the idea that some specific bugs have a higher chance to get fixed with the next update.

so really, just keep posting bugs, i'll try to update the first post sometimes next week.

After communication with both Nadeo Appointed community contact (Cerovan) as Nadeo's movie creator, i was asked to post a detailed report on the 2D triangles bug.
Although It's not actually a bug, but missing content on a mediatracker block.

So here goes:

What is it and why am i so anxious to see it fixed?
2D Triangles, a Mediatracker flash-like (or for old amiga people FantaVision-like) creation tool which is great to build loads of useful stuff. Although mostly used for sharp lines in intros, it can be used for so much more.

Some examples of cool stuff you can create with it when you got way too much time: (all creations by me)


or even moving intros like i did on the blin/brainzzz duo track called
ztupid nutz

So what's the problem in canyon?

Comparision between TMNF(TMUF looks same) and Canyon:


As you can see in the previous example, canyon is missing 3 icons: Select, Add and Delete
Because of that you can now only create a single grey triangle. And it isn't even magnetic on the ends.

This is what it should do: (all taken from tmnf)
Select: (arrow icon)

When you select a dot, a new menu on the side should appear, allowing you to alter colour, opacity and XYZ coordinations of a point.
Beside that there's also these functions allowing you to move multiple selected points at once:


Add: (+ icon)

The add function allows you to add a triangle on the same grid. The points of already created triangles are magnetic so it's easy to join them and create complicated figures

Delete (trashcan icon)

with the delete function you can remove single points allowing you to create groups of magnetic dots to use on complicated projects (image tracing for example)


all these functions are missing in canyon under the Mediatracker block Triangles2D

So please Nadeo, pimp my game (also posted this in my 2D triangles workaround topic)

If you go through the saving sequence in the track editor, and select a track name that's identical to another one in a specific folder, you might end up with a window that says:



If you click cancel, the track will still be saved.

It's not really a bug, just a spelling mistake:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4674396/TM2/swith-or-switch.jpg

"Swith" should be "Switch".

another small mistake: if you leave a server, it states [servername]left. (instead of you left [servername] )

now when we can dl a replay on mx i notice one thing
it dont calculate shadows if you choice play against and i hit the flag and it say shadows not calclated ?

I can't find any other examples of this, but I'm having, since the new release, a problem where after a random amount of playtime (anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, but usually about 5-15 minutes), the game just freezes up on me.

I have to bring up a task manager and kill the process to get back to my desktop.

I'm running Windows 7 on some high-end hardware, all drivers are up to date.

Are there any other reports on this? Any suggestions? And most importantly - how can I enable logging or force a crash-dump so we can see what's going on? The program doesn't generate any logs when this happens, so i have nothing relevent to submit.

Lastly, is there a better place then here to report this bug?

Lok

Have you your processor up to 100% of activity?

You have maybe a crashlog in Documents/ManiaPlanet/Crashlog.

I don't know if it's already posted but there is a spelling mistake in the German version.

If a buddy connects to the game it says:
"XY hat sich auf diesem Server angemeldet".

In English that would be "XY connected to this server".
But this is wrong because he didn't connect to the server but logged in the game.

Correct it would be:
"XY ist nun online" or "XY hat sich gerade im Spiel angemeldet".