It would be really great if you did open a github account, even if just for bug-tracking. If you have... then sorry, but you should put a link in the first post!
Anyway, bug report time. I've had a rendering problem, which in short can be described as "Cow on my head"...
Yeah.
This most usually manifests as the player model being thoroughly broken, and/or pieces of it swapping out with other nearby creatures, which sometimes even blocks the first-person view. It also manifests as GL Error #1283, aka. glPushMatrix overflow due to lack of corresponding popMatrix, which could happen e.g. if something throws an exception in the middle of the rendering code and it isn't properly cleaned up. In extreme cases that causes second-long stalls as the driver resets.
I think it's been reported in this thread, but without a solution, so I had to deal with it. Thanks to a lucky guess from Lutillian, I tracked it to an inter-mod incompatibility between Flaxbeard's Steampower and the Ruins mod. More specifically, it turns out that Ruins can spawn some Steampower blocks in invalid orientations, which presumably breaks its rendering code in a way which causes this behavior. Yay.
Ideally, Steampower wouldn't do that. Ideally, Ruins would spawn things in the right orientation. At the modpack level the fix is more simple, however: Don't Spawn Those Blocks.
I fixed it in my server-builder using a patch to TFP, as such:
https://github.com/Erisia/builder/commit/c7cfbb5f23870a87a1164ed09815e20fec6bc565
Luckily, not all the blocks cause this sort of trouble. In particular the pipes don't, which means that this particular hack doesn't break your nice-looking ruins too badly, but you still probably want to be a bit more clever than what I'm doing. In fact, several of the blocks I'm removing probably didn't need to be removed; I just wanted to be on the safe side. But if you want to do a quick patch release, then it might make sense to run my sed script for now, and fix it more properly later.
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On an unrelated note, I'm starting a TerraFirmaPunk server... um, somewhere between tomorrow and next Friday, depending on how the remaining testing & programming goes, so expect more bug reports over time. A git repository really would help us both here, as I'm perfectly happy to supply bug reports in the form of patches, as you can see.
If any of you other guys are interested in joining, you can see our homepage at
https://madoka.brage.info/
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And on the gripping hand, I suppose--
I'm going to adapt Electrical Age to work in TFP, largely because I think EA goes with
everything. The question is, should I do this via quick hacks, or in a way that could be submitted and would work as part of TFP?
Aka. would you like it to be part of the pack. Personally, I think it'd be a good idea, but it's up to you.
