Post by: orth on December 26, 2014, 01:20:17 pm
Version 3.40 is online!
This isn't a very significant update in terms of fixes or additions for players but those will be coming. The biggest change is merging Central and West together and cleaning up the haks. We hope this will make joining up and playing together easier plus it alleviates issues with the cross server portals, horses and other inconsistencies across the servers. It also makes deployment, administration and coding a bit simpler. Should the need arrive to separate them due to performance or other issues then we'll go back to that way but all the other updates mentioned in this post will still exist.
If you haven't downloaded any haks I mentioned earlier you can get them from here in one large rar (the Downloads (http://"/node/2590") section will be updated shortly to get each individual hak should that be easier for you):
http://e5bf79fd7133583b11df-dabb80c66fac67c5c4cbee545d8dd728.r44.cf1.rackcdn.com/haks/layonara_haks.rar (http://"http://e5bf79fd7133583b11df-dabb80c66fac67c5c4cbee545d8dd728.r44.cf1.rackcdn.com/haks/layonara_haks.rar") (914MB)
If you have recently downloaded the big hak I mentioned in the other thread to get a jump on things, you will now only need to get the two below:
http://e5bf79fd7133583b11df-dabb80c66fac67c5c4cbee545d8dd728.r44.cf1.rackcdn.com/haks/layo_ctrlv3r18.rar (http://"http://e5bf79fd7133583b11df-dabb80c66fac67c5c4cbee545d8dd728.r44.cf1.rackcdn.com/haks/layo_ctrlv3r18.rar") (346KB)
http://e5bf79fd7133583b11df-dabb80c66fac67c5c4cbee545d8dd728.r44.cf1.rackcdn.com/haks/layo_resr1.rar (http://"http://e5bf79fd7133583b11df-dabb80c66fac67c5c4cbee545d8dd728.r44.cf1.rackcdn.com/haks/layo_resr1.rar") (6.83MB)
Fixes:
Fix vine mine hampering to work properly, also fixed bug where movement speed didn't return to normal on exit
Fix some areas in The Deep not being set to Night only
Fix River of Darkness vampire spawns
Fix Imbue III bug with lighting being 1d8 instead of 2d6
Fix Divine Might and Divine Shield to be personal instead of medium range
Fix minimaps not being displayed properly in many areas
Remove debug messages from grave robber script
Fix many tileset quirks/bugs and reasons for crashing
Additions:
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Tweak AI on many creatures to be a bit smarter. This started with some of the creatures (Shadows in Storan's Crypt and Vampire Weavemistresses) not doing anything and became a larger effort. Be warned that creatures might not act the same as you're used to.
Server will now preload all houses which have furniture in them owned by players who have played within the last two weeks. This will curtail lag spikes during play and instead puts a bit of delay on server start up instead
Developed logic to exceed palette size without crashing DM client by removing non used items from the DM Creator palette only (but not from the module). DMs can no longer use the creator for Creature Items (Skins, Slams, Claws etc), Deeds and Demon Cards. You can still create these by command but I don't see why you'd need to. In the case of refunding Deeds for example, just buy them from a merchant as a DM.
Moved all dynamic resources into the module or haks
Merge both modules into one
Reorganize haks to get rid of duplicates and make resource usage more efficient
Added recipe cards for all devices to crafting merchants[/li][li]
Added a roulette table to Scamps Mug Inn[/li][li]
Updated icons for spell immunities to show which immunities instead of a generic icon[/li][/list]
Other updates:
Merry Christmas!
-orth
Post by: Acacea on December 24, 2014, 04:05:31 pm
*throws popcorn!* Huzzah for patch days!
*runs to say goodbye to the all the soon to be transformed Shadow F(r)iends*
Post by: orth on December 24, 2014, 04:42:00 pm
If you downloaded the all in one hak I've realized that one of the haks may have been corrupt. If your textures are missing, you may need to redownload the layo_tga.hak.
It's available here: http://e5bf79fd7133583b11df-dabb80c66fac67c5c4cbee545d8dd728.r44.cf1.rackcdn.com/haks/layo_tga.rar
Post by: orth on December 25, 2014, 10:22:54 am
For some people there's been issues with the downloads ending up being corrupted. I've verified that all files are on the servers in their proper form so this leads me to believe some clients are having issues with lost packets.
I've experimented with a few download managers and found the best was DownThemAll for Firefox.
You can install it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/
Once you install it and restart Firefox you will be able to right click a link and select: Save Link with DownThemAll!
This will open a box for you to configure the download. Most options are fine but you'll also see an option to run a checksum. The checksum will verify that the file is successfully downloaded in its complete form. The SHA1 checksum for the big hak file is: 345d70b2f595298a4d175ce1ffdc1a96845ba6c9
Paste that code in the field then click the Start! button.
Post by: lonnarin on December 25, 2014, 10:27:49 pm
Nice! No more relogs due to server hopping!
Post by: lonnarin on December 25, 2014, 10:56:09 pm
Ummm, can't login since the server update stalls at about 500mb. Any other options? Can we host that anywhere more stable?
Post by: orth on December 25, 2014, 11:52:10 pm
Ummm, can't login since the server update stalls at about 500mb. Any other options? Can we host that anywhere more stable?
There is no problem with Rackspace CDN. If you're not getting past 500MB then it sounds like a client thing.
You can always download the individual haks each from the Downloads page.
Post by: Alatriel on December 26, 2014, 09:42:10 am
I was having a lot of problems downloading any and all of the files from the layo page for some reason, but I was finally able to download it from the cdn link. I think it might have had something with my wireless internet, but it didn't matter if I was downloading the all-in-one or individually. All of them stalled out around 40-50%. Even when I was finally able to download the all in one, it would slow down and seem to hault several times before it would speed up again and sort of go in waves. Thankfully it did work.
Post by: orth on December 26, 2014, 10:03:38 am
Just a note on a couple of issues:
There was an issue with bindpoints on the Central server messing things up with both messages and when you died. It should be fixed at the next reset.
I've turned off the preloading the furniture of the recently used homes because it's too heavy on the server at start up. May change the logic to do it when no one was in logged in.
Post by: Lynn1020 on December 26, 2014, 03:14:02 pm
For some people there's been issues with the downloads ending up being corrupted. I've verified that all files are on the servers in their proper form so this leads me to believe some clients are having issues with lost packets.
I've experimented with a few download managers and found the best was DownThemAll for Firefox.
You can install it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/
Once you install it and restart Firefox you will be able to right click a link and select: Save Link with DownThemAll!
This will open a box for you to configure the download. Most options are fine but you'll also see an option to run a checksum. The checksum will verify that the file is successfully downloaded in its complete form. The SHA1 checksum for the big hak file is: 345d70b2f595298a4d175ce1ffdc1a96845ba6c9
Paste that code in the field then click the Start! button.
Orth, when I do this I'm getting an error that the checksums of the download didn't match. Am I doing something wrong?
Post by: orth on December 26, 2014, 03:17:27 pm
Orth, when I do this I'm getting an error that the checksums of the download didn't match. Am I doing something wrong?
If it tells you the checksum mismatches that means the file has not downloaded properly. I would download each individual hak from the Downloads page and test your connection to Layonara after downloading each.
Post by: orth on December 26, 2014, 04:33:00 pm
Here is a list of the proper SHA1 checksums for each hak file after extraction.
You can download a program like Hash it up to verify that your hak's contents are the same as the servers. After you install this program when you right click a file and click Properties it will have a menu for you to verify your hak file matches the server's. Make sure you click on SHA1!
Post by: Lynn1020 on December 26, 2014, 08:47:51 pm
What's does this mean?
Extracting to "C:\\NeverwinterNights\\NWN\\hak\\"
Use Path: yes Overlay Files: no
Extracting layo_tiles.hak
Error: Bad data in file "C:\\NeverwinterNights\\NWN\\hak\\layo_tiles.hak"
Irrecoverable Error: Bad data detected.
I think I may have it.
I'm in!
Post by: orth on December 26, 2014, 08:49:13 pm
I'm in!
Hooray! Was watching your efforts all afternoon heh. Glad you finally got things sorted. Apologies for the hassle!