ENIGMA Development Environment

Great - I'm glad to see many AMD reports, this is where I wanted to make sure things worked - So far I have many confirmations for AMD (old and new), NVIDIA (old and new), and INTEL.

Any more NVIDIA users willing to test V2 ?

Old fix that was working for everyone (v1) had d3d projection ortho X offset by 0.01.
However, found out vertical scrolling had issues for some NVIDIA, even without offsets, so I added a Y offset to make it both X/Y 0.01.  Made the final updates to the source files it is basically ready to be merged, I'd like to get more feedback from NVIDIA as well, and if you have any onboard video or any other card the more feedback the better.

This is a continuation of the other topic:
http://enigma-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=2000.0

I have been so busy lately that I had to put this on hold for a while.  Today I completed the 2nd and final version of a test project and an update to my fix.  It was established that with the fix applied people with NVIDIA, AMD, INTEL, had no problems viewing fonts in my test project.  However, I discovered an issue on my own when working on v2 of my test project, vertical scrolling had a 1px gap that flickered.  this was not even caused by the fix as I saw it even with all offsets removed, so I updated the fix to address this issue as well.

After rigorous testing on my end with my 2 PCs plus old boards, the results were positive 100%, in theory this will fix all fonts problem, regardless of font and size used and will fix any issues with scrolling.  For those that have graphic cards that had no problems before, the fix will not have any adverse effects and everything should work just fine.

I am submitting a new EXE file for people to try out.  Same drill.  I would please ask you to run the program and follow the instructions.  I've added a menu and it's pretty much self explanatory.  Please go through every menu option.

Here are some guidelines:

For fonts, after a lot of trial/error/testing I have cherry picked the most problematic fonts and combination of letters/numbers/sizes.  You will see 3 sections for fonts, section A which is live render, which is what the engine is currently rendering on your screen.   Section B is a pre-rendered sprite demonstrating what the font should NOT look like, and section C is a pre-rendered sprite showing what the font should look like.  So section A should look like section C, if your section A looks like B, this is not good, so please take note.

Ignore the fact that each line is shifted slightly to the right.  This was done intentionally for testing purposes.  Also ignore any uneven spacing or thickness, again, this is not an issue with ENIGMA but scaling low res fonts on high resolution display + your monitor's upscaling.  The issue to look for here is artifacts, as demonstrated in section B.

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Scrolling, for this test, the program will switch to full screen mode, and show 2 scrolling backgrounds simultaneously, look closely for at least 30 seconds to a minute, for any 1px or more empty gap at the seams of the horizontal or vertical backgrounds.  If there is a gap you will see a black flickering line at the seam.  In theory this fix should NOT introduce scrolling glitches, but should fix one that was present even without the offsets.
 
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Border test, this fix should cause any unwanted borders, but I included it just to be sure.  Follow the instructions on screen.

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Sprites testing, having different instances of sprites scroll in different directions at random positions and alpha settings.  Again, the fix should not have any effect on this, but decided to include it to be sure
If you notice anything unusual such as lines at adges of sprites (such as seen with fonts before the fix) or flickering or you get abducted by aliens, take note

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Whether you have any issues or not please report with the following information:

1) As much details as possible as to what IS or IS NOT working for you (FONTS, SCROLLING, BORDERS, etc.)  Please make sure you have understood and followed the instructions first.

2) Your OS, GPU type (NVIDIA, AMD, INTEL, etc) and model if possible along with driver revision (if possible).

3) Your monitor resolution used to run the test project.

If you test on many configurations you can make separate reports or include them in the same one.

I will start first as an example of a valid report:

multi configuration testing:
1) No issues at all with fonts, sprites, borders or scrolling on any setup.
2) Windows 7 64bit SP1
      NVIDIA EVGA GTX 660Ti SC 2GB (337.88 WHQL)
      INTEL HD4000 (iGPU)
       
    Windows XP 32bit SP3
       NVIDIA BFG 8800GTS OC 320MB (306.81)
3) Testing range 640x480 ~ 1920x1080 (Native)
(note that I have extensively tested this, so I am not asking you to test all resolutions).

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Thanks once again.  Once it is confirmed that people with different setups have successfully run my project and not noticed any anomalies as described herein, then we can go ahead and implement the fix inside ENIGMA.  Test #1 worked for everyone, so I am anticipating #2 will work for everyone as all I have done is add Y offset .01, so now d3d projection ortho X/Y offsets are 0.01/0.01, this is likely helping with rounding issues on some GPUs.   I have compiled this EXE with a modified source where I added my fixes to the source CPP.  It is important that the fixes be included in the CPPs and not done yourself inside your projects as this can be problematic in certain situations.   So I added the fix to GLMatrix.cpp and I can confirm that the fix also works for GL3, so I modified GL3Matrix.cpp as well.

When running this test I highly recommend you have the latest GPU drivers installed.  DISCLAIMER: If you don't feel comfortable updating drivers, don't do it, or do so at your own risk and peril   I am not responsible if your system crashes, fucks up, or anything deemed abnormal caused by updating your GPU drivers or any loss of sleep, alien abduction or otherwise.

Thanks for your help, and hopefully this can be merged and we can move on to other bugs This one was a real pain in the arse!

Current version of enigma contains erronous offsets in the GL matrix, I don't know why these have not been removed as it was established they did not work for everyone Anyhow.

I am including the EXE, zipped.

Now I don't give a shit who's fault it is and who has a better GPU this will not be a debate on who has a bigger penis !  The goal here is to make sure everyone who runs this test is seeing the same good results

Cheers

Download here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2i4ff9znwdad6tl/OpenGL1FixTesting-V2-Final.zip


//edit:  Don't run the EXE from the other topic "Phase 1/2"  The revision 2 is more advanced and includes all test, so for those who did not run v1, please don't and skip to this v2. Thanks.

I will be locking this topic now.  Thanks to everyone who contributed with ideas, suggestions, etc.  I will start a new more up to date topic later and submit one final testing in hope for an imminent fix.  The offsets discussed here is no longer relevant, as I may have stumbled upon a quick fix that should work for everyone, and those offset and rounding tricks suggested were not a working solution for everyone.

Thanks Robert will test later.  I could have sworn this was working before in ENIGMA

Yet the other keyboard_lastchar, keyboard_lastkey etc work

Here is I want to do

switch (keyboard_key)
      {
      case vk_left: direction -=3; break;
      case vk_right: direction +=3; break;
      }
speed=3;
image_angle=direction;

Does nothing.  When debugging, I found out keyboard_key returns 0.  IS it broken?

If splash screen is the only real thing turning people off (on the surface), it would take me 20 minutes to bypass that via proxy d3dx9_43.dll

Lucky I own Pro though, so not my problem

LOL not even worth it 

I don't think people mind the splash after all it would be very unreasonable for someone to complain about a splash screen on something fully functional and FREE.

BTw there is talk about GMS 2, I read somewhere it was mentioned their CEO talked about hoping a beta would surface before the end of the year - But of  course they did mention their new IDE would be available early this year too so you can't really know for sure.  There is also talk about moving to a subscription based model

And you said they put hte nails in ENIGMA's coffin, lol I think they actually gave ENIGMA a new reason !

Note that I'm not focusing on the splash screen, which is still included at no additional cost. I'm focusing on to whom and for what price you are allowed to distribute their games. They don't seem to publish their EULA online.

FREE is a good marketing tool and generates revenues, proof in concept is everywhere.  They are not a charity and they want to get people into their software, and eventually gain bigger interest and upgrade.  Also this could pave the way for pay to use / addon to come that would probably not exist for Standard......Just watch.......They set the carrot for the taking but watch what's to come

As far as their licese, if you publish through their services/website, etc, basically they own your soul sort of
Publish on your own, not using their hosting or any assistance/services, and you have to include all respective IP owners in your game license, including the YoYoRunner and any other respective parties.  Also if they assist in publishing and publish for you, you have other restrictions that apply such as exclusivity and other.  Nothing was stopping the guy who was earning $50k a day from flapping pixels to earning money.  It all depends on how you go at publishing your game, before allowing joint publishing or using their host to upload your content and/or game make sure you read the terms and know what you are getting into.

 

But, ENIGMA won't even work in full-screen mode (using any renderer) 

really ? that's news to me, OGL works fine for me in full screen.

I am working on something now and switch between window and full screen in game and all works fine.

Even in DX9, there are in game tricks/code you can use to quick fix this.

Take a look at the feature list between Standard and Pro. They have now taken away export to Win 8 and OSX exporters.

oh the OSX is $100 now   Those who have Pro and already had the MAC get to keep it.

Essentially, you are now paying $99 to unlock the ability to pay more money. LOL. So, yeah I might have jumped the gun when I said ENIGMA is ready to be buried.

Nice sneaky way of getting money, but you really didn't expect them to just give something away free without compensating somewhere did you ?   People can't have their cake and eat it.
Already people are complaining on the forum.

I didn't realise that Standard now had a YYG splash screen. LOL - that will annoy people into forking out for Pro (or finding an alternative ).

Not any different than most shareware free versions out there.  Again, you didn't expect them to give full featured Standard FREE without putting a splash screen ?  On that I cannot fault them for that, after all it is fully functional no limits.  The whole idea is to get conversion out of this, after all it is a for profit organisation, not in business to give freebies

So, that is a very good marketing strategy YYG has done. Hat's off to them on forcing people to pay $99+ any exporter. 

Well it's business, I have nothing against that, so long as you get what you pay for......  Example, the $300 YYC compiler, in my opinion you don't get what you pay for and it is highly unreasonable RIP OFF

Of course it was, it was designed to directly compete with GM:S.

Wrong.  When ENIGMA was created it was a hobby project to port a game, it was never intended to be a full replacement to GMS or "COMPETE".  For a product like ENIGMA to really "COMPETE" in the true sense it would require several years and an entire dev team and a complete (m___________r) of a re-write from the grounds up and be its own.....

It even goes as far as replicating GM's off by one errors on surfaces.

The fact it is free makes it more acceptable.   Even with GMS Standard being FREE now and fully functional (non restricted), ENIGMA has unique features (and bugs) faster, compiles, unique features, functions, particularly for more advanced people.  People who don't push the bar in their game or familiar with code need stay with GMS Free and enjoy the nice splash screen so the whole world know that their game was made with what started as a kiddie tool.