ToeTag 0.4
The latest version of the editor just went up. Damn, I love Sparkle. Automatic updates are SO nice.
This version adds brush clipping, which was one of the last remaining large-ish features missing from ToeTag. Check out the documentation on it here:
The last few days have been a real experience for me in terms of optimizations and code improvements. It’s great when a code base gets to this state because now it’s less about adding features and more about making what is there better. And easier to use. And faster.
I’ve been using E2M6 as my benchmark level. It was atrocious 2 days ago but now I can work on it and it’s smooth as silk! Well, not quite that smooth, but pretty darn smooth!
Enjoy the new version!
January 14th, 2008 at 12:31 am
tried toe tag on a mac g5 with leopard. the editor opens but i cant see any windows. except the top bar with the “file/view” options. i did the new file, opened a .map file and nothing! dunno whats wrong. there are no error messages.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Hmm… That’s really strange. The only thing I can think of is that it couldn’t find something it wanted to load and failed.
I’m going to see about adding a log file into the next version so I can maybe get some info on people’s machines who are having trouble. It must be an issue with the PAK file reading or something. Can’t imagine why though.
So, is your Quake directory fairly standard? Is there any chance you could zip it up and send it to me? I’d love to reproduce some of these problems on my machine.
warren at wanton hubris
January 15th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Pablo: Look in Console in /Applications/Utilities - see if you got the same malloc error in there that I did.
January 15th, 2008 at 9:28 am
You’re getting a malloc error? Is this something you’ve sent me already? If not, please email me whatever you’re looking at. I’d love to see it.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
this is what the console gave me whenever i wanted to do a new level (cmd+n):
1/16/08 1:07:37 PM ToeTag[132] *** +[NSString stringWithUTF8String:]: NULL cString
dunno what it means. and i dont know what a malloc error is either. i dont have that much tech knowledge
January 16th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Guh. Still not clear what’s happening. So frustrating.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:13 am
I finally upgraded to Leopard yesterday and hope to be checking ToeTag in the next couple of days. It’s already downloaded but I haven’t had the time to fire it up yet…
January 17th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Good deal! Hopefully you’ll be one of the people that it works for.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Yep, it looks like Pablo is getting the same error I am (look under the cString error, there’s another one where it can’t malloc a stupidly large amount - it’s probably because the cString is invalid).
January 17th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Do you guys have the latest version (0.5)? Can you make it fail and then email me the toetag.log file that should be sitting in your Quake directory? That might give me a clue.