Delenda Est Alien Hieroglyph

[Palaiologos]

Any idea what has caused this? Clicked the start mod(s) option and was presented with this and no way to navigate any further from here. For example, can't click exit or anything.

[Servo]

The same thing is happening to me too since last week using the DL from mid.io thru the settings. Tried it yesterday and still the same. You can’t play and you can’t exit. 

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Alpha 23 or svn?

[elexis]

Upload mainlog.html, it contains the full SETI response

Perhaps the mods were enabled in the wrong order

[Palaiologos]

21 hours ago, Servo said:

Tried it yesterday and still the same. You can’t play and you can’t exit

@Servo Even after rearranging the mod order too? Hmm, maybe this is how 'they' are making first contact through 0ad...

 

13 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Alpha 23 or svn?

@wowgetoffyourcellphone Trick question, both and neither. :)

 

9 hours ago, elexis said:

mainlog.html,

@elexis Overwritten?

 

9 hours ago, elexis said:

SETI response

ah that (scratches head)

 

9 hours ago, elexis said:

Perhaps the mods were enabled in the wrong order

Are you cereal? It is as simple as that? What are these ASCII characters anyhow?

[Stan`]

38 minutes ago, Palaiologos said:

What are these ASCII characters anyhow? 

Those are the images generated from fonts we use to display text in the game. This should be replaced by direct font loading at some point, to allow for smoother fonts on higher resolutions.

[Palaiologos]

2 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

direct font loading

Some sort of enhancement?

 

4 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

higher resolutions

I recently upgraded my monitor to an ASUS MG248Q, could this have been the culprit when seeing those images?

[Stan`]

Just now, Palaiologos said:

Some sort of enhancement?

Well, imagine that fonts (TTF files) are vector images that you can stretch as much as you want, what we do for the game is take a specific resolution, print it all on a png file, and use that everywhere. So it's good for the initial size, but not so good when scaling (might become blurry)

 

2 minutes ago, Palaiologos said:

I recently upgraded my monitor to an ASUS MG248Q, could this have been the culprit when seeing those images? 

Probably not as it's not a QHD monitor. But even then you shouldn't encounter that kind of bugs. It seems to have occured because something broke in the menu. Maybe some incorrect technology.
 

[Palaiologos]

1 minute ago, stanislas69 said:

specific resolution, print it all on a png file, and use that everywhere

Ok, I have a vague idea, cool.

 

6 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

Probably not as it's not a QHD monitor.

Sigh.

 

7 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

Maybe some incorrect technology.

I see. Alright, thank you.

[elexis]

5 hours ago, Palaiologos said:

What are these ASCII characters anyhow?

It looks like the background is just uninitialized data, so it displays random fun. The hypothesis is covered by the JS errors complaining about the background being unidentified nonflying objects.