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DarkBASIC Discussion / Tank2 Demo - is the smoke white or black on your system?

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EddieRay
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Posted: 10th Mar 2003 23:10
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Run it using the source from DB or download it here:

ftp://ftp.darkbasic.com/demos/db_tankdemo_v2.zip

Please post 2 results after you run it:

1) Is the smoke white or black?

2) Does the fire from the enemy tank have a lot of black in it?

Also, post the type of graphics card you have, CPU, and Windows version.

The "correct" results are that the smoke is supposed to be white and the fire from the enemy tank shouldn't show any black - it should be all red.

Here's the original thread I started with some screenshots of "incorrect" results:

http://www.darkbasicpro.com/apollo/view.php?t=6718&b=10

Thanks,

Ed
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EddieRay
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Posted: 10th Mar 2003 23:19
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Also, it would be nice if someone who really understands how the tank2 demo code actually works could confirm what the correct results are supposed to be. For all I know, there could be some hardware feature detection going on that makes it work differently on certain graphics cards.

Thanks,

Ed

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EddieRay
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Posted: 14th Mar 2003 00:22
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Very sad... noone can be bothered to run this demo and type a quick message?

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LREM 8888
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Posted: 15th Mar 2003 11:58
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I've read this thread and the other one (the red folder picture attracted me) and I must say it's happened to me before in a different way. (I'm referring to Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf PC Edition). Ran on Windows 2000 (XP untested), only the textures show up. Everything else, turns purple on my desktop machine, and black and flashing on my other laptop (i've got 2). So i think it's just DB somehow colours it in instead of making it into a texture (which makes sense), and adds transparency and lightweight ghosting (i think).

How to fix it, how to fix it? Reformat your hard drive and install Win. 98 is one way.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 15th Mar 2003 13:54
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Well actually, the smoke is black for me. its white if you have a crap card. if you dont beleive me then look in the media folder for the Tank 2.0 demo coz its got BLACK smoke in it.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 15th Mar 2003 15:55
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petrat it is SUPPOSE to be white... the bitmap and the ingame smoke. The fire is also suppose to looke like real fire.

This is in NO WAY a Windows XP problem as i've run this on WinME, Win2000, WinXP Pro, Win .Net Pro -- all have returned the same results on 5 different machines.
If there is a true problem with it then it is graphics card based, which is it more than likely.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 16th Mar 2003 20:59
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I looked in the directory of the Tank 2.0 demo and the smoke bitmap is black in it.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 00:35
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downlaod the one i uploaded... trust me its NOT suppose to be black

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minkus
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 05:04
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on my computer it is black - windows XP, pentium 4

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Juso
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 13:07
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Smoke is white in GeForce 2 MX, Win 98.
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Benjamin
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 13:42
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Well I played the one I had in the Tank 2.0 folder of the DBB folder and it was black. I played the uploaded one and it was white in that. i think its meant to be black.
Anyway, I have the black smoke in my folder of the Tank 2.0 demo. what color is it in yours Raven?

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 14:48
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white ... has always been white as long as i can remember too - since Tank v1.0

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