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Some players have black textures - ted - 05-15-2020
Hello,
Sometimes I run a server to play only with friends. I would like to play on some unofficial map and something weird happens.
I run the server on PC A and I play on PC B on the same network. I tried with the map stone_ocean and sanctum_a5, the maps were loaded on the server and I can play on it on PC B (the map is aumomatically downloaded on it, never played before). But my friends say that they only see a black screen , some items and players. I can see them on the game.
Maybe I do something wrong, but I don't understant why it works on my PC B. Do you have an idea?
RE: Some players have black textures - RaiRu - 05-16-2020
The maps probably didn't download correctly. Try clearing your dlcache (~/.xonotic/data/dlcache on Linux, and i think on Windows its C:/Users/<your username>/Saved Games/Xonotic/data/dlcache)
RE: Some players have black textures - ted - 05-17-2020
Thank you for your answer. I think I didn't put the pk3 files at the right place on the server. I moved them, cleared the dlcache and it works on my «gaming» PC (like before). I will try with my friends this week.
RE: Some players have black textures - BuddyFriendGuy - 05-27-2020
(05-17-2020, 03:36 PM)ted Wrote: Thank you for your answer. I think I didn't put the pk3 files at the right place on the server. I moved them, cleared the dlcache and it works on my «gaming» PC (like before). I will try with my friends this week.
You don't need to clear everything under dlcache/ , just the zero-length files.
dlcache/* is not automatically searched for map files in a server situation. Try moving the pk3 files one level up (same level as dlcache/ ) and restart the server.
RE: Some players have black textures - ted - 05-27-2020
It's what I did on the server (to put the pk3 into .xonotic/data) and I told players to clear the dlcache. It seems that Windows players still have the problem, but there is no problem for Linux players
I don't know if it's releavant: it is the Xonotic server shipped with the 0.8.2 Release under Linux, it's not the git one. I use my own http server to share the map, the map are downloaded successsfully.
RE: Some players have black textures - BuddyFriendGuy - 05-27-2020
(05-27-2020, 02:37 PM)ted Wrote: It's what I did on the server (to put the pk3 into .xonotic/data) and I told players to clear the dlcache. It seems that Windows players still have the problem, but there is no problem for Linux players
I don't know if it's releavant: it is the Xonotic server shipped with the 0.8.2 Release under Linux, it's not the git one. I use my own http server to share the map, the map are downloaded successsfully.
There's some explanation here:
https://forums.xonotic.org/showthread.php?tid=7885&pid=86027#pid86027
If your users have a corrupted file in .xonotic/data, they'll need to delete those too.
I don't think the git version differs from 0.8.2 in that regard.
RE: Some players have black textures - ted - 05-28-2020
Thank you, I will try that the next time I play with my friends
I have still some other unrelated config issues, I will open a new post for that.