NReality Main Thread: 6g2 with IRC is up

[999_Springs]

Finally! A slight improvement!

My computer is loading transparent update almost normally now and I can get to see highscores!

BUT...

It is loading highscores

VVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY SSSSSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYY.
It takes a minute or so after I click on the episode number for the scores to load.

Slight improvement with n.infunity.com as well. The pages now load! But they also load

VVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY SSSSSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYY.
The homepage takes about half a minute, the ranking pages about one and the people's scores about one and a half to load... but I am STILL getting the problem that only 15-20 lines of scores load.

And, worst of all, after a few minutes and clicks of the "Refresh" button, Internet Explorer completely stalls and I have to close all windows and reload it. AAAAAAARGH!

[Cheez]

So um,
Maybe I just am bad with Nreality, but I would appreciate some assistance with creating various new types of drones. Say, I want a Force Field Drone in my map. The list of mods from that Wiki page just gives me:
6^x,y,path,0,16,direction^detectRadius,forcePower,forceDelayTimer,forceMaxCount,forceMaxCountDelay,alwaysMove
Just for some clarification, do I replace x and y with a number to position it, and do I need to replace all the words with numbers too? I just don't understand. Any help would be appreciated, as apparently you guys know how it works, or at least Unreality does.

[Rikaninja]

No need to do that. In the code for a chaingun drone change the second last number to a particulr number to make a particular drone. Go to N Mapping and I have started a topic there about code editin. It might be on he 2nd or third page. I think it is called Basic Code Editing :)

-----EDIT-----
Here's the link: http://forum.therealn.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1046

[Rdy-kun]

Hey, um, for a while now the transparent update has not loaded, period. It's been like three months since I last saw it load. I checked my firewall and NReality has full access, so I don't know what's happening. I noticed that other people are having that problem, so has a fix been found for this?

[Nexx]

So um,
Maybe I just am bad with Nreality, but I would appreciate some assistance with creating various new types of drones. Say, I want a Force Field Drone in my map. The list of mods from that Wiki page just gives me:
6^x,y,path,0,16,direction^detectRadius,forcePower,forceDelayTimer,forceMaxCount,forceMaxCountDelay,alwaysMove
Just for some clarification, do I replace x and y with a number to position it, and do I need to replace all the words with numbers too? I just don't understand. Any help would be appreciated, as apparently you guys know how it works, or at least Unreality does.

It's quite simple. Here's how the drone data works:

#^OriginalDroneData^NRealityDroneData

So just place a chaingun wherever you want your forcefield drone to be, with whatever navigation you want your forcefield drone to have. Then look at the chaingun code and make sure those #'s fit this scheme:

6^x,y,path,0,16,direction

Obviously that 16 will need to be put there since that's what makes it a forcefield drone. But "x", "y", "path", etc. are just labels so you know what the #'s correspond to. The point is to set them as you want and then make sure the 0 and the 16 are there.

THEN you add a new "^" at the end, followed by the required #'s. The article says:

detectRadius,forcePower,forceDelayTimer,forceMaxCount,forceMaxCountDelay,alwaysMove

Don't get confused. Right below that, the article goes through each thing and tells you what it's for and provides a default value for that field. You don't want to play with the forcefield drone's characteristics? That's just fine. In that case, replace each field name with its default value and you're done.

Remember to save the code if you want to playtest because the NReality code will go away if the map is played.

[bhz]

Transparent Update IS WORKING!!!!!
at least for me

[Banned]

How do I download NReality for Mac? I might've missed something though...

[Nexx]

@Skyflyer: No idea. Can't help you there.

For everyone else: If your transparent update isn't working, can you load NUMA maps? And vice versa, for those who can't load NUMA maps, is your transparent update working?

I think I can help out those for whom transparent update loads but they can't load NUMA maps (as I'm also in that group occasionally). I've recently been paying attention to the way my NReality behaves and it's kind of strange. Here's what happens:

I open it up and just let it sit there until transparent update loads or not (it doesn't always load). Then I click "userlevels". If transparent update has loaded, the map # in the field is 136604 and NReality won't load any NUMA maps. If transparent update hasn't loaded, the map # in the field is 111791 and NUMA maps will load (though NReality maps will be messed up). Very strange. But you can get both to work by opening NReality and immediately going to the userlevels area, then waiting for transparent update to load (and restarting if it doesn't). Then both features will work.

Can anyone else corroborate this? It's absolutely possible it's just my computer - I have no idea what to think about it.

[Banned]

No one knows a way to get Nreality for mac? I wanna try the blue_tetris column... People on N Troubleshooting said that I should try NReality (because N wasn't working then) and I had specified earlier that I had a mac... I hate using bootcamp so... Any ideas?

[darkshadow]

@Skyflyer: No idea. Can't help you there.

For everyone else: If your transparent update isn't working, can you load NUMA maps? And vice versa, for those who can't load NUMA maps, is your transparent update working?

I think I can help out those for whom transparent update loads but they can't load NUMA maps (as I'm also in that group occasionally). I've recently been paying attention to the way my NReality behaves and it's kind of strange. Here's what happens:

I open it up and just let it sit there until transparent update loads or not (it doesn't always load). Then I click "userlevels". If transparent update has loaded, the map # in the field is 136604 and NReality won't load any NUMA maps. If transparent update hasn't loaded, the map # in the field is 111791 and NUMA maps will load (though NReality maps will be messed up). Very strange. But you can get both to work by opening NReality and immediately going to the userlevels area, then waiting for transparent update to load (and restarting if it doesn't). Then both features will work.

Can anyone else corroborate this? It's absolutely possible it's just my computer - I have no idea what to think about it.

Consider your experience confirmed.

[EdoI]

@Skyflyer: No idea. Can't help you there.

For everyone else: If your transparent update isn't working, can you load NUMA maps? And vice versa, for those who can't load NUMA maps, is your transparent update working?

I think I can help out those for whom transparent update loads but they can't load NUMA maps (as I'm also in that group occasionally). I've recently been paying attention to the way my NReality behaves and it's kind of strange. Here's what happens:

I open it up and just let it sit there until transparent update loads or not (it doesn't always load). Then I click "userlevels". If transparent update has loaded, the map # in the field is 136604 and NReality won't load any NUMA maps. If transparent update hasn't loaded, the map # in the field is 111791 and NUMA maps will load (though NReality maps will be messed up). Very strange. But you can get both to work by opening NReality and immediately going to the userlevels area, then waiting for transparent update to load (and restarting if it doesn't). Then both features will work.

Can anyone else corroborate this? It's absolutely possible it's just my computer - I have no idea what to think about it.

Consider your experience confirmed.

For me everything works perfectly. Anyone to confirm?

[bhz]

No one knows a way to get Nreality for mac? I wanna try the blue_tetris column... People on N Troubleshooting said that I should try NReality (because N wasn't working then) and I had specified earlier that I had a mac... I hate using bootcamp so... Any ideas?

by any chance, are HQX files openable by macs?

[Banned]

HQZ!?! Never seen one.

Edit: Oh wait, I think you're right, I probably can open them.

[isaacx]

@Skyflyer: No idea. Can't help you there.

For everyone else: If your transparent update isn't working, can you load NUMA maps? And vice versa, for those who can't load NUMA maps, is your transparent update working?

I think I can help out those for whom transparent update loads but they can't load NUMA maps (as I'm also in that group occasionally). I've recently been paying attention to the way my NReality behaves and it's kind of strange. Here's what happens:

I open it up and just let it sit there until transparent update loads or not (it doesn't always load). Then I click "userlevels". If transparent update has loaded, the map # in the field is 136604 and NReality won't load any NUMA maps. If transparent update hasn't loaded, the map # in the field is 111791 and NUMA maps will load (though NReality maps; will be messed up). Very strange. But you can get both to work by opening NReality and immediately going to the userlevels area, then waiting for transparent update to load (and restarting if it doesn't). Then both features will work.

Can anyone else corroborate this? It's absolutely possible it's just my computer - I have no idea what to think about it.

Consider your experience confirmed.

I happens to me too. But finally a solution to my problem ;P

[Brainwasher]

so is nreality finally legal and using .sol? or do you still need to convert to .swf (illegal)?

[Nexx]

so is nreality finally legal and using .sol? or do you still need to convert to .swf (illegal)?

I believe NReality saves your demos in the same .sol file that N v1.4 does. Did it not used to do that or something?

[Rdy-kun]

My transparent update doesn't load, at all, ever, but I can load all maps except playermod maps.

[Brainwasher]

so is nreality finally legal and using .sol? or do you still need to convert to .swf (illegal)?

I believe NReality saves your demos in the same .sol file that N v1.4 does. Did it not used to do that or something?

Yeah, when nreality first came out, there was a big debate because you had to convert your .sol file to a .swf file, which everyone said was illegal. Now that it doesn't need that, I'll have to get the download onto a CD (prevents frequent .sol corruption because of priority placement and .sol activity pull).

[golf]

Brainwasher: Playing off a cd probably won't help your .sol corruption issues any more than playing it normally off your computer. I've done it several times off a USB flash drive, and it still saves the .sol to the computer hard drive that I'm playing on, not the flash drive. For example, if you play NReality off your cd, with the .sol on it, onto a computer that has never played this game before, it will start you off from scratch, not from whatever your .sol has on it. So your best bet is to simply frequently back up your .sol file by copying it to somewhere, and to make sure you paste it into the proper location whenever you play on a new computer.

[Brainwasher]

yeah, I do back up my files on floppys, and the .sol data is on the computer, but my n has never corrupted, ever. Anyway, none of the special nreality mods work for me, new drones, playermods, etc, is there a special setting that turns them on or off?

[999_Springs]

Today n.infunity.com loaded my full set of level scores for the first time since 8th November 2008!

I don't know if this is a one-off or whether the problem has been solved...

[999_Springs]

I don't know whether to post this here or in the "Is NReality not working?!?!?" thread, but I'm getting all those problems coming back again, with transparent update not working, and n.infunity.com either doesn't load or redirects to quotaless.com/404 "Acceptable Use Policy", a page which also doesn't load. (WHAT!!?!?!?)

Could someone please fix this!?

Where's Unreality?

[_underscore_]

I don't know whether to post this here or in the "Is NReality not working?!?!?" thread, but I'm getting all those problems coming back again, with transparent update not working, and n.infunity.com either doesn't load or redirects to quotaless.com/404 "Acceptable Use Policy", a page which also doesn't load. (WHAT!!?!?!?)

Could someone please fix this!?

Where's Unreality?

Tain't workin for me neither...

[Nexx]

Yeah, n.infunity.com is having problems. That means that transparent update, map thumbnails, and highscores aren't loading in NReality.

I emailed Unreality about it, so hopefully it'll be fixed soon. Until then, it sucks.

[Yoshimo]

Dang it, I want to view Nreality highscores! T_T
When will this be fixed? (Soon, in a while, far off?)