Sonic Robo Blast 2 Version 2.1 Launches

It should be noted that there are some bugs with the level headers for the multiplayer stages that'll require a patch. I'll make sure to post whenever we get around to finalizing it.

Neat. I wanted to download it earlier, but forgot.

Is there any way to move the camera along with the character in chasecam mode (aside from tapping R all the time)? First person mode is a bit inconvenient for such a game.

Apparently the console variable "cam_speed" defaults to something absurdly low. Try setting it to 1 or higher.

Not entirely sure what the deal with that is. I've been using mouselook the whole time without any issue. *shrug*

Thanks, it worked.

Shadow Hog said:

Not entirely sure what the deal with that is. I've been using mouselook the whole time without any issue. *shrug*

Mouselook is fine. It's just that I'd prefer third person view for platforming, jumping on enemies, etc. Therefore, I wanted to know how to make it work.

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I've been poking around with various values for cam_speed, and it looks like there are basically two different conditions: less than 1 means that the camera won't move at all; with the value of 1 the camera will follow the character. If values like 0.25 (current default) are supposed to give some intermediate results (such as smoother camera movement), then you have a bug, I suppose. Currently, there's no difference between 0 and 0.99.

2.1.1 patch released. Turns out the camspeed bug only shows up in non-English languages. Why? No idea. Stray atof(), apparently.

Also a crash fixed, and the multiplayer level lineup is fixed, so yay.

Neat! I can tell some serious work went into this :) Can't wait to get playing.

Shadow Hog said:

Turns out the camspeed bug only shows up in non-English languages. Why? No idea. Stray atof(), apparently.

You need to set the locale to C. This can be done very simply by calling this during initialization of the program:

	setlocale (LC_ALL, "C");

The decimal separator depends on the language -- in English it's '.', but in other languages it can be ','. And inversely, in English ',' is used as a thousand separators, but in other languages it can be '.' or a space.

For instance, pi * 10000 can be represented in these ways:
1: 31415.926535897932384626433...
2: 31,415.926,535,897,932,384,626,433...
3: 31415,926535897932384626433...
4: 31.415,926.535.897.932.384.626.433...
5: 31 415,926 535 897 932 384 626 433...
6: 31 415.926 535 897 932 384 626 433...

Since this is all very ambiguous, you need to set the locale explicitly if you want consistent behavior. The C locale requires floating point numbers to be expressed as they are in code (first example), using a point for decimal separator and no thousand separator at all.