GTK Radiant 1.4 Error

[Darth Futuza]

Hmmm...after trying to install Tremulous for GTK 1.4 I get:

"Synpase server initialization failed (see console)
 GetLastError: The system cannot find the path specified.
 An unrecoverable error has occured.
 Would you like to edit Preferences before exiting Radiant?"

I'm fairly certain that the files are all in their correct spots.
Possible causes?  Do I need \ or / in the .game and .config files?  (For the paths)

Or...do I have to manually define a path in the preferences to...something first?  And to what file?

Someone know what to do?

[Zero Ame]

Whats ur OS, Linux, Mac, or Windows?

[Darth Futuza]

Sorry, I'll try to be more detailed.

OS: Windows XP SP2


I've tried swapping / and \'s around, but...to no avail.  Do I perhaps simply need to edit the preference paths, but which one: Prefab Path, or User INI path.  And to what do I need to tell it to go to?

I also noticed that other Quake3 games that use GTK, have user0.proj files, because I didn't get one of those...


Note: GTK Radiant works just fine with the standard games...so no problems with GTK itself...just the config files & stuff that point Tremulous out to it.

[Zero Ame]

this is what the trem.game file should look like.

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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<game
  type="q3"
  index="1"
  name="Tremulous 1.1.0"
  enginepath_win32="C:/Program Files/Tremulous/"
  enginepath_linux="/usr/local/games/tremulous/"
  enginepath_macos="/Applications/Tremulous/"
  engine_win32="tremulous.exe"
  engine_linux="tremulous"
  engine_macos="tremulous.app"
  prefix=".trem"
  basegame="base"
  basegamename="Tremulous 1.1.0"
  unknowngamename="Custom Tremulous Modification"
  shaderpath="scripts"
  archivetypes="pk3"
  texturetypes="tga jpg"
  modeltypes="md3 ase lwo obj 3ds picoterrain"
  maptypes="mapq3"
  shaders="quake3"
  entityclass="quake3"
  entityclasstype="def"
  entities="quake3"
  brushtypes="quake3"
  patchtypes="quake3"
/>

otherwise just try manually editing the preferences so everything is correct.

[Darth Futuza]

I tried editing the .game file it now contains:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
<game
  type="q3"
  index="1"
  name="Tremulous 1.1.0"
  gametools="C:\Program Files\Tremulous\Radiant-1.4/"
  enginepath="C:\Program Files\Tremulous/"
  engine="tremulous.exe"
  prefix=".trem"
  basegame="base"
  basegamename="Tremulous 1.1.0"
  unknowngamename="Custom Tremulous Modification"
  shaderpath="scripts/"
  archivetypes="pk3"
  texturetypes="tga jpg"
  modeltypes="md3 ase lwo obj 3ds picoterrain"
  maptypes="mapq3"
  shaders="quake3"
  entityclass="quake3"
  entityclasstype="def"
  entities="quake3"
  brushtypes="quake3"
  patchtypes="quake3"
/>


However, when I try to run GTK, I get the same error.

[Zero Ame]

try reinstalling both tremulous and GTk and if it doesnt fix it i sugest switching to 1.5

[Darth Futuza]

Didn't work.

Do I need a user0.proj file?  Cause some of the other Quake games have them, I don't have one for tremulous though.

[Zero Ame]

o yeah u might need that, i wouldnt know, i use 1.5 and you dont need them for 1.5

[UniqPhoeniX]

Look at the example trem.game by Zero Ame and notice that only '/' is used, not '\'. So fix yours.

[Zero Ame]

yea that would deffiantly help, i didnt even notice that. the paths dont use '\' they only use '/'. same as web pages.

thanks for pointing that out usakiller.

[Darth Futuza]

yea that would deffiantly help, i didnt even notice that. the paths dont use '\' they only use '/'. same as web pages.

I've already tried it both ways, and neither worked.  By the way web pages will accept either slash, www.google.com/ and www.google.com\ will get you exactly the same place.

[UniqPhoeniX]

Still, '/' is correct, if it doesn't work with that, then you have some other problem as well. With '\' it shouldn't work.

[Syntac]

By the way web pages will accept either slash, www.google.com/ and www.google.com\ will get you exactly the same place.

Not true with most web servers. And www.google.com\ does not, in fact, work.

[EDIT] Follow the directions here to the letter, assuming you haven't already.

[Darth Futuza]

Not true with most web servers. And www.google.com\ does not, in fact, work.

It doesn't when using a direct link, however it does when typing it in using firefox or google, as long as you DONT put http:// first.

www.google.com/
www.google.com\
-WILL take you to the same place, because of a fancy feature built into firefox.

But aside from that.


Things I am not following to the letter:

My version of GTK Radiant 1.4, was the one released by Raven, not the one they said to click on it.  Same program with already built in .game files stuff.  Should work fine.

Everything else was pretty much followed to the letter, except when it didn't work.  THEN I swapped the slashes around...didn't get anything to work either, tried them mixed.  Still no good.  Guess I could try downloading their version of GTK seeing if for some strange reason it doesn't like mine.

[Syntac]

It doesn't when using a direct link, however it does when typing it in using firefox or google, as long as you DONT put http:// first.

Eh... No. Unless it's some Windows-specific thing, in which case no one cares.

* Syntac turns off his flamethrower

I recommend trying the standard version, since the instructions are pretty much certain to apply.

[EDIT] Typo.

[epsy]

-WILL take you to the same place, because of a fancy feature built into firefox.

probably only in the windows build(for consistency), i don't get it here

[Darth Futuza]

May be a windows only thing...

--

Alright, after re-doing the wiki word for word I still get the same error.  These are all of the files.

default_project.proj

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE project SYSTEM "project.dtd">
<project>
<key name="user_project" value="1"/>
<key name="brush_primit" value="0"/>
<key name="mapspath" value="C:\Program Files\Tremulous\base\maps\"/>
<key name="autosave" value="C:\Program Files\Tremulous\base\maps\autosave.map"/>
<key name="texturepath" value="C:\Program Files\Tremulous\base\textures\"/>
<key name="entitypath" value="C:\Program Files/Tremulous/base/scripts\entities.def"/>
<key name="remotebasepath" value="C:\Program Files\Tremulous\base\"/>
<key name="rshcmd" value=""/>
<key name="basepath" value="C:\Program Files\Tremulous\base\"/>
<key name="version" value="1"/>
</project>

trem.game

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
<game
name="Tremulous"
enginepath="C:\Program Files\Tremulous\"
gametools="C:\Program Files\Tremulous\radiant-1.4\"
basegame="base"
engine="tremulous.exe"
gamename="tremulous"
shaderpath="scripts/"
/>
synapse.config

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
<!-- synapse XML configuration -->
<synapseconfig>
<client name="core">
<api name="image">
tga jpg
</api>
<api name="VFS">
pk3
</api>
<api name="shaders">
quake3
</api>
<api name="map">
mapq3
</api>
<api name="eclass">
def
</api>
<api name="surfdialog">
quake3
</api>
</client>
<client name="image">
<api name="VFS">
pk3
</api>
</client>
<client name="shaders">
<!-- NOTE: this is a SYN_PROVIDE -->
<api name="shaders">
quake3
</api>
<api name="VFS">
pk3
</api>
</client>
<client name="map">
<api name="shaders">
quake3
</api>
</client>
<client name="xmap">
<api name="shaders">
quake3
</api>
</client>
<client name="model">
<api name="shaders">
quake3
</api>
<api name="VFS">
pk3
</api>
</client>
</synapseconfig>

[Syntac]

Try replacing all slashes with backslashes. For example, shaderpath="scripts/" turns into shaderpath="scripts\".

[Darth Futuza]

K, but even the </> ones?

Cause that'll mess it all up won't it?

[Bissig]

K, but even the </> ones?

Cause that'll mess it all up won't it?

Those are (XML) TAGS, don't change those!

[Syntac]

Should've said "Change all path names". Oh well.

[Darth Futuza]

I assumed as, much...as taking of </> tags wouldn't make much sense.


Either way, it didn't work.  Still getting the same error.  If someone currently has 1.4 working for windows XP, their assistance would be greatly appreciated as I can't seem to figure out how to get rid of this error.

Maybe its time to just use 1.5  *sigh*

[Darth Futuza]

I have finally managed to get GTK Radiant1. 4 to work.

I have "documented" my findings of the differences between the WIKI and what I did to get it to work.  I have made a seperate thread for this "documentation"  It can be found http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=9284.0 here.