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Wierd Hammer error after the last CS:S update

ovidiu — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:47:44 +0000

I was trying to fire up my favorite mapping editor … and WTF is this?

Other errors follow as this:

Missing material ‘editor/wireframe’. Go to Tools | Options | Game Configurations and verify that your game directory is correct.

Model models/editor/spot.mdl not found and models/error.mdl couldn’t be loaded

And then the editor window closes. I’ve noticed that recently a major update was made on the CounterStrike Source … the latest features were added, those existing only on Beta version. Maybe this was messing with the SDK models and other editor content structure.

Still looking for a possible solution to fix this … I invested a lot of time in the current map.

DarkThrone Beta Player (v. 1.0.1)

ovidiu — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:58:16 +0000

I have a little surprise for you. Well this is for those who are still playing DarkThrone Beta and want to get higher especially in these last days of the game.

The player works in the same way as the Gold Player, you run the application inside the web browser, and also you need to have Java plugin installed and trust the applet certificate. To access the player you just open the web browser to http://gold.ovisual.com/beta
At the application startup you need to provide the DarkThrone beta account and password and you are up and running. The interface works in the same way as Gold Player, but is a bit simplified, it has only attack functionality (because who needs a recruiter in beta?!? ).
Mainly you have to specify what exactly you want to attack then you are ready! You are unleashing hell to all the targets in a matter of seconds.
Of course, at the end of each attack don’t forget to deposit the money in the bank.

Enjoy!

Gold Player v. 1.0.10

ovidiu — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:04:29 +0000

Greetings!
I’ve made a quick and dirty fix for the latest problems. As you surely know already Lazarus made a site change (1.0.6 patch) that messed a bit the Gold Player program. In this release I’ve tried to fix some vital parts that we all use for daily basis like the automatic recruiter and citizens trainer.
I didn’t had time to check all the features of the player but I guess a 1.0.11 release will come shortly that will fix all our problems.

Enjoy!

Gold Player v. 1.0.8

ovidiu — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:46:46 +0000

New things in this release:
- auto repair feature: it automatically repair your fort if gets damaged
- spend on hand gold or on bank gold feature
- buy all mercenaries feature
- some attack scanner log
- lots of bugfixes and small improvements

Enjoy!

Gold Player v. 1.0.7

ovidiu — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:26:36 +0000

I am proud to announce a new version of DarkThrone Gold Player (v. 1.0.7).

This release adds the following functionality.

spy and attack tab is available.
spy center web page
various bug fixes

Ok, let’s talk about these.

Spy and Attack

This functionality lets you scan through the list of other DarkThrone players and based on a condition (that you can configure), you can apply actions like spy or/and attack.

Here is a step by step guide how to use this:

Step 1. Configure the scanner condition.
In the scanner condition dialog you can set condition like “scan players with more than 10000000 amount of gold and less than 500 army” … etc.
Of course if you want to be able to attack or spy you have to set a proper level range based on your current level. This range can be your entire range (let’s say level 10 to level 22) if you are level 16 or a smaller range (like level 11 to level 12).
If the condition is satisfied than the player is added to a queue. Currently there is a limitation: the queue can be up to 125.

Step 2. Configure the scanner action.
When the scanning process is over (this means the scanner finish players list) than the action can begin.
You can choose what action to perform on the players from the queue: spy, attack or both. If you set spy with attack option this means that you will spy the players, and if the spy succeeded than you will attack also. You can set an additional condition of attack here (like if player defense found by spies is less than a specified defense).

Be aware: as you surely know spying does not consume your turns but the attack action will do. So if you have 100 players in the queue and you will attack them with 10 turns then you will spend at the end of the scanning process 1000 turns!
Also if your condition is not set right (like you have a small army and you have selected to attack all the players with a huge army and high defense) you can loose like a 100 battles in a matter of seconds. So choose wise!

Step 3. Start the scanner.
Here the scanner will start. Currently there isn’t any feedback on the interface other than the status and the queue size.
You can stop the scanner anytime (this can take few seconds until it finish the current task) and start it again, on each start the queue will be cleared.

Step 4. Wait until it finish its job.
The scanner can take a lot of time (like few minutes) and depends on the scanner condition (example: if you scan all the players from level 1 which are about 20000) and your internet bandwidth.
You will know when the scanner finishes when the status become Idle.

Spy Center web page

This web page displays the list of the DarkThrone players with the stats that are discovered in the spy process. This section is also in work and currently all the stats are overriten by the newer stats even if they don’t add more information. I will have to optimize this algorithm in a next release.

So this is it for now. Please don’t hesitate to post here the issues you found on this player application.

Happy spy/attack and also Merry Chrismas and Happy New Year!

Gold Player v. 1.0.6

ovidiu — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:51:27 +0000

I’ve just released v. 1.0.6 of the gold player. This release includes few bugfixes and some minor enhancements. Very soon I will release another version that will include spy and attack functionality, also the spy website.

Enjoy!

More bugfixes in 1.0.4

ovidiu — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:31:50 +0000

I’ve made few more bugfixes so here is a new release of DarkThrone Gold Player.

DarkThrone Player 1.0.3 is here!

ovidiu — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:38:23 +0000

I’ve made few bug fixes on the client and I believe this piece of software is more stable now. So no new features in this release .. sorry

Release 1.0.2 of DarkThrone Gold Player

ovidiu — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:22:44 +0000

I am proud to announce a new release of DarkThrone Gold Player. This release includes many bug fixes and enhancements.

Features:

login into your DarkThrone Gold account
display account info
repair all of the damage of your fortification
assign available level points to designated upgrade
train all available citizens to designated unit type
bank 80% from the available gold
automatic recruiter (public recruiter) that do those boring clicks for you
scheduler for the automatic recruiter, you can program when to start the daily recruiter and after that perform an action like train all available citizens as workers, etc…
automatic scripts to bank the on hand gold if a certain limit has reached or automatic script to spend the money on a specified set of armor
autologin if the user session was expired

Issues:

Spy and attack section is not functional

Here are few screenshots of the application in action:

- the overview screen

- the recruiter screen

- the shopping scripts screen

Pre-alpha version of DarkThrone Player released

ovidiu — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:45:24 +0000

Hi! I’ve released a pre-alpha version of the DarkThrone Gold client. This can be accessed on the http://gold.ovisual.com/player site. To run this applet you have to firstly install Java from http://www.java.com

After you load the applet you have to trust the applet and let it load.

Be aware! It is just a pre alpha version. This means it has lots of bugs, however it has functionality also .

What it can do:

login into your DarkThrone Gold account
display account info
assign available level points to designated upgrade
train all available citizens to designated unit type
bank 80% from the available gold
automatic recruiter (public recruiter) that do those boring clicks for you

I hope this week I will release a new version with some enhanced functionality and bugfixes.

Cheers!