Ever since discovering this game a few weeks ago, I have really wanted to play. Sadly I have a weird bug that happens. Whenever I click start mission will become the set position. And the mouse will jump back to that position. Usually causing the plane to roll around. I initially thought this was due to me using a tiling window manager. But I switched to a desktop environment with the same problem. I've also tried compiling from source and had the same problem.
Any ideas how I can fix this?
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I have seen this before. It happens to me when running on a laptop that has a permanent, built-in "joystick" (or hardware that APPEARS to be a joystick as far as Linux is concerned). In my case, using a LeNovo T61p laptop, the "J-Mouse" hardware appears as a kind of a joystick to Linux, so LAC tries to use it.
You can over-ride the detection of any Joystick when you invoke LAC from a command shell. Use the "-m" command-line argument to force LAC to use your mouse even if LINUX advises it to use a joystick. Accordingly, try launching LAC with a command like this:
lac -m
or
./Lac08p66 -m
etc.
Note that you can get help about other command-line options with this command:
lac -help
I hope this helps!
-Bob-
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Thank you for your response. I am on a desktop computer. Is LAC supposed to capture the mouse when flying? For me it does not.
When I click start mission I am able to move the mouse to the center then control the plane normally from there. Then after 10 or so seconds the mouse will randomly jump down to the spot where I clicked start mission. Causing the plane to of course roll. The -m option did not change anything (But thanks for mentioning it as I did not know that there were command line arguments).
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Wait a second. I have fixed the problem. I feel very dumb. I have a program that auto hides the mouse if i don't move it for a certain amount of time. And I think that when it is hidden the game doesn't know where to put it and therefor puts my mouse back to the last place I clicked.
Anyways I hope to join you all in a multiplayer game once I get the hang of this.
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I'm glad to learn of your success and of yet another odd little thing that can happen in our wonderful, bizarre little LINUX world as processes contend for control and access to peripherals LOL!
Now that you have Linux Air Combat working properly, you're ready for the next steps.
The four offline tutorial missions will get you started, but don't let them waste a lot of your time. Those tutorials really haven't had the development attention that the online missions have had and it won't take you very long to learn all they can teach you. (Tutorial #2 is especially weak in that regard.)
Once you get comfortable with your flight controls, I recommend you join the online missions. There are ten of these, but as you'll see when you explore the mission menus, five of the ten are still in beta test and don't get used much. Among the others, "NETWORK BATTLE 03" is the simplest and will probably give you the best initial experience.
Each of those ten online missions is available in 32 distinct "realms", so there are actually 320 separate, virtual battlefields. Don't be intimidated by all of those choices. Almost everybody is using realm 01 nowadays.
Unfortunately, LAC's online community is still small, and you will often find that you are the only live, human player participating. To help you enjoy LAC even when nobody else is online, LAC's server almost always populates the missions of realm01 with "replay blokes". Those "Blokes" replay successful missions from prior online activities, and the results are a lot more fun and more interesting than the mindless bots that populate the tutorial missions. When you join one of those replay missions, your experience is very much like flying among a group of real, live, online players.
Here's a link to a YouTube video clip showing what all of this is like:
Ever since discovering this game a few weeks ago, I have really wanted to play. Sadly I have a weird bug that happens. Whenever I click start mission will become the set position. And the mouse will jump back to that position. Usually causing the plane to roll around. I initially thought this was due to me using a tiling window manager. But I switched to a desktop environment with the same problem. I've also tried compiling from source and had the same problem.
Any ideas how I can fix this?
Hi Kalix. Thanks for asking.
I have seen this before. It happens to me when running on a laptop that has a permanent, built-in "joystick" (or hardware that APPEARS to be a joystick as far as Linux is concerned). In my case, using a LeNovo T61p laptop, the "J-Mouse" hardware appears as a kind of a joystick to Linux, so LAC tries to use it.
You can over-ride the detection of any Joystick when you invoke LAC from a command shell. Use the "-m" command-line argument to force LAC to use your mouse even if LINUX advises it to use a joystick. Accordingly, try launching LAC with a command like this:
lac -mor
./Lac08p66 -metc.
Note that you can get help about other command-line options with this command:
lac -helpI hope this helps!
-Bob-
Thank you for your response. I am on a desktop computer. Is LAC supposed to capture the mouse when flying? For me it does not.
When I click start mission I am able to move the mouse to the center then control the plane normally from there. Then after 10 or so seconds the mouse will randomly jump down to the spot where I clicked start mission. Causing the plane to of course roll. The -m option did not change anything (But thanks for mentioning it as I did not know that there were command line arguments).
Wait a second. I have fixed the problem. I feel very dumb. I have a program that auto hides the mouse if i don't move it for a certain amount of time. And I think that when it is hidden the game doesn't know where to put it and therefor puts my mouse back to the last place I clicked.
Anyways I hope to join you all in a multiplayer game once I get the hang of this.
I'm glad to learn of your success and of yet another odd little thing that can happen in our wonderful, bizarre little LINUX world as processes contend for control and access to peripherals LOL!
Now that you have Linux Air Combat working properly, you're ready for the next steps.
The four offline tutorial missions will get you started, but don't let them waste a lot of your time. Those tutorials really haven't had the development attention that the online missions have had and it won't take you very long to learn all they can teach you. (Tutorial #2 is especially weak in that regard.)
Once you get comfortable with your flight controls, I recommend you join the online missions. There are ten of these, but as you'll see when you explore the mission menus, five of the ten are still in beta test and don't get used much. Among the others, "NETWORK BATTLE 03" is the simplest and will probably give you the best initial experience.
Each of those ten online missions is available in 32 distinct "realms", so there are actually 320 separate, virtual battlefields. Don't be intimidated by all of those choices. Almost everybody is using realm 01 nowadays.
Unfortunately, LAC's online community is still small, and you will often find that you are the only live, human player participating. To help you enjoy LAC even when nobody else is online, LAC's server almost always populates the missions of realm01 with "replay blokes". Those "Blokes" replay successful missions from prior online activities, and the results are a lot more fun and more interesting than the mindless bots that populate the tutorial missions. When you join one of those replay missions, your experience is very much like flying among a group of real, live, online players.
Here's a link to a YouTube video clip showing what all of this is like:
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/44K7BC1t-bg?rel=0
I hope this helps. Welcome to Linux Air Combat!