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StarCraft 1.18
Hi. How to use files downloaded by StarCraft-Setup.exe, latest 1.18 patch? Is this correct that now we can free use that resources?
I hope so! To test, I downloaded it from Blizzard's site, ran the installer in Wine, which seemed to go smoothly, then ran Stargus and pointed it at Starcraft.mpq. After the extraction process, here's the result:
Can't open file 'preferences.lua': No such file or directory
Stratagus v2.4.1, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 by The Stratagus Project
written by Lutz Sammer, Fabrice Rossi, Vladi Shabanski, Patrice Fortier,
Jon Gabrielson, Andreas Arens, Nehal Mistry, Jimmy Salmon, Pali Rohar,
cybermind and others.
https://github.com/Wargus/stratagus
Compile options ZLIB BZ2LIB VORBIS THEORA FLUIDSYNTH MIKMOD MNG OPENGL LINUX X11
Stratagus may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License
which may be found in the Stratagus source kit.
DISCLAIMER:
This software is provided as-is. The author(s) can not be held liable for any
damage that might arise from the use of this software.
Use it at your own risk.
fluidsynth: error: Get end of file position failed
fluidsynth: error: Couldn't load soundfont file
fluidsynth: error: Failed to load SoundFont "/home/user/.stratagus/sc/"
fluidsynth: error: Unable to open file ""
fluidsynth: error: Couldn't load soundfont file
fluidsynth: error: Failed to load SoundFont ""
Failed to load the SoundFont:
Can't open file: No such file or directory
Can't load the graphic 'ui/fonts/font10.png'
No joy yet, but I'm hoping somebody can get this working.
I'm not sure what you downloaded, but the extraction only works with the CD or the installation folder for the full version. I tried with the version downloaded by the battle.net installer, that works.
@timfel For me, I downloaded the Starcraft Anthology from https://us.battle.net/account/download#classic
This comes as an installer, StarCraft-Setup.exe, which (via Wine) installs the following:
user@box ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft $ ls
BlizzardError.exe License.html SEditITA.loc
BrooDat.mpq License.txt SEditPTB.loc
BroodWar.mpq Local.dll StarCraft.exe
cef Maps StarCraft Launcher.exe
ClientSdk.dll patch_rt.mpq StarCraft Manual.pdf
ClientSdkFirewallHelper.exe Release Notes.txt Starcraft.mpq
ClientSdkMDNSHost.exe Riched20.dll StarDat.mpq
data SEditDEU.loc StarEdit.exe
Data SEditENU.loc StarEditHelp
EditLocal.dll SEditESP.loc storm.dll
Launcher.db SEditFRA.loc SystemSurvey.exe
Running Stargus, and pointing it at Starcraft.mpq creates a directory, ~/.stratagus/data.Stargus which contains folders graphics, scripts, and sounds, text files extracted, and mpqlist.txt
Is this the same installer that worked for you? If so, what is different on your end?
Does it download it over the internet? There's about 600MB worth of data it would need to install. And the Startool extracts every known file from the Starcraft.mpq? I can't see what length your files are up there.
@Hypexed yes, StarCraft-Setup.exe is only 3.2MB and it downloads everything from the internet into a directory in ~/.wine. When running stargus for the first time, it asks for an input file, and I specify Starcraft.mpq.
~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ (x86)/StarCraft/ is 3.8GB
Starcraft.mpq is 606.9MB
BroodWar.mpq is 571.8MB
BrooDat.mpq is 21.8MB
~/.stratagus/data.Stargus/ is 89.9MB
Running startool itself apparently does nothing productive.
user@box ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft $ startool ./Starcraft.mpq
Extract from "./Starcraft.mpq" to "data"
Using mpq list file "data/mpqlist.txt"
Please be patient, the data may take a couple of minutes to extract...
Archive "./Starcraft.mpq/install.exe"
Can't open ./Starcraft.mpq/install.exe
Could not open archive "./Starcraft.mpq/install.exe", skipping
Archive "./Starcraft.mpq/Install.exe"
Can't open ./Starcraft.mpq/Install.exe
Could not open archive "./Starcraft.mpq/Install.exe", skipping
Archive "./Starcraft.mpq/starcraft.mpq"
Can't open ./Starcraft.mpq/starcraft.mpq
Could not open archive "./Starcraft.mpq/starcraft.mpq", skipping
Archive "./Starcraft.mpq/StarCraft.mpq"
Can't open ./Starcraft.mpq/StarCraft.mpq
Could not open archive "./Starcraft.mpq/StarCraft.mpq", skipping
Archive "./Starcraft.mpq/StarDat.mpq"
Can't open ./Starcraft.mpq/StarDat.mpq
Could not open archive "./Starcraft.mpq/StarDat.mpq", skipping
Archive "./Starcraft.mpq/StarDat.mpq"
Can't open ./Starcraft.mpq/StarDat.mpq
Could not open archive "./Starcraft.mpq/StarDat.mpq", skipping
DONE!
Note: this is the same behavior as your issue #26
No idea about preferences.lua, but running MPQExtractor on Starcraft.mpq does yield a file called font10, but it's files/font/font10.fnt, not ui/fonts/font10.png... so did they change file formats between original StarCraft to Brood Wars? And it's definitely not a png with a weird extension, as I tried changing it to .png and it won't open as an image. Also, ~/.stratagus/sc is empty, if that matters.
running startool should point it to a directory not the mpq file, it should pick up both Starcraft.mpq and StartDat.mpq from there...
if you're already in the StarCraft directory you should use ./ as the argument...
startool not only extracts files it also converts them if needed...
user@box ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft $ startool ./
After fiddling with startool a bit, I figured out the right syntax. This produced a whole lot more files (graphics and sounds mostly), but data.Stargus still only contains 89.9MB, which is a lot smaller than the 600MB of Starcraft.mpq. and there's still the same end result when launching stargus.
Weirdly enough, I ran a search for some of the files that startool says it extracted, but they're nowhere to be found in the destination directory. It looks like only graphics and sounds got extracted.
user@box ~/.stratagus $ startool '/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft' /home/user/.stratagus/data.Stargus /home/user/.stratagus/data.Stargus/mpqlist.txt
Extract from "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft" to "/home/user/.stratagus/data.Stargus"
Using mpq list file "/home/user/.stratagus/data.Stargus/mpqlist.txt"
Please be patient, the data may take a couple of minutes to extract...
Archive "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/install.exe"
Can't open /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/install.exe
Could not open archive "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/install.exe", skipping
Archive "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/Install.exe"
Can't open /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/Install.exe
Could not open archive "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/Install.exe", skipping
Archive "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/starcraft.mpq"
Can't open /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/starcraft.mpq
Could not open archive "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/starcraft.mpq", skipping
Archive "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/StarCraft.mpq"
Can't open /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/StarCraft.mpq
Could not open archive "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/StarCraft.mpq", skipping
Archive "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft/StarDat.mpq"
extracted: game\icons.grp (872, 2608 bytes)
There were ~3000 more lines here. Full log available on request if it's useful for some reason.
extracted: sound\misc\explosm.wav (2026, 65132 bytes)
DONE!
user@box ~/.stratagus $ stargus > ~/Desktop/starguslogout.txt
Can't open file 'preferences.lua': No such file or directory
fluidsynth: error: Get end of file position failed
fluidsynth: error: Couldn't load soundfont file
fluidsynth: error: Failed to load SoundFont "/home/user/.stratagus/sc/"
fluidsynth: error: Unable to open file ""
fluidsynth: error: Couldn't load soundfont file
fluidsynth: error: Failed to load SoundFont ""
Failed to load the SoundFont:
Can't open file: No such file or directory
Can't load the graphic 'ui/fonts/font10.png'
I forgot about my issue. Yeah the startool won't work then. In fact when I checked the latest Stargus available from a Linux Mint 18 repository at that time it was also broken. I don't know where Tim has gone to but this needs to be fixed. As it stands now Stargus has an official state of broken. I will upload the code fix I wrote to my issue.
But in the mean time try this work around hiding in my issue. Rename your Starcraft.mpq to StarCraft.mpq. Notice the caps there. And run the startool again. But only specify the folder that StarCraft.mpq file is in.
@Hypexed is correct, there is a capitalization issue, also, there might be issues if the folder to starcraft.mpq has spaces in it (or that might have been in wargus... I forget)
Hypexed [email protected] schrieb am Sa., 13. Mai 2017, 17:15:
I forgot about my issue. Yeah the startool won't work then. In fact when I checked the latest Stargus available from a Linux Mint 18 repository at that time it was also broken. I don't know where Tim has gone to but this needs to be fixed. As it stands now Stargus has an official state of broken. I will upload the code fix I wrote to my issue.
But in the mean time try this work around hiding in my issue. Rename your Starcraft.mpq to StarCraft.mpq. Notice the caps there. And run the startool again. But only specify the folder that StarCraft.mpq file is in.
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Now we're getting somewhere! So, starting over with a fresh installation, I renamed Starcraft.mpq to StarCraft.mpq, and StarDat.mpq should already be fine. After changing the name, I get a lot more files (up to 545.8MB) and Stargus launches! I still get the same fluidsynth errors, and the campaign button is grayed out -- is that last one normal? Does the campaign normally work in Stargus?
I also get a crash that says it can't load certain assets:
fluidsynth: error: Get end of file position failed
fluidsynth: error: Couldn't load soundfont file
fluidsynth: error: Failed to load SoundFont "/home/user/.stratagus/sc/"
fluidsynth: error: Unable to open file ""
fluidsynth: error: Couldn't load soundfont file
fluidsynth: error: Failed to load SoundFont ""
Failed to load the SoundFont:
Can't open file 'maps/(2)Space Madness.smp': No such file or directory
Can't find missile missile-zerg-guardian-glaive-wurm
Can't open file: No such file or directory
Can't load the graphic 'tilesets/fog.png'
Downloading fog.png and moving it to data.Stargus/tilesets/ makes that part of the error go away, but the other lines remain. The game launches and is playable for a few seconds. Some things are still missing (like progress bars) and seg faults abound. I'll do some further testing.
I'm not sure if the menu is supposed to look like this or not. I haven't actually played regular StarCraft before (just the demo version, well over a decade ago) but I seem to remember it's got animations and fancier graphics.
Campaigns aren't working. Relating to segfaults, yes, there will be many. Only some of the skirmish maps work at all, because most terrains aren't implemented. Unfortunately, both things are a lot of work, and no one seems to have the time to dedicate to it right now. Starcraft is a lot more complex than wargus and war1gus.
Wargus was a multi-year effort by a lot of different people, war1gus took me a few years of a few hours per month even given that most features from wargus could be re-used for war1gus. Stargus would need more changes in the engine. To be honest, it may be easier to start from scratch (at least, it would be more fun, which is an important motivating factor in FOSS game engine projects)
@timfel I see. Thanks for clearing that up. I'm seeing a LOT of errors, and it's hard to know what might be due to a faulty installation, and what is just "normal" for stargus. The Terrans are mostly playable, and the Zerg aside from anything creep-related, but the Protoss don't perform as expected at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO4DxWZhqvc
If this is par for the course, then I think this issue is pretty well solved.
Yes, Protoss are little more than stubs. Most of that could actually be fixed in pure lua, without having to touch the engine. Zerg creep is on a branch that i never had time to continue, but I also think it could be fixed in pure lua. Same goes for at least basic terrain support for the other map types. Many special abilities like Terran flying buildings can also be done in lua. Given maybe half a year of after work focus by one or two people, skirmish battles could become well playable (although not exactly like the original)
But lots of the mechanics required for the campaign would require changes to the engine.
Good to know. I was initially under the impression (purely from my own imagination, I guess) that Stargus and Wargus were roughly on the same level, and that it was mostly a difference of data -- i.e. StarCraft being as much a total conversion mod as a separate game from WC2. Now I know that's not the case.
Since StarCraft is now free to download, I would imagine that this will be a significant use case for Stargus, so is there any documentation that needs to be updated with instructions for how to use the downloaded version? http://stargus.stratagus.com/install/index.html perhaps?
Unfortunately, I don't know who has access to that domain and server. The current website we're using is http://wargus.github.io. @mimooh did a lot of work on that website, I think we can add Stargus to the list of games and put instructions there.
Also to add, yes it's normal for the start screen to look like that, since it's not an exact clone but recreation. Even if it uses the same in game graphics and sounds.
Regarding the segfaults, I thought this was solved a while ago. Or, at least, solved in Stratagus. But it looks like it is not. I compiled and packaged an earlier Stargus, IIRC 2.2.4 build, for the AmigaOS4 PowerPC platform. And in testing I got a huge amount of crashes. Most of the time these were basic NULL pointer reads, things that shouldn't be in release versions, even if Stratagus on the whole is an ongoing project. This gave me the impression that Stratagus was poorly coded because it threw around a lot of pointers to functions without checking if was a valid pointer. It just looked bad! :-)
Given that Stargus works with Stratagus to be the game engine and Stargus has always been rather incomplete I suppose this is to be expected. But Stargus also produces LUA scripts and in my mind scripts should never crash. Since they are ASCII files run by an interpreter which should be safe.
I spent some time "hacking" the code to check first which tamed them down but still left me wondering why the code kept assuming the pointers existed. In the end I simply used an assert to catch any other I missed.
Alright, here are my proposed instructions, if anyone has access and wants to list them somewhere:
StarCraft is now (as of 2017) free to download from Blizzard, so the installation CD is no longer required for Stargus.
Download the Starcraft Anthology installer from: https://us.battle.net/account/download#classic and run it (using Wine if on Linux or Mac)
Locate the installed files and rename Starcraft.mpq to StarCraft.mpq so that Stargus knows to use it.
Launch Stargus. When prompted, point it toward the newly-renamed StarCraft.mpq. Stargus will extract the necessary files from StarCraft.mpq and StarDat.mpq (into ~/.stratagus/data.Stargus/ on Linux)
Move fog.png to ~/.stratagus/data.Stargus/graphics/tilesets/
You no longer need the StarCraft installation, and may delete it at your discretion.
@Hypexed the Wyrmgus engine has been seeing a lot of development and has squashed a lot of seg faults. Might be worth checking out the changes there if you're not already familiar.
@johndoe71rus can you try these instructions and see if it works for you?
http://paste.ubuntu.com/24588240/ mostly break. One time was black screen with log line bottom and terran music. break by ctrl+z
@johndoe71rus Can't load the graphic 'tilesets/fog.png' -- do you have a copy of fog.png in data.Stargus/graphics/tilesets? It doesn't get installed by default, so you have it put it there manually, either by finding wherever Stargus installed it, or by downloading it from the repo.
https://github.com/Wargus/stargus/blob/master/contrib/fog.png
I think some maps don't work at all either. Try the map "Holy Ground" and see if it loads, as that one works for me.
@johndh I haven't seen Wyrmgus but looked up the project last night.
@johndoe71rus This error you got: Can't open file 'maps/(2)Challenger.smp': No such file or directory
Is what I used to get a lot. IIRC the file was there but would need to check.
@all What I usually do is play a game with default settings and it tends to work well. Well enough. Unless the game get complicated and beyond what Stargus has to offer.
yes, copy fog.png but wrong folder. Now start https://s7.postimg.org/5ph5hocsr/2017-05-17-181627_1280x800_scrot.png then https://s24.postimg.org/fstqxzyt1/2017-05-17-182005_1280x800_scrot.png and error with memory dump http://paste.ubuntu.com/24593242/
think then alien base died.