DOOM3 black screen areas

audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4424

I just emerged DOOM3 and copied my data files from my install DVD as instructed in the emerge output. This is what I get:

Jazz-KP · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:20 pm Post subject:

Seems like you don't have base files in /opt/doom3/base/

Have you tried copying missing files from disk again?

audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4424

The files are there. I tried copying them again. I'm still getting the same error.
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audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4424

Using my Windows installation, I created the dir structure require by emerge doom3-data, mounted the partition, set CD_ROOT and now it works. I wonder if there were file perms that were set by emerge doom3-data that a simple cp does not take care of.
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audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4424

Now I'm getting black screen areas on some levels and for some mods (most notably doom3-inhell). Anyone else get black areas that shouldn't be there?
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TwinGears · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: DOOM3 black screen areas

mematt69 · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2011 Posts: 1

I use Ubuntu and ran into the same file permission issues. The pk4 files I moved from the game discs into the /base directory were set to only be read/written by root. Try running the game as root (ie in ubuntu terminal "sudo doom3") I guess I'm just too lazy to change all those permissions when I can just add sudo every time I open the game

Muso · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:40 am Post subject:

doubleagent · Guru Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 444 Location: 127.0.0.1

Ya srsly. Fix the permissions.
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telegraphguy · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2011 Posts: 3

I guess I'm just too lazy to change all those permissions when I can just add sudo every time I open the game :lol:

Naib · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:37 am Post subject:

djdunn · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:02 am Post subject:

aren't some parts of the game supposed to be rendered as if its complete if not near complete darkness?
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 6609

Er, yeah, if you're standing right next to an unlit wall, looking at it.

But there's an obviously-noticeable difference between that (shades of dark) and graphics corruption of perfectly square, perfectly black, black squares appearing.

Hell is known to be dark and foreboding, but I've never heard tales of the "black squares of death"

I've seen this corruption happen, rarely, in the darkplaces and quake4 engines. Can't remember seeing it in doom3.

Unrealized · n00b Joined: 12 Jun 2011 Posts: 5