Hello,
I'm curious to know more about the "Unable to shade polygon normals" error. I don't have it, as I bought GMod legitimately, but does the error actually make sense, or is it just an official/tech sounding error nonsense? To me, it sounds like some gibberish that wouldn't really make sense, but is that for real? Does that error message make sense?
AGMP (Against Garry's Mod Pirates)
MikuMikuCookie
PostScript: If this is in the wrong section, please forgive me. I thought this would be the appropriate category for an error inquiry.
[h=1]Garry’s Mod catches pirates the fun way[/h]A few hours ago, Garry Newman - the creator of [URL="http://www.gamepron.com/news/tag/garrys-mod/"]Garry's Mod[/URL] - asked, quite innocently, whether anyone was unable to [URL="https://twitter.com/#!/garrynewman/status/57855405606445057"]shade polygon normals[/URL].He received a few comments, mostly jokes, but a quick look at [URL="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Unable+to+shade+polygon+normals%22"]Google[/URL] suggests that there are indeed a few people who are experiencing problems with their game.[URL="http://cloud.playerattack.com/media/title/7427/2011-04-12/0000000823.jpg"][IMG]http://cloud.playerattack.com/media/title/7427/2011-04-12/0000000823-560x315.jpg[/IMG][/URL]A serious moment from Garry's Mod
...you can hear Newman's chuckling from here. Not the normal response to a wide-spread bug report, but this is no normal bug. It seems that the developer has deliberately enabled an error in [URL="http://www.gamepron.com/news/tag/garrys-mod/"]GMod[/URL], which will only affect people who have pirated the game.People started discussing the error on the game's own [URL="http://www.playerattack.com/redirect/?redirect=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1078199-GARRYS-MOD-STARTUP-CRASH"]forums[/URL], wondering why their game simply wouldn't work:[I]Problem:
I need help with my garrys mod. Everytime I launch Garrys Mod, it starts up then about 5 seconds later after it is done loading, it crashed with the
Engine Error:Unable to shade polygon normals(#################)[/I]
Not long after posting the request, the user found themselves permabanned from the forums for using pirated software.Making the situation even sweeter, the number which appears in brackets after the error statement is in fact the gamer's 64-bit [URL="http://www.gamepron.com/news/tag/steam/"]steam[/URL]id.Y'see, [URL="http://www.gamepron.com/news/tag/steam/"]Steam[/URL] keeps a list of which accounts have actually forked over the [URL="http://store.steampowered.com/app/4000/"]$9.99[/URL] for a legit copy of [URL="http://www.gamepron.com/news/tag/garrys-mod/"]GMod[/URL] - so it's a simple matter of checking ids and turfing out the pirates.Just another lesson on why piracy is bad, supporting indie developers is good, and why you shouldn't mess with the nerds.
From [URL]http://www.playerattack.com/news/2011/04/12/garrys-mod-catches-pirates-the-fun-way/[/URL]
Do you have any cracks / anything designed to give you free games on Steam?
Get rid of any "Free Steam Games"-Clients/Cracks (etc)
Other than that, screenshot the error.
Like I said, I don't have the error. I forked over the 10 dollars to buy Garry's Mod.
So basically it's just some techno-sounding gibberish designed to catch pirates? Smart Move, Garry.
And no, I do [B]not[/B] use any cracks.
He made it to catch the pirates.
It's funny as heck too.
[QUOTE=Dcmetax;35289061]It's funny as heck too.[/QUOTE]
The error doesn't even make sense! XD
What the hell is a polygon normal, if those even exist!!?!
It's your steamID code didn't garry report the steam id codes to steam so they would permaban the whole steam account/ip adress?
Sounds reasonable.
If the error was real, polygon normals are just polygons that make models. Every model thats made is made up of polygons, the more polygons you use for the model, the better it's going to look. Although that error wouldn't even make sense in the first place because if the engine would just shade polygons then the game's shading would look very, different.
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