Minor Bug: Large Sprites mis-behaving.

[Angstromicus]

Whenever I use huge sprites, and I get close to them, they slide off the screen (but this dosen't happen if I'm not close to them) (in weapons odf).


BTW, I'm back, but I don't have internet at home.

[General BlackDragon]

YAY ur back! *dances around*

are u using what kind of sprites? weapon sprites u say? what type of render is it? and is it in 1.2 or 1.3? Be more specific

[Angstromicus]

Draw_sprite is what I use. Any texture messes up whenever it's say 1000 meters in size. Dosen't matter if it renders in explosions or weapons blasts. Try it, in 1.3pb (I'm sure it would mess up in 1.2 anyway). Make a draw_sprite, startradius = 500 finishradius = 500, so that you can approach it. It'll begin to slide off the screen if you get too close.

[General BlackDragon]

i found that any panlar that is over 325 meters causes an av

[Angstromicus]

As far as I know, that depends on map size, and mayby visibility range. On a 256 grid map I was able to make sprites as big as 6000 meters, with an occasional AV. (Might be even more than that, I know I've tried as high as 10000, but I don't think that ever worked, it's been a while since I've looked at the ODF which makes it).
Reguardless, it's an error in 1.3pb, but it's a lot better than 1.2 as far as limits are concerned. I don't think sprites misbehaving has ever changed though.

[Commando]

The best you can do is zip up the assets and send them to a beta tester or GSH for investigation.  Unless GSH sees the issue himself, it might not even get considered.

[GSH]

If the bug appears in 1.2, then it'll usually be lower priority for me. There's some scary-nasty code in the graphics engine, and any change can cause a lot of other issues.

-- GSH

[Angstromicus]

Unfortunately, I still have no internet at home (it's been 8 weeks and 1 day). And I can only acess the internet at school. It'll be rather difficult to transfer assets, sorry. Soon, I hope, I'll get internet again.

[Render]
simulatebase = NULL
renderbase = "draw_sprite"
startcolor = "255 255 255 255"
finishcolor "255 255 255 255"
startradius = 1000 //shouldn't need to be this large, but it guarantees that the bug will be reproduced.
finishradius = 1000 //shouldn't need to be this large, but it guarantees that the bug will be reproduced.
spritecenter.x=0
spritecenter.y=0
lifetime = 100
animatetime = 100

(retrived from memory)
Just put that in a weapon /explosion, make the rendering happen on a map where visibilityrange is large enough to see the whole sprite, and get close to it. Similar effects can be achived by modifying sky sprites. Make them larger than 90 degrees, and they begin to stretch and distort.

Edit: As far as it being a bug in 1.2, I'll test it this afternoon, and post the results tomorrow.

In theory, a sprite that large in 1.2 may not be possible, considering most things that are "large" in 1.2 will end up AV'ing the game.

I'll probably need somebody else to reproduce the bug. (Blackdragon, still got that map I gave you, the 256 grid map?) I know he has a very large map (the very same one that I tested this bug on).

[Angstromicus]

In 1.2, sprites still misbehave. I didn't have a crash problem with it.