Opened 21 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
#1601 closed defect (fixed)
SAM: Inventory masking regression
| Reported by: | eriktorbjorn | Owned by: | fingolfin |
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| Priority: | high | Component: | Engine: SCUMM |
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| Cc: | Game: | Sam and Max |
Description
Here's a bug I get in the latest CVS, but not in 0.6.0:
Walk Sam to the foreground, so that he can't be masked by anything. I don't think you can do this in the office, but you can do it in the hallway outside.
Open the inventory box. Examine something (e.g. Max, if you're not carrying anything else). Wait for the subtitles to be removed.
Sam is now visible through the inventory box.
I'm not quite sure what's happening, but Sam & Max uses the dbDrawMaskOnAll feature to draw the inventory. This causes the object's mask to be drawn on all mask buffers, including (and this is the important one) the same one as is used by the charset mask.
Is it possible that the recent charset mask changes means that enough of the charset mask is cleared that Sam is no longer masked after the subtitles have been removed?
Ticket imported from: #937017. Ticket imported from: bugs/1601.
Change History (8)
comment:1 by , 21 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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comment:2 by , 21 years ago
comment:3 by , 21 years ago
| Priority: | normal → high |
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comment:4 by , 20 years ago
What's the status of this? I know the bug still happens, but have you had the time to look at it yet?
I've been thinking of taking a look myself, but I don't want to get in your way. ;-)
comment:5 by , 20 years ago
I haven't looked into fixing this yet, no. It's clear to me what causes the problem, and there are some potential ways to fix it, but I don't know which one to go at this moment, and it's a bit difficult to judge the impact of the various changes properly...
One way would be to stop (ab)using mask level 0 for the charset mask and introduce another separate buffer for the charset mask. That would allow to cleanly separate the two and should fix the problem at hand; but it will require changes to several spots in the code (costume & font renderer, gfx.cpp code, etc.). Another advantage of that approach: if done properly it might make it possible to cleanly solve another text rendering related bug: namely, in newer games, scrolling should *not* erase text but rather it should stay fixed with regards to the real screen (so it stays in the same spot on the screen, but "moves" over the game graphics) (SAM and COMI have open bug reports on this, I believe). Currently there is no good way around this, since the masks are relative to the virtual screen coords, not real screen coords. Our new separate charset mask could be based on real screen coords, though, thus "fixing" the problem.
Anyway: if you want to tackle this, feel free to go ahead :-). And if you have other ideas how to solve it, please voice them; I am not fixed on the above approach in any way, maybe there are much better solutions!
comment:6 by , 20 years ago
I like the sound of it, though as you say it'll mean little changes in a lot of places.
comment:7 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:8 by , 20 years ago
Done as described in CVS. We'll see what new regression *that* will cause :-)
The new charset mask code will indeed remove the entire mask on level 0 (i.e. the charset mask). Hrrrrmm. As a matter of fact, I think it always used to do it, just by lucky coincidence, this didn't cause visible glitches ?!?
I'll try to take a closer look tomorrow...