#1778 closed defect (fixed)
INDY3-VGA: actors walking in wrong places
| Reported by: | SF/tobybear | Owned by: | fingolfin |
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| Priority: | high | Component: | Engine: SCUMM |
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| Cc: | Game: | Indiana Jones 3 |
Description
Game: Indy 3 VGA, DOS, English Tested with: ScummVM 0.6.1b + CVS Sep 20 Platform: AMD 2000+ running Windows XP
Argl, this is driving me nuts! In the labyrinth levels in Indy 3 (Venice catacombs, Castle Brundwald, Zeppelin), I have problems with people walking where there are not supposed to walk. In Venice, it was not much of a problem, Indy can simply walk over some tunnels. In Castle Brunwald, I saw it happen only once with a soldier standing in a wall. However in the first scene with the butler at the entrance door, Indy can walk from the top exit to the right exit and is drawn "over" the table with the candles and the stairs. Still no real problem.
The Zeppelin section is really difficult though: the soldiers can just run around like they want to, even if there is no bridge/floor under them, so they seem to "float". This makes it really difficult to escape them. I finally managed to get along by fighting two of them, but I couldn't get into that plane (see screenshot, room 41). I finally found that by clicking on the middle part of the ladder, NOT on the plane or by moving Indy down the ladder, Indy will enter the plane, else he will just stand there. I am not 100% sure but I think in the original game (played in on an Amiga back then), it was enough to click on the ladder or the plane.
In the compatibility list, it says "no known issues" for Indy 3 VGA, but for Indy 3 *EGA*, it says: "Indiana may be able to walk in odd places, in some rooms".
I assume this is some problem with the walking boxes, anyone else experienced this?
Cheers
Toby
Ticket imported from: #1032964. Ticket imported from: bugs/1778.
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Change History (23)
by , 20 years ago
comment:1 by , 20 years ago
Never heard anything similar to this. in fact I am pretty sure that part used to work fine.
comment:2 by , 20 years ago
Okay, I added some screenshots: boxes.png are the walking boxes for this room, they seems to be okay for me. soldier_bottom, soldier_middle, soldier_top show a soldier appearing at the bottom(!) of the screen moving straight up - you better not get in his way.
I though at first my copy of the game had become corrupted, but I tried it at one of my friends with his copy - same problem. It is also strange that it appears in all the labyrinth levels.
comment:3 by , 20 years ago
| Priority: | normal → high |
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comment:4 by , 20 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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comment:5 by , 20 years ago
This regression was apparently caused by my fix for bug #809547. Looking at that particular change, it looks wrong to me, so I'll see if i can find a better fix for #809547 which avoid the regression described here.
comment:6 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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comment:7 by , 20 years ago
This should be fixed now in CVS, please try (may take up to 24 hours for the fix to appear in the daily builds, obviously :-).
comment:8 by , 20 years ago
Hi! I checked with the latest CVS (30-09), but I don't know if the fix is already active. What was different than before is that I can now hear Indy's footsteps on the zeppelin bridge (clonk! clonk!), this was not the case in older builds (20-09).
The soldiers still walk on air though :-( Since I though that maybe the savegame contained wrong data already, I restarted from the airport but the same problem. It seems the soldier now prefer to walk horizontally instead of vertically and sometimes *below* the bridges instead of above.
Can anyone confirm that in my savegame the soldiers walk on air on his computer?
UPDATE: I just started playing Indy3-VGA-English on another computer and noticed that Indy walks strangely in the Venice catacombs as well. This is nothing new but I noticed that he does not seem to walk abritrarily, but follow the path of the walk boxes, although shifted to the right sometimes, making him walk in the black areas. I checked the room's walkboxes and they seemed fine, but maybe this problem is a different one: Could it be that this bug is related to scrolling of the background and the actors not scrolling with it (or the other way round), so basically a problem with coordinate calculations on screens larger than the viewing area? This could explain why the soldiers in the zeppelin can walk horizontally or vertically in some areas where there is no bridge because the actor/walkbox calculation is based on another area. Or maybe it is simply the background image not scrolled correctly, so the actors walk fine, but are displayed at the wrong positions? But then Indy wouldn't be able to enter the plane at the right spot....
Hmmm, any ideas?
Would it help if I check with Indy 3 - FM-Towns if it shows the same behaviour?
comment:9 by , 20 years ago
No, the issue definitely is unrelated to scrolling.
A savegame *before* the problem occurs would be more helpful, BTW, as it's very hard to test using your savegame whether the issue is fixed or not -- the savegame already starts out with actors outside their "walkbox", so even if the issue was fixed, upon loading it you get the bad effect at first...
comment:10 by , 20 years ago
I just checked again, the problem is still there (I re-started from the airport), BUT: I think I found out that the problem only occurs when saving/loading in the labyrinths! As far as I remember, the original game interpreter did not allow you to save in the labyrinth levels, maybe something gets screwed up when ScummVM saves and loads at these points?
What do you think?
comment:11 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | fixed |
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comment:12 by , 20 years ago
If the problem really occurs after loading a savegame, that explains a lot! Ah yeah, I now see it, "walkdata.point3" is not being save (I actually wondered if that might be a problem 1-2 years ago =). That one is very easy to fix (for new savegames, that is, not for existing "broken" ones, I am afraid). I'll commit such a change, maybe you can try it in 24 hours and see if it helps with "new" savegames?
comment:13 by , 20 years ago
Thanks, I will try it out soon! If others want to test, I uploaded a savegame right before Indy enters the Zeppelin...
comment:15 by , 20 years ago
| Status: | new → closed |
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comment:16 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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I want to get on that plane!