#551 closed defect (fixed)
LOOM: fade in / fade out
| Reported by: | SF/andrej4000 | Owned by: | fingolfin |
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| Priority: | low | Component: | Engine: SCUMM |
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| Cc: | Game: | Loom |
Description
ScummVM makes fade ins and fade outs, when another room is loaded, but the original interpreter didn't do that anywhere. However the gameplay is a little bit strange with the fade ins/outs.
Ticket imported from: #635461. Ticket imported from: bugs/551.
Change History (18)
comment:1 by , 22 years ago
| Priority: | normal → low |
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comment:2 by , 22 years ago
comment:3 by , 22 years ago
Hm... it seems to me, that it wasm't really a fade in/out, but just a much too slow computer. E.g. in the beginning of the game the nightscreen is loaded then a fade and again the nightscreen, but now with animations. Here it is the fade absolutely senseless.
Also in the gameplay this feature "breaks" the flow of the text, since some room changes are in the middle of dialogs, and the fades are just ugly, because also the synchronisation of voice and text is lost a little bit...
Perhaps on very old computers you just see how the screen is schanged? (no real fade)
comment:4 by , 22 years ago
I believe this might be fixed by a change I made today (to fix Zak). Can you please check if that is the case? I don't notice any fades during the intro... if the problem is still there, could you please pin point to me where exactly I can reproduce it?
comment:5 by , 22 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Status: | new → pending |
comment:6 by , 22 years ago
It fixes at least the reload of the same room. (intro of LoomVGA) however there were no fades at all in the game.
comment:7 by , 22 years ago
| Status: | pending → new |
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comment:8 by , 22 years ago
You mean there are absolutly no, nada, rien, kein, zero fades in Loom? Are you absolutly sure? It's been 10 years for me I played the original, so I don't know myself. But if this is true, it's not hard to fix, we could just disable the fades for LoomCD.
comment:10 by , 22 years ago
Weird. I wonder why then there are calls to o5_oldRoomEffect() in the script, setting the fade effect to 2. A possible explanation would be that o5_oldRoomEffect() has a different meaning in Loom.
comment:11 by , 22 years ago
Perhaps no meaning at all? They converted all scripts from the old game. Perhaps after that thy just removed the fades?
comment:12 by , 22 years ago
In feature request #596788 [1] ("More fade modes") logicdeluxe claimed there definitely were fade-ins and fade-outs in Loom CD. Is there any way we could arrange a duel to the death between him and andrej4000 to find out which one of them is right about this? :-)
Or could it be something simpler, e.g. that _switchRoomEffect / _switchRoomEffect2 should be cleared once they've been used? As I've said, I've never seen what Loom CD looks like on a really slow computer, and I've never been able to run it under DOSemu or DosBox.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=596788&group_id=37116&atid=418823
comment:13 by , 22 years ago
OK... With a very good slowdown program in slowest mode on my P2-350 I saw very fast fades... (peh... now you can speel good eriktorbjorn, your work _HAS_ sense... :p ) I don't knwo for which computers it was designed for, but I don't think the fades should be as slow, as scummvm uses them.
perhaps just making the fades a little bit faster?
comment:14 by , 22 years ago
Speeding up the fade would be very simple: Just change the blits_before_refresh variable in dissolveEffect() to something larger.
Though I think it looks pretty good for the other games (it's used sparingly in Indy4, MI1, Sam & Max, and possibly others) so maybe just change it a bit for Loom since that game uses it so extensively?
comment:16 by , 22 years ago
OK, I can do it.
Interesting side note: unkScreenEffect6() already has a conditionalized call to dissolveEffect, for LoomCD it uses different parameters...
comment:17 by , 22 years ago
I sped the fade up by a factor 4, looks OK here. We can still fine tune it if you think it should be even faster or a tad slower again.
comment:18 by , 22 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
When that feature was originally requested, I was told that the original interpreter did do it, but that on modern hardware it happens too fast to notice. I can't verify whether that's true or false.
Anyway, as far as I can understand all screen effects (fades and such) are scripted so ScummVM should do *something* when changing rooms. It's just a question of whether or not we're doing the correct screen effect. (And that's definitely open to debate, since unkScreenEffect6() works differently in Loom than in other games.)