#2637 closed defect (fixed)
KYRA1: Subtitles glitch during "Speech of the Land"
| Reported by: | eriktorbjorn | Owned by: | lordhoto |
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| Priority: | low | Component: | Engine: Kyra |
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| Cc: | Game: | Kyrandia 1 |
Description
Current SVN snapshot English talkie version
During the "Speech of the Land", at the point where Brandon says "What!?" followed by "Why me?" these two subtitles are partially erased before they are completely removed. (This happens in the first room of the game, so I'm not going to attach a savegame.)
It appears to be because the game redraws the face on the wall. I don't know why it does this, because it redraws the current frame. In other words, I can work around the glitch by adding a test to WSAMovieV1::displayFrame() to check if frameNum == _currentFrame. But that probably breaks other things.
Ticket imported from: #1497437. Ticket imported from: bugs/2637.
Attachments (2)
Change History (20)
comment:1 by , 18 years ago
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comment:2 by , 18 years ago
comment:3 by , 18 years ago
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comment:5 by , 16 years ago
| Priority: | normal → low |
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comment:6 by , 16 years ago
Very minor glitch, thus I will lower priority.
As for the problem: I did not find anything what could be wrong when comparing to disassembly, guess it will take a closer look and that is not worth the effort for this bug IMHO.
comment:7 by , 16 years ago
I agree that it's a minor glitch. I just want to clarify that it still happens with the current SVN snapshot.
comment:8 by , 16 years ago
As a workaround to this, I think that eriktorbjorn's workaround could simply be applied to that scene only - it shouldn't break anything. Your thoughts?
comment:9 by , 16 years ago
Well that could be done, still I don't like to work around that in WSAMovieV1::displayFrame, I would rather apply that to the function calling it in script_v1.cpp (whatever of the WSA specific opcodes that would be), or at best fix the real reason behind it.
comment:10 by , 16 years ago
Could be a matter of the order in which you draw the video vs. the subtitles? Resp. maybe the subtitles simply are redrawn automatically every frame if a video plays? Or maybe the original video rendered did not overdraw subtitles (e.g. because the subtitles use a "magic color" making it possible to mask them)?
comment:11 by , 16 years ago
I checked a bit through CD disasm, but I can't see any places there text drawing is called for the opcodes used by this specific scene. At least the initial drawing order should be correct, I don't know anything of a 'magic color' either, and we should not forget it works everywhere else when text is drawn too. Maybe there is some place where the subtitles are drawn again, but I didn't find that yet.
comment:12 by , 16 years ago
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comment:14 by , 16 years ago
Oops forget the description, I added a patch fixing this issue correctly (along with some other audio/video glitches), the patch relies on a patch from the patch tracker though (#1970427 "Fixed Length Audio Stream class").
by , 16 years ago
| Attachment: | av_sync_v2.patch added |
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patch against SVN, relaying on audiostream_v2.patch from #1970427
comment:15 by , 16 years ago
Updated patch here for new patch at patch tracker item #1970427. File Added: av_sync_v2.patch
comment:16 by , 16 years ago
Should be fixed in current SVN (at least without compressed audio files), I'll leave it open till it's also fixed for compressed audio files.
comment:18 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
As far as I can tell, these two subtitles are drawn at exactly the same spot as in the original, so wrong positioning isn't the cause of the problem.