#6089 closed defect (fixed)
MOHAWK: LB - Text animations not working
| Reported by: | SF/legoking831 | Owned by: | fuzzie |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Engine: Mohawk |
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| Cc: | Game: |
Description
Before you go off and tell me this is a duplicate of bug 3419094, that report was misunderstood as I don't think the user was specific enough when he described those. So, allow me to explain. I have a video this time to help you figure out what I mean. The New Kid on the Block and Dr. Seuss's ABC both have animations assigned to their text, beyond just having it read aloud. As in, not only does it read the text, but it triggers an animation along with it. ScummVM fails to play these animations though, and only reads the text. For ABC, it doesn't apply to all the text ("What begins with [letter]?" and the C...c...C type things work), but it does apply to all the text in New Kid, which completely ruins the whole point of the game. You don't need an actual copy of New Kid, this bug is also in the demo (which I actually used in the video, but I can confirm it's this way in the real game too). Check out the video cited below. I first show how it should run using the original EXE/interpreter, then show how it currently runs in ScummVM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C9QhsU2EE4 Also, while we're here, I should also mention the "BIG" and "little" text in ABC simply doesn't work at all. I tried clicking it at the end of the video, and nothing happened.
Ticket imported from: #3541294. Ticket imported from: bugs/6089.
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Change History (16)
comment:1 by , 12 years ago
| Summary: | LB: Textual animations not working → MOHAWK: LB - Text animations not working |
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comment:2 by , 12 years ago
comment:3 by , 12 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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comment:5 by , 12 years ago
legoking831: OK. Have managed to replicate with latest Git master on Linux x86_32 using the New Kid Demo here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/files/demos/mohawk/newkid-win-demo-en.zip/download
I concur that there is a bug here compared to your video of the original. To replicate: 1. Start "New Kid Demo". 2. After intro, Click "Let Me Play". 3. Wait for "I Spied My Shadow Slinking" Poem First Read to complete. Boy animates. 4. Click on the words to play the poem. The words animate correctly. However, the boy stays totally still. In the original, as the video linked shows, he animates through various actions connected to the words.
fuzzie: Any immediate ideas?
comment:6 by , 12 years ago
legoking831: Please disregard request for more information as we can now replicate with a freely available demo, so the Mohawk LB engine developers can investigate. Please note that this may take a little time, so please be patient and stand by... Thanks.
comment:8 by , 12 years ago
Drat. The animations *do* work in some versions of those two games, which is confusing.
While this is much easier to replicate with a demo that we have (hooray), could you still either provide the interpreter version (it might be under Properties on Windows), or else attach the outline files for the failing games?
comment:9 by , 12 years ago
The demo issues reproduced by digitall (thanks!) should be fixed by revision e265be07, which will be in the next daily build. Hopefully it will fix your reported problems - please report if they're fixed or not!
comment:10 by , 12 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → pending |
comment:11 by , 12 years ago
Well, now we've managed to turn the bug around the other way. The animations are working, yes, but now the text isn't being read. It just skips directly to the animation, both on New Kid and ABC. I have this problem on my V1.1 disc of New Kid on the Block. To tell the difference between V1.0 and V1.1 of the first four games, for future reference... V1.0 will have the label "Broderbund's Living Books". V1.1 says "Living Books: A Random House/Broderbund Company". V1.0 came on separate Windows and Macintosh CDs. V1.1 uses hybrid Windows/Mac CDs. I'm quite certain there was only ever one version of Dr. Seuss's ABC, but here's the info I've got anyway for the version that isn't working. Outline: [BookInfo] title="Dr. Seuss's ABC version 1.0" copyright="Copyright 1995, Living Books" fPoetry=false nPages="50" nLanguages="1" xRes="512" yRes="384" ;optional configuration info fNeedPalette=true fUse254ColorPalette=false nColors=256 nKBRequired=2560
[Languages] Language1="English"
[Intro] Page1.r=MHKDATA\CP\ABCINTRO.MHK Page2.r=MHKDATA\CP\ABCCOVER.MHK
[Control] Page1=MHKDATA\CP\ABCPANEL.MHK Page2=MHKDATA\CP\ABCQUIT.MHK Page3=MHKDATA\CP\ABCOPT.MHK
[Credits] Page1.r=MHKDATA\CP\ABCCRED1.MHK Page2.r=MHKDATA\CP\ABCCRED2.MHK Page3.r=MHKDATA\CP\ABCCRED3.MHK
[English.Play] Page1=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_A_EP.MHK Page2=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_B_EP.MHK Page3=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_C_EP.MHK Page4=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_D_EP.MHK Page5=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_E_EP.MHK Page6=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_F_EP.MHK Page7=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_G_EP.MHK Page8=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_H_EP.MHK Page9=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_I_EP.MHK Page10=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_J_EP.MHK Page11=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_K_EP.MHK Page12=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_L_EP.MHK Page13=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_M_EP.MHK Page14=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_N_EP.MHK Page15=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_O_EP.MHK Page16.1.r=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_P1EP.MHK Page16.2=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_P2EP.MHK Page17=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_Q_EP.MHK Page18=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_R_EP.MHK Page19=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_S_EP.MHK Page20=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_T_EP.MHK Page21=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_U_EP.MHK Page22=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_V_EP.MHK Page23=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_W_EP.MHK Page24=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_X_EP.MHK Page25=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_Y_EP.MHK Page26.1.r=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_Z1EP.MHK Page26.2=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_Z2EP.MHK Page27.r=MHKDATA\EP\ABCEND.MHK Page28=MHKDATA\EP\FOO.MHK Page29=MHKDATA\DEMO\DEMOPAGE.MHK Page30.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\JMCOVER.MHK Page31=MHKDATA\DEMO\JMDEMO.MHK Page32.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\ATCOVER.MHK Page33=MHKDATA\DEMO\ATDEMO.MHK Page34.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\THCOVER.MHK Page35=MHKDATA\DEMO\THDEMO.MHK Page36.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\NKCOVER.MHK Page37.1=MHKDATA\DEMO\NKDEMO1.MHK Page37.2=MHKDATA\DEMO\NKDEMO2.MHK Page38.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\RBCOVER.MHK Page39=MHKDATA\DEMO\RBDEMO.MHK Page40.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\LMCOVER.MHK Page41=MHKDATA\DEMO\LMDEMO.MHK Page42.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\ABCOVER.MHK Page43=MHKDATA\DEMO\ABDEMO.MHK Page44.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\HHCOVER.MHK Page45=MHKDATA\DEMO\HHDEMO.MHK Page46.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\BFCOVER.MHK Page47=MHKDATA\DEMO\BFDEMO.MHK Page48=MHKDATA\EP\FOO.MHK Page49=MHKDATA\CP\ABCSONG.MHK
[English.Read] Page1.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_A_ER.MHK Page2.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_B_ER.MHK Page3.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_C_ER.MHK Page4.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_D_ER.MHK Page5.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_E_ER.MHK Page6.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_F_ER.MHK Page7.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_G_ER.MHK Page8.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_H_ER.MHK Page9.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_I_ER.MHK Page10.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_J_ER.MHK Page11.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_K_ER.MHK Page12.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_L_ER.MHK Page13.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_M_ER.MHK Page14.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_N_ER.MHK Page15.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_O_ER.MHK Page16.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_P_ER.MHK Page17.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_Q_ER.MHK Page18.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_R_ER.MHK Page19.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_S_ER.MHK Page20.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_T_ER.MHK Page21.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_U_ER.MHK Page22.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_V_ER.MHK Page23.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_W_ER.MHK Page24.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_X_ER.MHK Page25.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_Y_ER.MHK Page26.1.r=MHKDATA\EP\ABC_Z1EP.MHK Page26.2.r=MHKDATA\ER\ABC_Z_ER.MHK Page27.r=MHKDATA\EP\ABCEND.MHK Page28=MHKDATA\EP\FOO.MHK Page29=MHKDATA\DEMO\DEMOPAGE.MHK Page30.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\JMCOVER.MHK Page31=MHKDATA\DEMO\JMDEMO.MHK Page32.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\ATCOVER.MHK Page33=MHKDATA\DEMO\ATDEMO.MHK Page34.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\THCOVER.MHK Page35=MHKDATA\DEMO\THDEMO.MHK Page36.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\NKCOVER.MHK Page37.1=MHKDATA\DEMO\NKDEMO1.MHK Page37.2=MHKDATA\DEMO\NKDEMO2.MHK Page38.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\RBCOVER.MHK Page39=MHKDATA\DEMO\RBDEMO.MHK Page40.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\LMCOVER.MHK Page41=MHKDATA\DEMO\LMDEMO.MHK Page42.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\ABCOVER.MHK Page43=MHKDATA\DEMO\ABDEMO.MHK Page44.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\HHCOVER.MHK Page45=MHKDATA\DEMO\HHDEMO.MHK Page46.r=MHKDATA\DEMO\BFCOVER.MHK Page47=MHKDATA\DEMO\BFDEMO.MHK Page48=MHKDATA\EP\FOO.MHK Page49=MHKDATA\CP\ABCSONG.MHK
Should you need them, I've given you the MD5s for ABC as well.
comment:12 by , 12 years ago
Drat. That will teach me not to try bugfixes on computers without sound. I tried moving the playback of the animation in ff1828fc, does that help?
(There's definitely one version of ABC which is using LB 1.x and one which is using LB 2.x. It might be a Windows/Mac difference, though.)
comment:13 by , 12 years ago
Okay, it seems to be working now. It does it differently in the interpreter (the cursor disappears as soon as you click it on the EXE, whereas here it waits for the animation to make the cursor disappear), but I'd say that's up to you if you feel it's worth fixing, since that's a pretty minor thing and barely hinders anything. I also noticed you can only trigger them once, but that's a bug all on its own and I'll probably just talk about that in another report, since that happens to objects you can click on more than once too, once you've gone through all the animations. For now, you can close this. I'd say this has been resolved.
comment:14 by , 12 years ago
Agh. Fixed the multiple-triggers behaviour in bed2eb20. Haven't seen the object behaviour (but you can tell I don't own either ABC nor New Kid, unfortunately), so would appreciate a report on that. Will ponder on the cursor behaviour. Thanks again.
comment:15 by , 12 years ago
| Status: | pending → closed |
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The bug that the bug submitter is referring to is "LB: Missing Animations" - ID: 3419094: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3419094&group_id=37116&atid=418820
This was closed as the bug submitter did not respond clearly with sufficient detail to identify the exact version and it was not possible to replicate the bug from their report.
legoking831: I will try to replicate here again, but if you could supply the information the original submitter failed to: "Can you be clear about the following: 1. What operating system are you using? 2. What release of ScummVM are you using? 3. Have you tried replicating this issue with the latest nightly development builds from: http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#daily
Also, you may have an unsupported version or variant of these LB games (Unfortunately several LB titles were released with varying engine versions, and we only support the earlier engine versions currently. This is not helped by the fact they are very hard to tell apart by inspection of the packaging)
In order to progress this bug, apart from the answers to the previous questions, can you please attach a text file to this bug containing a file listing of your Dr. Seuss ABC CD contents with MD5sum file checksums. The output of a tool such as http://md5summer.org/ would be optimal."