#8141 closed patch
DOTT: Fix for some animation glitches
| Reported by: | eriktorbjorn | Owned by: | SF/ender |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Engine: SCUMM |
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| Cc: | Game: | Day of the Tentacle |
Description
This patch fixes the animation timing glitches in the DotT epilogue described in bug #555319 ("DOTT: Epilogue Problem"). This, I expected. What I didn't expect was that it also seems to fix bug #558310 ("DOTT: Flickering Chron-O-John"), and I haven't really checked why or how.
It also fixes at least one other, less noticeable animation glitch where the Chron-O-John Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne uses near the end of the game is falling too slowly. And since the patch isn't DotT-specific, it might affect other games as well.
Of course, it might also *break* things, but I haven't seen that happen. Yet. :-)
What the patch does is simply to make initActor() reset animSpeed to 1 (0 would work just as well). Since it already resets walk speed, this seems like a reasonable thing to do.
I have absolutely no idea where DotT - or any other game - changes the animation speed of an actor. It can't be used very much, or we should have seen this problem happening a lot more often. But at least now I know why I have one savegame where I can reproduce the "Flickering Chron-O-John" bug and one where I can't. If you use the super-battery early enough, apparently it won't happen.
Ticket imported from: #649358. Ticket imported from: patches/246.
Attachments (3)
Change History (6)
by , 22 years ago
| Attachment: | dott-anim.diff added |
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comment:1 by , 22 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 by , 22 years ago
Applied to both 0.3.0 and current CVS HEAD.
(There's no way this should break anything, it looks like it was just a stupid oversight when writing initActor :)
comment:3 by , 6 years ago
| Component: | → Engine: SCUMM |
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| Game: | → Day of the Tentacle |
Patch against a December 5 CVS snapshot