Slitherine

Hmm, something weird I noticed even in the 0.6 version. It could be my lack of understanding, but I am getting strange results with GetAngleFrom(unit, me).

If an enemy unit is along a PERFECT diagonal, and I turn to face him, I show angles for both body and turret to be 0. That's fine, but if I turn my facing 45%, this is not reflected, instead I get weird numbers like 26, etc. I'm not sure what's going on there. I suppose it's taking half of 45 and rounding wrong due to stupid integers.... But then I get other results that seem to be even more weird.

The Me262 is still bugged in the online Winter_Village scenario. This time allies show only 2 planes, but one is still the ME262. Also, there is a debug window that always comes up and mentions something about an extra P47 texture (or something along those lines).


** Edit ** No, it wasn't about a texture...

I thought I'd mention something... I was going to suggest you allow the password to be stored in some sort of cache for connecting to online. Turns out there is one after all, but I don't think it was working because you had such harsh permission restrictions on the Vista boxes with the BBC directory. I had to adjust these just to be able to mod the scripts again.

The debug log window mentions at the start of Winter Village: **WARNING: TRYING TO LOAD > 1 INSTANCE BONUS P47.BSF

On the force selection menu, I am not sure why some units are outlined in a Ponyheadron, and have a darkened background?

Surrendering units dont' seem to give experience. I guess that didn't make it into the last Beta?

iainmcneil wrote:Can you give a specific example? Mayeb a screenshot?

Here's another Line of Sight problem despite I'm clearly legal to fire.

I suspect Aimed-Fire could be the culprit, I'll have to keep an eye on it.

When you have a unit selected press 1. This shows the tiles you can shoot at. It woudl be interesting to see what it thinks it can see in this situation.

On the Killing Spree scenario, despite the turn counter has gone to zero, I can still keep playing forever it seems. Also the M8 Howitzers are still broken, they refuse to show any bombardment icon.

Ahh, well now if I had known this little feature all along I would have learned things a lot faster

I ran into another LoS problem. Using the #1 key didn't show anything wrong, however I did see numerous instances where a solid black (missing texture) would be overlayed on terrain in spots.

So far, I've only noticed this LoS problem show up when the unit has the Aimed Fire benefit. I still suspect that may be part of the problem, probably a display glitch or something. Even my own stats get duplicated and then return some null when the Aimed Fire selection is brought up.

The missing texture is tiles you can see but not fire at because they are out of range.

Obsolete wrote:Often the End-Turn button is missing the american start ensignia, so instead shows up solid red with just the gold arrow on it.

American Start = American Star

Does this happen on specific mission(s)? Some might be set up for different sides.

Cheers

Pip

Thanks for all the feedback! I'll add them all to my buglist. Not sure about the GetAngleFrom issue - although sometimes things can change which have knock-ons which aren't immediately apparent if they only change some internal numbers

Cheers

Pip

Obsolete wrote:I thought I'd mention something... I was going to suggest you allow the password to be stored in some sort of cache for connecting to online. Turns out there is one after all, but I don't think it was working because you had such harsh permission restrictions on the Vista boxes with the BBC directory. I had to adjust these just to be able to mod the scripts again.

I'm a little hazy here. What exactly were you seeing happening? The BBCBA directory in your Documents dir wasn't writeable?

Cheers

Pip

No, the folders in the program-files directories have very tight restrictions.

This is how Vista and 7 works. But (e.g.) the multiplayer login info is stored in the user directory in the OPTIONS.TXT file, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Cheers

Pip

Hmm, it could have been a coincidence then.

One issue that still bothers me (and I saw this mentioned a while ago) is that when you try to unload a unit and find out the game seems buggy and wont let you unload, the real reason is there is a hidden enemy unit there on that tile. After the player figures this BUG out, he suddenly realizes he has a potential cheat available to him.

Shouldn't this be handled by forcing the player into an assault penalty instead of exploiting it?

It is on the bug list - my plan is to make you unload in an adjacent tile and discover the enemy and make them ambush you.

Don't forget to plan ahead and prepare for the "No adjacent tile-space available" bug

It already has to manage that if you destroy a carrier anyway - so the carrier gets ambushed, if killed it will try and dump out the loaded infantry.

Cheers

Pip