[CF-Devel] (old) bugs

[Andreas Vogl]

Uups, I accidentally sent this mail only to Mark, not to cf-devel.
Here it is for everybody now:
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Looks like I provided a bit too sparse
info in some cases... But here we go:

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      > o cfclient: When I resize the window, client crashes. This bug existed
     
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      >   since I first used cfclient.
     
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      I do this all the time, and it never crashes.  There is a bug in that if
     
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      you resize the window while in metaserver selection mode, the window grows
     
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      but it doesn't re-size the subwindows.  But I haven't seen it crash.
     
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      Perhaps more information on exactly how to do this might be useful.
     
     
I suspect it might be a system-dependant bug then. I do nothing special,
just install the client and run it. It crashes *always* when I resize it,
at any time of play. I use SuSE linux 7.0.

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      > o CF server (attack code): I've noticed that multisquare monsters
     
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      >   sometimes don't attack me with melee. They move next to me, cast
     
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      >   spells at me, but no melee attack. Any idea why this could happen?
     
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      Where is the monsters logical head located relative to you (logical head
     
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      always being the upper left corner of the monster).  I wonder if perhaps
     
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      the code is thinking that the monster is not directly adjacent (of which
     
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      the head is not), even though it is due to the rest of its body.
     
     
This bug doesn't seem to depend on my relative position to the monster's
head. I noticed it very clearly when testing "Lorkas", the multi-square
angel (and final boss) in Warrior Proving Tower.
Sometimes he attacked melee, sometimes not. But he always casted spells and
moved around.
I'd love to tell you a "reason" for this to happen, but I can't yet.

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        The movement scripts don't work for multisquare monsters. The monsters
     
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        seemingly are always treated one square, using the head (upper-left
     
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        of multi-squares. For monsters like 3x3 upwards, this leads to serious
     
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        malfunction.
     
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      It should work.  I've seen big monsters move around.  Perhaps you can
     
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      provide a better example?
     
     
Sorry, you completely misunderstood my point (my fault).
I referred to the attack-movement here. Not "monster relative to walls",
but "monster relative to player".

For example: When I set a certain attack_movement number (think that number
was 1), the monster tries to maintain a distance of two squares to the
player.
But the distance is counted only from the monster's head. Thus, when I
approach a 3x3 monster from above (north) - fine it will step away from me.
But when I approach it from below (south) - it doesn't step away because
head is in 3 squares distance north since monster *is* 3x3. Monster stands
close
to me, I can easily attack with melee, thus attack-movement algo has
completely
failed it's purpose.


Andreas V.