[CF-Devel] Bug: show invisible and burning items

[Andreas Vogl]

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      I played today the shining finger quest.
     
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      In pupland/s_f/st3 is a invisible door to
     
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      a secret part.
     
     
(The map in the ancient ruins (red islands underground) with
all the dark angels on it, and kabuto of geisha.)

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      I had some fight to do, and after it i cast show inv
     
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      to unhide to door.
     
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      But only the "flash" comes out at the map point where the door is,
     
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      but the door don't appear.
     
     
True, this happens. It is more a map bug I think.
Items with flag "invisible 1" become visible on show-inv,
so do items placed under the map-floor.
The hidden oakdoor in "s_f/st3" is BOTH under the floor and
"invisible 1". In this case show-inv. fails, and that is
intentional (There must be some means of hiding stuff
from all too curious players).

This map is the only place I know of with a "bug" of this
kind. And the hidden exit isn't even needed, it's crap.
It could be removed, together with the map behind that exit.

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      Also, on the map stay artifact rests of burning items.
     
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      Also, when i logout and in, i got items on the map you cant access they
     
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      shown as a flame of the burning item animation and are called burning
     
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      Seems, here is same map handling code broken.
     
     
What??!! I've never seen anything like this, not on the
map mentioned above, nor anywhere else.

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      How show invisible works? Should it not unhide all invisible ?
     
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      When not, it should, its a pain like in maps for pupland where whole sets
     
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      work with it.
     
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      I don't want enter a map x times, because i have a random in the show
     
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      invisible code.
     
     
No, don't worry. This doesn't happen anywhere else to my knowing.


However, a short note on show-invisible:
While making maps I realized that we need a (simple and clean) way to
mark any given object both as "invisible" and "not affectable by show-inv".

Typical example: I want to make an invisible teleporter, it has to be
on top of the map-floor, but I don't want the player to discover it
via sho-inv. Currently this is not possible (except for one dirty
workaround).


Andreas V.