[CF List] Problem with improved invisibility in client 1.3.0

[Mark Wedel]

Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote:
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      At 02:02 AM 7/25/02, you wrote:
     
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     Erhard Sanio wrote:
     
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     Hello, 
     
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     This bug was already described on the crossfire board at www.viksten.com .
     
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     Might somebody comment (or is it a known bug)?
     
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     When invoking improved invisibility under client 1.3.0, the character
     
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     completely vanishes. That is very inconvenient as one has to guess where the
     
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     character exactly is.  
     
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     In all earlier client versions, improved invisibility shows a "blinking"
     
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     character to the player proper so that one may see where it is. 
     
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     Fixed in CVS.  This is actually a server issue.
     
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      This same problem plagues the "hiding" skill...
     
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      Perhaps the same code affects both invisibility and hiding?
     
     
  Yep, the change should fix that also.

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      If so, a hiding character blinks in the DX client, but does not blink
     
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      in the 1.3.1 GTK client... and cannot be seen until he does something
     
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      to reveal himself.
     
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      Is it really a server problem?
     
     
  Yes.  The DX client uses the original protocol for map drawing.  That protocol 
had a limited mapsize of 13x13, but didn't have the bug with respect to 
invisible players.  Very old versions of the unix client would use that, and 
would also draw it correctly.

  Newer versions use the newer map drawing protocol, and that code on the server 
was never sending the player face when invisible.