[crossfire] Client display issue

[Mark Wedel]

Anton Oussik wrote:
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      On 7/6/05, Mark Wedel <
      
      mwedel at sonic.net
      
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     However, on corrupted maps, that does not fix the problem...
     
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      It happens very infrequently, but from time
     
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      to time the server poisons the maps with
     
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      black tiles, which looks alike to a gap in
     
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      the fabric of space. Although it's a good
     
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      effect, and goes a great way of showing
     
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      that the universe we live in is fragile, I don't
     
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      think it's intentional. Has anyone else
     
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      noticed this or knows why it happens?
     
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      I'd hate something like this to happen to my
     
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      apartment/guild.
     
     
  I know a behavior - I'm not sure if it exactly what you are talking about.

  An example of this behavior is the coloseum in scorn at night.

  As said, the server sends the lower right coordinate for the face, even if the 
entire thing is not visible.

  So what can happen is that some portion is visible, and some portion is not 
(because it is too dark to see).  However, the client knows about the entire 
image, so draws all of it, but it doesn't have any background, and thus looks odd.

  The other case you may be talking about is monsters that cast darkness.  The 
'darkness' image is a black space that is the full tile size.  So this looks 
'odd'.  This is easy to confirm - go stand on that space and in the look window, 
the darkness will show up as 'darkness'.

  I'd probably be interesting to add smoothing for the darkness arc - that way 
diagonal lines of darkness at least woudl look not so ragged.  Or perhaps 
replace the darkness arc with something not as block so it doesn't look quite so 
abnormal.

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