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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:08 am Post subject: Love for Werewaffle

The Werefaffle release has been stalled for a while. That is partly a good thing, because it has given TMC more time for additional performance fixes. Werewaffle may indeed be the fastest version of the OHRRPGCE yet.

There are two particular bugs still holding up release. Some additional help in resolving them would be appreciated.

'' . bug_title('611') . ''
Some people can reproduce this bug, some people can't. We want to hear from all of you too see if we can discover what condition triggers this bug.

'' . bug_title('616') . ''
The map save-state feature has been around since ubersetzung, but it simply hasn't gotten much testing. If you have used it before, please post your problems. if you have never used it before, please consider using it in your game, or making a small game to test it out.

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

I have never seen 611. I use Windows Vista, and work on only two games, Tales I and II. Tales I is very large, but I haven't opened it up much with newer versions of custom. Tales II is not so large yet (except for its plotscript library), and this is what I mainly open with custom (although I haven't for a little while now).

I have no experience with map state saving.
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Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

In the latest nightly, pressing F1 won't load the map sometimes.

Also, not sure yet of how, but exiting the Edit Enemy Stats editor will cause Custom to 'freeze'. If you keep resizing (alt+enter) while moving through the menus, you'll see it's not actually frozen and you can still navigate the menus (including saving and quitting) but until you restart it, Custom will be 'frozen'.
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject:

Also blocking werewaffle: '' . bug_title('624') . ''

TMC · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:44 am Post subject:

There are "known" minimap problems, as a result of not being updated for the new tileset stuff yet. "known" as in I'm the only one who knows about it: it's not on bugzilla because it was down when I tried to mention them (a couple weeks ago, admittedly) I was working on the fix, but will be bogged down with tests for most of the next week.

Last I checked, I couldn't see the Edit NPCs glitch either. That doesn't mean it's gone: it still needs fixing.

Bug 624 fixed, my bad. I'm usually very careful not to commit the wrong files.
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AdrianX · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:50 am Post subject: Re: Love for Werewaffle

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Love for Werewaffle

Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

Hopefully opening the save menu via plotscript won't take 2 seconds anymore.
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TMC · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:11 am Post subject:

There's no difference in loading times. I don't know why you're seeing such a long loading time for the save menu, Rya. It should be no different from selecting save from the menu. Is it? How about the load menu? Is it slow in just one game?
Browsing for RPG files can probably be sped up a lot, but the game loading time is much harder. Use unlumped rpgdirs if you want to get rid of it.

Scripts are running roughly nearly 4 times faster than Ubersetzung, 3 times faster than Voxhumana. But the fact that there's more spare CPU time to run scripts is probably more significant.

Adrian, what sort of speed up are you hoping for? I tried to fix screen tearing, but couldn't, so scrolling is still not smoother. I think some people have complained that Game runs at only 18 fps. I agree, that actually is pretty low. Maybe we should add an option to set what frame rate a game should run at. Maybe we could also update the display at 36 fps and interpolate the camera and graphics movements between every second frame, while still running the game logic at 18 fps, for smoother scrolling.
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

I think it would be best to leave it at 18 fps until there's some way to universally increase the frame rate, because even with smoother scrolling battles would still be animated at 18 FPS, unless the interpolation technique was applied to moving sprites in battle as well.
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:26 am Post subject:

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