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Bugs in older version (2.2.1) / Invisible lines in battlescape

« on: November 25, 2009, 09:04:10 am »

I've tried UFO-AI on another computer and I've noticed that in battlescape all the lines normally drawn are almost invisible. After setting gamma all the way up to max and careful inspection I found the lines, but still they are very subtle, as if 95 % transparent.
"Lines" means:
- lines drawn when an enemy or civilian is spotted
- box cursor
- line of fire aiming line
- current soldier highlight circle

I'd attach a screenshot, but when I make one, 75 % quality JPEG effectively hides all the lines altogether. I tried setting screenshot format to png, but for some reason the resulting files are still JPEGs.

The computer has an Intel GMA graphics (says "Intel G45/G43 Express Chipset" in system properties), I suppose it's a GMA 4500HD, but have no way of verifying. OS is Vista Business SP2.

Has this behavior been observed elsewhere, or am I the only unlucky one?

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Discussion / Reason for clearing Inv on de-team?

« on: November 15, 2009, 07:05:01 pm »

I'd like to ask if there is any technical or other reason for clearing a soldier's inventory when the soldier is deselected from a ship? This is probably the most annoying thing I have had with this otherwise genius game.

My gaming style is "have ~15 soldiers in a base, 8 on a mission, when they come back wounded, heal them and use other personnel for missions in the meantime". Which means that I have to re-equip my soldiers with the same items over and over again when moving them between the hospital and the ship.

I found the code in client/campaign/cp_aircraft.c that does this (INVSH_DestroyInventory()), commenting the offending line out seems to work at the moment, but I may be mistaken, the catch may not be obvious. Perhaps the saves may become corrupt / items go missing over time / whatever. Can anyone with enough knowledge of the code comment on this?

Or is there a different approach, a different gaming style, that doesn't suffer from this issue?

Thanks.

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Bugs in older version (2.2.1) / Health bar may go missing (+FIX)

« on: November 14, 2009, 10:29:31 am »

I found out that in the Base->Aircraft->Assign soldiers screen, the soldiers' health bar may go missing. After fiddling with the code, I found out that it was due to some really strange code in 0ufos.pk3/ufos/menu_team.ufo:

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string hp_val
{
if "mn_show_employee == 1"
pos "975 360" string "*cvar mn_thp" align ur
}
bar hp_bar
{
if "mn_show_employee == 1"
pos "716 383" current "*cvar mn_vhp" size "245 6" color "0 .8 0 1" max "*cvar mn_vhpmax" align uc
}
 I searched for mn_show_employee in the C code and found it only in the section that deals with hiring staff, so I suppose the condition in the above code is wrong. After commenting out the condition, the health bar is displaying correctly. Also with the condition above in place, I verified that setting the Base->Hire staff screen to anything other than Soldiers will indeed disable the health bar.