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Offline xoft

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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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Re: Invisible lines in battlescape
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2009, 09:30:25 am »
please post a screenshot

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Re: Invisible lines in battlescape
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2009, 09:48:41 am »
please post a screenshot

Okay, I managed at least to crank up the compression factor so that the lines show on jpegs as well. Perhaps you should check the png stuff, too ;)

[EDIT:] You can see one of the box lines going direclty from cursor's center towards upper left; and you might also see part of a soldier selection circle at the lower right corner of the image.

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Re: Invisible lines in battlescape
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2009, 09:58:24 am »
which version are you using? a bug that might be related to this was fixed a few dozens revisions ago

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Re: Invisible lines in battlescape
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2009, 10:05:57 am »
The forum is for "latest stable (2.2.1), so that's what I'm using.

I'm still downloading the newest dev build i could find, as soon as that finishes, I'll re-try there as well.

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Re: Invisible lines in battlescape
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2009, 02:42:58 pm »
Tried dev r25862 and the lines are still almost invisible, same status.

This time at least, png screenshot seems to work alright. No need to post though, it is the same as the one I posted before.

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Re: Invisible lines in battlescape
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2009, 03:06:00 pm »
Current trunk has  r27202.

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Re: Invisible lines in battlescape
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2009, 12:49:40 pm »
Well there seems to be no current dev build of such revision, I just tried installing the latest one I could find.

I'll build from source when I get to that computer again.

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Re: Invisible lines in battlescape
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2009, 09:47:01 am »
Tried rev 27211 and the lines are visible.