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Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #15 –
@Fat Cerberus Is there a way to not center the map with miniSphere?

Also: I put a different graphic card in the machine and miniSphere is no longer slow and choppy. I did, however, lose my dual monitor ability (for the time being).
"I am to misbehave." - Malcom Renyolds, Captain of Serenity

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #16 –
Oh good, you'll be able to use the debugger now. :)

For the map, I'll change it for 5.0 to not center it, but for now a workaround would be to add an extra row or two of black tiles along the bottom of the map so it fills the screen.

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #17 –
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Oh good, you'll be able to use the debugger now. :)

For the map, I'll change it for 5.0 to not center it, but for now a workaround would be to add an extra row or two of black tiles along the bottom of the map so it fills the screen.

Tried that on a couple of maps.
1. I'd have to do it to every map and the Overworld alone is comprised of 112 maps. Underworld is the same. That's 224 already not counting the various levels I've created that range in overall size.

2. It throws off the map exits especially "On Leave Map South". I'd probably have to add in zones or something just for a southern map exit.
"I am to misbehave." - Malcom Renyolds, Captain of Serenity

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #18 –
Alright, then here's what I'll do: since mS 5.0 is not ready yet, I'll post a 4.8.5 patch later that changes the map behavior.  ;)

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #19 –
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Oh good, you'll be able to use the debugger now. :)

Indeed. Right now, I'm trying to see if there is a way to re-enable my integrated HDMI so I can use my 2 monitors again. It makes for a nicer development environment.
"I am to misbehave." - Malcom Renyolds, Captain of Serenity

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #20 –
Wait, your dual-monitor setup didn't use the same GPU for both monitors?  That might have been the cause of all the slowdown...

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #21 –
No, it did. The motherboard has an integrated nvidia 7100 with vga & hdmi support. I just put in a geforce 8400 PCIe and it turned off the integrated graphics. The 8400 has support for vga & dvi but I have no dvi cable to utilize the port. I was trying to see if I could get the integrated graphics and the PCIe to function together but from what I am finding it does not appear to be a possibility.
"I am to misbehave." - Malcom Renyolds, Captain of Serenity

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #22 –
@Miscreant miniSphere 4.8.5 changes the map rendering behavior to match Sphere 1.5 (i.e. aligned to top left).  Let me know if there are any other compatibility issues.

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #23 –
Thank you for patching it. In future Sphere projects, I'll design maps accordingly.
"I am to misbehave." - Malcom Renyolds, Captain of Serenity

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #24 –
No problem.  Changing the map rendering behavior to centered was a conscious decision on my part, but I admittedly didn't account for the possibility that render scripts might depend on the Sphere 1.x behavior.  :-[

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #25 –
TBH, when I first started P:ZeC, I just started making my own version of Hyrule. I never even thought about the player info area until much much later.
"I am to misbehave." - Malcom Renyolds, Captain of Serenity

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #26 –
Found a new difference between Sphere and miniSphere. miniSphere on left, Sphere on right.

Triangles outlining the Triforce Segments...
"I am to misbehave." - Malcom Renyolds, Captain of Serenity

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #27 –
Now that makes no sense at all, can you post the code that's drawing that?

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #28 –
@Rhuan I know the code looks a bit much with all the different variables... It is actually 2 functions condensed into 1. When I started with the inventory, I created the function to draw the triforce and then just called it from the inventory function. As I created the scrolling inventory I needed to pass the x,y to drawTriforce().  So the drawTriforce() became this huge drawTriforce(long line of variables); it was a pain.
"I am to misbehave." - Malcom Renyolds, Captain of Serenity

Re: Sphere 1.5 vs miniSphere

Reply #29 –
I'm pretty sure you could make that neater, at least use an array of coordinates rather than separate vars for each one.

Simple answer to your error though - three of your coordinates have decimal places, drawing to fractional coordinates is not possible, both sphere 1.5 and minisphere have functions to force the inputs to be integers, a few simple tests suggest that sphere 1.5's method rounds down whereas minisphere's rounds up.

Strictly speaking round up is correct here as the value is 0.5 - so if this can be called an engine error it's a 1.5 error not a minisphere error.

That said you shouldn't be giving decimal places to render functions :)