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pango wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:49 pm [*] Don't suppress world when inside a building (Ferital)

L57 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 3:43 pm

pango wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:49 pm [*] Don't suppress world when inside a building (Ferital)

Probably a stupid question, but could you explain what does it mean?

Fix list of houses for sale not available when loading the game inside a bank

L57 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 3:43 pm

pango wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:49 pm [*] Don't suppress world when inside a building (Ferital)

Probably a stupid question, but could you explain what does it mean?

Ferital wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:22 pm Yes, the commit message was not very clear as it was mostly intended for devs. The bug was that when loading a game inside a building, the exterior world was suppressed, i.e. it wasn't loaded at all until the player exited the building. This led to a few issues like the houses for sale list one: since the game didn't have any available town information, it couldn't construct the list. "World suppression" was probably a leftover from DFU early days, when exterior loading was relatively slow, which isn't the case anymore.

Ferital wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:22 pm

L57 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 3:43 pm

pango wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:49 pm [*] Don't suppress world when inside a building (Ferital)

Probably a stupid question, but could you explain what does it mean?

Yes, the commit message was not very clear as it was mostly intended for devs. The bug was that when loading a game inside a building, the exterior world was suppressed, i.e. it wasn't loaded at all until the player exited the building. This led to a few issues like the houses for sale list one: since the game didn't have any available town information, it couldn't construct the list. "World suppression" was probably a leftover from DFU early days, when exterior loading was relatively slow, which isn't the case anymore.

L57 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:36 pm

Ferital wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:22 pm Yes, the commit message was not very clear as it was mostly intended for devs. The bug was that when loading a game inside a building, the exterior world was suppressed, i.e. it wasn't loaded at all until the player exited the building. This led to a few issues like the houses for sale list one: since the game didn't have any available town information, it couldn't construct the list. "World suppression" was probably a leftover from DFU early days, when exterior loading was relatively slow, which isn't the case anymore.

Thanks! By the way, could you also explain how does the game select available houses for sale? I suspect these buildings are pre-defined in city blocks?

Ferital wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:09 am They are predefined in classic, but as we couldn't use the original data, in DFU they are selected at random (which is much better in my opinion). Hazelnut did this part of the code.