Actually damage really inflicted by creatures are displayed in the console (you have to scroll up to see it). Furthermore, I’ve already implemented calculation of expected damage (although it does not take into account some creature abilities like champion’s charge). I’ll try to implement the same for spells (inflicted and estimated damage).
I’m almost sure that current formula of damage calculation is not the same as in Hereos 3, I’m going to reorganize it.
It’d be great, but it won’t be as easy as puzzle map or walls. I’ll add new entry in obstacles’ config for shift in position and increase the amount of obstacles in the battlefield but you’d have to run many battles using VCMI, recognize which obstacles are present (there is a list of all of them in documentation of ERM) and put in the config how much to the left / right / top / bottom the obstacle should be moved. Some other information in the config may also be wrong such as terrains the obstacle may be placed on. I’ll talk about it with Tow and post more details.
AFAIK this is already present. In obstacles.txt we already have:
[id] [Def name] [blockmap] [allowed terrains]
This info looks to be correct. But I’ll check it as well
I ve seen the wrong creature turn order ater wait - if we have creatures with same speed: i had some stacks of 1 imp and after wait they got turn ascending(on battlefield lower creatures first then upper) but in H3 creatures with same speed get turn the same way like before wait - in descending oreder(upper first)
the similar principle is wrong with the turn order of allies and enemies with the same speed - in H3 in first round of battle first goes attacker’s upper unit then defender’s upper unit then second attacker’s unit and so on(in the second turn defenders upper unit goes first then first attackers unit then second defenders and so on)
in VCMI we have ALL our (attackers) units going before any defender’s unit.
I’m sorry for duplicating issues (i have read quite carefully all of bug threads, maybe missed some issues), however only the 2nd part of post is a dupe, the 1st one is NEW (i hope) - that is about wrong creatures order after wait (but they both probably related to one coded model and will be fixed together) - pHOMM
#75 - Minor issue: we can exit the client interface w/o scrolling the map if CTRL is pressed, but if we access any application while we are out (e.g.: open a screen capture tool), when we come back, even if CTRL is still pressed, the map scrolls when we pass over the Client edge (thus we lose focus on the exact image we wanted to capture for example).
No, it’s not that. I meant libraries used by VCMI for playing mp3 music (SDL_mixer / SMPEG). I had been observing crashes and hangups too but since I disabled music support they seem to be gone.
We’ll have to look for another mp3 playing library.
Oh. I’m silly boy I’ve got it. Thx for “brightening” my mind!
But I have recently music and effects turned off. So i.e. crash #73 shouldn’t happened because it was caused by smpeg.dll. Am I wright? Or this is still my poor knowledge about VCMI and programing.
FMOD is not compatible with GPL. (no source code, free only for non-commercial use)
OpenAL doesn’t handle mp3, it needs to be decoded first.
The only fitting library I found is Audiere. I’ll try it.
Effects are working fine, only music causes problems. But I fear that disabling it in VCMI options won’t help. It only makes the music mute but I guess it’s still played silently in background. (so restoring volume can work)
I think if we can we should get MP3 decompression library not the MP3 playing library (so after decompression we can play it with something that stick the current code - SDL_mixer OpenAL or whatever)
there almost no open source library on MP3 because of licences AND patents. So if we use OpenSource library which haven’t the patent VCMI will become illegal in countries that respect this pattent. And if we use patented library - it’s almost sure that it will be closed on the source. So we rather have to use something which gets under “common used library” (or whatever close code freeware library which applies the minor part of licence about exceptions in licensing of parts)
I don’t know how it works in VCMI, but I know that in HoMM3 probably it disable music at all, because with music everything takes more time i.e. entering the town, starting battle etc.
So if you turn music off battle start immediately the battle screen appears.
But of course this is not important in this case. You know better what to do I can only guess.
Sounds troublesome. (btw does ffdshow work for Linux?)
I’ll try with Audiere first. It seems to be light and simple. If I fail to get it working, then we’ll worry about another choice.
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The problem is not with any music we distribute (then indeed it would be best to convert to to ogg or sth), it’s with original game music that is already present in MP3. Converting it would be much more trouble.
Finding a portable library for mp3 conversion is probably much harder than for simply playing. And I can’t force all people downloading VCMI to look for the converters and using them on their own.
