Vcmi 0.71 bug seeking thread

[Zamolxis]

if u accidently press “spacebar” when it is enemie turn client crashes

I tried to reproduce that while fighting some fliers (Archangels), which take long time to cross the battlefield, and I got a pretty funny behavior actually. Here’s the full bug description, and I’m also giving it a log number:

#71 Pressing spacebar in battle during enemy’s turn may cause duplication of enemy animation, and always ends up in game crash. In my case, I pressed spacebar about 20 times while the Archangel flew across the battlefield to get to my Pikemen. The result was that after striking the Pikemen down, the animation was repeated fully about 20 more times (I guess as many as I previously pressed Spacebar): Archangel reappearing in original hex, Pikemen “alive” again, flying across, striking Pikemen down, and again same cycle over and over again. Eventually the game crashed, freezing the battle while Archangel was striking the Pikemen.

I’m attaching the logs in case they might be of use.
Spacebar on enemy turn bug.zip (3.53 KB)

[Tow_dragon]

Interesting… we just didn’t think anybody would press spacebar while it’s supposed to do nothing.

[Zamolxis]

I agree with the “interesting” part.

This “Action replay” bug might actually be quite a cool feature, if only it wouldn’t lead to a crash.

[Tow_dragon]

I’ve investigated that replay “feature”, but it’s not reproducible in the newest version - although I’ve encountered and fixed another bug while testing ;]. Anyway thanks for report.

[Zamolxis]

#72 Garrisoning or Un-garrisoning a hero causes all other heroes on the Adventure Map to loose their preset paths (always).

#8 Use of Spacebar to revisit the Witch Hut crashes the game (always)

Same as #2, all crashes on revisiting objects with spacebar are the same issue.
[Crash on non-first day when revisiting objects that show pop-up (or deactivate adventure map interface in another way)]

This may be related to the same “Spacebar” bug, but as it’s not really matching your bug description above, I’m gonna report it just in case:

#73 Spacebar to enter town crashes the game (always).

[ubuntux]

#73 seems to have been fixed.

Tow, I think it’s time to release a new version. A lot of these bugs have been fixed already.

[Tow]

Tow, I think it’s time to release a new version. A lot of these bugs have been fixed already.

Indeed.
If everything goes fine, I’ll post development build on Sunday. If no giant and disastrous bugs are find, the “big” release will go on 1 June.
All features I wanted to implement (artifact support system, map events) are done enough. Tow Dragon’s stack bonus system seems to be mostly functionable.
There still is a crashbug probably related to playing music that bothers me. I’ll soon post info on it in the sounds thread.

[Tow_dragon]

Tow Dragon’s stack bonus system seems to be mostly functionable.

Uhm… it works… but not exactly in the way I’d like it to work. I’d like to move spell effects to this system. And then implementing many new spells and creature abilities would be trivial. I think I could finish most of it in one week. I hope it won’t introduce new bugs.

[ubuntux]

Tow Dragon, the ranged attacks don’t work anymore.

[Tow]

#33 We can open the spell book at any time, even after we’ve cast the spell for the turn. The button should be grayed out and unaccessible until the beginning of the next turn.

#34 After playing al lot with opening the spell book numerous times during one battle, and also trying to cancel a spell in different ways, during the next battle I couldn’t cast any spell anymore. I was opening the spell book, selecting a spell, but then nothing was happening when I was clicking the target creature. Note that I’ve had the bug for 1 battle only. The battle after (so 3rd let’s say) could again be carried out also by using spells.

Fixed hopefully.

45__advmap notbug , maybe feature - when system options menu(SOM) opened, the map is scrollable, map animation is present, doesn’t close with esc, closes with enter(in h3 closes with esc, enter-nothing)

This behaviour has been changed due to other changes.

46__advmap goes out of #6 - if hero and SOM are active and stands on terrain with space hero centeres, but if stands in object > crash (log:“remote host broke the connection”-translation from russian, because it was russian, i think its h3textres)

I’m not sure if I understood correctly but it should be fine now.

52_advmap hero in subter gate going up/down with space loses movement points, and game could crash, i think works after hero sleeps 1 night in subter gate, and on the next day i get a cloned hero, who has the same direction as original,but stands in subter gate, also if i use space and “move hero” button with existing path but when hero is other level then path it causes crash, so check all space procedures, cause it crashes in town and i think in lots of places

Seems to be fixed.

53_gamedata hero with intelligence from start of the game has not “intelligent” amount of mana, only basic(10*knowledge)

Fixed.

54_townview nice crash )))) click any army then shiftclick a hero, like we trying to send ahero to army and unit to be a hero

55_townview seems that tavern in conflux doesn’t work or simpply )) crashes the game

Seems to be fixed.

[H3_Fan]

Interesting… we just didn’t think anybody would press spacebar while it’s supposed to do nothing.

well it DOES in h3 it “defends” when you are in battle that why i used it there also.

[Tow_dragon]

well it DOES in h3 it “defends” when you are in battle that why i used it there also.

I was talking about it’s behaviour while it’s opponent’s turn. I don’t think defending next to be moved stack would be good.

[Tow]

#28 Garrisoning, then removing from Garrison of a hero, does not move him/her at the bottom of the hero list.

Fixed.

#68 Garrisoned heroes cannot buy spell book.

Implemented.

#72 Garrisoning or Un-garrisoning a hero causes all other heroes on the Adventure Map to loose their preset paths (always).

Fixed.

[Zamolxis]

Some issues still pending from this thread (= unresolved bugs which are also not logged in SF or more recent topics, plus a couple of unclear items):

43__advmap outofmap picture is greater horizontally unlike h3, its hint to left and to up is cool (small square-dialog), but no hints to right and to down

@pHOMM: It’s not very clear to me what #43 describes. Is it by any chance the same with what I reported long ago as 0.63b#15 ? If yes, then it’s not an issue anymore (now, in 0.72d)

In battle -
**59)**move cursor to your own unit, then move cursor to enemy unit (your unit must be inactive and be close to enemy unit ) - you will still have “question” cursor instead of sword
**60)**when two-tile centaur attacked my skeleton from top (see screenshot) VCMI crashed.
**61)**VCMI crashes on startup. Removing map (user-made, WOG, no ERM) “Isles of Illusion” (see attachment) solved this issue.
**62)**Scenario selection menu - browsing by up/down keyboard key did not change screen position when end of screen reached
**63)**After withdraw from battle - hero does not appears in the tavern
**64)**Events are invisible but right click show a popup “event” and there is a problems with movement - event needs to be 100% passable (I know - events are not functioning yet, but movement makes some map unplayable)

#59 - Unresolved. Seems to be related to 0.71#51 above, which is the same with 0.72b#7. Once that is solved, this needs to be rechecked.

#60 - @Ivan: Are you sure it was the Centaur attacking the Skeleton, and not the Skeleton retaliation (in which case it would be a very known bug occurring when 2-hex creatures are attacked from certain angles)

#61 - The “Isles of Illusion” map attached to your post is full of unreachable objects. However I’m not sure if that’s the cause of the crash - especially now in 0.72d, when VCMI crashes (ALWAYS) when we scroll to it already, while in your bug description you mention it was crashing on startup (?)

#63 - Not a bug. I’ve logged it in the list of missing functionalities.

#62 & #64 - Both seem fixed. @pHOMM - you can double check and confirm, in case I misunderstood the bug description (?)

#67 Right-clicking a creature on the battlefield keeps the mouse pointers and left-click functionalities regardless of the info box opened (as long as we keep the right-click pressed)
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#69 When we don’t have enough spell points left for certain spells, the spell book still displays them as “available”. We can also still select them. Only when we try to cast them on the target creature nothing happens.

EDIT: See difference in H3 screenshot:

• Available (enough mana): Spell Name in light yellow, Level + Spell Points in (slightly grayed) white
• Not available (not enough mana): Spell Name in White, Level + Spell Points in Yellow (almost with a tint of orange)
  http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/Zamolxis/VCMI/VCMI%2007/090620-H3Spells2.jpg

#67 - The main bug is solved (being able to continue the battle during r-click). Only detail remaining is that cursor during r-click does not change to the neutral arrow as in H3. But I have mixed feelings about “fixing” this last bit: I kinda like that in VCMI the cursor of the possible action on that stack remains during r-click (maybe you can leave it until you get new reports about it).

#69 - Unresolved (in 0.72d). // EDIT: Ignore - this one is already logged in SourceForge.

[Ivan]

#60 - You are right - this is that very known bug

#61 - In 0.71 crash on startup occurs ALMOST always. But even in the case of successful launch:

VCMI crashes (ALWAYS) when we scroll to it already

#63 - This is one of my first report. Only some time later I’ve found list of implemented items.

[Tow]

#61 - In 0.71 crash on startup occurs ALMOST always. But even in the case of successful launch:

Fixed.

[Tow]

#30 Heroes are still walking over each other on pre-defined paths sometimes (hardly reproducible - had it happening only twice in the last hour)

Probably fixed, as I’ve never encountered this issue.
(if not please re-report this)

#5 Left/right arrows are still shown next to some non-editable starting options (i.e.: starting hero) in the Advanced Options menu. This has been reported also in 0.7 as bug #21, but only partially fixed.

#6 Info text missing from the text boxes under the icons in the same Advanced Options menu screen.

Implemented.

51__battle mouse cursor with direction of attack doesn’t change direction , u need move it FROM direction u want to attack, but i think u know this )))

Fixed by onion_knight.

#57 if you build a lookout tower (in tower) it will not increase visible zone

Implemented by Warmonger.

[Zamolxis]

#30 Heroes are still walking over each other on pre-defined paths sometimes (hardly reproducible - had it happening only twice in the last hour)

Probably fixed, as I’ve never encountered this issue.
(if not please re-report this)

I can confirm it’s fixed. I couple of weeks ago I scanned this thread to see if there are still bugs reported here which are neither fixed nor reported in SF. This was one of them. And I did my best to reproduce it but it didn’t happen again.