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[G_G]

Whenever there are events that transfer you, there is a weird rendering bug. Also, some of the enemy arrows managed to change to different colors. Such as purple, dark red, bright red. And the intro is still bugged.

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The "Chronicles of Sir Lag-a-Lot" title image doesn't seem to be disposing. Once the intro credits are done, it shows back up and doesn't go away until you take control of the player. Also, the title text gets blurred after the first initial display of the title image.

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[Blizzard]

I have no idea what is going on. What the shit? Seriously. ._.

(The blurred text is also an image so the sliding animation looks better.)

[VanillaSky]

Mhm that doesn't sound so good..

I hope that I can make the game run on ARC somehow and get rid of these bugs.. :/

[Blizzard]

The worst thing is that I have no idea how these problems are even possible. I have no problems on my PC whatsoever.

[Ryex]

do you have an nvidia or AMD graphics card, because we all have nvidia.

[G_G]

Were you asking me or Blizzard?

Regardless, I have an nVidia at the moment with the most recent drivers.

[VanillaSky]

The worst thing is that I have no idea how these problems are even possible. I have no problems on my PC whatsoever.

Does the Zombie re-spawn with your version? And do the battle animations stack? I just don't understand why it works perfectly for you while it works shitty for us despite having very good rigs..

Also, I fixed the "Day survived" bug, so that's not a thing anymore.

[Blizzard]

As I said, everything works just fine. :/

[VanillaSky]

This is awkward

On the one hand, I'm happy that it works for you - but I don't understand why it doesn't for Ryex or me. Are our GTX570 cards cursed? This is really weird..
Well, I still have much to do and hope that in the end it will work flawlessly with ARC since I want to release it with 60 FPS + across Linux/Windows/Mac..

[MarkHest]

I tried the Sir-Lag-a-Lot as well and I have the same problem. The text is blurred and there are some graphical bugs. I think i remember the windowskin being gone as well.

[Blizzard]

I think i remember the windowskin being gone as well.

That actually started to make a whole lot of sense to me. I think I might know what the problem is: Your graphic cards have trouble with render-to-texture. I have to use render-to-texture because of text rendering, other methods are far too slow. Because of that, I have simply changed all stuff in ARC to use render-to-texture. Though, it does not explain why anything is working at all. If render-to-texture does not work with text, it shouldn't be working at all. What are the other graphical bugs that you are experiencing?

[MarkHest]

Sorry to disapoint you but I was wrong about the windowskin problem. They are displaying fine for me, however some of them have weird rendered corners.
Anyway, I made this example video (no sound) of playing around the game with the ARC Engine. You can see for yourself just how things change as I keep playing. Some of the problems are rather interesting... like when you save the game and go back to the map.

Download .RAR file (MP4) (70MB)

[VanillaSky]

So, any progress about that Nvidia problem guys?

[Blizzard]

Nope. At least I wasn't able to do or reproduce anything.

[Ryex]

frankly I cant even find the code where animations are handled...

[Rahvin]

Hello,

I did try the latest build 0.9.8.733 today, but the only thing I see are serious grafic errors :

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Edit:
My System:
Win XP
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

[Blizzard]

This is really weird. Are you using the latest graphics drivers? To me this looks like your graphics card doesn't support basic ARGB textures through DirectX9 properly.

[Rahvin]

It is an old PC from our company. The graphics drivers are up to date because the PC was freshly installed a few weeks ago.

I don't know the technical differences betwenn ARC and rpg maker vx ace. But the later one runs smoothly on this machine.

The credits from your demo runs fine and the splash screen right before the credits start is shown correctly as well.

[Blizzard]

It could be possible that too much VRAM is used.