I didn't notice that actually. Turns out that's not it, but thanks for the
heads up regardless!
From: "Nate Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com
To: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Replay Disappearing Bug
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:44:00 -0600
Hi,
I don't know if you noticed this before, but there is a possibly
related bug w/ demo recording (with a fix) here:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Known_Issues_List#Animations_are_jittery
This may not fix your problem, but they may have a similar root cause.
Good luck,
Nate
On 07/02/07, Meow Mew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was hoping somebody could point me in the right direction for resolving
a
bug I came across. I do work with a valid liscence of all of the Valve
engine, so please don't hesitate to point me in the right direction if you
happen to be a Valve employee (if you use generic terms to avoid posting
non-SDK code I would still appreciate it tremendously).
During the recording of a replay (DEM file) in a single-player game, I
found
that characters playing an animation can stop rendering themselves after
colliding with the player. An easy re-creation of this is to make a high
area to jump off of onto a characters head (try not to at the character
during collision). If an animation was setup through VCD or scripted
sequence, the model will cease to render for that instance of the
character.
The model will render again if that entire visibility set reloads
(walking
behind an occluder also seems to work).
This only happens while recording a DEM file, and also only happens if the
character is animated. The collision does NOT need to be with the player
(I've seen it happen when a character ran into a mailbox), but I do
believe
the player has to not be looking directly at the character when it
vanishes.
Also, this is even EASIER to create if you set the solid type of the
character to SOLID_VPHYSICS instead of SOLID_BBOX.
I really need to be able to record a run of the world with no obvious
flaws
that would change the users experience. We're using the demo playbacks to
overlay eye-tracking information and change textures during the playback
for
pixel detection of entities. The user would most likely change his/her
natural eye responses if objects vanish, and this hurts the results of the
research studies. Please help if you can!
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