Not the game. This is about Carnival. Rant follows.
So I showed the game to my son, but something seemed off. It seemed I had cleared the level but it wouldn't end. Then more ducks started coming out. While randomly shooting, I hit something invisible and I was able to complete the level.
I compile my own linux builds, and have each major version archived. I found 0.152 was fine (white rabbits! it was missing all white rabbits!), 0.153 was broken. I couldn't find anything touching the vicdual files. So I ran a git bisect and tracked down the offending commit. I later saw I was searching for vicdual.cpp changes, and it was still *.c at that point... oops.
When the const rgb_t::white is used in a static global palette array, the const doesn't seem to have been initialized yet (runtime initialization of the const value in the class?) so it actually stuffs a black palette entry in its place (uninitialized in this case is the same as black). So in Carnival, rabbits were black on a black background, hence invisible. I confirmed when used in a function directly, or even when used in the same palette array, but defined as a static local, rgb_t::white works as expected.
I checked if other drivers were affected, and found a few. Tested each before, made the fix, tested again, and things lit up white like expected.
So I go to test these changes on a windows pc, and Carnival works just fine in stock 0.177. What the hell?!?
Pretty sure I'm using a fairly recent gcc on both linux and windows.
Can anyone else on linux confirm Carnival is missing white rabbits on 0.177?
What is happening? =(X^@
H@P
Edited by H@P (09/07/16 03:57 AM)
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