whispers of a machine notebook invisible

[rofl0r]

Describe the bug in whispers of a machine, after collecting few hints, when starting a conversation a notebook is supposed to be displayed that let's one click on certain topics. currently, the notebook is invisible, when enough hints are collected that multiple pages should be displayed, one can only see the arrows to move left and right and see an animation moving the pages, but then the screen is empty again.

AGS Version git master as of 4 days ago

Game woam 1.06

Screenshots https://0x0.st/X-tB.png

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Linux

Additional context there's also some warning output which seems related to savegames: Restoring saved game './saves/agssave.101' WARNING: global variable refers to data beyond allocated buffer (1564, 1564) WARNING: global variable refers to data beyond allocated buffer (1564, 1564) WARNING: looking up for global variable beyond allocated buffer (1564, 1564) WARNING: looking up for global variable beyond allocated buffer (1564, 1564) WARNING: looking up for global variable beyond allocated buffer (1564, 1564)

[rofl0r]

note: i extracted the windows installer using innoextract. there's 2 ttf fonts in tmp/ that may be supposed to be installed in the system - i didn't do that. maybe that explains the missing text (failure to use a fallback font), but not the invisible book pages.

edit: i forgot to mention that when clicking on an invisible entry in the book, the question is always asked twice. maybe another bug.

[rofl0r]

hmm, i started the game accidentally with an older engine version - f7b90bbaaa242e4dc79d26fdddaf7e269e7ce600 , then continued with latest. starting from scratch with the latest engine makes the book visible. then i guess the bug is only the savegame processing from earlier revision.

[ivan-mogilko]

WARNING: global variable refers to data beyond allocated buffer (1564, 1564)

So, this was usually caused by an empty struct as a global variable, compiler allowed this by mistake, and couple of older games have this (that's why it's a warning and not error).

[rofl0r]

hmm, the issue with asking every question twice still exists. reopen ?

[ivan-mogilko]

edit: i forgot to mention that when clicking on an invisible entry in the book, the question is always asked twice. maybe another bug.

Could you elaborate more on what is happening?

I tested both original win exe, and running with the latest master, and I noticed that if you keep clicking through the dialog without moving the mouse away, then eventually you may trigger the same topic by mistake before the notebook visually appears on screen.

I cannot tell if this is what you meant.

When I moved cursor away, I just clicked through whole dialog and it did not repeat on its own.

In regards to fonts, IIRC this game used SpriteFont plugin for them.

[rofl0r]

in first scenario, talk with the worker with bloody hands, and click on name of victim in the book (2nd page - persons), even if you carefully only clicked once Q is asked twice - and you cant seem to abort listening to the dialogue a second time.

[rofl0r]

yes, you're right. when moving the cursor away after clicking, the Q is only asked once. if you leave it on the same spot you clicked, it's as if you clicked again after the dialogue is finished. that sounds like a bug to me.

[ivan-mogilko]

I retested again, and I cannot reproduce this problem in the original game; maybe I did a mistake earlier. In which case there's something incorrect with the newer engine behavior, the mouse click not getting claimed by the speech. I will write a new issue for this.

EDIT: #2387