Crouching with skins

Post by **Enjay** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:53

Before skin support was added, crouching would not only make you switch to the marine when crouched, you would stay as the marine when you stood up again - however, when you went to the player setup menu, your chosen skin would still appear in the preview. All seemed good in 1.0.14 when I was using it last night though.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:19

Yes, I fixed that bug when adding skin support.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:28

I wonder if that crouching and then changing skin and then uncrouching bug still exists like it did in that unofficial version a while back... Although really you shouldn't do that in the first place

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:33

To be honest, I never checked that. It's probably still there...

Post by **Enjay** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:38

What was the bug? I didn't know there was one, but I thought it could be the kind of thing that could trip stuff up, so last night I tried various combinations of skin changing: sometimes crouched, then standing up and I didn't notice any problems. I was able to change skin whilst crouched and have the new skin still correctly applied after I stood up.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:40

Must not exist in this one then. Thank God, because I almost wet myself when I saw my player sprite squished and tall.

Post by **Enjay** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 15:02

None of the skins I tried had any scaling so if that is part of the issue, then it may still be a problem.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 15:59

Oh no it's not that. In some previous unofficial release with crouching, if you crouched your skin would scale vertically. If you changed skin you would revert to normal size and if you released crouch you would be stretched vertically up.

Btw can skins even have scale?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 16:39

Yes, skins have scale. And the scaling code has been completely rewritten so your problem should be gone.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 16:42

Rewritten scaling code? Would that allow scaling beyond 4 or is a that completley different matter?

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 19:12

Two more things:

1) It isn't working for my skin. What's wrong with it? Am I missing some frames or what?

http://gothic.34sp.com/CUTSKIN.zip

2) If you hold crouch and jump the screen goes VERY jerky.

Post by **Enjay** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 19:20

When you say "not working" how do you mean. Your crouch sprites don't show up at all? Here's one of my S_SKIN entries

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name = BGPA_2 
sprite = bee2
crouchsprite = bec2

The standing skin uses a full set of replacements with sprite name BEE2XXXX and the crouch is BEC2XXXX. The standing sprite has a full 8 angles wheras the crouch doubles up angles 2&8, 3&7 and 4&6. I have 3 other skins with more or less the same setup and all work.

[edit]OK, forget that, you hadn't linked to the skin when I started typing. The problem is your crouch sprites come before the S_SKIN entry in the WAD. The sprites for the skin need to come after that entry. Move it to the start of the WAD file and it works.[/edit]

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 19:30

Working now, thanks.