RPG2k: Battle Animation timings

[Ghabry]

Here some stuff I noticed while looking at the battle PR which I don't consider a merge-blocker, but should be documented:

Unterwegs in Düsterburg: https://rmarchiv.tk/games/68 (download the ZIP version)

Saves.zip

Fight the rabbit after loading the save.

(The dog has auto attack btw, this is correct)

• What you see first is that Grandy appears as a battle animation sprite. When you smash enter to start the fight Player will wait until the animation is finished while RPG_RT will terminate the animation.
• The attack animation (especially of Grandy) runs much faster in RPG_RT, twice as fast I guess?
• The wait between the two-handed attacks is much longer in Player
• Asgar shows the wrong battle animation when fighting the Düsterschreck

[Ghabry]

More stuff in UiD:

Save01.zip

Climb up the rope and fight the enemy "Düsterschreck" (ID 42).

You have a special party member (Asgar) in the party. This member is temporary, so I would expect the game dev didn't test a lot.
That's a cameo, as Asgar is one of the main characters of Vampires Dawn but UiD is by a different dev.

When Asgar attacks it shows the Grandy attack animation in RPG_RT (!) and a vampires bite animation in EasyRPG Player.
This could be a RPG_RT bug? Guess the bite animation is the correct one.

[mateofio]

I get all kinds of missing asset issues, even when I copy RTP 1.32 into the game folder. This is under wine on linux.

What RTP do you use with this one?

[Ghabry]

oh sorry, forgot to respond to you here. guess I have a different UiD version, will check in ~8h at my dev laptop.

[mateofio]

@Ghabry I was able to play this game but the saves you uploaded are wrong.

Both of them are for "Düsterschreck" and the rope scene.

Do you still have the one with the rabbit?

[mateofio]

What you see first is that Grandy appears as a battle animation sprite. When you smash enter to start the fight Player will wait until the animation is finished while RPG_RT will terminate the animation

I don't know if the rabbit battle is different. But the "Düsterschreck" battle in both cases the actors animate at the start of the battle and both RPG_RT and Player let you start selecting menu options without waiting or cancelling the animation.

The attack animation (especially of Grandy) runs much faster in RPG_RT, twice as fast I guess?
The wait between the two-handed attacks is much longer in Player

I see these in wine RPG_RT. Somehow the double attack's get overlayed over each other and messed up.

Windows RPG_RT looks the same as Player to me in master. Can you reconfirm this one?

Asgar shows the wrong battle animation when fighting the Düsterschreck

This happens because in this save game somehow Asgar has weapon 18: Kurzschwert equipped, a Grandy weapon which he cannot use. When you load the save, RPG_RT lets him keep it, while Player will remove the weapon. This is why we see the different battle animations. You can load the save and check his equipment in the menu to see this.

Maybe a game bug? But this brings up a point about equipment. Are there cases where RPG_RT will let you equip unusable items via events where Player's extra checking would break compatibility?

[Ghabry]

@fmatthew5876
I replaced the zip in the initial post, contains now both saves.

I will retest on Windows later, maybe is really Wine bugs.

[Ghabry]

The first 3 issues are resolved.
The 4th is still this open question with the equipment.