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[Shadow]

It's amazing how many things I can accidentally break by introducing 1 perfectly innocent looking line of code.

[Roswitha]

Can I ask what the line of code was?

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by Roswitha

Can I ask what the line of code was?

Of course. The offending line was:
setAlpha( databaseEntry->getFloatValue( "Alpha" ) );

This just sets the alpha value for an entity based on the value in its database entry. Looks and sounds perfectly ok doesn't it?

Too bad if a value in the database isn't specified it defaults to 0. So all of a sudden half of the objects in the game disappeared and effects would show up late, flicker, or never show up.

[Bluddy]

So the correction is just

if (databaseEntry->contains("Alpha"))
setAlpha(databaseEntry->getFloatValue("Alpha"));
else
setAlpha(1.0);

(tabs aren't showing up for some reason)
?

[Shadow]

I could have done that but in this case I only needed that line of code for one thing so I moved the alpha value into the shader instead.

[Shadow]

This kind of goes with my last thing, but sometimes I wish I had another programmer to blame bugs on

[Shadow]

by seeing this post you agree to not sue Soldak or join any class action lawsuits against us (this is a joke of course

[PixelLord]

Originally Posted by Shadow

Of course. The offending line was:
setAlpha( databaseEntry->getFloatValue( "Alpha" ) );

This just sets the alpha value for an entity based on the value in its database entry. Looks and sounds perfectly ok doesn't it?

Too bad if a value in the database isn't specified it defaults to 0. So all of a sudden half of the objects in the game disappeared and effects would show up late, flicker, or never show up.

That was such a strange build to me. I didn't know it was only one line of code. I'd never have thought that line alone could cause disappearing objects AND the beam effects to show up late (oh, I bet the beam effects that I did see started on frame 6 or so instead of on entry). Anyway, you can't blame me for that! ...but there are a lot of other things you can blame me for.

[Bluddy]

Originally Posted by Shadow

by seeing this post you agree to not sue Soldak or join any class action lawsuits against us (this is a joke of course

This was a strange tweet until I read the Sony story and got the joke

[Bluddy]

Originally Posted by PixelLord

That was such a strange build to me. I didn't know it was only one line of code. I'd never have thought that line alone could cause disappearing objects AND the beam effects to show up late (oh, I bet the beam effects that I did see started on frame 6 or so instead of on entry). Anyway, you can't blame me for that! ...but there are a lot of other things you can blame me for.

How do you guys share builds?