Star Citizen: Bugsmashers - Episode 39

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1. 00:00:06

   [Music] hey everyone welcome to bug Smashers I'm your host Mark aent I'm a gameplay programmer here at C Los Angeles and I'm here to show you some bugs that we're playing in the game let's take a look box bishes hey everyone we are here in good old uh dying star and we have a bug where if you turn off GS safety and you go full speed you're supposed to black out and play this you know animation like well you passed out and then sometime later you recover and you go

2. 00:00:53

   yeah I could start fighting again however um if we make the guy try to pass out o that was quick we're in an M50 um so in this code I put some break points so when we actually black out um we'll hit this little call step so I know when it's happening and let me remove this break point we'll continue we're passing out but look he's not passed out and I can't I don't have control of the ship now we recover and I have sweet control and of course I hit an asteroid luckily I have god mode ooo let's stop the ship going way too fast all right so what's happening well Shenanigans that's

3. 00:01:42

   what's happening um in a long long time ago um we introduced this little bit of code where it we'll start playing a blackout animation so you fall down and then after the animation is done you recover and unfortunately um that code is well still there and it expects that after the animation's done you recover however the animation and setup was changed so that it'll play the animation and then it will stay there until the code recovers however uh this bit of code right here actually Bas um any animations I get done it will just be like Oh I'm done so it gets you out of the animation even though the game code still you has you

4. 00:02:29

   in the the blackout State um unfortunately the way that mannequin works is we have the ship and we have the player and we ins slave the player's animation system to the vehicles and we play an animation on the vehicle which plays also on the player now um this functionality right here will actually get called when the vehicle gets done with the animation or if the player gets done and since the vehicle doesn't have any animations it's going to happen instantly so that means as soon as you play the blackout animation it will cancel because this bit of code here says hey you're done and then the guy goes back to idling so we want to do is add a bit of code that checks to see if we're the main layer and if uh they call it the scope or the layer that

5. 00:03:16

   we're on of the animation is the same as the scope that we're on here so we're making sure if we're playing animation on the player we're getting the animation when it's finished from the player and not from the ve the vehicle so let's hit the magic recode Button as recode happens I want to show you guys a little fun bug that we discovered with the visual studio apparently uh we have two structures here um and they both have an inner structure the only difference is that one has a named and one has an anonymous now when we run this it should set a to 66 7 to 776 seven on both of them however when we run this we can see poor Robin using the anonymous structure sets

6. 00:04:07

   it to some randomized value which is horrendous because we use that same we use that same setup here in the radar data bank and it was causing all sorts of fun crashes because of a compiler issue the easy fix of course give it a name yay bugs all right back to the original bug uh we have here uh so recod is just finished we put in the new code let's give this a spin oh we blacked out and of course it's playing the animation but we can't see it so let's try that again we'll go in first person this

7. 00:04:57

   time woo all right what's up we're blacking out hey we passed out and then we'll recover hey we oh we HD an asteroid now since we've you know we've passed out now we're recovering the animations are done so then the game code can give you back control of your ship and of course I'm spinning wildly out of control because during this time I had an asteroid and just went haywire let's see if I can get control of my ship again nope looks like I'm going way too fast but it's kind of cool well the animation now plays hope you guys enjoyed uh until next time so as you guys saw we had a little issue where uh

8. 00:05:46

   you know you have you're flying around your ship you do too much G's you're supposed to pass out and recover but what happened was it instantly recovered and you're just like holding there you couldn't move because the game code still thought you were blacked out but it look like you're okay uh fix the code so now you'll play the animation then you'll play back out and then you'll get all the controls so the blackout and recover works as expected looks pretty good what do you guys think all right well till next time Bug Smasher thank you for watching so if you want to keep it with the latest and greatest and Star Citizen of Squadron 42's development please follow us on our social media channels see you soon