[0.3.4-11-g5d8f00814] [Blood] Wrong enemy death animation

[markanini]

Zombies light up or disappear when killed with shotgun. This is different from the original where gibs always remain and fire animation only shows when using a flare gun, napalm launcher or spray can.

[Kinsie]

Unable to reproduce this. Using 0.3.4-11-g5d8f00814 with the GOG distribution of One Unit Whole Blood v1.21.

[markanini]

Unable to reproduce this. Using 0.3.4-11-g5d8f00814 with the GOG distribution of One Unit Whole Blood v1.21.

Perhaps if you test the first Post Mortmen level, in the attic past the managers office there's a group of five zombies where this happens every time when fired with shotgun.

[Kinsie]

Tried this and got a quick lick of flame when shotgunning one of those zombies. Could you check if this also happens in nBlood?

[Graf Zahl]

Where on the map is this? Can you please attach a savegame right before this area?

[markanini]

Where on the map is this? Can you please attach a savegame right before this area?

Sure.

[Graf Zahl]

The effect can be reproduced in NBlood as well.
In BuildGDX I was not able to reproduce it, so this seems to originate in NBlood.
What's important here is that this is only the zombie that's lying still when being spawned.

[Phredreeke]

I just checked DOS version, happens there too.

[Graf Zahl]

In that case I assume it's intentional. Thanks for helping. This particular zombie seems to be a bit different from the regular one which spawns walking.
I'm just wondering if this is something BloodGDX changed or that I just had the bad luck not to get this death animation.

[markanini]

Probably BuildGDX being different, the dev has taken upon himself to fix what he considers are bugs in the original. I'm still un-learning what I got used to in that port...

[Graf Zahl]

In this case it's hard to say if it is a bug or a feature. It surely doesn't look right. My guess is that it loads the wrong animation sequence file for the deaths.

[sinisterseed]

Probably BuildGDX being different, the dev has taken upon himself to fix what he considers are bugs in the original. I'm still un-learning what I got used to in that port...

But wasn't GDX also intending on staying as faithful as possible?

[Graf Zahl]

I never said it has this fixed, I merely said I never saw the flame death for these zombies.

[markanini]

I never said it has this fixed, I merely said I never saw the flame death for these zombies.

I'm not 100%. I know of at least two animation bug fixes from the original that the GDX dev has included, this could likely be yet another.

[Graf Zahl]

What fixes do you know about? I'd at least like to know what he changed.