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Submitted by bare_elf on Wed, 2013-12-18 14:35

iryan wrote:

Very interesting. Good work in tracking down exactly which effect causes the problem. Now to the reason why.

The DS1 Legendary Pack doesn't alter any of those images as you discovered. However there are new gas files for several images like b_sfx_063 which originally didn't have gas files. Can't really see any connection there.

Your little experiment could still be useful as it would eliminate the image as a problem. The most kilely cause then is most likely skrit which is incorrectly trying to display the image. The most likely image is b_sfx_drown-01 as the others are icons displayed on the effected creature, I think.

Using a different image instead of b_sfx_drown-01 I used b_sfx_infect_01 with the Drown template returned to normal where "cast_ffx = ffx_spell_drown_cast;" is enabled does not fix the problem.
Therefore I am starting to think the problem may be with ffx_spell_drown.flick and how it handles the images. I know nothing about flicks however. So I will leave that up to you.

KillerGremal wrote:

Meanwhile I also checked effect code and involved images, but no clue what it could be. :puzzeld:
Since it depends on a speccific resolution, is possibly the system_detail.gas file messed up anyhow?

Perhaps this problem has several reasons at the same time, so it could help to temporarily disable as many mods as possible, incl. All*Saves, to find a minimum of game components to reproduce it.


By the way, the Rector already had a glowing bottom in DS1, I guess it was added to represent some kind of anti-gravity magic or so.
The instructions of this effect code have an unusual order, but I don't think this can the the reason to cause conflicts with curse effects.

To answer your questions Killer I have discovered the problem with the rector's effect does happen at all screen resolutions. I was tricked as changing screen resolutions only fixes the problem in a very temporary fashion. Once you leave tha area of the map where you changed resolution and enter another with a rector in it you get the spread out purple glow.
My system detail gas is correct for the video card I have installed (remember you helped me write it about a year ago.
I did remove all mods except for the DS1 Legendary Pack and the problem still exists.
The problem with the rector and the drown curse are totally separate issues. I just was saying that how the rector's purple aura is spread out looked very much like the Drown Spell when it does not work and covers the whole screen. Sorry for the confusion there. As far as I can tell they have nothing to do with each other and from what I can tell now are not a hardware problem since I can duplate both problems on two separate computers with totally different video cards, processors and versions of Windows.

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