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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0000441AI War 1 / ClassicGraphical BugJan 8, 2011 1:28 am
ReporterToll Assigned Tokeith.lamothe  
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version3.708 
Summary0000441: When sending damaged ships through a wormhole, its healthbar is displayed in a semi-random place.
DescriptionWhen you send a ship that has its healthbar showing (i.e. has taken some damage), its healthbar is displayed in a seemingly random place. The place is the same for all ships sent through that wormhole, and it stays at the same place the next time you send ships through it. My best guess would be that it uses the coordinates of the other end of the wormhole, and thus displays the healthbars on the wrong planet, so to speak. The healthbars that are showing are removed when zooming or panning, and also vanish on their own after a second or two.

I also think I saw a bug like this filed already, but I couldn't find it when I searched for it, so I don't know if it was closed or resolved or is still open.
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has duplicate 0002075 resolvedkeith.lamothe The health bars for ships will appear in the middle of nowhere occasionally 

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Toll

Oct 12, 2010 9:53 am

reporter  

Random healthbar bug.jpg (100,562 bytes)   
Random healthbar bug.jpg (100,562 bytes)   

Vaos

Oct 12, 2010 10:08 am

reporter   ~0000678

Doesn't the healthbar spawns in the location it was in the previous system? Like if the wormhole was more in the "west"/left of the map, is it still there?

Toll

Oct 12, 2010 10:09 am

reporter   ~0000679

I haven't checked the system they enter in, to be honest; my observations are only in the "sending" system, i.e. the wormhole that they enter, not the wormhole where they exit.

Vaos

Oct 12, 2010 10:11 am

reporter   ~0000680

So maybe the healthbars move to where the wormhole is on the exit side. Interesting.

Toll

Oct 12, 2010 10:13 am

reporter   ~0000681

That is my guess as well.

Chris_McElligottPark

Oct 19, 2010 1:01 am

administrator   ~0001289

Does anyone have a save I can use for testing this? The issue isn't super obvious, and without a save this will take longer than I have at the moment.

Toll

Oct 19, 2010 8:04 am

reporter   ~0001292

I can make one... One sec.

Toll

Oct 19, 2010 8:07 am

reporter  

Before Healthbar Bug.sav (306,610 bytes)

Toll

Oct 19, 2010 8:09 am

reporter   ~0001293

Okay. The ships are at Iusisi at the wormhome to Sekrex, slightly damaged (and under attack, so don't delay too much. They should hold for a while though). Send them through back to Sekrex, and the healthbars should appear directly above the wormhole, about halfway between the wormhole to Sekrex and Iuschrhag.

keith.lamothe

Oct 19, 2010 8:16 am

administrator   ~0001295

Chris, when you take a look at this, also run a test with icon-grouping off; I've seen cases before where it would send the health bars off into never-never land, and I think it was due to the x,y averages going bananas. But it may have simply been due to the "lead" ship in the group having changed planets or something like that. I certainly remember having put in safeguards against planet-confusion there, but who knows.

Toll

Oct 19, 2010 8:19 am

reporter   ~0001296

I've also noticed (on astro trains, at least) that if you target them and hold ctrl to see the pretty blue target lines, when they warp, the lines shift positions for a short while (to the same place the healthbar is located). I'd assume it's the exact same issue with two slightly different symptoms.

zebramatt

Oct 31, 2010 7:34 am

reporter   ~0002415

I was going to report this also.

Chris_McElligottPark

Dec 21, 2010 4:22 pm

administrator   ~0006695

Keith, when you have a chance, can you take care of this one soon? It's the far zoom icon combination stuff, I believe. And I think it's more than just the health bars that jump around. Hopefully a relatively simple exclusion will fix this.

Toll

Dec 21, 2010 4:29 pm

reporter   ~0006703

Regarding the far-zoom icon combination thing... I've also seen this when fully zoomed in; does that make a difference?

Toll

Dec 21, 2010 4:32 pm

reporter   ~0006705

Oh, and the latest symptom of what I believe to be the same issue: Sometimes engineer drones run off, even if they're not placed in FRD. I noticed this when I had a drone near a wormhole and my usual setup of redirection posts (i.e. a post that pointed at each of my owned planets). Occasionally when damaged ships ran through a wormhole, the engineers would run off to the same place that the healthbars appeared.

Chris_McElligottPark

Dec 21, 2010 4:32 pm

administrator   ~0006706

Humm -- yes, that is quite relevant. Interesting.

keith.lamothe

Jan 8, 2011 1:28 am

administrator   ~0007946

Resolved already for 4.063 :)

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Oct 12, 2010 9:53 am Toll New Issue
Oct 12, 2010 9:53 am Toll File Added: Random healthbar bug.jpg
Oct 12, 2010 10:08 am Vaos Note Added: 0000678
Oct 12, 2010 10:09 am Toll Note Added: 0000679
Oct 12, 2010 10:11 am Vaos Note Added: 0000680
Oct 12, 2010 10:13 am Toll Note Added: 0000681
Oct 19, 2010 1:01 am Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0001289
Oct 19, 2010 1:01 am Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To => Chris_McElligottPark
Oct 19, 2010 1:01 am Chris_McElligottPark Status new => feedback
Oct 19, 2010 8:04 am Toll Note Added: 0001292
Oct 19, 2010 8:04 am Toll Status feedback => assigned
Oct 19, 2010 8:07 am Toll File Added: Before Healthbar Bug.sav
Oct 19, 2010 8:09 am Toll Note Added: 0001293
Oct 19, 2010 8:16 am keith.lamothe Note Added: 0001295
Oct 19, 2010 8:19 am Toll Note Added: 0001296
Oct 31, 2010 7:34 am zebramatt Note Added: 0002415
Dec 18, 2010 1:00 pm Toll Relationship added has duplicate 0002075
Dec 21, 2010 4:21 pm Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To Chris_McElligottPark => keith.lamothe
Dec 21, 2010 4:22 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0006695
Dec 21, 2010 4:29 pm Toll Note Added: 0006703
Dec 21, 2010 4:32 pm Toll Note Added: 0006705
Dec 21, 2010 4:32 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0006706
Jan 7, 2011 1:55 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status assigned => minor fix for later
Jan 8, 2011 1:28 am keith.lamothe Note Added: 0007946
Jan 8, 2011 1:28 am keith.lamothe Status minor fix for later => resolved
Jan 8, 2011 1:28 am keith.lamothe Resolution open => fixed
Apr 14, 2014 9:29 am Chris_McElligottPark Category Bug - Graphical Issue => Graphical Bug