[MP4] [BUG] [REPLAYS] Text Blocks Are Improper Length
Posted: 22 Aug 2018, 04:52
I noticed odd behavior in a track I was working on, with the replay not corresponding to the in-game MT, so I thought I'd make a simple test map and figure out what I was doing wrong. Nope, still broken in the test map. Test track and corresponding broken replay are available for download here:
TEST TRACK.
In the test track, I have three clip groups, each containing a text block. The first is 1 second long, the second is 2 seconds long, the third is 3 seconds long--like so:
In the picture below, the top half shows what the replay looks like by default. You can see that the first text block is the proper 1 sec. length, but the second one is over twice the length it should be, and the third one extends completely past the end of the actual replay time, despite only being 3 seconds long in-game.
The bottom half of the picture above shows what the second and third text blocks look like after I slide them over to the left, so that they begin at replay start. When I do that, they end roughly when they should.
Based on that, I suspect that somewhere in the replay code, the text block length is being calculated as
BLOCK_LENGTH = BLOCK(ENDTIME) - RACE(STARTTIME)
when it should actually be
BLOCK_LENGTH = BLOCK(ENDTIME) - BLOCK(STARTTIME)
but that's just a guess.
[Edit: Nope, further testing shows that it's something more complicated than that.]
Either way, something seems broken?
Hopefully I'm not doing something really dumb, and have somehow made hundreds of tracks without realizing something fundamental about mediatracker functionality.
TEST TRACK.
In the test track, I have three clip groups, each containing a text block. The first is 1 second long, the second is 2 seconds long, the third is 3 seconds long--like so:
In the picture below, the top half shows what the replay looks like by default. You can see that the first text block is the proper 1 sec. length, but the second one is over twice the length it should be, and the third one extends completely past the end of the actual replay time, despite only being 3 seconds long in-game.
The bottom half of the picture above shows what the second and third text blocks look like after I slide them over to the left, so that they begin at replay start. When I do that, they end roughly when they should.
Based on that, I suspect that somewhere in the replay code, the text block length is being calculated as
BLOCK_LENGTH = BLOCK(ENDTIME) - RACE(STARTTIME)
when it should actually be
BLOCK_LENGTH = BLOCK(ENDTIME) - BLOCK(STARTTIME)
but that's just a guess.
[Edit: Nope, further testing shows that it's something more complicated than that.]
Either way, something seems broken?
Hopefully I'm not doing something really dumb, and have somehow made hundreds of tracks without realizing something fundamental about mediatracker functionality.