Xindaris
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If you put a powder keg down in darkness right within reach of the custom Flower enemy from TSS, it flickers bright and then back to dark each time Beethro moves. I can't tell what exactly is causing this, but it definitely seems to have something to do with the adjacent Flower; this doesn't happen without it.

Making the entire room darker instead of putting a darkness tile on top of the keg doesn't cause an issue, but making a further darkness tile beyond the room's Weather-set darkness does.

This flickering happens if the conquer token isn't present too (i.e., if the flower is told to just stop and not appear), but less frequently.

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skell
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Today I learned when faced with ceiling darkness, DROD only applies 75% of that darkness to monsters. And, apparently, moving T-Objects.

Why would a mirror/keg placed above a monster be moving? It wasn't, but its tile was marked dirty by the monster below because monsters can be drawn raised, which caused the whole situation to happen. Fixed it by making moving kegs and mirrors have the same darkness applied as their stationary counterparts.

In other words, there was an identical bug when the keg/mirror was in motion. Best viewed at low repeat rates.

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mrimer
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Fixed a regression in the above PR:
The new member var wasn't being included in the copy constructor, which caused armed monster weapons to not have darkness applied to them.

PR 194.

Bonus:
Migrated this fix to RPG, plus some transparent code updates from the 5.0 engine.

Second bonus:
RPG mirror pushing is now animated.

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[Last edited by mrimer at 10-18-2020 03:21 PM]

kieranmillar
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Can confirm in 5.1.1.alpha.2020-10-16 that the flickering bug in the attached example hold does not occur, and monster weapons appear to have darkness correctly applied to them.